Data Set
237
Finding Aids of the Russian State Archive of Contemporary History (RGANI)
Scraped from the official online catalog
Version 1.0, published: Feb. 10, 2025.
Description
This dataset comprises data about the archival collections held by the Russian State Archive of Contemporary History (RGANI). It has been acquired through web scraping of the online catalog system at https://projects.rusarchives.ru/rgani_db/data/fonds.php and the respective pages for the archival descriptions (opisi). For details about the scraped URLs see the Github repository, where the code for the script has been published as open source: https://github.com/hfx/rgani_scraper
The RGANI holds collections of documents of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, including materials of party conferences, plenary sessions of the Central Committee (CC), materials concerning the Politburo, the Secretariat of the CC, the CC apparatus and related organizational bodies. The focus on the documents kept in RGANI is on the decades from the 1950s to 1991.
The main rationale is to provide an overview of the RGANI collections, in case that the online catalog will not be available any more for use in countries outside of the Russian Federation. As of today (March 2024) the official websites of RGANI (https://rusarchives.ru/federal/rgani and https://ргани.рф) are not accessible for example from Germany any more.
The materials have been collected in September 2022 and are provided as raw data in CSV and JSON formats. Based on the data finding books as PDF documents for every collection (fond) have been created using XeTeX, which are provided as well. Taken together these finding books comprise several thousand pages.
Data has been collected for all RGANI collections which were available at the time of data collection, in particular these are the fondy 1-6, 9-14, 20, 52, 68, 70, 72, 74-77, 80-84, 89, 91-93, 95-105, 107, 109-113, 115, 117, 119, 121.
Please be aware that the data has been created by RGANI. The data is provided here not for the general public, but on request only for those who cannot access the original website anymore. No guarantee is given for the correctness or completeness of the data. Use at your own risk.
Countries
Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Estonia Georgia Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Latvia Lithuania Moldova Russia Tajikistan Turkmenistan Ukraine USSR Uzbekistan