The RSFSR State Repository of Valuables. Review of the fund in the Russian State Archives of Economics

Abstract

The article is the review of the documents from the Fund of the RSFSR State Repository of Valuables which is stored in the Russian State Archives of Economics. The Fund consists of two inventories: the “documentary materials” and the “employees personal files” (509 files for the years 1920–1924), including the order copies of the RSFSR People’s Commissariat of Finance, the orders of the head of the Gokhran, the minutes of the personnel committees meetings, the information about the valuables, the correspondence with the People’s commissariats and institutions, the newspaper clippings and other documents. The article analyzes the keeping integrity and information potential of those archival documents, the degree of their introduction into scientific circulation, the history and completeness of the fund. Of particular interest among the fund’s documents are the registration records – the financial inventories and the valuables’ statements, demonstrating the volume and composition of the treasures received by the Gokhran. The fund documents make it possible to trace the change in the Gokhran’s registration records in the early 1920s. And the employees’ personal files allow studying the personnel composition of the institution: the origin, education, work experience, party membership. Also, the fund managed to keep the documents on the history of the Moscow loan treasury; there is some information on the prices of precious metals and the sale of the Gokhran valuables. The documents under discussion have partially been put into scientific circulation, and yet they require additional research.