State Archives of Primorsky Krai

In October 1921, the Primorye Regional Archival Commission was established by the local authorities of the Amur Zemsky Territory . It was the first institution to consolidate, control and manage archival affairs in the Primorsky Region. The initiators of the institution were teachers and students of the State Far Eastern University , who organized in 1920 the private "Initiative Bureau for the Establishment of a Regional Archival Commission." The commission included people known in the region and having special archival studies: Professor A.P. Georgievsky , Professor A.V. Grebenshchikov , Associate Professor V.I. Popov, Professor Scholarship holder Z. N. Matveev and others.

With the establishment of Soviet power in the Far East by the decision of the Dalrevkom administrative office of March 1, 1923, the commission was abolished and at the same time the Primorsky Provincial Archive Bureau was created by the same decision, which also included the county archival offices: Khabarovsk, Spassk, Nikolsk-Ussuriysk, Vladivostok, Nikolaev. A.P. Georgievsky was appointed the head of the bureau ^[2] .

March 1, 1923 is considered the official day of the establishment of the archival service in the Primorsky Territory. The archival body changed its name in connection with administrative-territorial changes: 1926-1932. - “Vladivostok District Archive Bureau”; 1933-1935 - “Primorsky Regional Archival Bureau”, 1935-1938 - “Primorsky Regional Archival Office” (Oblarkhiv); December 21, 1938 - "Primorsky Territorial Archival Administration." On October 1, 1941, in accordance with the Decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR of March 29, 1941 No. 723, the State Archive of the Primorsky Territory was formed. In May 1939, all the regional archives of the Primorsky Territory were transferred to the archival department of the NKVD. Prior to the allocation in August 1935 to the Regional Archival Administration of the permanent premises - the building of the Polish Catholic Church (22 Volodarsky St.), built in 1921, the archive administration changed its location four times. The church was used for its intended purpose until 1934, then, due to the lack of the required number of believing Catholics, the building was empty and used as a warehouse, and, significantly rebuilt especially inside, only in 1938 was adapted for the archive ^[4] , where it was until 1991 , and the temple building in 1993 was returned to the revived Catholic parish. The archive moved to a historical building on Svetlanskaya street, 47, then, in 1998, on Aleutskaya, 10. The last refuge of GAPK was one of the shops of the former porcelain factory, where it is now (2019). Since 1932, due to the lack of free space necessary for storing documents and the prevailing wartime conditions (1941-1945), especially valuable funds were intensively exported to the archives of Moscow, Leningrad, the Far Eastern Regional Archive Administration, and the Tomsk Regional Archive. tens of thousands of storage units. They sent mainly documents of the period of the establishment of Soviet power and the first years of Soviet construction in Primorye, funds of white emigration. Funds sent to the central archives mainly related to the pre-revolutionary period. By the 1950s, the regional archive was practically left without its pre-revolutionary part ^{[1] [5]} .

After the archival institutions were removed from the jurisdiction of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs in 1961, changes began in the organization of archival affairs. In 1962, the archival department of the Primorsky Territory Executive Committee was formed, its subordinate structure included the State Archives of the Primorsky Territory, city and district state archives in the administrative centers of Primorye. In 2007, the archival department of the Primorsky Territory Executive Committee was transformed into the archival department of the Primorsky Territory, which coordinates and supervises the activities of archival bodies and institutions of the region. By order of the Administration of the Primorsky Territory dated December 1, 2010 No. 619-ra “On state-owned and budgetary institutions of the Primorsky Territory”, the state institution “State Archives of the Primorsky Territory” was renamed into the state treasury institution “State Archives of the Primorsky Territory” (GAPK) ^[2] .