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Centre for Doctoral Training in Russian, Slavonic & East European languages and culture

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Central State Archive of Literature and Art

Location and Contact Details

Address: Shpalernaia ul. 34
Metro:
Chernyshevskaia. Bus no. 46 goes down Shpalernaya. Walkable from Nevsky prospekt/Gostinyi dvor metro (takes about 30 minutes).

Web: https://spbarchives.ru/web/group/cgali
Email:
cgali@cgali.spbarchives.ru

Phone: (812) 272-25-57
Fax:
(812) 272-53-97

Archive Director: Georgievskaia Larisa Sergeevna

Opening Hours:
Tuesday Thursday: 1000-1600
Friday: 1000-1500

The archive is closed late July to early September and over the New Year and May holidays.

How to Register

To register you need a letter from your institution or a personal declaration, addressed to the director, outlining your research (themes, dates, aims) and your passport.

Reading Room Practices, General Hints and Tips

To find the archive, you need to walk in through the gate beyond no. 34 and turn left into the building in the courtyard. There is a small reading room (20 spaces), but not too much pressure on space. They are now behaving like a normal archive (having shed the various infuriating rules they used to have about no computers etc.), though you might have to write a zaiavka to the director to use your laptop. (However, the answer will be yes.) The cost of photocopies is very high. There is also - since the thefts at RGALI - a great deal of paranoia about light-fingered readers, so check the file carefully when it is given to you and be sure to report any discrepancies immediately, or you may be held responsible for these when returning it.

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