Государственный архив Брянской области

The state archive in Bryansk was established in 1922. Its creation was based on 1918 V.I.Lenin decree"on restructurization and centralization of archive" and 1919 decree regarding creation of provincial archives. Collections inherited from pre-revolutionary state administration and following civil war were in the terrible condition. In the 1920s and 1930s slowly archive started to catalogue and organize its collection, and was provided facilities which enabled its preservation. In 1923 the archive had only 15 registered record groups, in 1929 their number rose to 83. In 1937 following the Soviet administration reform Bryansk Archive became the branch of the Archive of the Orel Oblast. During the Second World War, between years 1941 and 1943 Bryansk was under German occupation. Before that authorities had evacuated 108 most valuable record groups and placed them in Volsk, in Saratov Oblast. About one quarter of the archival material that stayed in Bryansk was destroyed during the war (about 200.000 archival folders). After liberation in 1944 Bryansk Oblast was reestablished together with its archive. After the war relocation and desctruction new archival documentation had to be created. It was finished in 1951. In 1971 archive was relocated into the new building where it is placed until now. From 1991 archive is governed by the Bryansk provincial authority of Russian Federation. From 2011 Archive has two additional branches: - Documentation Center of the Contemporary History of the Bryansk Oblast - Archive of the documents referring to the population of the Bryansk Oblast 

Archive contains documents referring to the regional history encompassing time period between 1709 and 2003.  

Access to the archival reading room is provided on the basis of the prior application of the potential guest. Academic researchers or other professionals are required to provide letters from their institutions stating subjects and objectives of their work in the archive.