Scientific and Technical Archives of St. Petersburg

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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL ARCHIVES OF SAINT PETERSBURG, Central State Scientific and Technical Archives situated at 33 Fifth Sovetskaya Street. They were founded in 1972 based on the scientific and technical department of the Leningrad State Archives of Social Revolution and Socialist Construction. It was renamed the Central State Scientific and Technical Archives in 1987 and received its present-day name in 1991. The archives include files of the leading research institutes and design offices of St. Petersburg (Leningrad) dating from 1917 to the present day. There were 426 files including 34 personal files of scientists, designers, and architects and over 390,000 cases in the archives in 2002. They contain documentation for design, construction, production, research, cartography, and management applied in heavy industry, fuel industry, chemical industry, food industry, agriculture, forestry, water engineering, reclamation engineering, geology, and health protection, as well as industrial construction designs, development schemes for sea, river, rail, and motor transport, head and water power station designs, and sea and river port reconstruction projects. The files of the Central Architectural Planning Office and Regional Architectural Planning Office include meeting minutes of architecture commissions and the Town Building Council on planning, building, allocating, and landscaping of St. Petersburg, towns, settlements and villages of Leningrad Region and recovering and reconstructing architectural monuments. General urban plans, residential and non-residential building designs, and documentation on the reconstruction of architecture monuments in St. Petersburg and its suburbs are kept in the Leningrad State Institute of Urban Planning and other design institutes. The files of the Leningrad Regional Agency for Construction Supervision cover the reconstruction of buildings in 1920-30s. The files of higher education institutions reveal their research including the activities of prominent scientists and architects.

Reference: Краткий справочник по фондам Центрального государственного архива научно-технической документации Санкт-Петербурга. СПб., 1997.

O. N. Ansberg. 5th Sovetskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 33
Краткий справочник по фондам Центрального государственного архива научно-технической документации Санкт-Петербурга. СПб., 1997