Russkii Arkhiv

200-207

Authors: Mikhail Yu. Kiselyov

Information on work of Institute of ethnography of Academy of Sciences of the USSR on collecting in 1944–1945 of works of national works of the soldiers and officers of Red Army created by them in the period of the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945 gg. is provided in article or in the first post-war years. The texts of poems, chastushkas and the story of soldiers and officers postponed in archival fund of institute in Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences are provided. Letters of soldiers and officers of Red Army can fill up source study base on stories of the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945 and domestic culture, they can be used both in research, and in the educational purposes.

232-265

Authors: Igor O. Tyumentsev

The documents and memories written by the commander of the Apsheron partisan detachment Sergey S. Zhukov concern the organization and operations of this unit, which was a part of Neftegorsk formation of partisan detachments of the Kuban in 1942-1943. The most relevant documents are presented by S.S. Zhukov’s report and the detachment’s account. The early story written by the commander on the organization of the detachment and its operations is also of great interest. In the publication of 1975, this text was strongly corrected with the political and ideological aims. Publication of all the documents gives an opportunity to retrace how the events of the Great Patriotic War have been rethought in the Soviet time and nowadays.

275-282

Authors: Nikolai F. Bugay, Mahach Il. Mamaev

The documentary publication deals with the problem of forced return links Balkars in the 1950s. Long 12 years of residence in Kazakhstan and the Central Asian republics, doubtless, have postponed their mark on this ethnic community. However, Balkars carefully treated their customs and traditions, preserved their original culture. 1950s opened up the possibility for the Balkars return to their homeland. The very process of return creates new difficulties. But Balkars together with representatives of other nations – Russian, Ukrainians, Kabardinians relying on their help to overcome these difficulties. In the first place, it has been resolved the main issue – the restoration of the Balkar national statehood. Presented publication of archival documents reveals a set of measures that are taken by the Balkars return to their former places of residence in the North Caucasus.

104-115

Authors: Alla V. Shadrina

The introductory article deals with the historiography and historical sources of the problem of coexistence of religious organizations and atheist state in the South of the Russia in 1920–1930s. The published sources characterize the Renovationist split in the South-West of the USSR, the organization of antichristmas and antipaskhal carnivals, the closing of churches in the 1930s, the history of the Old Believers' Donetsk-Don and Caucasian diocese of the Ancient Orthodox Church in 1940–1950s, and other unexplored questions.

138-151

Authors: Ludmila V. Tabunshchikova

In 1923 there were organized “anti-Christmas” carnivals all over the country as a part of anti-religious propaganda. The articles in the newspapers “Sovetsky Yug” and “Trudovoy Don” allow following the background, process and the results of “Komsomol Christmas” in the Donskaya oblast. This action had hurt the feelings of the believers, but there were not registered any protests against this campaign.

169-187

Authors: Olga Yu. Redkina

Introduced publication of the documents is dedicated to the Diocese of Donetsk, Don and Caucasus of Russian Old-Orthodox Church accepting Belokrinitsky hierarchy, which existed in 1947–1948 years. The documents, which were revealed in the State Archive of Rostov weren’t published earlier. In the introduction article and notes were used the documents of the Religious Cults Matters’ Council al the Council of People’s Commissars of USSR and his representatives in Rostov Oblast, Stalingrad Oblast, Astrakhan Oblast, Stavropol Krai and Krasnodar Krai, which are stored in the State Archive of the Russian Federation and State Archive of Volgograd Oblast. In the documents were reflected the changes in number and geography of the church parishes, deaneries and diocese’s borders, was showed internal church life. The episcopate’s autobiographies are testifying about difficult destiny of the Old-Believers clergy in USSR. Published documents are allowing to add our representation about Old-Believers’ history, about religious situation in the South of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, about the state and confessional policy in USSR in the middle of XX century.

192-196

Authors: Andrey A. Kostryukov

The review is devoted to the collection of documents and materials “Church Split in the Don region in 1920–1930”, published in 2015. The Compilers, L.V. Tabunshchikovа and A.V. Shadrina, identified and prepared for publication 260 documents, covering the period from the beginning of Renovationist (1922) and Gregorian (1925) splits up to their elimination in the Rostov region in the mid-1940s. The vast majority of documents have been published for the first time. They show that the GPU initiated Renovationist and Gregorian schisms in the Don. The compilers identified four diocesan Renovationist centers, the names of not only Renovationist and Gregorian, but also anti-Renovationist Don bishops.

6-12

Authors: Evgeny F. Krinko, Gennadiy S. Chumachenko

The article serves as introduction and presents the materials of a special issue of “Russian Archive”: the verbatim report and the resolution of the round table on the topic “The Newsreel Footage as a Visible Memory of the Epoch”, theoretical and applied articles (by G.N. Lanskoy, G.E. Malysheva, A.A. Babkin, A.A. Paramonova), archival documents (publisher G.S. Chumachenko), and director’s memoires of L.P. Korshik. Along with newsreel, popular scientific, educational, institutional films, and amateur movies are considered as historical sources. The authors analyzed the issues of documentary publication principles, as well as the facts of improper use of newsreels.

51-56

Authors: Grigory N. Lanskoy

The article is devoted to basic problems of analysis and interpretation of cinema documents in historical studies, with the possibility of shared approach to the study of cinema and paper documents, the using of art studies principles to the analysis of cinema documents and the efficacy of textual approach to the study of cinema documents among them. The forms of applying different scientific methods to the evaluation of cinema documents as historical sources are also discussed in the article.

65-72

Authors: Aleksandr A. Babkin

The article characterizes the film documents of the Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive on the history of fairs in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic during the period of the New Economic Policy (1921–1929). The article elaborates on the contents of the archive film documents about the renewal and work of the Nizhny Novgorod and Sverdlovsk Fairs during the Soviet period.

82-95

Authors: Gennadiy S. Chumachenko

This is the first publication of unknown archival materials from the scientific documentary film “To the Center of the Arctic” about Soviet High Latitude Air Research Expeditions (HLAE) called “North” in 1948–1950. Comparative analysis of the footage and text documents from other archives, has allowed revealing new facts, expanding and clarifying information about a secret military-technical expeditions’ Program and its participants.

168-176

Authors: Natalya A. Nasonova, Natalya G. Besplemennova, Zhanna U. Gaevskaya, Dmitry K. Kadutskov

The article considers the exhibition activity of the Public State Institution of the Volgograd Region “Documentation Center of the Modern History of the Volgograd Region” in 2014–2015 devoted to the Great Patriotic War. The article describes the composition and content of archival funds of this institution, where the documents concerning different aspects of the Stalingrad Region life during the Great Patriotic War and the Stalingrad battle are held.

193-203

Authors: Ivan F. Firsov

The publication presents the papers depicting a short period of activity in Tobolsk (Tyumen) province of the Bolshevik government before the seizure of power in the region by the White troops. Law enforcement agencies and the police only began to be established, and the revolutionary organizations (Military Operational Headquarters, Board for the Protection of Tyumen and Approaches to It, the Commandant of the City for the Protection of the Revolution) have taken responsibility for fighting crime and maintaining order in the city and the county.

220-235

Authors: Gennadiy S. Chumachenko

This is the first publication of archival documents captured during the battle containing previously unknown information about the activities of one anti-fascist Taganrog’s guerrilla group, which operated during the occupation of the town by German troops in 1941–1943. It is a part of the investigative materials of the punitive operation against the guerrillas carried out by the Russian police, where traitors served, under the guidance of the German counterintelligence.

76-86

Authors: Evgeny F. Krinko

The Great Patriotic War was reflected in the different historical sources. The article is devoted to the formation of the source base of the problem. The author examines the dynamics of the situation in the archives and publication of documents. The main attention is paid to the modern study of the sources of the Great Patriotic War.

96-102

Authors: Inna O. Omelyanyuk

The article reveals the reasons of numerous mistakes in the lists of mass graves and the importance of examining the documents and archives indirectly connected with the period of the Great Patriotic War. The author also analyzes the work of searching the relatives of the soldiers missing in action during the the Great Patriotic War and the results of this work.

116-131

Authors: Vladimir I. Afanasenko

This is a special compilation and publication of documents of strategic planning and management of defense on the lower Don in July 1942 by the Supreme Command, the military command of the North Caucasus and southern fronts. The documents describe plans and operational direction of the High Command of the Red Army (General Headquarters, the Military Councils of the North Caucasus and Southern Fronts) for the defense of the Soviet troops on the ground in the summer of Don's forty-second year, during the German offensive in the big bend of the Don and breakthrough to the Caucasus.

148-161

Authors: Evgeny F. Krinko

Interview with Vasily Ivanovich Peretyatko was about his military biography and everyday life at the front during the Great Patriotic War. V.I. Peretyatko participated in the Kharkov battle, Stalingrad battle, in the breakthrough of Mius-Front, the liberation of Rostov region, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Czechoslovakia, the storming of Konigsberg and Berlin.