Государственный архив новейшей истории Белгородской области (ОГКУ "ГАНИБО")

History of the Archive began in 1954 when the Belgorod Oblast Party Archive was created. In the years 1960-1965 archive had obtained Communist Party documents from Kursk and Voronezh Party Archives from the years 1918-1953 and became one party archive of the newly established Belgorod Oblast. In the 1991 Archive was reorganized into the Center of the Documentation of Contemporary History of the Belgorod Oblast. In 2010 Archive was again reorganized and from that time it holds its current name State Archives of Contemporary History of Belgorod Oblast (OGKU"GANIB").  

For the 1 January 2012 Archive was holding 2396 record groups and 417.903 archival folders, with documents from the years 1918-2011, among them 10.097 folders of photo documentation .  

Archive holds documents relating to the history of the Belgorod Oblast from 1918 until today.