June 22, Glavarhiva of Moscow will return to the normal operating mode: the reading room and exhibition halls, as well as resume personal reception of citizens. Agency staff will meet visitors in medical masks and gloves, and regularly carry out disinfection of the premises.
In the period of high alert the archive staff of the Department continued to accept requests. Thus, experts have handled about 12 thousand applications of citizens for issuance of archival certificates, copies of documents, statements and other materials.
most Often, Muscovites were asked to provide proof of their work experience (almost five thousand queries), and information on wages from previous jobs (more than 4100 requests). These documents are necessary for charge of pension on age. Also citizens asked for help about the higher or average special educational institutions (about 800 references).
in addition, residents of the capital have made property requests and appealed to the Glavarhiva on exploring the city’s history and architecture (about 500 requests). More than 180 applications related to the information on marriages, births and deaths prior to 1918.
in Addition to the residents, the information requested and the public authorities. All of them received more than a thousand calls. They mostly dealt with matters of property and Finance law and history organizations.
Virtual Museum “Moscow with concern for history” was opened in early may. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that it consists almost entirely of papers submitted by residents of the capital for storage of glavarkhiv in Moscow.
the exposition includes about 7.5 thousand documents and objects, among them more than three thousands of wartime letters and photographs, more than 100 diaries, notebooks, and memoirs of participants of the great Patriotic war, more than 1.5 thousand biographical documents, certificates, characteristics, diplomas, commendations and more than 300 publications, as well as collections of postcards and drawings. In addition, in a virtual Museum hosted documentary footage and interactive maps. There is a video in which Russian actors reading the war letter.
On the platform “I’m home” Victory Day “exhibition opened he remembers Red square about the war?”. She was devoted to parades held on red square at different times. For example, the parade on 7 November 1941, the parade of winners on 24 June 1945. Also on the platform were opened two exhibitions — “Art inspires Victory” (about the songs, paintings, literary works, films military time) and “the Path of Victory to Moscow via Berlin” (about the battle of Berlin, the last days of the war and the atmosphere of Victory).
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Now people can get the services for the issuance of archival certificates, copies of documents, statements and letters from the state archives of Moscow. For this you need to make a request on the website mos.ru. Copies of the documents will be transferred to the user’s personal Cabinet in electronic form.
