Центральный государственный архив Кабардино-Балкарской Республики

Archive of the Kabardin-Balkar region was established in 1936. In January 1937 it contained 155 Research Groups, among them 33 referring to the pre-1917 period, 63 392 document folders from which 29 917 had their descriptions. In 1940 Archive was restructured into Central Archive of the Kabardin-Balkar Autonomous Socialist Republic. In 1941 most important documents of the archive were marked for the evacuation, others were hidden in the various localities in the region or destroyed. Most important documents were transferred in October 1942 to Central Asia to the city of Stalinabad. During the war 44 archival Research Groups were lost. Archive resumed its work in April 1943.