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>[For longtime only documentarists who got a special permission could have access to the Central Russian Film and 
>Image Archives. Now even the famous RUSSIAN STATE DOCUMENTARY FILM & PHOTO ARCHIVE
>AT KRASNOGORSK (RGAKFD) is open and offers besides the online catalogues, a quite vaste online clip,  photo, 
>slide selection as well.  Looking for a Gagarin Real Slide Show? Eisenstein filmography? Soviet  Propaganda Posters          
>& Cartoons of the 20th Century? Funny enough, the first political poster i found in the archives exhibition is the work of 
>an unknown artist dated 1917-1924 called "There is a spectre haunting Europe; the spectre of Communism.". 

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>greetings, ab.]


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>http://www.russianarchives.com/rao/archives/index.html
>
>In the ARCHIVES you will find information about each archive's 
>collections, history, and links to their exhibits on RAO. In addition, 
>several of these archives have searchable catalogues and/or 
>gallery images on RAO.
>RAO's greatest assets are the relationships with these premier archives and organizations:
>The Russian State Documentary Film & Photo Archive at Krasnogorsk (RGAKFD)
>The Russian State Archive of Scientific & Technical Documents in Moscow (RGANTD)
>The Russian State Museum of Oriental Art
>The Baikal Museum Complex (Lake Baikal)
>The Hoover Institution's Russian Collection at Stanford University
>The Russian-American Center of San Francisco
>Abamedia's Film Archive
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>Looking for hard to get, never before exposed images and sounds
>from the vast territory of the former Soviet Union?  
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>Russian State Film & Photo Archive at Krasnogorsk - RGAKFD,
>Russian State Archive of Scientific & Technical Documents - RGANTD 
>and various other institutions of the Russian State....one of the largest owners
>of images and sounds in the world.
>Here, you will find collections of Russian archival collections of
>photographs and films, audio, clips and transcripts from the 15 republics 
>of the former Soviet Union, including Russia, Ukraine,  Georgia and many more.
>Visit The Gallery, and try a search or two in our image catalogues.
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>
>THE  RUSSIAN STATE DOCUMENTARY FILM & PHOTO ARCHIVE
>AT KRASNOGORSK (RGAKFD)
>F I L M   C O L L E C T I O N
>The  Krasnogorsk Archive's Film Collection documents the entire history 
>of Russian filmmaking, beginning with the footage of the coronation 
>of Tsar Nicholas  II taken by Camile Serf, a cameraman of the 
>Lumiere Brothers in 1896 and continuing with 1,000 films shot before 
>1917.
>The  Archive holds almost all periodic newsreels from 1919 to 1985, 
>documenting the news stories of the Soviet Union: politics, wars, 
>disasters, trials, and the people and places of the U.S.S.R. Footage 
>is available concerning both World Wars, the Soviet invasions
>in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Afghanistan, the Cold War and 
>its Cuban Missile Crisis and space race, Vietnam, and the collapse 
>of Communism. The world of literature, art, sports, and the day-to-day 
>life of the Soviet and Russian people are also vividly represented 
>among the films of the Archive.
>The archive consists of
>46,536 original negatives
>31,683 duplicate positives
>51,825 working positives
>6,386 duplicate negatives
>14,655 magnetic film soundtracks
>26,754 optical soundtracks
>
>P H O T O G R A P H Y   C O L L E C T I O N
>An extensive collection of photos and negatives within the vaults of 
>the Archive document events from over a century ago to the present. 
>Many early photos were arranged in large albums according to subject. 
>Among these are 300 personal albums of the Tsars. Although mostly
>documentary in nature, the Archive does hold work by many famous 
>Russian still photographers.
>Early photographs include the Russian-Turkish War of 1877-78, 
>the Russian-Japanese War 1904-05, views of early construction, 
>portraits of military officers, and the personal life of the Tsar's family. 
>Events of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917, the First World War, 
>and the Civil War of 1918-1921 are preserved through photos of 
>street barricades, policemen arrested by citizens, meetings and 
>demonstrations, various battles, funerals of the victims, and 
>portraits of political and military leaders representing all sides. 
>Over 85,000 photos document the Soviet-German front during World 
>War II while revealing the tragedy of retreat and the bitterness 
>of loss, the fury of attacks and the joys of victory. Soviet leaders, 
>economic initiatives, and propaganda in the postwar USSR, are 
>also represented in the Archive.
>The archive holds
>692,306 negatives
>28,342 prints
>10,376 photo albums Introduction History
>