Central Archives of the Russian Ministry of Defence

Central Archives of the Russian Ministry of Defence
Центральный архив Министерства обороны Российской Федерации
Tsentralny Arkhiv Ministerstva Oborony Rossiskoy Federatsiy
Department overview
FormedJuly 2, 1936 (1936-07-02)
Typemilitary
JurisdictionGovernment of Russia
HeadquartersPodolsk
55°25′27.3″N 37°30′42.1″E / 55.424250°N 37.511694°E / 55.424250; 37.511694
Parent MinistryMinistry of Defence
Websitefstec.ru

The Central Archives of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (Russian: Федеральное государственное казённое учреждение «Центральный архив Министерства обороны Российской Федерации (войсковая часть 00500)» (ЦАМО РФ); TsAMO RF) are located in Podolsk, just south of the city of Moscow.

As a departmental archive of Russia, it stores documents of different staffs and offices, associations and formations, units, institutions and military academies of the Soviet Defence Ministry from 1941 until the end of the 1980s. It comes under the command of the Rear Services of the Armed Forces of Russia. It has data on the history, culture and military education of the Ministry of Defence (Russia). Founded in 1936, the archive moved to Podolsk in Moscow Oblast around 1946. In 1992 a branch of TsAMO was established in Pugachyov in Saratov Oblast.

Colonel Igor Albertovich Permyakov serves as head of the archivе, in post in 2010 and still as of 2018.