Saint Petersburg Literature and Arts Archives

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SAINT PETERSBURG LITERATURE AND ARTS ARCHIVES, Central State (TsGALI SPb) (34 Shpalernaya Street), formed in 1969 on the base of the Central State Archives of the October Revolution of Leningrad, in 1988 renamed the Central State Literature and Arts Archives of Leningrad, and given its current name in 1991. By volume of documents, it is the second largest archives of this type in Russia (after the Russian State Literature and Arts Archives in Moscow). It has over 700 endowments with over 270,000 separate items (2002). The collection is made up of various endowments from creative organisations and unions of: writers and journalists (Proletkult, Leningrad Writers Organisation), composers (endowments from the Leningrad Department of the Union of Composers of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the Leningrad Conservatory, the Philharmonic Hall, and the Academic Capella), artists (documents from the Leningrad Department of the Union of Artists, the Artistic Fund), architects, cinematographers (cinematography is represented by endowments from the Lenfilm studio, production companies Goskino and Leningradkino, and the joint-stock company Sovkino), theatres, the Television and Broadcasting Committee and other cultural establishments, as well as publishing houses (Vsemirnaya Literatura, Byloe, Priboy, Leningrad Department of Gosizdat, Sovetsky Pisatel, Khudozhestvennaya Literatura, Iskusstvo, Detskaya Literatura), and magazines (Neva, Zvezda, Avrora). The archives also hold documents from the foundation of the first Soviet museums, registration and preservation of old buildings, damage that the city suffered during the Siege of 1941-44, and its restoration. The archives contain several treasures, including S.M. Vyazemsky's unique collection on the history of St. Petersburg (Leningrad), and D.I. Kotelnikov's historical and art collection. The private collections of many Petersburg cultural figures also form a significant set of documents.

References: Государственный архив Октябрьской революции и социалистического строительства Ленинградской области: Крат. путеводитель. Л., 1962; Архивы России: Москва и С.-Петербург: Справ-обозрение и библиогр. указ. М., 1997.

O. N. Ansberg. Kotelnikov D.I.
Vyazemsky Sergey Mikhailovich
Shpalernaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 34
Государственный архив Октябрьской революции и социалистического строительства Ленинградской области: Крат. путеводитель. Л., 1962
Архивы России: Москва и С.-Петербург: Справ.-обозрение и библиогр. указ. М., 1997 Lenfilm, Film Studio
Surf, the Publishing House, 1913, 1922
Leningrad State Publishing House, publishing house
World of Literature, publishing house, 1918-1924
Children's Literature, the Leningrad Department of the Publishing House
Iskusstvo Leningrada (The Leningrad Art), journal
Byloe (The Olden Times), journal
Neva, journal
Zvezda (The Star), journal
Avrora (Aurora), journal