ELAR digitized MFA of Russia archive for creation of a resource about Revolution of 1917

2018: Digitization over 700 thousand sheets of archives Russian Foreign Ministry

On June 27, 2018 ELAR Corporation reported that it digitized more than 700,000 sheets of archives the MFA of Russia for creation of an information resource about Revolution of 1917. During the project the system of search and use of archivings the MFA of Russia for 1917-1924 was developed.

Russian Foreign Ministry archive

Materials of two archives became the invoice of an Internet resource: foreign policy of the Russian Empire and foreign policy of the Russian Federation, 1917-1924 covering the period (to a band of recognition of the USSR by the leading western powers). The digitized funds contain affairs of office the MFA of Russia for 1917, affairs of embassies in London, Paris and Rome, materials of the Hague conference of 1922, the Peace conference in Brest-Litovsk 1917-1918, People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of RSFSR, G.V. Chicherin, L.M. Karahan, M.M. Litvinov's secretariats, etc.

The volume of the digitized arrays was 5,000 cases which format varied from A4 to A0 therefore in work the whole line of scanners of different type was used, up to the A1+ format. The ELAR scanners thanks to technologies of careful scanning, allow to digitize the volume, shabby or damaged materials without image quality loss. It has powerful value at transfer to an electronic form of rare pre-revolutionary documents.

Representatives of the MFA note: "The main objective of the project – to show dedication and high professionalism of diplomatic service of our state at a critical stage of its development. Documents show clearly that, despite political and ideological changes, domestic diplomacy saved the succession and put the priority protection of national interests.

Thanks to the created information resource, each employee has a MFA of Russia, physical persons and legal entities, public associations, state bodies and local government authorities there will be continuous access to rare, important documents that will allow to counteract attempts of falsification of history, to create an objective picture of historical events in public consciousness. Considering interest in Russia among foreign historians and journalists – access to these documents is extremely important in order to avoid incorrect interpretation of history of Russia.

This resource gives a unique opportunity to millions of people to satisfy the curiosity in the field of history. Certainly, the resource is created rather for professional historians, than than just for the fond people, it represents not traditional "exhibition" of the documents devoted to one subject, and the big digitized array. In this sense it is very similar to historical archive in his usual understanding. Pavel Kyung, candidate of historical sciences, teacher of department of scientific and technical and economic documents and archives of faculty of technetronic archives and documents of Historical and archive institute of RGGU

2016: Digitization of 1182 cases of Archive of foreign policy Russian Foreign Ministry

In 2016 digitization of 1182 cases of Archive of foreign policy the Russian Foreign Ministry is carried out. For scanning of raznoformatny inserts of case were embroidered. The stitching carried out using special materials.