Fund 438 from Russian State Military Historical Archive (RGVIA): a brief presentation of cartographic sources, prospectuses, drawings, profiles, and descriptions of cities with their inventory Cover Image

Fondul 438 de la Arhiva Militar-Istorică din Moscova (RGVIA): o scurtă prezentare a unor surse cartografice, prospecte, desene, profiluri și descrieri de orașe cu opisul lor
Fund 438 from Russian State Military Historical Archive (RGVIA): a brief presentation of cartographic sources, prospectuses, drawings, profiles, and descriptions of cities with their inventory

Author(s): Mihai Anatolii Ciobanu
Subject(s): History, Maps / Cartography, Local History / Microhistory, Modern Age
Published by: Societatea de Studii Istorice din România
Keywords: RGVIA; fund 438; cartographic sources; opis; Romania;

Summary/Abstract: At the Russian State Military Historical Archive (RGVIA) are preserved a lot of cartographic sources, drawings, profiles, descriptions of cities very useful for researching issues related to urban history, topography, economy, etc. of Romania. The Romanian researches at the Russian State Military Historical Archive were started during the communist period, but then very few sources kept at this archive were copied and published. From 2018, we started a project whose purpose is the research of all cartographic sources, drawings, profiles, city descriptions, etc. So far, we have managed to copy over 150 dossiers and we published some of the historical sources discovered. In this contribution, in addition to data about the archive and Romanian research, we publish a part of the opis (inventory) of fund 438, a fund in which sources regarding the history of Romania are kept exclusively.

  • Issue Year: XIII/2021
  • Issue No: XIII
  • Page Range: 293-310
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Romanian