GARF: Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Rossiiskoi Federatsii (State Archive of the Russian Federation). From 1961 to 1992 named TsGAOR (Tsentral'nyi gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Oktiabr'skoi revoliutsii--Central State Archive of the October Revolution).

RGASPI: Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv sotsial'no-politicheskoi istorii (Russian State Archive of Sociopolitical History). From 1991 to 1999 named RTsKhIDNI (Rossiiskii tsentr khraneniia i izucheniia dokumentov noveishei istorii--Russian Center for Preservation and Study of Records of Modern History). From 1956 to 1991 named TsPA IML (Tsentral'nyi partiinyi arkhiv Instituta marksizma-leninizma pri TsK KPSS--Central Party Archive of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism under the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union).

RGVIA: Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi voenno-istoricheskii arkhiv (Russian State Military History Archive). From 1941 to 1992 named TsGVIA (Tsentral'nyi gosudarstvennyi voenno-istoricheskii arkhiv SSSR--Central State Military History Archive)

RTsKhIDNI. See RGASPI.

TsGA SPb: Tsentral'nyi gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Sankt-Peterburga (Central State Archive of St. Petersburg). From 1941 to 1964 named GAORSS LO (Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Oktiabr'skoi revolutsii i sotsialisticheskogo stroitel'stva Leningradskoi oblasti--State Archive of the October Revolution and Socialist Construction of Leningrad Oblast). Also named LGAORSS (1964-1974) and TsGAOR Leningrada (1974-1991).

TsGAOR. See GARF.

TsGVIA. See RGVIA.

TsPA IML. See RGASPI.