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Opis 32, Reel 1.1000, File 31

File is unavailable, 1918-1992

Opis 32, Reel 1.1000, File 32

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re measures to be taken to secure the safety of Soviet institutions and Soviet citizens abroad; copy of the extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, 1980 June

Opis 32, Reel 1.1000, File 33

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request of the People's Party of Iran to pay the airfare of ten party activists from Iran to the Soviet Union; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1980 May-June

Opis 32, Reel 1.1000, File 34

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re publishing activity and personnel of the News Publishing Agency (Agenstvo pechati Novosti - APN) in Kampuchea; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re publishing activity, financing, APN staff charts, and the appointment of a KGB officer as Deputy Chief of the APN Bureau in Kampuchea; the same extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, without item 3 of the agenda (re appointment of a KGB officer) to be stored in a special secret file; the same extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat containing only item 3 of the agenda; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Tiazhelnikov, Chief of the Propaganda Department, V. Falin, Deputy Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, and R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Tolkunov, Chairman of the APN Board; resolution of the TsK KPSS; brief handwritten instruction to E. Tiazhelnikov; resolution of the TsK KPSS re appointment of a KGB officer as Deputy Chief of the APN Bureau in Kampuchea; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, 1980 April-June

Opis 32, Reel 1.1000, File 35

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal of the USSR Council of Ministers re bilateral negotiations between the Ministry of Communications of the USSR and the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Romania on establishing telephone, telegraph, radio, and postal communication for a specific period; three draft decrees (differently formatted) of the USSR Council of Ministers; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Simonov, Chief of the Department of Transport and Communications; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Talyzin, Minister of Communications; resolution of the TsK KPSS; memorandum to V. A. Shamshin, First Deputy Minister of the Post Office and Electrical Communication of the USSR, from G. Airinei(?), Deputy Minister of Transport and Telecommunications of Romania, 1980 March 1980 June

Opis 32, Reel 1.1000, File 36-38

Files are unavailable, 1818-1992

Opis 32, Reel 1.1000, File 39

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re a request of A. Muhammad, Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Iraqi Communist Party, to exchange 60,000 rubles for US dollars; two identical extracts from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the request of A. Muhammad; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1979 November

Opis 32, Reel 1.1000, File 40

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re a request of the leadership of the Communist Party of India to exchange 17,000 rubles for Indian rupees; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the request; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1980 April-May

 

Opis 33

Opis 33, Reel 1.1000, File 1

Memorandum to M. Gorbachev from O. Shenin, O. Baklanov, and A. V. Vlasov re a TsK KPSS conference to be held with the USSR Ministers on the political and economic situation in the USSR, 1991 January

Opis 33, Reel 1.1000, File 2

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal of the editorial board of Agitator magazine to dismiss N. Zhelnin from the editorial board and approve V. IA. Pavlov and A. Volskii as members of the editorial board; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Dmitriuk, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department, and I. Kirichenko, Sector Head of the same department; personal data of Pavlov and Volskii, 1968 November-December

Opis 33, Reel 1.1000, File 3

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the appointment of A. Volskii as Head of the Sector of Automobile Industry of the Machine-Building Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Frolov, Chief of the Machine-Building Department; personal data of Volskii, 1969 December

Opis 33, Reel 1.1000, File 4

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the appointment of A. Volskii as Deputy Chief of the Machine-Building Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Frolov, Chief of the Machine-Building Department; personal data of Volskii, 1977 July

Opis 33, Reel 1.1000, File 5

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the appointment of A. Volskii as First Deputy Chief of the Machine-Building Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Frolov, Chief of the Machine-Building Department; personal data of Volskii, 1981 March

Opis 33, Reel 1.1000, File 6

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re awarding the Red Banner Order for Labor to A. Volskii for his service to the KPSS and the Soviet state; draft decree (not to be published in the press) of the USSR Supreme Soviet; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, 1982 May

Opis 33, Reel 1.1000, File 7

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the appointment of A. Volskii as Assistant to the General Secretary of the TsK KPSS; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Bogoliubov, Chief of the General Department; personal data of Volskii, 1983 June

Opis 33, Reel 1.1000, File 8

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the appointment of A. Volskii as First Deputy Chief of the Machine-Building Department and his dismissal from the position of Assistant to the General Secretary, and allowing him to keep health benefits, 1985 March

Opis 33, Reel 1.1000, File 9

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re financial security of the officials of the Committee for Special Administration in the Nagorno-Karabakh Region; distribution list of the resolution; two identical memoranda (differently formatted) to the TsK KPSS from N. Kruchina and IE. Razumov; list of top KPSS and government authorities the resolution should be sent to, 1989 February

Opis 33, Reel 1.1000, File 10

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat dismissing A. Volskii from his position as Chief of the TsK KPSS department owing to his election as President of the Scientific-Industrial Union of the USSR (Nauchno-Promyshlennyi Soiuz - NPS); distribution list for the resolution; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Zolotarev, Deputy Chief of the Department of Party Work and Cadres, 1990 November-December

Opis 33, Reel 1.1000, File 11

Eight identical memoranda to the TsK KPSS from V. Terebilov, A. Sukharev, and B. Kravtsov re inappropriateness of the USSR Supreme Court investigating events [massacre] in the city of Sumgait (Nagorno-Karabakh Region), each with the signature of IE. Ligachev and another TsK secretary approving the conclusions of the memorandum; brief handwritten note from Startsev confirming that TsK secretaries voted; brief handwritten note from IE. Ligachev to A. Lukianov inquiring about Lukianov's opinion; brief handwritten note from A. Lukianov to IE. Ligachev confirming Lukianov's consent to the conclusions of the memorandum, 1988 June

Opis 33, Reel 1.1000, File 12

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Belik, Deputy Chief of the Economic Department of the TsK KPSS, re delivery of prompt information to the TsK KPSS departments by the Main Directorate for Information (Glavinform) under the USSR Council of Ministers; two brief handwritten notes; brief instructions to V. Mozhin from L. Zaikov; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Kossov, Chief of Glavinform, 1986 December 1987 April

Opis 33, Reel 1.1000, File 13

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Slobodianiuk, Deputy Chief of the Department of Interethnic Relations, re territories in dispute between the Tadzhik and Kirghiz republics; brief instructions from A. Girenko; report on territories in dispute between the Tadzhik and Kirghiz republics compiled by E. Ivanov, Chief of the Directorate of the Committee for State Security (KGB), with cover letter to A. Girenko from V. Kriuchkov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), 1990 June-July

Opis 33, Reel 1.1000, File 14

Memorandum to the Administration of TsK KPSS Affairs from Dzh. Amanbaev, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Kirghiz Communist Party, requesting allocation of 7,500,000 rubles to the Bereke commercial association, founded by the KPSS Committee of Chuyskaia oblast; table reflecting expected profit from the commercial activity of the association Bereke; statement to the TsK KPSS from V. Grishin confirming the deposit of 4,900,000 rubles to the account of the Central Committee of the Kirghiz Communist Party, 1991 June-August

Opis 33, Reel 1.1000, File 15

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re amendments and comments to a letter to be sent to the French Communist Party (PCF); memorandum to the TsK KPSS (signature illegible) re criticism by the PCF of the KPSS re violation of human rights in the USSR; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS approving the text of the memorandum to the PCF; the memorandum to the PCF, with handwritten amendments, 1977 February

Opis 33, Reel 1.1000, File 16

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re a memorandum from the Department of Science and Educational Institutions on psychiatric practice in the country; the memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Trapeznikov, Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with handwritten amendments, 1972 February

Opis 33, Reel 1.1000, File 17

Draft resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re a press release on the scheduled reception of V. Bukovskii [Soviet dissident] by J. Carter; two identical draft press releases (differently formatted); extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Zamiatin submitting a TASS request to release the information without additional approval by the TsK KPSS immediately after the reception of Bukovskii, 1977 March

Opis 33, Reel 1.1000, File 18

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re a hostile anti-Soviet film being produced in the Federal Republic of Germany; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, containing information about the film, 1977 March

Opis 33, Reel 1.1000, File 19

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat authorizing transportation by Aeroflot [Soviet state airline] of 106 activists of progressive organizations of compatriots abroad, invited to the Soviet Union by the Association for Cultural Relations with Compatriots Abroad (Rodina (Motherland) Association); two extracts from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Stoletov, Chairman of the Presidium of the Rodina (Motherland) Association; statement on the expected distribution of Aeroflot tickets by the Rodina Association and its committees in republics and krais; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1979 March

Opis 33, Reel 1.1000, File 20

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re financial assistance to the World Peace Council; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re allocation of $150,000 to the 1978 budget of the World Peace Council, and re providing the Soviet Peace Committee with 100 Aeroflot tickets for transportation of participants in international events (with a distribution list of the minutes); identical extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat (without a distribution list); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from Academician IE. Fedorov, Deputy Chief of the Soviet Peace Committee, 1978 August-September

Opis 33, Reel 1.1000, File 21

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re actions of the SOS Group (American Scientists for Sakharov, Orlov, and Shcharanskii); extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the proposal of the USSR Academy of Sciences to publish in Pravda (Truth) newspaper an article by Soviet scholars on the prospects for Soviet-American scientific cooperation; memorandum to the TsK KPSS (unsigned) re the pledge by 2,400 American scientists (SOS Group - American Scientists for Sakharov, Orlov, and Shcharanskii) to refrain from cooperation with Soviet scientists because of violation of human rights in the USSR; text of the statement of Soviet Academicians IU. Ovchinnikov, Vice President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, IE. Velikhov, Vice President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, G. Skriabin, Chief Academic Secretary of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences, L. Brekhovskikh, and N. Emanuel to be published in Pravda (Truth) newspaper; brief handwritten note; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from P. Fedoseev, Vice President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and Skriabin, 1979 March-April

 

Opis 34

Opis 34, Reel 1.1001, File 1

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving proposals presented in the speech of L. Brezhnev re the international situation; text of the speech, 1978 June

Opis 34, Reel 1.1001, File 2

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving draft instructions to Soviet ambassadors to the countries participating in the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe with regard to new Soviet initiatives put forward by L. Brezhnev in his speech addressed to the electorate; the instructions; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Gromyko, 1979 March

Opis 34, Reel 1.1001, File 3

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo re measures for safeguarding the state interests of the USSR with respect to events in Afghanistan; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Gromyko, IU. Andropov, D. Ustinov, and B. Ponomarev, 1980 January

Opis 34, Reel 1.1001, File 4

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving transmission of information on the Soviet position toward the international situation (re arms race, NATO expansion, ratification of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty - SALT-2) to W. Brandt and K. Sorsa, Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Finland; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to West Germany; attachment with identical material for K. Sorsa, 1980 February

Opis 34, Reel 1.1001, File 5

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving Soviet foreign policy toward Afghanistan and response to the appeal of F. Castro; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Gromyko, IU. Andropov, D. Ustinov, B. Ponomarev, and O. Rakhmanin re political settlement of relations between Afghanistan and neighboring countries and Castro's proposals to mediate in the settlement process; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Cuba (a copy of the instructions to be sent to the Soviet ambassador to Afghanistan); instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Afghanistan (a copy to be sent to the Soviet ambassador to Cuba), 1980 March

Opis 34, Reel 1.1001, File 6

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo re measures to encourage the international community to strongly oppose American actions in the Persian Gulf; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen; list of the measures, 1980 March

Opis 34, Reel 1.1001, File 7

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo re opposition to US military expansion in the countries of the Near and Middle East and the Indian Ocean; instructions to Soviet ambassadors in Middle Eastern and Near Eastern countries, with information to be passed on to the ministers of internal affairs of those countries (copies to be sent to the Soviet ambassadors to East Germany, Poland, Laos, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Mongolia, North Vietnam, Romania, Yugoslavia, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, Australia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Somalia, Kenya, Burma, and Tunisia, and to the Soviet representative [to the UN?] in New York); instructions to the Soviet ambassadors to Somalia and Kenya; instructions to the Soviet ambassadors to Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia, Switzerland, West Germany, Belgium, the United States, Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark, Portugal, Great Britain, Luxembourg, Spain, Cyprus, Norway, Canada, France, Iceland, Italy, Sweden, and Finland, and to the Soviet representatives [to the UN?] in New York and Geneva; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Gromyko, IU. Andropov, and D. Ustinov, 1980 April

Opis 34, Reel 1.1001, File 8

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving proposals for political settlement of the situation in Afghanistan; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Gromyko,IU. Andropov, D. Ustinov, and B. Ponomarev; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Afghanistan re his meeting with B. Karmal; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Cuba re his meeting with F. Castro, 1980 May

Opis 34, Reel 1.1001, File 9

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving draft instructions to Soviet ambassadors in the developing countries re measures to reveal the pro-imperialist policy of China; the instructions (copies to be sent to the Soviet ambassadors to West Germany, the United States, Great Britain, France, and China and to Soviet representatives in Vienna, Geneva, New York, and Paris), 1980 May

Opis 34, Reel 1.1001, File 10

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving draft instructions to the Soviet ambassadors and representatives re measures to oppose US-China military cooperation; the draft instructions to all Soviet ambassadors and representatives, 1980 October

 

Opis 35

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 1

Draft resolution of the TsK KPSS approving a joint draft resolution of the TsK KPSS and the USSR Council of Ministers re measures for ensuring protection and rational use of the water resources of Lake Baikal in 1987-1995; the draft resolution, with amendments; list of districts of the Buriat Autonomous Republic and Irkutskaia and Chitinskaia oblasts located in the area with secured water resources; assignment for constructing, reconstructing, and increasing the number of structures and equipment for purification of sewage water and of poisonous exhausts into the atmosphere, and other measures preventing pollution of the environment in the Baikal area; assignments to the Ministry of Chemical Industry and the Ministry of Power Machine Building Industry to develop, manufacture, and supply the Ministry of Timber and Paper Industry with equipment required to reduce poisonous exhausts into the atmosphere by the Baikal Integrated Pulp and Paper Mill and by the Selenginsk Integrated Pulp and Cardboard Mill; list of automobiles and other equipment to be allocated to the State Committee for Forestry (Goskomles) to provide monitoring from the air of both forests and fire-chemical stations located in the Baikal regions designated as having secured water protection; list of institutions and officials the resolution should be sent to; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Ryzhkov, 1987 March-April

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 2

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on a memorandum from the KPSS committees of Sverdlovskaia, Cheliabinskaia, Orenburgskaia, and Kurganskaia oblasts re change of flow of some rivers in Sverdlovskaia oblast in order to establish a zone of guaranteed grain harvesting and to improve water supply to the industrial centers of the Ural economic district; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Karlov, Chief of the Agricultural Department; brief handwritten note; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IA. Riabov, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Sverdlovskaia oblast (obkom), M. Voropaev, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Cheliabinskaia oblast (obkom), A. Kovalenko, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Orenburgskaia oblast (obkom), and F. Kniazev, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Kurganskaia oblast (obkom), 1976 June

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 3

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on a memorandum from the KPSS committees of Krasnodarskii and Stavropolskii krais and of Rostovskaia oblast re partial change of the flow of the Volga and the Don for the sake of the irrigation system in the Northern Caucasus; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Kruchina, Deputy Chief of the Agricultural Department; memorandum to L. Brezhnev from S. Medunov, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Krasnodarskii krai (kraikom), V. Murakhovskii, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Stavropolskiii krai (kraikom), and I. Bondarenko, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Rostovskaia oblast (obkom); brief instructions to N. Kruchina from M. Gorbachev; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from M. Solomentsev, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers; brief directive to familiarize TsK KPSS secretaries with the documents; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Baibakov, Chairman of the State Committee for Planning (Gosplan), 1979 June-August

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 4

Resolution of the TsK KPSS (item 3 only) re protection of water resources from wastes of industrial enterprises in the Lake Ladoga area; two identical extracts from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, differently formatted, 1986 July

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 5

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on a memorandum from Uzbek scholars re diverting the flow of some Siberian rivers to Soviet Central Asia and Kazakhstan; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Karlov, Chief of the Agricultural Department; memorandum to L. Brezhnev from Academicians A. Sadykov, President of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences, S. Iuldashev, Vice President of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences (VASKhNIL), S. Kamalov, Chairman of the Presidium of the Kara-Kalpak branch of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences, S. Ryzhov, Corresponding Member of VASKhNIL, K. Lapkin, Academician-Secretary of the Department of Philosophy, Law, and Economy of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences, and others, 1980 February-March

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 6

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re the article How Can We Help the Aral Sea? in Pravda (Truth) newspaper of February 4, 1975; photocopy of the article; statement of I. Makarov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions, on providing the authors of the article with information about the measures taken to improve the situation; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Yefremov, Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Science and Technology, 1975 February-April

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 7

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re memoranda from the Central Committee of the Uzbek Communist Party and the Uzbek Council of Ministers and from the KPSS Committee of Krasnodarskii krai requesting approval of change of the flow of Siberian and northern rivers to the southern regions of the country; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Karlov, Chief of the Agricultural Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from SH. Rashidov, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Uzbek Communist Party, N. Khudaiberdyev, Chairman of the Uzbek Council of Ministers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Medunov, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Krasnodarskii krai, 1975 February-March

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 8

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re fulfillment of the resolution of the TsK KPSS and the USSR Council of Ministers On Measures for Ensuring Protection and Rational Use of the Water Resources of Lake Baikal ; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from the Party Control Committee, the Department of Light and Food Industries, the Department of Chemical Industry, and the USSR People's Control Committee, 1979 August

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 9

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re reduction in lumbering in the Lake Baikal region on the territory of the Buriat Autonomous Republic designated as having secured water protection; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Modogoev, Secretary of the Buriat KPSS Committee (kraikom), and V. Saganov, Chairman of the Buriat Council of Ministers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Karlov, Chief of the Agricultural Department, and I. Dmitriev, Chief of the Construction Department, 1981 June-August

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 10

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re measures to improve air and water conditions in the area of the Iasnaia Poliana museum-estate [of the writer L. Tolstoi]; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Semenov, Deputy Chief of the Ministry of Chemical Industry, 1982 July

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 11

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat establishing a commission to work out proposals for protection of the Lake Baikal environment; list of the members of the commission, 1986 February

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 12

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re desirable change in modes of operation of the Baikal Integrated Pulp and Paper Mill and the Selenginsk Integrated Pulp and Cardboard Mill in to improve the Baikal environment, 1986 July

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 13

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re measures for protection and rational use of natural resources of the Lake Baikal area; resolution of the TsK KPSS; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Melnikov, Chief of the Construction Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Talyzin; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS and the USSR Council of Ministers; assignment for constructing, reconstructing, and increasing structures and equipment for purification of sewage water and of poisonous exhausts into the atmosphere, and other measures to prevent environmental pollution in the Lake Baikal area; 1988-1991 assignments to the Ministry of Chemical Industry and the Ministry of Power Machine Building Industry to develop, manufacture, and supply the Ministry of Timber and Paper Industry with equipment required to reduce poisonous exhausts into the atmosphere by the Baikal Integrated Pulp and Paper Mill and the Selenginsk Integrated Pulp and Cardboard Mill; list of automotive vehicles and other equipment to be allocated in 1988-1991 to the State Committee for Forestry (Goskomles) to provide monitoring from the air of both forests and fire-chemical stations in the Baikal areas designated as having secured water protection; list of authorities who approved the resolution, 1987 January

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 14

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re inadequate enforcement of the TsK KPSS resolution of January 19, 1984, On Collective Letters from the City of Kemerovo Residents re Air Pollution and Demand for Intensification of Works Designed to Improve the Air in Cities, 1987 March

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 15

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re liability of officials guilty of neglecting the decisions adopted to preserve the environment in the Lake Baikal area; resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1987 May

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 16

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re a memorandum from the TsK KPSS departments On the Ecological Situation in a Number of Areas and Industrial Centers of the Country ; the memorandum from the Department of Heavy Industry and Power Engineering, the Department of Chemical Industry, the Construction Department, and the Department of Organizational and Party Work, 1987 July

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 17

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re building a system for directing the purified sewage of the Baikal Integrated Pulp and Paper Mill to the Irkut River; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Sitnikov, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Irkutskaia oblast; conclusion drawn by the working team for evaluation of the possible aftermath of directing sewage of the Baikal Integrated Pulp and Paper Mill to the Irkut River and the expediency of doing so, 1987 August-December

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 18

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Semenov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Chemical Industry, re measures to improve air and water conditions in the area of the Iasnaia Poliana museum-estate [of the writer L. Tolstoi]; brief instruction to familiarize the TsK KPSS secretaries with the memorandum, 1983 January

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 19

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Karlov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Agriculture and Food Industry, and S. Shcherbakov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions, re an article by F. Kuznetsov, Deputy of the RSFSR Supreme Soviet and writer, on diverting the flow of several northern rivers to the Volga basin, with a brief note to the TsK KPSS from S. Zasukhin, Deputy Chief of the Department of Agriculture and Food Industry, stating that the editor in chief of Pravda (Truth) newspaper was informed of the decision made on the issue; brief note to A. Aleksandrov, N. Baibakov, and N. Vasiliev from M. Gorbachev asking for their considerations re Kuznetsov's article; cover letter to the TsK KPSS from V. Afanasiev, Editor in Chief of Pravda, presenting the article; the article; three handwritten brief instructions to V. Karlov from M. Gorbachev; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Vasiliev, Minister of Reclamation and Water Economy; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Voronin, Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Planning (Gosplan); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Aleksandrov, President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, 1983 June-August

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 20

Resolution of the KPSS Committee and the Buriat Council of Ministers criticizing the design of the Zabaikalskii Apatite Plant; memorandum to the Bureau of the KPSS Committee of Buriatskaia oblast (obkom) from the Department of Industry and the Department of Science and Educational Institutions (both of the Buriat obkom); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Olshanskii, Deputy Chief of the Department of Chemical Industry, 1984 December - 1985 January

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 21

Report to the TsK KPSS from IU. Litvintsev, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Tulskaia oblast (obkom), on measures to be taken to improve the environment in the area of the Iasnaia Poliana museum-estate [of L. Tolstoi], 1986 January

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 22

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Izrael, Chairman of the State Committee for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Control (Goskomgidromet), re measures taken by the Goskomgidromet to improve air quality in the area of the Iasnaia Poliana museum-estate [of L. Tolstoi], 1986 January

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 23

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Kolpakov, Minister of Ferrous Metallurgy, re measures facilitating protection of the environment in the area of the Iasnaia Poliana museum-estate [of L. Tolstoi]; list of measures to reduce poisonous exhaust into the air and water in the Iasnaia Poliana area, 1986 January

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 24

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Izrael, Chairman of the State Committee for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Control (Goskomgidromet), re measures by the Goskomgidromet to intensify control over air pollution and to protect air quality in the area of the Iasnaia Poliana museum-estate [of L. Tolstoi], 1986 January

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 25

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Talyzin, Chairman of the State Committee for Planning (Gosplan), re measures to ensure significant reduction in poisonous exhaust in the area of the Iasnaia Poliana museum-estate [of L. Tolstoi]; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Afonin, Chief of the Department of Chemical Industry, 1986 February

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 26

Cover letter to the TsK secretaries and D. Yazov, V. Ivashko, and I. Polozkov submitting a report on the unfavorable radioactive environment in the area of Lake Ladoga; brief instructions; report to President M. Gorbachev from V. Kriuchkov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), 1990 August-September

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 27

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re a memorandum of March 13, 1978, from the Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia (K. Demirchian) re protection and rational use of the natural resources of Lake Sevan, with the voting record of TsK secretaries; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to L. Brezhnev from K. Demirchian, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia, 1978 March

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 28

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re the TsK KPSS resolution On Inadequate Implementation of the TsK KPSS Resolution of January 19, 1984, On Collective Letters from the City of Kemerovo Residents re Air Pollution and Demand for Intensification of Works Designed to Improve the Air in Cities, 1989 March

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 29

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re restoration of the ecological balance in the area of the Aral Sea; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from the Socio-Economic Department, 1989 November

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 30

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from O. Shenin and A. V. Vlasov re a memorandum on ecological problems submitted to President M. Gorbachev by V. Reviakin, Chairman of the Committee (of the RSFSR Supreme Soviet) for Environment and Rational Use of Natural Resources; list of members of the working team for preparation of the materials to be submitted to the TsK KPSS Commission, formed to discuss the State Program for Environmental Protection and Rational Use of Natural Resources and to develop the chapter on ecology of the KPSS Draft Program; memorandum to V. Ivashko, Deputy General Secretary of the TsK KPSS, from V. Reviakin; brief handwritten note; brief note to V. S. Pavlov and O. Shenin from M. Gorbachev; memorandum to M. Gorbachev from V. Reviakin, 1991 February-May

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 31

Brief note to V. Frolov and V. Bushuev from D. Ustinov; brief note to V. Dymshits and N. Tikhonov from D. Ustinov; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. A. Smirnov, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belorussia, re insufficient supply of equipment for the Polotsk Chemical Complex, 1973 July-August

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 32

Brief instruction to V. Bushuev from D. Ustinov; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. A. Smirnov, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belorussia, re setting into operation a unit for manufacturing ethylene and propylene at the Polotsk Chemical Complex; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Bushuev, Chief of the Department of Chemical Industry, 1974 January and May

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 33

Brief instruction to N. Baibakov, V. Dymshits, L. Kostandov, and V. Bushuev from D. Ustinov; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. A. Smirnov, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belorussia, re inadequate supply of raw materials to chemical enterprises in Belorussia; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Bushuev, Chief of the Department of Chemical Industry, 1974 August

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 34

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Sadykov, President of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences, S. Ryzhov, Vice President of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences and Corresponding Member of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences (VASKhNIL), K. Lapkin, Academician-Secretary of the Department of Philosophy, Law, and Economy of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences, S. Kamalov, Chairman of the Presidium of the Kara-Kalpak branch of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences, and B. Korzhavin, Corresponding Member of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences, requesting acceleration in diverting the flow of some Siberian rivers to Soviet Central Asia and Kazakhstan, 1980 January

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 35

Memorandum to L. Brezhnev from N. Kamalov, Secretary of the Kara-Kalpak obkom of the Uzbek Communist Party, and E. Aitmuratov, Chairman of the Kara-Kalpak Council of Ministers, re diverting the flow of some Siberian rivers to Soviet Central Asia and Kazakhstan, 1980 November

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 36

Memorandum to L. Brezhnev from S. Ziiadullaev, Chairman of the Council for the Study of Productive Forces, B. Korzhavin, Corresponding Member of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences, A. Pugachev, Honored Irrigator of Uzbekistan, and A. Bostanzhoglo, Honored Irrigator of Uzbekistan, re diverting the flow of some Siberian rivers to Soviet Central Asia and Kazakhstan, 1981 January

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 37

Two brief handwritten notes; brief note to N. Talyzin, V. Dolgikh, V. Nikonov, and V. Murakhovskii from IE. Ligachev; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Usmankhodzhaev, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Uzbek Communist Party, K. Makhkamov, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Tadzhikistan, and O. Niiazov, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan, re urgent problems of water supply to Soviet Central Asia; table of basic work required for each year to accelerate the construction of Rogun Hydroelectric Power Station; table of capital investments required for each year for the same construction; table of the required building devices, auto vehicles, and other equipment for the same construction; brief instructions to B. Shcherbina, A. Reut, N. Vasiliev, A. Maiorets, I. Yastrebov, and V. Karlov from V. Dolgikh; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Yastrebov, Chief of the Department of Heavy Industry and Power Engineering, and V. Karlov, Chief of the Department of Agriculture and Food Industry; brief note from V. Sharkov re E. Ligachev's request; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Talyzin, V. Dolgikh, V. Nikonov, and V. Murakhovskii, with a statement from I. Kapustian, 1986 June-September

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 38

Brief instruction to N. Talyzin, V. Gusev, and V. Afonin from L. Zaikov; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Reut, Deputy Chief of the State Committee for Planning (Gosplan), and A. Kochetkov, First Deputy Minister for the Manufacture of Mineral Fertilizers, re assembling a unit for carbamide production at the Azot Association in the city of Kemerovo; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Gusev; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Afonin, Chief of the Department of Chemical Industry; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Yermakov, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Kemerovskaia oblast (obkom), requesting the exclusion of carbamide production from the work of the Azot Association because it would worsen the ecological situation in the city, 1986 June-October 1987 March

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 39

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Yermakov, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Kemerovskaia oblast (obkom), re measures to protect the environment in the city of Kemerovo; instructions to G. Razumovskii, V. Afonin, and I. Yastrebov from IE. Ligachev; brief instructions to G. Kabasin and S. Karnaukhov from G. Razumovskii; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Koval, Deputy Chief of the Department of Heavy Industry and Power Engineering; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from the Department of Organizational and Party Work (G. Kharchenko), the Department of Heavy Industry and Power Engineering (I. Yastrebov), and the Department of Chemical Industry (V. Afonin), 1986 October 1987 January 1987 March 1987 June

Opis 35, Reel 1.1001, File 40

Documented report to the TsK KPSS from V. Martynov, Senior Consultant of the Historical-Diplomatic Directorate (IDU) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, re the incident of a South Korean plane brought down by Soviet air defense troops, after, 1983 September

 

Opis 36

Opis 36, Reel 1.1001, File 1

File is unavailable, 1918-1992

Opis 36, Reel 1.1001, File 2

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Zasukhin, Deputy Chief of the Agricultural Department, re diverting the flow of some northern and Siberian rivers to southern regions of the country; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Izrael, Chairman of the State Committee for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Control (Goskomgidromet), re comments and amendments submitted by delegates to the 26th KPSS Congress re redistribution of water resources; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Izrael re research on diverting the flow ofsome northern and Siberian rivers to southern regions of the country, 1981 August-September

Opis 36, Reel 1.1001, File 3

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo re development of irrigated agriculture in the Northern Caucasus; memorandum to L. Brezhnev from V. Vorotnikov, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Krasnodarskii krai, V. Murakhovskii, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Stavropolskii krai, L. Kulichenko, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Volgogradskaia oblast, and I. Bondarenko, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Rostovskaia oblast; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Karlov, Chief of the Agricultural Department, re building the Volga-Don and the Rostov-Krasnodar canals to facilitate irrigation in the Northern Caucasus, 1982 October

Opis 36, Reel 1.1001, File 4

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo re a memorandum from the Central Committee of the Uzbek Communist Party and the Uzbek Council of Ministers about the water level in the basins of the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers; the memorandum from SH. Rashidov, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Uzbek Communist Party, and N. Khudaiberdyev, Chairman of the Uzbek Council of Ministers, 1982 October-November

Opis 36, Reel 1.1001, File 5

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving a draft resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers re works to be undertaken in 1983 with regard to insufficient water supply to the republics of Soviet Central Asia and to Kazakhstan; the draft resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers; table reflecting the increase of state capital investment to balance insufficient water supply and of capital assets to be attracted in 1983, 1982 December

Opis 36, Reel 1.1001, File 6

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo re a memorandum from IU. Andropov about the development of a long-term program of soil reclamation; the memorandum from IU. Andropov; memorandum to IU. Andropov, General Secretary of the TsK KPSS, from V. Mesiats, Minister of Agriculture, N. Vasiliev, Minister of Reclamation and Water Economy, and A. Nikonov, First Vice President of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences (VASKhNIL), 1983 September

Opis 36, Reel 1.1001, File 7

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving a draft resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers re measures to be taken to supply the textile industry with cotton fiber in 1984; the draft resolution; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Tikhonov, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, 1984 January

Opis 36, Reel 1.1001, File 8

File is unavailable, 1918-1992

Opis 36, Reel 1.1001, File 9

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo re a memorandum to M. Gorbachev from A. Yanshin, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, V. Kovda, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and V. Tikhonov, Academician of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences (VASKhNIL); the memorandum denouncing state reclamation programs; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Nikonov and Z. Nuriev, 1985 July-August

Opis 36, Reel 1.1001, File 10

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo re a memorandum to the TsK KPSS from the State Committee for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Control (Goskomgidromet); the memorandum re the unfavorable ecological situation in the country owing to a high level of environmental pollution, 1986 February-March

Opis 36, Reel 1.1001, File 11

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving the conclusions of a memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Talyzin and V. Murakhovskii re soil reclamation; the memorandum; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Vorotnikov, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, re redistribution of the water resources of the northern rivers to the Volga basin; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Nikonov and V. Karlov, 1985 December - 1986 April

Opis 36, Reel 1.1001, File 12

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving a draft resolution of the TsK KPSS and the USSR Council of Ministers re change in the flow of some northern and Siberian rivers; the draft resolution; memorandum to A. Gromyko, Chairman of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet, from S. Mikhalkov and IU. Bondarev [writers], Deputies of the USSR Supreme Soviet and Heroes of Socialist Labor, with sharp criticism of the project of changing the flow of northern and Siberian rivers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Ryzhkov, 1986 June-August

Opis 36, Reel 1.1001, File 13

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo re severe shortcomings in cotton cultivation in Uzbekistan, 1987 August

Opis 36, Reel 1.1001, File 14

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Nikonov and V. Murakhovskii re severe shortcomings in the measures taken to prevent pollution of natural water reservoirs and to preserve their biological resources; memorandum to M. Gorbachev from the Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences D. Pavlov, L. Sushchenia, and A. Yablokov, 1988 March 1988 August

Opis 36, Reel 1.1001, File 15

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re construction issues, restoration of V. Molotov to membership in the KPSS, and criticism of N. Khrushchev, 1984 July

Opis 36, Reel 1.1001, File 16

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re death and funeral of K. Chernenko, election of the TsK KPSS General Secretary, and convocation of the TsK KPSS Plenum, 1985 March

Opis 36, Reel 1.1001, File 17

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re results of the conference held in the TsK KPSS in the State Plans for Economic and Social Development of the USSR for 1986 and through the 12th Five-Year Plan, 1985 August

Opis 36, Reel 1.1001, File 18

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re international relations (Afghanistan, East Germany, and Yemen), re renaming the ice breaker L. Brezhnev, and re a letter from S. Allilueva, 1986 March

Opis 36, Reel 1.1001, File 19

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re cooperation with socialist countries, re the Congress of Writers and election of the leadership of the Union of Soviet Writers, and re heart transplants in the Soviet Union, 1986 June

Opis 36, Reel 1.1001, File 20

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re a trip of M. Gorbachev to Krasnodarskii and Stavropolskii krais, and re gradual release of prisoners detained for political activity, 1986 September

Opis 36, Reel 1.1001, File 21

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re Soviet countermeasures to the expulsion of Soviet officials from the United States and measures in connection with the death of S. Machel, President of Mozambique, 1986 October

 

Opis 37

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 1

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), re spreading of foreign videos (hostile to the Soviet state or pornographic) in the Soviet Union; brief instruction requesting familiarizing the TsK secretaries with the memorandum, 1982 April

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 2

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re transferring to the museums of the Kremlin works of art confiscated from foreign and Soviet citizens during customs clearance, 1982 February

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 3

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, with information about employees of educational institutions who had been penalized for their previous anti-Soviet activity, collaboration with the Hitler regime, or participation in nationalistic groups, 1970 May

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 4

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re hostile activity of the Group for Assistance in Implementation of the Helsinki Treaty in the USSR, 1976 November

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 5

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re evaluation by the US Embassy in the Soviet Union of speeches of representatives of European communist parties at the 25th Congress of the KPSS, 1976 March

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 6

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, analyzing conclusions made by a group of American experts from the US Embassy on American propaganda activity in the Soviet Union, 1976 July

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 7

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re gathering of secret information about the Councilon Mutual Economic Assistance by intelligence services of Western countries, 1976 September

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 8

Memorandum to M. Suslov from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), re foreign citizens bringing into the Soviet Union pornographic literature and illustrated magazines, 1970 February

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 9

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), re prosecution by the KGB of a group of foreign citizens charged with smuggling gold and other valuables and with profiteering, 1970 June

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 10

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re the intention of the writer V. Voinovich to establish in Moscow a branch of PEN (International Association of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, and Novelists), 1975 April

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 11

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, and R. Rudenko, USSR Prosecutor General, re the prosecution of A. Tverdokhlebov, one of the founders of the Human Rights Committee and of the Soviet Section of Amnesty International, for his activity discrediting the Soviet state and social system, 1975 April

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 12

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, listing anti-Soviet actions during the May Day celebration, 1975 May

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 13

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re attempts of some extremists to inspire Soviet citizens of German origin to abstain from participating in the elections to republican supreme soviets and to local soviets, and re other anti-Soviet activity of those extremists, 1975 June

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 14

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re a meeting of "anti-social elements" silently protesting violations of human rights in the Soviet Union (held in Pushkin Square in Moscow), 1975 December

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 15

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re documents from the archives of Academician T. Lysenko (some of them with Stalin's annotations), 1976 December

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 16

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re the artist I. Glazunov and the attitude toward him of the artistic community in the Soviet Union and abroad, 1976 October

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 17

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re the anti-Soviet group of students called The Youngest Organization of Geniuses (Samaia molodaia organizatsiia geniev - SMOG), 1970 June

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 18

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), re responses of foreign diplomats and of guests who visited Moscow on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Lenins birth to the speech delivered by L. Brezhnev in honor of the anniversary, 1970 April

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 19

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, with information about talks between officials of the US Department of State and the Foreign Office of Great Britain (held in London, October-November 1970) that shaped mutual policy on the limitation of Soviet and Chinese military and political influence in the Indian Ocean, 1970 December

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 20

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re attempts of a coalition of rightist parties in Finland to isolate politically the Finnish Communist Party, 1970 December

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 21

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re exposure of a Zionist organization in Leningrad and of its leadership, activity, and aims, 1970 April

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 22

Cover letter to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, accompanying a typed text of the parody (presumably composed by Z. Papernyi) of the novel Chego zhe ty khochesh? (What Do You Want?) by Kochetov; the parody, 1970 April

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 23

Cover letter to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, accompanying a copy of a letter to A. Tvardovskii from A. Solzhenitsyn; the letter containing information re the novel August of 1914, just finished by Solzhenitsyn, 1970 July

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 24

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re the reaction of Soviet writers to the 3rd Congress of Writers of the Russian Federation, 1970 April

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 25

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re the frame of mind of the poet A. Tvardovskii, 1970 September

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 26

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re exposure in the city of Tuapse (Krasnodarskii krai) of the anti-Soviet underground Club of Struggle for Democracy (Klub borby za democratiiu) and re proposed punishments of its members, 1970 March

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 27

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re politically harmful anti-Soviet actions during the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Lenin's birth, 1970 April

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 28

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re exposure in Sverdlovskaia oblast of an antiSoviet underground youth group that called itself the Party of Free Russia or Revolutionary Workers' Party, and re criminal prosecution of its members, 1970 June

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 29

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), re distribution in the city of Riazan of seven handwritten leaflets by high school students, 1970 August

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 30

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re possible political and military consequences of the development of precise tactical weapons and their deployment by NATO, 1975 December

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 31

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a telegram to be sent to the Soviet ambassador to Norway; the telegram with information to be passed on to R. Steen, Chairman of the Norwegian Labor Party (NLP), and I. Leveraas, General Secretary of the NLP, questioning the fair investigation and court trial of Professor IU. Orlov; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, presenting the telegram from R. Steen and I. Leveraas; the telegram (translated into Russian); the telegram in English, 1978 May 1978 June 1978 July

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 32

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving proposals of the Committee for State Security (KGB) re I. Korchnaia and I. Korchnoi [wife and son of the chess player V. Korchnoi]; brief handwritten note; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, objecting to the departure of family members of the defector Korchnoi; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov re anti-social actions of family members of the defector Korchnoi, 1978 June 1978 October

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 33

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the text of a telegram to the Soviet ambassador to Belgium and the text of a memorandum to the Central Committee of the Belgian Communist Party (BCP), with the voting record of TsK secretaries; the telegram with instructions to the Soviet ambassador re the statement of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the BCP on the investigation and court trial of IU. Orlov; excepts from the articles in the newspapers Pravda (Truth) of May 23, 1978, Izvestiia (News) of May 22, 1978, Vecherniaia Moskva (Evening Moscow) of May 18, 1978, and Moskovskaia pravda (Moscow Truth) of May 19, 1978; memorandum to the TsK KPSS (from unidentified author) re a statement made by the Central Committee of the BCP denouncing the indictment brought against IU. Orlov, 1978 May

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 34

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re measures to oppose the anti-Soviet campaign waged in Italy; instructions tothe Soviet ambassador to Italy re possible anti-Soviet demonstrations in Italy (to be passed on to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy); instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Italy re possible anti-Soviet demonstrations in Italy (to be passed on to the leadership of the Italian Communist Party); instructions to the Soviet ambassadors to Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Cuba; list of information and propaganda measures to oppose anti-Soviet actions in Italy; memorandum to the TsK KPSS (from unidentified authors), 1977 September

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 35

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a response to E. Berlinguer, General Secretary of the Italian Communist Party; the response (to the letter from E. Berlinguer of August 6, 1976) re formal charges brought against V. Bukovskii [human rights activist]; copy of the extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with a list of documents to be sent to the TsK KPSS Politburo, 1976 August

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 36

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Medvedev, Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions, and L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, re an open letter sent by members of the French Academy of Sciences to A. Aleksandrov, President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, concerned with the fate of Soviet scholars charged with criminal activities or expelled from the USSR and with the fate of Soviet citizens not allowed to leave the USSR ("otkazniki"), and re Soviet policy toward the letter; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to France advising him to continue propaganda work with French scholars; brief handwritten note; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Aleksandrov; appeal to A. Aleksandrov signed by 65 members and 53 corresponding members of the French Academy of Sciences, 1985 September

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 37

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, re an appeal to IU. Andropov from US congressmen with a list of Soviet Jews (more than 2,000) not allowed to leave the Soviet Union; brief statement from D. Muraviev, Adviser of the International Department, with his brief summary of the appeal; the appeal in English, signed by 376 US congressmen; six brief notes from TsK officers related to the issue, 1983 June-July

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 38

Appeal (translated into Russian) to IU. Andropov from B. Kreisky, Chairman of the Socialist Party of Austria, requesting that IU. Orlov [Soviet human rights activist] imprisoned since 1977, be pardoned; the same appeal in German; three brief notes, 1983 July-August

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 39

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Chebrikov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), re a demonstration scheduled by members of the Democracy and Humanity seminar, names of the participants, and their slogans and objectives, 1987 October

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 40

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from P. Romanov, Chief of the Main Directorate for Safeguarding State Secrets in the Press (Glavlit), re scheduled publication in Iunost (Youth) magazine of a poem by IE. Yevtushenko, containing ideologically incorrect statements distorting Soviet reality, with Romamov's brief handwritten note addressing the poem to M. Zimianin personally; brief handwritten note to the Propaganda Department from an unidentified author; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Sevruk, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department, and A. A. Beliaev, Deputy Chief of the Department of Culture, re follow-up measures concerning the publication of the poem, 1977 May

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 41

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), re anti-Soviet statements and propaganda spread abroad by the writer S. Iurienen (defected to France), 1978 July

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 42

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from P. Romanov, Chief of the Main Directorate for Safeguarding State Secrets in the Press, re the anti-Soviet campaign waged by the Western press with regard to the publication abroad of the essay Progress, Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom by Academician A. Sakharov, 1969 March

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 43

Article No. 526 from the TASS (Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union) official bulletin of foreign information re publication in a Dutch newspaper of the article Cry from the Soul of a Russian Scholar by Academician A. Sakharov; article No. 526 from the TASS official bulletin of foreign information re publications in the New York Times related to Sakharov's article, with a summary of Sakharov's article, comments to the article, and some personal data of Sakharov; brief handwritten instruction, 1968 July-August

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 44

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from P. Romanov, Chief of the Main Directorate for Safeguarding State Secrets in the Press (Glavlit), re detained foreign mail addressed to Academician A. Sakharov with a letter from R. Hutson(?), Editor in Chief of Problems of War and Peace magazine, where Sakharov's article For a Universal Political Party was published; the letter (translated into Russian) to Sakharov from Hutson; excerpts (translated into Russian) from the article in Time magazine (New York) about Sakharov's essay Progress, Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom ; editorial (translated into Russian) from Problems of War and Peace magazine, 1968 August

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 45

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re a review of A. Sakharov's book; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Trapeznikov, Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions, and A. N. Yakovlev, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department, requesting permission to reprint a shortened version of the review of the Sakharov essay Progress, Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom from Political Affairs magazine (edited by the Communist Party USA) in Soviet Literaturnaia gazeta (Literary Newspaper); brief instructions, 1972 March-April

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 46

Cover letter to the TsK KPSS from B. Petrovskii, Minister of Health, to a telegram from Academician A. Sakharov; the telegram re compulsory treatment of political prisoners with medications hazardous to human intelligence at the Leningrad Psychiatric Prison; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Petrovskii denouncing Sakharov's allegations; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Baltiiskii, Deputy Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions, 1971 March 1971 June

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 47

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Shchelokov, Minister of Internal Affairs, re the attempt of a group of Soviet citizens of Jewish origin (A. Sakharov among them) gathered at the Dutch Embassy in the Soviet Union to express sympathy for the athletes from Israel murdered in Munich Olympic Village and the attempt by the same group gathered at the Lebanese Embassy to protest against the incident, 1972 September

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 48

Cover letter from P. Abrasimov, Soviet Ambassador to the German Democratic Republic, to the text of an interview (translated into Russian) given by Academician A. Sakharov on television in the Federal Republic of Germany and obtained by the Socialist Unity Party of Germany as a result of radio surveillance; the text of the interview, 1975 October

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 49

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), requesting approval of the publication in Krokodil (Crocodile) magazine of a satirical essay about Solzhenitsyn revealing his attachment to monarchy; statement from M. Gramov, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department, reporting that the essay was published on March 17, 1976, 1976 February-March

Opis 37, Reel 1.1001, File 50

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re the anti-Soviet campaign waged in the West against the "Soviet use of psychiatry for political aims"; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Burenkov, Deputy Minister of Health, re proposed measures to oppose the campaign; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Trapeznikov, Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions, and M. Nenashev, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Zhukov, People's Deputy of the USSR Supreme Soviet, re information supplied to him by A. Fernandez da Fonseca, Deputy of the Portuguese Parliament, about possible attempts by American scholars to denounce the USSR for implementation of psychiatry to suppress dissidents at the World Congress of Psychiatrists in Honolulu in 1977, with a cover letter to the TsK KPSS from V. Ruben, Chairman of the Soviet of Nationalities of the USSR Supreme Soviet; memorandum to A. Shitikov (USSR Supreme Soviet) from IU. Zhukov (identical to the one addressed to the TsK KPSS);memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Petrovskii, Minister of Health, re the proposal of A. F. da Fonseca to distribute information favorable to Soviet psychiatry; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Shcherbakov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions, 1976 September-December

 

Opis 38

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 1

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev, Chief of the International Department, indicating the total amount of money raised for the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions for 1958 ($7,128,000) and the contribution made by each participating party in 1958 and establishing the trust for 1959, with indication of the contribution to be made by each participating party; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; report on the assistance granted to each communist or leftist party and organization in 1958 (totaling $6,968,000), 1958 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 2

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev, Chief of the International Department, indicating the total amount of money raised for the Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions ($9,268,000) and the contribution made by each participating party in 1959; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS indicating the contribution to be made by each participating party in 1960; report on the assistance granted to each communist or leftist party and organization in 1959 (totaling $8,759,700), 1959 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 3

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev, Chief of the International Department, indicating the total amount of money raised for the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions ($9,848,000) and the contribution made by each participating party in 1960 and establishing the trust for 1961; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS indicating the contribution to be made by each participating party in 1961; report on the assistance granted to each communist or leftist party and organization in 1960 (totaling $9,639,000), 1960 November

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 4

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev, Chief of the International Department, indicating the total amount of money raised for the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions ($10,640,000) and the contribution made by each participating party in 1961 and establishing the trust for 1962; report on the assistance granted to each communist or leftist party and organization in 1961 (totaling $10,440,100), 1961 November

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 5

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev, Chief of the International Department, indicating the total amount of money raised for the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions ($11,795,000) and the contribution made by each participating party in 1962 and establishing the trust for 1963; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS indicating the contribution to be made by each participating party in 1963; report on the assistance granted to each communist or leftist party and organization in 1962 (totaling $11,998,670); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev, Chief of the International Department, naming communist and national-democratic parties that applied for assistance in 1963, with the amount of money to be granted to each party; resolution of the TsK KPSS re appropriations for assistance in 1963; table of parties that applied for assistance in 1963, with indication of the amount of money requested in 1963 and granted to each party in 1962 and 1963, 1963 January

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 6

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev, Chief of the International Department, indicating the total amount of money raised for the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions ($15,550,000) and the contribution made by each participating party in 1963 and establishing the trust for 1964; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS indicating the contribution to be made by each participating party in 1964; report on the assistance granted to each communist or leftist party and organization in 1963, 1963 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 7

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev, Chief of the International Department, indicating the total amount of money raised for the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions ($15,750,000) and the contribution made by each participating party in 1964, and establishing the trust for 1965; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS indicating the contribution to be made by each participating party in 1965, 1964 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 8

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev, Chief of the International Department, indicating the total amount of money raised for the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions ($15,750,000) and the contribution made by each participating party in 1965 and establishing the trust for 1966; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS indicating the contribution to be made by each participating party in 1966; report on the assistance granted to each communist or leftist party and organization in 1965 (totaling $15,721,000), 1965 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 9

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev, Chief of the International Department, indicating the total amount of money raised for the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations ($15,750,000) and the contribution made by each participating party in 1966 and establishing the trust for 1967; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS indicating the contribution to be made by each participating party in 1967; report on the assistance granted to each of 69 communist or leftist parties and organizations in 1966, 1966 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 10

Draft resolution of the TsK KPSS approving establishment of the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations and setting the KPSS contribution ($14,000,000) and the contribution of each participating party for 1968 (totaling $16,550,000); memorandum to the TsK KPSS indicating the total amount of money raised for the trust ($16,650,000) and the contribution made by each participating party in 1967, 1967 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 11

Draft resolution of the TsK KPSS approving establishment of the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations and setting the KPSS contribution ($14,000,000) and the contribution of each participating party for 1969 (totaling $16,550,000); memorandum to the TsK KPSS re the total amount of money raised for the trust ($16,550,000) and the contribution made by each participating party in 1968, 1968 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 12

Draft resolution of the TsK KPSS approving establishment of the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations and setting the KPSS contribution ($14,000,000) and the contribution of each participating party for 1970 (totaling $16,550,000); memorandum to the TsK KPSS re amount of money raised for the trust and the contribution made by each participating party in 1969, with cover letter to L. Brezhnev proposing to reduce assistance to the Italian Communist Party; report on the assistance granted to each communist or leftist party and organization in 1969, 1969 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 13

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS indicating the total amount of money raised for the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations and the contribution made by each participating party in 1970 (totaling $16,550,000) and establishing the trust for 1971; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1970 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 14

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium establishing the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions and setting the KPSS contribution and the contribution of each participating party for 1962 (totaling $11,050,000), 1961 November

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 15

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving an increase in the KPSS contribution to the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions; memorandum to the TsK KPSS Presidium from M. Suslov, Chief of the Department for Liaison with Foreign Communist Parties, indicating the amount of money raised for the trust in 1953 and the amount of money required to meet requests for assistance from fraternal parties, 1953 May

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 16

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving an increase in the KPSS contribution to be deposited in the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions for 1953 and naming the parties that applied for assistance and the grants awarded to them, cautioning secrecy in transferring the grants; memorandum to the TsK KPSS Presidium from M. Suslov, Chief of the Department for Liaison with Foreign Communist Parties; report on applications for assistance filed by each party, with indication of the amount of money requested, 1953 May

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 17

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving establishment of the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations and setting the KPSS contribution ($14,000,000) and the contribution of each participating party for 1967 (totaling $16,550,000), 1967 January

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 18

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving establishment of the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations and setting the KPSS contribution ($2,900) and the contribution of each participating party for 1953 (totaling $5,000); secret letter to P. Iudin requesting that he visit Mao Zedong and pass on an oral message from the TsK KPSS re the trust; memorandum to the TsK KPSS Presidium (to G. Malenkov and N. Khrushchev) indicating the amount of money raised for the trust, the contribution of each participating party, and the assistance granted to each fraternal party in 1953, and establishing the trust for 1954, 1954 January

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 19

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium setting the KPSS contribution to the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions for 1957 ($3,150,000), approving grants to the Belgian Communist Party, the People's Party of Iran, and the Communist Party of the Netherlands, and establishing the procedure for money transfer; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from the Chief of the Department for Liaison with Foreign Communist Parties, indicating grants awarded to each fraternal party in 1956 (totaling $5,679,000) and establishing the trust and the contribution from each participating party for 1957, 1956 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 20

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving establishment of the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations and setting the KPSS contribution ($14,000,000) and the contribution of each participating party for 1968 (totaling $16,550,000), 1967 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 21

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium requesting that the USSR State Bank (Gosbank) accept hard currency from the Department for Liaison with Foreign Communist Parties and pay the deposited money back at the request of the department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Stepanov, Chief of the Department for Liaison with Foreign Communist Parties, 1954 May

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 22

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo establishing the Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions (VTsSPS) and appointing K. Kuznetsova as Chair of the Board; cover letter to J. Stalin from V. Kuznetsov and V. Grigorian presenting a draft decree on establishing the Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations (not included); copy of the extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo (see above), 1950 January

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 23

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo re the resolution of July 19, 1950, On Establishing the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to the Leftist Workers' Organizations Under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions ; draft resolution indicating the amount of money to be raised and the contribution of each participating party, establishing the procedure for granting the assistance, and appointing the Trust Board; resolution of the TsK KPSS accompanied by a cover letter to J. Stalin from V. Grigorian, Chairman of the Commission for Foreign Political Affairs; memorandum to Stalin from Grigorian summarizing the negotiations concerning the Assistance Trust led by B. Ponomarev, Deputy Chairman of the Commission for Foreign Affairs, with the leaders of participating parties, 1950 June-August

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 24

Memorandum to J. Stalin from V. Grigorian, Chairman of the Commission for Foreign Political Affairs, indicating the assistance granted to each communist or leftist party in 1950, the contributions from each participating party, and additional requests for assistance and establishing the trust for 1951; extract from the meeting of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo establishing the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions, setting the KPSS contribution and the contribution of each participating party to the trust in 1951 (totaling ($1,500,000), and appointing the Trust Board for 1951, 1951 January-February

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 25

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving establishment of the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations, setting the KPSS contribution ($9,600,000) and the contribution of each participating party for 1963 (totaling $14,650,000) and the grant awarded to each communist or leftist party and organization in 1963, 1963 January

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 26

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo establishing the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions, setting the VKP(b) share and the contribution from each participating party (totaling $2,500,000) for 1952, appointing the Trust Board, with V. Kuznetsov as TsK representative in the Board, sending B. Ponomarev and A. A. Smirnov on a business trip abroad, and approving a telegram to China; instructions to Roshchin (in Beijing) from A. Gromyko to meet with Mao Zedong and pass on to him an oral message re the Assistance Trust for 1952; memorandum to J. Stalin from V. Grigorian, Chairman of the Commission for Foreign Political Affairs, indicating the grant awarded by the trust to each communist or leftist party and organization in 1951, 1951 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 27

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo establishing the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organization, setting the KPSS contribution ($14,000,000) and the contribution to be made by each participating party to the trust (totaling $16,550,000) in 1969, 1969 January

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 28

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo establishing the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions and the contribution from each participating party (totaling $5,000,000) for 1955; instructions to P. Iudin (in Beijing) to see Mao Zedong and pass on to him an oral message re the Assistance Trust for 1955; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Stepanov, Chief of the Department for Liaison with Foreign Communist Parties, indicating the contributions to the Assistance Trust from each participating party and the grants awarded to communist and leftist parties in 1954, 1955 February-March

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 29

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev, Chief of the International Department, indicating the amount of money raised for the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions and the contribution from each participating party (totaling $6,450,000) in 1957 and establishing the trust and shares of each participating party for 1958 (totaling $6,800,000); resolution of the TsK KPSS; report indicating the grant awarded to each communist or leftist party and organization in 1957; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium setting the KPSS contribution to the trust and the contribution of each participating party for 1958, 1957 October

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 30

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo establishing the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations and setting the KPSS contribution ($14,000,000) and the contribution to be made by each participating party to the trust (totaling $16,550,000) in 1970, 1969 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 31

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo establishing the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations and setting the KPSS contribution ($13,200,000) and the contribution to be made by each participating party to the trust (totaling $15,750,000) in 1965, 1965 January

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 32

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo establishing the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations and setting the KPSS contribution ($14,000,000) and the contribution to be made by each participating party to the trust (totaling $16,550,000) in 1971, 1970 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 33

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo assigning the Department for Liaison with Foreign Communist Parties (B. Ponomarev) to inform the parties participating in the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions of the distribution of the trust funds in 1955 and to discuss with them the trust for 1956 and the expediency of increasing the trust for 1956, and setting the KPSS contribution in the 1956 trust; the text of the said conversation between Ponomarev and the leaders of the communist and workers' parties participating in the trust; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from Ponomarev, Chief of the Department for Liaison with Foreign Communist Parties, proposing to establish the trust for 1956 ($5,500,000), to discuss the 1956 trust fund with the leaders of the participating parties during their visit to the 20th KPSS Congress, and to maintain secrecy in transferring grants, 1956 January-February

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 34

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo establishing the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations and setting the KPSS contribution ($4,750,000) and the contribution to be made by each participating party to the trust (totaling $9,000,000) in 1959, and approving additional financial assistance to be granted to the Communist Party of Luxembourg, 1958 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 35

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo establishing the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations, setting the KPSS contribution ($13,200,000) and the contribution to be made by each participating party to the trust (totaling $15,750,000) in 1966, 1966 January

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 36

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo establishing the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations, setting the KPSS contribution ($4,750,000) and the contribution to be made by each participating party to the trust (totaling $9,050,000) in 1960, and approving financial assistance to the opposition faction within the Social Democratic Party of Finland, 1959 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 37

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo establishing the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations, setting the KPSS contribution ($5,500,000) and the contribution to be made by each participating party to the trust (totaling $10,500,000) in 1961, 1960 November

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 38

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev indicating the amount of money invested in the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations, the grants awarded to communist and leftist parties or organizations, and the contributions made by each participating party in 1971 (totaling $16,550,000) and proposals concerning the trust fund and the contributions of each participating party to be made in 1972 (totaling $16,550,000); draft resolution of the TsK KPSS approving the proposals of the memorandum, 1971 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 39

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev indicating the amount of money invested in the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations and the contributions made by each participating party in 1972 (totaling $16,550,000), and proposing the contribution to be made by each participating party to the trust in 1973 (totaling $16,550,000); draft resolution of the TsK KPSS approving the proposals of the memorandum, 1972 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 40

Resolution of the TsK KPSS approving the proposal from the International Department re an increase (as of 1974) in the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations, in the KPSS contribution (to $15,000,000) and in contributions of participating parties; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev indicating the contributions made to the trust by each participating party and the total amount of money spent on assistance to 69 parties and national-democratic organizations in 1973 (totaling $16,550,000) and proposing to establish the Assistance Trust for 1974 ($18,400,000); report on grants awarded to each of 69 parties and national-democratic organizations in 1973, 1973 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 41

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev indicating the contribution made to the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations by each participating party in 1974 (totaling $18,400,000) and the total amount of money spent on assistance to 76 parties and national-democratic organizations and establishing the trust fund and setting the contribution of each participating party to the trust to be made in 1975 (totaling $18,400,000); draft resolution of the TsK KPSS approving the proposals of the memorandum, 1974 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 42

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev indicating the contribution made to the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations by each participating party in 1975 (totaling $18,400,000) and thetotal amount of money spent on assistance to 84 parties and national-democratic organizations, and proposing to establish the trust fund and to set the contribution of each participating party to the trust in 1976 (totaling $18,400,000); draft resolution of the TsK KPSS approving the proposals of the memorandum, 1975 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 43

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev indicating the contribution made to the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations by each participating party in 1976 (totaling $18,400,000) and the total amount of money spent on assistance to 82 parties and national-democratic organizations, and proposing to establish the trust fund and to set the contribution of each participating party to the trust in 1977 (totaling $18,700,000); draft resolution of the TsK KPSS approving the proposals of the memorandum, 1976 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 44

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev indicating the contribution made to the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations by each participating party in 1977 (totaling $18,700,000) and the total amount of money spent on assistance to 81 parties and national-democratic organizations, and proposing to establish the trust fund and to set the contribution of each participating party to the trust in 1978 at the level of the 1977 trust fund; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS approving the proposals of the memorandum; brief note stating that the Romanian Communist Party refused to pay its share in 1977, 1977 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 45

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev indicating the contribution made to the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations by each participating party in 1978 (totaling $18,700, 000) and the total amount of money spent on assistance to 76 parties and national-democratic organizations, and proposing to establish the trust fund and to set the contribution of each participating party to the trust in 1979 on the level of the 1978 trust fund; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS approving the proposals of the memorandum, 1978 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 46

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev indicating the contribution made to the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations by each participating party in 1979 (totaling $18,700,000) and the total amount of money spent on assistance to 75 parties and national-democratic organizations and proposing to establish the trust fund and to set the contribution of each participating party to the trust in 1980 (totaling $19,000,000); draft resolution of the TsK KPSS approving the proposals of the memorandum, 1979 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 47

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev indicating the contribution made to the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations by eachparticipating party in 1980 (totaling $19,000,000) and the total amount of money spent on assistance to 78 parties and national-democratic organizations, and proposing to establish the trust fund and to set the contribution of each participating party to the trust in 1981 (totaling $18,350,000); draft resolution of the TsK KPSS approving the proposals of the memorandum, 1980 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 48

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving the proposal of the International Department to establish the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations and to set the KPSS contribution ($15,500,000) and the contribution of each participating party for 1982 (totaling $18,350,000); resolution of the TsK KPSS; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev indicating the contribution made by each participating party to the trust in 1981 and the total amount of money spent on assistance to 76 parties and organizations, and proposing to establish the trust for 1982, 1981 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 49

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving the proposal of the International Department to establish the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations ($18,350,000) and to set the KPSS contribution ($15,500,000) and the contribution of each participating party for 1983; resolution of the TsK KPSS; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev indicating the contribution made by each participating party to the trust in 1982, the total amount of money spent on assistance to 80 parties and organizations, and proposing to establish the trust for 1983, 1982 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 50

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving the proposal of the International Department to establish the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations (totaling $18,350,000), to set the KPSS contribution ($15,500,000) and the contribution of each participating party for 1984; resolution of the TsK KPSS; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev indicating the contribution made by each participating party to the trust in 1983, the total amount of money spent on assistance to 81 parties and organizations, and proposing to establish the trust for 1984, 1983 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 51

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving the proposal of the International Department to establish the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations ($18,350,000), to set the KPSS contribution ($15,500,000) and the contribution of each participating party for 1985; resolution of the TsK KPSS; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev indicating the contribution made by each participating party to the trust in 1984 and proposing to establish the trust for 1985, 1984 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 52

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving the proposal of the International Department to establish the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations ($20,350,000), to set the KPSS contribution ($17,000,000) and the contribution to be made by each participating party in 1986; resolution of the TsK KPSS; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev indicating the contribution made by each participating party to the trust in 1985, mentioning insistent requests from a number of parties to increase the assistance granted to them, and proposing to establish the trust for 1986, 1985 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 53

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving the proposal of the International Department to establish the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations ($20,350,000), to set the KPSS contribution ($17,000,000) and the contribution to be made by each participating party in 1987; resolution of the TsK KPSS approving the proposals of the International Department and assigning the department to develop new forms of financial assistance; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Dobrynin indicating the contribution made by each participating party to the trust in 1986 and the total amount of money spent on assistance to 79 parties and organizations, and proposing to establish the trust for 1987, 1987 February

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 54

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving the proposal of the International Department to set the KPSS contribution to be invested to the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations in artificial Soviet "hard" currency (invaliutnyi ruble); resolution of the TsK KPSS; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Dobrynin summarizing research of new methods of rendering financial assistance and proposing to set the KPSS contribution in artificial currency to keep pace with US dollar inflation, 1987 November

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 55

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving the KPSS contribution to the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations for 1989 (13,500,000 invaliutnyi rubles - artificial Soviet "hard" currency); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Falin describing all forms of assistance granted to fraternal parties and proposing to establish the Assistance Trust for 1989, 1988 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 56

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations for 1989 ($22,000,000); resolution of the TsK KPSS; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Falin, Chief of the International Department, re refusal of the communist parties of socialist countries to participate in the Assistance Trust, and the necessity of financing the trust solely by the KPSS, and establishing the trust for 1990 ($22,000,000), 1989 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 57

Stenographic record of talks of L. Brezhnev, A. Kosygin, and N. Podgornyi with L. Svoboda, President of Czechoslovakia, and also with Klusák, G. Husák, and V. Bilák considering possible ways of declaring the 14th Congress of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (CPC) and its decisions unlawful, ways of overcoming the political crisis, and measures to oppose anti-Soviet and anti-Communist forces in Czechoslovakia; stenographic record of the talks between L. Brezhnev, A. Kosygin, and N. Podgornyi with A. DubČek and I. Cerník about the situation in Czechoslovakia and in the CPC and possible ways of declaring the 14th Congress of the CPC and its decisions unlawful, 1968 August 23

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 58

Stenographic record of talks of L. Brezhnev, A. Kosygin, and N. Podgornyi with J. Smrkovský, J. Spacek, and B. Simon re normalization of the internal political situation in Czechoslovakia and the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (CPC) and possible ways of declaring the 14th Congress of the CPC and its decisions unlawful, 1968 August 24

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 59

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving a statement to be issued by the TsK KPSS Politburo for TsK KPSS members, candidate members, members of the Central Control Commission (TsKK KPSS), secretaries of communist parties of union republics, and first secretaries of KPSS committees in krais and oblasts re the decision to bring troops of the USSR, Bulgaria, Hungary, East Germany, and Poland into Czechoslovakia; the statement, 1968 August 19

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 60

Stenographic record of a conference of delegations of the KPSS and the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia re adoption of a Protocol and a Soviet-Czech Declaration as a result of a discussion on normalization of the situation in Czechoslovakia; corrected text of Brezhnev's speech at the conference; the protocol, 1968 August 26

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 61

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving draft instructions to V. Kuznetsov and S. Chervonenko [at the Soviet Embassy in Czechoslovakia]; the draft instructions containing comments, corrections, and amendments to the draft resolution to be adopted at the Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, 1968 November

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 62

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS Politburo and L. Brezhnev from A. A. Dubcek requesting a stop to the activity of the Vltava radio station located outside Czechoslovakia and of Sprava newspaper published by the editorial board of the Warsaw Treaty Powers, and requesting changes in comments and judgments pertaining to Czechoslovakia made in the press of the Soviet Union, East Germany, Poland, Hungary, and Bulgaria, 1968 November

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 63

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a draft memorandum on the International Security Organization and draft directives to the Soviet delegation at the conference on establishing the International Security Organization; the said draft memorandum; the draft directives, 1944 August

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 64

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving directives to the Soviet delegation appointed for participation in the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations; the directives, 1945 November

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 65

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving draft directives to the Soviet delegation to the 1st Session of the United Nations General Assembly; the draft directives, 1946 January

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 66

Ciphered telegram to V. Molotov from A. Vyshinskii (in Paris) re Soviet amendments to the Declaration on Human Rights to be adopted by the UN, 1948 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 67

Ciphered telegram to V. Molotov from A. Vyshinskii (in Paris) requesting Molotov's instructions re a draft statement of the Soviet delegation to be released at the conference of the UN 3rd Committee re the Declaration on Human Rights with respect to Soviet policy on issues pertaining to freedom of information, refugees, and a complaint by Chile, 1948 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 68

Ciphered telegram from V. Molotov to A. Vyshinskii (in Paris) requesting that the Soviet delegation abstain from voting on the Declaration on Human Rights at the conference of the UN 3rd Committee, 1948 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 69

Ciphered telegram to V. Molotov from A. Vyshinskii (in Paris) proposing that the Soviet delegation try to postpone the adoption of the Declaration on Human Rights until the next session of the UN General Assembly or offer Soviet amendments to the Declaration, and that in case the amendments should not be accepted the Soviet delegation abstain from voting on grounds of the Declaration's false principles, 1948 November

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 70

Ciphered telegram to V. Molotov from A. Vyshinskii (in Paris) urgently requesting instructions from Molotov re policy of the Soviet delegation toward adoption of the Declaration on Human Rights at the Plenum of the UN General Assembly, 1948 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 71

Ciphered telegram from V. Molotov to A. Vyshinskii (in Paris) requesting that the Soviet delegation try to postpone the adoption of the Declaration on Human Rights until the next UN General Assembly (on grounds that the text of the declaration was unsatisfactory), then propose Soviet amendments to the text of the declaration, and if the amendments should be rejected, the Soviet delegation should abstain from voting, 1948 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 72

Ciphered telegram from V. Molotov to A. Vyshinskii (in Paris) with the text of Soviet amendments to articles of the Declaration on Human Rights to be proposed by the Soviet delegation, 1948 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 73

Ciphered telegram to V. Molotov from A. Vyshinskii (in Paris) proposing that the Soviet delegation drag out the adoption process of the Declaration on Human Rights in order to upset discussion of the Korean problem at the UN General Assembly, 1948 December

Opis 38, Reel 1.1002, File 74

Ciphered telegram to V. Molotov from A. Vyshinskii (in Paris) reporting that the Declaration on Human Rights has been adopted at the UN General Assembly, that the Soviet amendments to its draft have been rejected as well as the Soviet proposal to postpone the adoption of the declaration until the 4th Session of the General Assembly, 1948 December

 

Opis 39

Opis 39, Reel 1.1002, File 1

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on measures to stimulate public actions against the NATO decision to manufacture and place new American missiles in Western Europe, with the voting record of TsK KPSS secretaries; copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with a list of documents sent to the Politburo, 1980 April

Opis 39, Reel 1.1002, File 2

Two resolutions (differently formatted, with different issuing dates, one with the voting record of TsK KPSS secretaries) of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving measures to attract foreign national Olympic committees to participate in the 22nd Olympic Summer Games in Moscow; draft list of the measures (with handwritten corrections); information for Soviet ambassadors and representatives (with handwritten amendments) re refusal of a number of countries to participate in the 22nd Olympic Summer Games in Moscow in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Northern Ireland re his meeting with M. Killanin, President of the International Olympic Committee (with handwritten amendments); extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with a distribution list; final version of the list of measures; final version of the instructions to Soviet ambassadors and representatives; two memoranda to the TsK KPSS from E. Tiazhelnikov, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department, and L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of International Information, differently formatted; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Novikov, Chairman of the Olimpiada-80 Organizational Committee, proposing to withdraw some Soviet troops from Afghanistan in order to attract more national Olympic committees to participate in the 22nd Olympic Summer Games in Moscow; additional list of the measures; proposed information to be sent to Soviet ambassadors; original version of the list of measures, 1980 June-July

Opis 39, Reel 1.1002, File 3

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re production of and artistic assistance to the Granada television company (Great Britain) to produce a series of documentaries on the history of Soviet cinematography, with the voting record of TsK KPSS secretaries; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shauro, Chief of the Department of Culture, and A. Cherniaev, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from F. Yermash, Chairman of the State Committee for Cinematography (Goskino); draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1980 June-July

Opis 39, Reel 1.1002, File 4

Resolution of the TsK KPSS on the measures to be taken with regard to the visit of A.-M. M'Bow, General Director of UNESCO, to the 22nd Olympic Summer Games in Moscow; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Zemskov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chairman of the Commission for UNESCO, 1980 June

Opis 39, Reel 1.1002, File 5

Resolution of the TsK KPSS approving a draft decree of the USSR Council of Ministers re the procedure for considering appeals of some countries pertaining to the visit of their delegations to the 22nd Olympic Summer Games; the draft decree; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Tiazhelnikov, Chief of the Propaganda Department, re the request of some national Olympic committees to pay with the national currency of their countries (not with hard currency as demanded) for the transportation and services afforded to their delegations during the 22nd Olympic Summer Games in Moscow; information re the draft resolution of the TsK KPSS on spending Soviet rubles deposited in the account of the International Olympic Committee; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Novikov, Chairman of the Olimpiada-80 Organizing Committee; two different draft resolutions of the TsK KPSS; three draft decrees of the USSR Council of Ministers, 1980 June-July

Opis 39, Reel 1.1002, File 6

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat (with handwritten and typewritten amendments), with the voting record of TsK secretaries, re intensification of information and propaganda addressed to Iran; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Zamiatin, Deputy Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, P. Luchinskii, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department, and R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Falin, Deputy Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, G. Smirnov, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department, and R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department, re carrying out the resolution of the TsK KPSS On Intensification of Information and Propaganda Addressed to Iran, 1980 June-July 1981 July

Opis 39, Reel 1.1002, File 7

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re administering and increasing the effectiveness of relations between Sovietcities and cities of capitalist and developing countries; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and N. Pegov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Business Trips and Cadres Abroad; brief note re B. Ponomarev's request to discuss the issue at the meeting of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from Z. Kruglova, Chairperson of the Presidium of the Union of Soviet Societies for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, 1980 March 1980 June-July

Opis 39, Reel 1.1002, File 8

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving financial assistance to the Women's International Democratic Federation to secure participation of representatives from Asian and African women's organizations in the Forum of Non-Governmental Organizations in Copenhagen (July 14-24, 1980); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Nikolaeva-Tereshkova, Chairwoman of the Soviet Women's Committee, 1980 July

Opis 39, Reel 1.1002, File 9

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re administering and improving relations between Soviet cities and cities of capitalist and developing countries; list of measures to be taken with regard to the resolution, 1980 July

Opis 39, Reel 1.1002, File 10

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving relations between the KPSS and the Socialist Party of Japan in 1980, with the voting record of TsK secretaries; list of scheduled exchanges between delegations of the parties; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and P. Smolskii, Deputy Chief of the Department of Organizational and Party Work; brief statement by A. Senatorov reporting a reduction in the number of guests from Japan and in the duration of their stay in the Soviet Union, 1980 July

Opis 39, Reel 1.1002, File 11

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with the voting record of TsK secretaries, awarding Lord M. Killanin, President of the International Olympic Committee, the Soviet Order of Friendship of Peoples for preparation and conduct of the 22nd Olympic Summer Games in Moscow; decree of the USSR Supreme Soviet; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with a list of documents sent to the TsK KPSS Politburo, 1980 July

Opis 39, Reel 1.1002, File 12

Resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers re change in status of the Secretariat of the Committee for State Security; two draft resolutions of the USSR Council of Ministers; resolution of the TsK KPSS; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB; brief handwritten note re General Department's support of Andropov's proposal; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, 1980 July

Opis 39, Reel 1.1002, File 13

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a business trip of the Soviet Peace Committee delegation to the International Conference on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Japan; list of the delegates; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department; four tables with each delegate's personal data; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IE. Fedorov, Chairman of the Soviet Peace Committee, 1980 July

Opis 39, Reel 1.1002, File 14

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with the voting record of TsK secretaries, re financial assistance to the Peoples for Peace World Parliament (Sofia, September 23-27, 1980); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and O. Rakhmanin, Deputy Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from O. Kharkhardin, Deputy Chairman of the Soviet Peace Committee; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1980 July-August

Opis 39, Reel 1.1002, File 15

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with the voting record of TsK secretaries and handwritten amendments, summarizing the results of the 22nd Olympic Summer Games in Moscow; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with a list of documents directed to the Politburo, 1980 August

Opis 39, Reel 1.1002, File 16

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with the voting record of TsK secretaries, authorizing awarding Soviet orders and medals to 5,000 people for their service during the preparation and conduct of the 22nd Olympic Summer Games in Moscow; table depicting distribution of state awards among ministries and organizations; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with a list of documents directed to the Politburo; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1980 August

Opis 39, Reel 1.1002, File 17

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with the voting record of TsK secretaries authorizing awarding Soviet orders and medals to military and civilian personnel of the Ministry of Defense, the Committee for State Security (KGB), and the Ministry of Internal Affairs for their service in preparing and conducting the 22nd Olympic Summer Games in Moscow; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with a list of documents directed to the Politburo, 1980 August

Opis 39, Reel 1.1002, File 18

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with the voting record of TsK secretaries, re information submitted by central committees of communist and workers' parties of socialist countries on the results of the 22nd Olympic Summer Games in Moscow; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; brief note directing materials to the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, O. Rakhmanin, Deputy Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries, andM. Gramov, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department; resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the text of instructions to Soviet ambassadors; instructions to Soviet ambassadors, with information to be passed on to secretaries of central committee of fraternal parties, 1980 August

Opis 39, Reel 1.1002, File 19

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with the voting record of TsK secretaries, authorizing award of Soviet orders and medals to citizens of the German Democratic Republic for fulfillment of special tasks; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with a list of documents directed to the Politburo, 1979 November

Opis 39, Reel 1.1002, File 20

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request from the leadership of the Workers' Party of Jamaica (WPJ) to admit two WPJ activists for training in clandestine work; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Cherniaev, Deputy Chief of the International Department; first page of an incomplete (unsigned) memorandum (translated into Russian) to the TsK KPSS from the WJP, 1980 June-July

Opis 39, Reel 1.1002, File 21

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request from R. Arismendi, Secretary of the Communist Party of Uruguay (CPU), to admit two members of the CPU Central Committee for training in clandestine work (transportation, housing, food, and clothing to be paid by the KPSS); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Brutents, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1980 June-July

Opis 39, Reel 1.1002, File 22

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the request from N. Kianuri, First Secretary of the People's Party of Iran (PPI), to admit three PPI members for training in clandestine work (training, transportation, housing, and food to be paid for by the KPSS); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum (translated into Russian) to the TsK KPSS from N. Kianuri, 1980 June-July

Opis 39, Reel 1.1002, File 23

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving draft directives of the USSR Council of Ministers re introduction of additional positions in some institutions and organizations; voting record of TsK KPSS secretaries; draft directives of the USSR Council of Ministers introducing additional positions (to be occupied by KGB officers) in a number of institutions and organizations; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; copy of the resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat (differently formatted); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), proposing the introduction of additional positions to be occupied by KGB officers; list of organizations and institutions that approved Andropov's proposal, 1980 July

Opis 39, Reel 1.1002, File 24

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with the voting record of TsK KPSS secretaries, authorizing financial assistance to communist and progressive youth organizations in Latin America; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Brutents,Deputy Chief of the International Department, and N. Petrovichev, Deputy Chief of the Department of Organizational and Party Work; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Pastukhov, Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Young Communists League (TsK VLKSM), 1980 June-July

Opis 39, Reel 1.1002, File 25

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request from the leadership of the Communist Party of Argentina (CPA) to admit a CPA representative for training in party work (expenses to be paid by the KPSS); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Brutents, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1980 July-August

Opis 39, Reel 1.1002, File 26

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat authorizing the exchange of 50,000 rubles for US dollars for the Administration of TsK KPSS Affairs; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Brutents, Deputy Chief of the International Department, re a request from A. Muhammad, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Iraqi Communist Party, to exchange 50,000 rubles (collected as membership fees from Iraqi students in the Soviet Union) for US dollars; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Muhammad, 1980 July-August

Opis 39, Reel 1.1002, File 27

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re engineering assistance to Benin in building an airfield; copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with a list of documents directed to the TsK KPSS Politburo, 1980 August

Opis 39, Reel 1.1002, File 28

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request from the leadership of the Communist Party of El Salvador (CPES) to admit thirty communists from El Salvador for military training (expenses to be paid by the KPSS); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Cherniaev, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. J. Handal, Secretary General of the CPES, 1980 July-August

Opis 39, Reel 1.1002, File 29

Draft resolution of the TsK KPSS on the necessity of considering legal aspects of KPSS activity with respect to the results of the February 1990 Plenum of the TsK KPSS; voting record of the TsK KPSS secretaries; brief note addressing documents to the TsK secretaries for voting; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Kruchina, Administrator of the Administration of TsK KPSS Affairs, and A. S. Pavlov, Chief of the State and Legal Department; distribution list; copy of the first page of the memorandum from N. Kruchina and Pavlov; copy of the draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1990 February-March

 

Opis 40

Opis 40, Reel 1.1002, File 1

Decree of People's Commissar of Internal Affairs L. Beria on establishing special [concentration] camps for former servicemen of the Red Army who were taken prisoner by the enemy or stayed on in territories occupied by the enemy, 1941 December

Opis 40, Reel 1.1002, File 2

Cover page of a file containing reports and surveys of Department "F" of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) pertaining to the repatriation of Soviet citizens in June-July 1944; survey of repatriation of Soviet citizens from territories liberated from German occupation by the Red Army as of August 1, 1945, signed by General F. Sudoplatov, Chief of Department "F"; table of data on repatriation of Soviet citizens from territories liberated from German occupation by the Red Army, signed by General Zapevalin, Deputy Chief of the Department "F", 1945 July

Opis 40, Reel 1.1002, File 3

Cover page of a file containing documents pertaining to the transfer of authority over camps for inspection and filtering (proverochno-filtratsionnye lageria) from the Department for Inspection and Filtering Camps of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) to the Main Directorate for Camps (GULAG); act of transfer, 1946 January

Opis 40, Reel 1.1002, File 4

Surveys Nos. 2-8 submitted to V. Chernyshev, Deputy People's Commissar of Internal Affairs, by the Administrator (Upolnomochennyi) of the Council of People's Commissars for Repatriation of Soviet Citizens presenting data on the number of foreign prisoners of war and Soviet citizens subject to repatriation as of October 31, 1944 (by country of citizenship), November 10, 19, 30, 1944 December 10, 20, 30, 1944

Opis 40, Reel 1.1002, File 5

Cover page of a draft report on carrying out the decisions of the Soviet government re repatriation of Soviet and foreign citizens displaced during World War II, 1941-1945; chapter 9 of the report (survey of repatriation), 1946

 

Opis 41

Opis 41, Reel 1.1002, File 1

Cover page of the report on scientific research Prognosis of Social and Economic Development of the Economy of Aral Sea Area Through the Years 2000-2020 ; chapter 2 of the report ("Essence of the Problem"); chapter 6 of the report ("Conclusions and Recommendations"), 1983 July

Opis 41, Reel 1.1002, File 2

Cover page of the report General Scheme of Allocation of Productive Forces of the USSR Through the Year 2000 (Volume 1, General Economic and Social Problems of Allocation of Productive Forces - Main Principles ); extract from the report (eleven pages), 1983

Opis 41, Reel 1.1002, File 3

Cover page of the report General Scheme of Allocation of Productive Forces of the USSR Through the Year 2000 ( Consolidated Report); extract from the report (two pages), 1984

 

Opis 42

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 1

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving draft directives of the USSR Council of Ministers and draft instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Afghanistan; the directives of the USSR Council of Ministers re a request of Afghanistan to the Soviet government to pay part of the expenses of Soviet specialists assigned to the Armed Forces of Afghanistan; the instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Afghanistan, 1979 January

Opis 42, Reel 1.1002, File 2

Memorandum of a conversation between L. Brezhnev and N. M. Taraki [leader of the Khalq (Masses) wing of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan], with participation of A. Kosygin, A. Gromyko, D. Ustinov, and B. Ponomarev, re political, military, and economic cooperation between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan and re the negative answer of the Soviet leadership to multiple requests of the Afghan leadership to bring Soviet troops into Afghanistan, 1979 March 20

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 3

Memorandum of a conversation between A. Kosygin, A. Gromyko, D. Ustinov, and B. Ponomarev and N. M. Taraki re political and economic cooperation between the USSR and Afghanistan and re the negative answer of the Soviet leadership to multiple requests of the Afghan leadership to bring Soviet troops, tanks, and aviators into Afghanistan, 1979 March 20

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 4

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving a memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Gromyko, IU. Andropov, D. Ustinov, and B. Ponomarev re Soviet policy toward Afghanistan; the memorandum, 1979 April 1 1979 April 12

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 5

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving a memorandum to the TsK KPSS from the Ministry of Defense of April 18, 1979 (about the inexpediency of participation of Soviet helicopter crews in the suppression of counterrevolutionary uprisings in Afghanistan), and approving instructions to the Soviet main military adviser in Afghanistan; the instructions, 1979 April 21

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 6

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving draft directives of the USSR Council of Ministers re additional military assistance and supply of 1,500 automobiles to Afghanistan and approving instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Afghanistan re inexpediency of sending Soviet helicopters, transport planes, and airborne forces to Kabul; the instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Afghanistan, 1979 May 24

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 7

Brief record of a meeting of the Commission of the TsK KPSS Politburo (L. Brezhnev, D. Ustinov, A. Gromyko, and K. Chernenko) held in a country house re execution of the decision to invade Afghanistan; handwritten resolution of the TsK KPSS, with the voting record of the TsK secretaries, On the Situation in "A" [Afghanistan]; two identical copies of the cover page of the file containing these documents, 1979 December 26

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 8

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo re Soviet policy toward Afghanistan; instructions to the Soviet ambassadors to East Germany, Poland, Hungary, BulgariaCzechoslovakia, Cuba, and Mongolia; instructions to all Soviet ambassadors (except those mentioned above); instructions to the Soviet representative in the UN; TASS (Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union) press release; congratulatory message to B. Karmal, Chairman of the Revolutionary Council, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) and Prime Minister of Afghanistan, upon his election as General Secretary of the PDPA Central Committee and to the top government posts; instructions to the media demanding propaganda support for Soviet actions in Afghanistan; memorandum to TsK KPSS members and candidate-members, TsKK (Central Control Commission) KPSS members, republican central committees, KPSS committees in krais (kraikoms) and oblasts (obkoms), the Moscow City KPSS Committee, the Leningrad City KPSS committee, and the Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Armed Forces and Navy from the TsK KPSS; instructions from the TsK KPSS to Soviet ambassadors to non-socialist countries; list of the communist and workers' parties of non-socialist countries to which the TsK KPSS memorandum should be sent; two identical copies of the cover page of the file containing these documents, 1979 December 27

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 9

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving the draft response of L. Brezhnev to President Carter's telephone appeal; draft text of the response, 1979 December 29

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 10

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, A. Gromyko, D. Ustinov, and B. Ponomarev re the December 27-28, 1979, events in Afghanistan, 1979 December 31

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 11

Digest of the conversation between A. Gromyko and SH. Dost, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan, re the situation in Afghanistan and the forthcoming session of the UN Security Council on Afghanistan, 1980 January 4

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 12

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving a procedure for assigning servicemen and civilian employees to the Soviet forces temporarily located in Afghanistan, 1980 January 23

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 13

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo re negotiations for an agreement between the Soviet and Afghan governments on quartering Soviet troops in Afghanistan; the draft agreement; draft Protocol to the agreement; list of settlements and garrisons with houses and barracks, airfields and warehouses for Soviet troops temporarily quartered in Afghanistan, and of testing and firing fields to be shared with the Armed Forces of Afghanistan; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Afghanistan, 1980 January 25

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 14

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo re measures to be taken in anticipation of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E.Shevardnadze, V. Chebrikov, A. N. Yakovlev, D. Yazov, V. Murakhovskii, and V. Kriuchkov, 1989 January

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 15

Agenda of the June 23, 1980, session of the TsK KPSS Plenum re convocation of the 26th KPSS Congress (report presented by L. Brezhnev), the international situation, and foreign policy of the Soviet Union (report presented by A. Gromyko); stenographic record of the meeting; resolution of the TsK KPSS Plenum on convocation of the 26th KPSS Congress; resolution of the TsK KPSS Plenum on the international situation and the foreign policy of the Soviet Union, 1980 June

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 16

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re results of the Working Conference of the Leaders of Fraternal Parties of Socialist Countries of the Council on Mutual Economic Assistance, which took place in Moscow on November 10-11, 1986, and re measures to be taken to end the war in Afghanistan, 1986 November

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 17

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re a list of the main issues scheduled for consideration by the TsK KPSS Politburo and Secretariat during the second half of 1987 with respect to the directives of the July 1987 Plenum of the TsK KPSS, re measures to carry out Soviet obligations under the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Manufacture, and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxic Weapons and on their Destruction [record is not available], re expansion of telephone communications with capitalist and developing countries, and re a request of Crimean Tatars for a meeting with M. Gorbachev, 1987 July

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 18

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re measures to be taken in connection with the events in Azerbaijan and Armenia (item 1 of the agenda) and re changes in the distribution of responsibilities among the TsK KPSS secretaries (item 7 of the agenda), 1988 February

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 19

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re urgent measures to be taken to settle the crisis in Azerbaijan and Armenia caused by the events in Nagornyi Karabakh, 1988 March

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 20

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re results of the 4th All-Union Congress of Collective Farmers, 1988 March

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 21

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re a report to be presented by M. Gorbachev at the July 1988 Plenum of the TsK KPSS, re improvement in the procedure for making state awards, and transforming the Union-Republican Ministry of Fishing Industry into the All-Union Ministry of Fishing Industry, 1988 July

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 22

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re discussion of the memorandum by M. Gorbachev On Reorganization of the Party Apparatus and re reorganization of local party organs, 1988 September

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 23

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re a draft of the report to be presented by M. Gorbachev at the November 1988 Plenum of the TsK KPSS, re measures opposing the activity of the Memorial Society, and re events in Armenia, 1988 November

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 24

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re world reaction to Gorbachev's proposals to the UN on disarmament, reduction in personnel of the Soviet Armed Forces, and withdrawal of Soviet troops from Eastern Europe put forward during his visit to the UN, re practical measures to be taken to reduce the Soviet Armed Forces and military budget, re the possibility of excusing students from mandatory military service (chapter 1), and addressing the aftermath of the earthquake in Armenia (chapter 2, incomplete), 1988 December

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 25

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo with the following agenda: I. On procedure for conducting the March 1990 Plenum of the TsK KPSS; II. On the resolution of the TsK KPSS Plenum On the Draft Law on Amendments to the USSR Constitution (Main Law) Regarding the Political System (Articles 6 and 7) ; III. On the resolution of the TsK KPSS about the convocation date for the 28th Congress of the KPSS, about the election campaign in the party, and about quotas and procedures for the election of delegates; IV. On a draft entitled Regulations for the Central Control Commission of the KPSS , 1990 March

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 26

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re elections to the 1st Congress of People's Deputies of the Russian Federation and preparation for the Congress, and re policy toward the Demokraticheskaia platforma (Democratic Platform) KPSS faction, 1990 March

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 27

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo with the following agenda: I. Discussion of the form and content of the letter to be sent by the TsK KPSS to all communists in the country, convocation of the TsK KPSS Plenum, delimitation between the Demokraticheskaia platforma (Democratic Platform) faction and the KPSS in order to retain the integrity of the KPSS, and the situation in some local party organizations (Moscow, Leningrad, Ukraine, Baltic states); II. On establishing the Krestianskii Soiuz SSSR (Peasants' Union) (incomplete), 1990 Apri

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 28

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re preparation for the 28th Congress of the KPSS and the Russian Party Conference, 1990 May

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 29

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re violation of regulations on industrial supplies (incomplete), improvement in the structure of the TsK KPSS apparatus, and the political situation in Azerbaijan, 1990 September

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 30

Stenographic report of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re stabilization of the political and economic situation in the country, preservation of the leading role of the KPSS, reorganization and reform of the union power structures, signing of the Union Agreement, and proposals for the draft speech to be presented by President M. Gorbachev at the Session of the USSR Supreme Soviet, 1990 November

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 31

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo with the following agenda: I. On the draft report to be presented at the joint Plenum of the TsK and Central Control Commission (TsKK) of the KPSS On the Current Situation and Party Task ; II. On the draft report and resolutions of the Plenum On Preparation for the Registration of the KPSS Code and On Organizational and Political Strengthening of Party Organizations, 1991 January

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 32

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo with the following agenda: I. Approval of the draft report On the International Situation and Foreign Policy of the Soviet Union to be presented by A. Gromyko at the TsK KPSS Plenum and of the draft resolution adopted by the TsK KPSS on Gromyko's report; II. Approval of the draft decree of the USSR Supreme Soviet and draft resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers pertaining to the use of labor of pardoned or paroled criminals; III. Gifts to be made to Chancellor H. Schmidt and other members of the German delegation; IV. Excessive commercial construction in Moscow as compared with housing (incomplete), 1980 June

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 33

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re development of the nuclear power industry in the USSR through 1990, inviting leaders of fraternal communist parties of socialist countries to the 22nd Olympic Summer Games in Moscow, and a possible meeting with them in Yalta, and a report by A. Pelshe on the results of the visit of a Soviet delegation to German Democratic Republic and on the free supply of Niva automobiles to Afghanistan, 1980 June

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 34

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re materials prepared for the business visit of a delegation of Polish leaders to the Soviet Union (to discuss publications in the Polish media about "anti-Soviet and counterrevolutionary elements," including Solidarity (Solidarnosc), possible declaration of a state of emergency in Poland, and financial assistance to Poland by the Soviet Union, 1980 October

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 35

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re talks with Mengistu Haile Mariam, Chairman of the Provisional Military Administrative Council and Chairman of the Commission for Formation of the Ethiopian Workers' Party, and results of the visit to the USSR of S. Kania, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party, and I. Pinikowski, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Poland, 1980 October

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 36

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re preparation for the 26th Congress of the KPSS (including work with delegations of communist, workers', national-democratic, and left social-democratic parties), approving the results of the visit to Poland of a delegation of party officials, headed by M. Zimianin, to investigate the situation in the country (the Polish United Workers' Party, Solidarity (Solidarnosc), activity of the Polish media, etc.), and re a request that TsK departments, the Committee for State Security (KGB), the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Ministry of Defense prepare proposals on Poland to be discussed by the Commission for Poland, 1981 January

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 37

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re conversations between L. Brezhnev and F. Castro, L. Brezhnev and T. Zhivkov, and L. Brezhnev and E. Honecker during the 26th Congress of the KPSS, 1981 March

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 38

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re measures to facilitate the construction and reconstruction of machine-building enterprises for agriculture and re the results of talks (of I. Arkhipov, V. Alkhimov, N. Baibakov, and V. Garbuzov) with the Polish delegation on supply of raw materials for Polish light industry and also of oil, metal, cellulose, etc., and re Poland's financial situation, 1981 March

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 39

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re measures for more effective use of fuel and energy resources in the Soviet economy in 1981-1985 and through the year 1990, re the 23rd (ordinary) meeting of the Military Council of the Joint Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Powers and re the situation in Poland (worsening political and economic conditions in the country and within the leadership of the Polish United Workers' Party and of the army, strengthening of the influence of Solidarity (Solidarnosc), highlighting of the Polish situation by Western media, etc.), 1981 April

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 40

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re approval of appeals of the TsK KPSS to the 1981 May Day demonstration by representatives of working people in Moscow, results of a meeting of IU. Andropov and D. Ustinov with Polish friends (S. Kania and W. Jaruzelski) on the situation in Poland and possible ways of improving it, re results of conversations between L. Brezhnev and H.-D. Genscher, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany, and between A. Gromyko and G. Genscher, and re participation of the Soviet delegation in the 12th Congress of the Bulgarian Communist Party, 1981 April

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 41

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re participation of the Soviet delegation in the 16th Congress of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (incomplete) and re a telephone conversation between L. Brezhnev and S. Kania, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party, 1981 April

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 42

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re talks with M. Qadhafi, leader of the Libyan revolution, and re results of talks between the delegation of the TsK KPSS and the leadership of the Polish United Workers' Party, 1981 April

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 43

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re talks with K. Waldheim, Secretary General of the UN; re cooperation between the USSR and North Korea in timber stockpiling on Soviet territory, and re signing an agreement on the boundary with Afghanistan in the Lake Zorkul area and Mt. Povalo-Shveikovskii (incomplete), 1981 May

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 44

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re results of a conversation between L. Brezhnev and O. Palme, Chairman of the International Commission on Disarmament and Security, re a report of L. Brezhnev about his conversation with S. Kania, and re the situation in Finland (possible election of a new president because of U. Kekkonen's retirement), 1981 June

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 45

Personal letter to L. Brezhnev from M. Gorbachev expressing his concern about the situation in agriculture, and possible necessity of importing grain; brief handwritten note, requesting that the letter be included in the working record of the meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo of July 16, 1981, 1981 July

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 46

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re results of a meeting between L. Brezhnev and Le Duan, Secretary General of the Vietnamese Communist Party, and re a discussion of Politburo members on the situation in Poland, 1981 September

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 47

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re results of a meeting between L. Brezhnev and K. Phomvihane, Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and Prime Minister, re a telegram from P. Abrasimov, Soviet Ambassador to the German Democratic Republic, reflecting approval of Brezhnev's telephone conversation with S. Kania of September 11, 1981, by the leaders of fraternal parties (E. Honecker, J. Kádár, T. Zhivkov, and G. Husák), and re a telegram from Montreal about the hockey cup match between the Soviet Union and Canada, 1981 September

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 48

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re results of talks with A. A. Salih, President of the Yemen Arab Republic, re results of the business trip of K. Rusakov to East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Bulgaria to provide information about Soviet policy toward Poland, and re results of the visit of a Soviet delegation to Bulgaria to participate in the celebration of the 1,300th anniversary of the establishment of the Bulgarian state, 1981 October

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 49

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re measures to improve domestic trade and consumer services to be rendered to the Soviet population in the course of the 11th Five-Year Plan, re a letter from W. Jaruzelski requesting assistance to Poland, and re results of the Soviet-Cuban conference on South Africa, 1982 January

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 50

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re measures in connection with the official friendly visit to the USSR of the party-governmental delegation from Czechoslovakia headed by G. Husák, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and President, re measures in connection with the official friendly visit to the USSR of R. Kirchschlåger, Federal President of Austria, re the report by K. Rusakov about his conversation with W. Jaruzelski during his visit to Poland, re a regular meeting of the Committee of Ministers of Defense of the Warsaw Treaty Powers, and re talks with the delegation of the Finnish Communist Party, 1982 May

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 51

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re results of talks with S. Machel, Chairman of the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO) and President, re the situation in Afghanistan and measures to improve it, re negotiations on the political settlement between Pakistan and Afghanistan, re Soviet policy toward Bolivia (the resolution adopted without discussion), and re a request from Shaliapin's children for reinterment of Shaliapin's body in the Soviet Union, 1983 March

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 52

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re fulfillment of plans for fodder protein supply and creation of facilities for its manufacture (in accordance with the Food Program of the USSR), re negotiations with the United States, North Korea, and Japan on demarcation of territorial waters, re trends in the development of the private sector in socialist countries (not included), and re development of individual and collective activity of the Soviet population in manufacturing consumer goods and delivering services to consumers (not included), 1983 May

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 53

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re international and domestic affairs: convocation of a conference of seven leaders of Europeansocialist states to work out measures in response to the placement of American rockets and Pershing-2 missiles in Western Europe, Soviet policy toward settlement of the Kampuchean problem, relations with China, conflict between Israel and Arab countries, relations with Japan, and the funeral of A. Pelshe, 1983 May

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 54

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re improvement in socialist competition, re approval of the conversation between G. Aliev and J. Block, US Secretary of Agriculture, about Soviet-American relations and the importance of a new agreement on grain, re a press conference for Soviet and foreign journalists about the intrusion of a South Korean plane into Soviet air space; and about the appointment of A. Babenko as Minister of Construction for Dalnevostochnyi (Far East) and Zabaikalskii (Transbaikal) krais, 1983 September

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 55

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re delay in adoption of the State Plan of Economic and Social Development for 1984 (the first page only), re violation of the work schedule (established by health care providers) by a number of Politburo members and TsK secretaries, and re a decision not to bring down the American civilian plane presumably hired by "American psychopath Flynt" to follow the route of the South Korean plane [brought down by Soviet air defense troops on September 1, 1983], 1983 November

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 56

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re approval of an open letter addressed to the district election commission for elections to the USSR Supreme Soviet of the eleventh convocation, re supply of cotton fiber to cotton-processing enterprises in 1984 (incomplete), and re Soviet policy in the Middle East (with regard to aggression committed by the United States and Israel against Lebanon), 1984 January

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 57

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re results of the development of the national economy in the first quarter of 1984 and putting additional efforts into fulfilling the plan for 1984 (incomplete), re results of the conversation of A. Gromyko and D. Ustinov with W. Jaruzelski, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party (PUWP), about the situation in Poland and in the PUWP, Solidarity (Solidarnosc), etc., and re results of the conversation between D. Ustinov and F. Siwicki, Candidate Member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the PUWP and Minister of National Defense of Poland, 1984 April

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 58

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re development of the nuclear power industry in the USSR through the year 1990, re invitation of leaders of fraternal communist parties of socialist countries to the 22nd Olympic Summer Games in Moscow and possible meetings with them in Yalta, report by A. Pelshe about results of the visit of a Soviet delegation to East Germany, and free supply of Niva automobiles to Afghanistan, 1980 June

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File is identical to file 33 of this opis
Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 59

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re results of the conference of leaders of the Warsaw Treaty Powers held in Moscow on December 5, 1980, and re results of the 13th Session of the Committee of the Ministers of Defense of the Warsaw Treaty Powers, 1980 December

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 60

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re measures to increase the manufacture of consumer goods in 1981-1985 and to respond more fully to the population's demand for those goods (incomplete), re a conversation of IU. Andropov and A. Gromyko with B. Karmal about a political settlement of Afghan problems and about measures to strengthen the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, and re the audience given by President R. Reagan to the wife of A. Shcharanskii [Soviet dissident, Zionist, and human rights activist, serving a sentence in prison] and telegrams from various countries demanding the release of Jews in prison, 1981 June

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 61

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re the agenda and date of the next Plenum of the TsK KPSS (incomplete) and re a draft project for the increase of timber transportation from the outer regions of the Soviet Union utilizing inmates of correction labor camps administered by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 1982 March

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 62

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re approval of draft appeals of the TsK KPSS for May Day 1982, re participation of the KPSS delegation in the 5th Congress of the Vietnamese Communist Party, and re bringing to light by the Committee for State Security (KGB) of an anti-Soviet clandestine group in the Institute of World Economy, its activities and plans, and its members and their possible prosecution, 1982 April

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 63

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re results of the visit of D. Ustinov, Minister of Defense, to Hungary (the first page only), re adoption of a resolution demanding strict adherence by Politburo members and candidate members and by the TsK KPSS secretaries to work schedule established by health care providers, 1983 March

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 64

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re results of negotiation with a delegation from the Federal Republic of Germany, headed by Counselor H. Kohl, re the international communist movement in the non-socialist part of the world, participation of the KPSS in the movement, and expansion of the international role ofthe KPSS in world policy, re Soviet policy toward Lebanon (incomplete), re change in distribution of responsibilities among the TsK KPSS secretaries owing to the election of G. Romanov as TsK KPSS Secretary, and re abuse of regulations and violation of the law by top party and government officials in building private country houses (dachas), 1983 July

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 65

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re delay in adoption of the State Plan of Economic and Social Development for 1984 (the first page only), re violation of the work schedule [established by health providers] by a number of Politburo members and TsK secretaries, and re the decision not to bring down the American civilian plane presumably hired by "American psychopath Flynt" to follow the route of the South Korean plane [brought down by Soviet air defense troops on September 1, 1983], 1983 November

Scope and Contents note

File is identical to file 55 of this opis
Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 66

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re adoption of a long-term program for development of soil reclamation and utilization of irrigated and drained soils to guarantee food supplies (the first page only), re delivery in 1986-1990 of oil and oil products to the European countries of the Council on Mutual Economic Assistance (CMA), and re regulations for setting up contract prices in trade with the countries of the CMA in 1986-1990 (incomplete), 1984 May

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 67

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re the appointment of D. Ustinov as Minister of Defense to replace the deceased Marshal A. Grechko, re awarding L. Brezhnev the rank of Marshal (without publication in the press), re awarding D. Ustinov the rank of General of the Army in connection with his appointment as Minister of Defense, and re release of the Declaration of the Soviet Government on the Middle East, 1976 April

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 68

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re a draft resolution to be adopted at the Plenum of the TsK KPSS on the State Plan of Economic and Social Development of the USSR and on the State Budget of the USSR for 1979, re discussion at the Plenum election of N. Tikhonov and E. Shevardnadze as candidate members of the TsK KPSS Politburo, and re recommendation (to be made at Plenum) to elect M. Gorbachev as Secretary of the TsK KPSS for Agriculture, 1978 November

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 69

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving the Appeal to the Peoples, Parliaments, and Governments on the 30th anniversary of victory in World War II and a May Day greeting to the Soviet people issued by the TsK KPSS, Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet, and the Soviet Government, awarding the Order of the Patriotic War to the city of Voronezh for heroism and courage duringthe war and achievements in the development of the national economy, approving draft decrees and resolutions of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet pardoning some categories of convicts in honor of the 30th anniversary of victory in World War II, and approving a meeting of the Council of Joint Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Powers in connection with the 20th anniversary of the Warsaw Treaty, 1975 April

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 70

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re results of talks with US Secretary of State C. Vance and re approval of proposals presented by L. Brezhnev about the procedure and terms for developing the draft Constitution of the USSR, 1977 April

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 71

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS government delegation to Czechoslovakia (the first page only), re the inappropriate practice of some departmental leaders of blaming the Committee for State Security (KGB) for submitting adverse information to the TsK KPSS, and re a proposal to be submitted to the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences to discuss the behavior of Academician A. Sakharov at the court trial of IU. Orlov [human rights activist], 1978 June

Opis 42, Reel 1.1003, File 72

Working record (the only copy) of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re the draft Law on the Council of Ministers of the USSR (the first page only), re a visit of S. Gorshkov, Commander in Chief of the USSR Navy, to the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, re authorization of A. Gromyko to sign a Soviet-Turkish agreement on demarcation of the Black Sea continental shelf, and re information and proposals submitted by IU. Andropov about the court trial of N. (A.) Shcharanskii [human rights activist and Zionist] charged with espionage and treason and about the request of President Carter not to mention Shcharanskii's connections with the CIA, 1978 June

 

Opis 43

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 1

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request of the leadership of the Communist Party of El Salvador (CPES), assigning the Ministry of Civil Aviation to transport rifles and ammunition (made in Western countries) from Hanoi to Havana to be then transferred to friends in El Salvador, and directing that expenses be compensated by the USSR state budget; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Cuba to be passed on to S. J. Handal, General Secretary of the CPES; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to North Vietnam; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Cherniaev, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1980 August

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 2

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request of the leadership of the People's Party of Iran to pay travel expenses of Iranian party activists from Iran to the USSR (to be provided by the KGB); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1980 August

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 3

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a draft decree of the USSR Council of Ministers re an increase in personnel of the KGB mission at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Hungary; two similar copies of the said draft decree; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Shchelokov, Minister of Internal Affairs, requesting the introduction of a position of assistant chief of the KGB mission to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Hungary, and assignment of an officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to occupy the position, 1980 July-August

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 4

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal of the KPSS Committee of Dagestan (obkom) to establish a Dagestan Branch of the Association for Cultural Relations with Compatriots Abroad (Rodina (Motherland) Association); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs, and R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from M-S. Umakhov, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Dagestan; personnel charts for the Dagestan branch of the Motherland Society; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from G. Gorshkov, Deputy Chairman of the Motherland Society Presidium, 1980 May 1980 August

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 5

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request from G. Hall, Secretary General of the Communist Party USA, to admit his personal representative for special training (expenses to be paid by the KPSS); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS (personally to B. Ponomarev) from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, 1980 August-September

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 6

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers re increase in foreign currency wages to be paid to officers of the KGB mission to the Ministry of State Security of the German Democratic Republic; two draft resolutions of the USSR Council of Ministers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Drugov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB; resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1980 September

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 7

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a draft decree of the USSR Council of Ministers re an increase in personnel of the KGB mission to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of North Vietnam; the said draft decree adding the position of assistant chairman of the KGB mission at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of North Vietnam; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Drugov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Shchelokov, Minister of Internal Affairs, 1980 September

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 8

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat directing that the USSR State Bank (Gosbank) exchange 5,000 rubles for Indian rupees; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department, re a request from the leadership of the Communist Party of India to exchange Soviet currency, collected as membership fees, by Indian communists residing in the Soviet Union, 1980 October

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 9

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request of the Communist Party of Chile (CPC) to admit to the Soviet Union fifteen representatives of the CPC for special training in mining, explosives, and sabotage (expenses to be paid by the Ministry of Defense); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Brutents, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum (translated into Russian) to the TsK KPSS from L. Corvalán, 1980 October-November

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 10

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request of J. Faría, Secretary General of the Communist Party of Venezuela (CPV), to admit a party activist to the Soviet Union for special training (expenses to be paid by the KPSS); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Brutents, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum (translated into Russian) to the TsK KPSS from J. Faría requesting that his nephew K. J. M. Faría be admitted to the Soviet Union for special training, 1980 October-November

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 11

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request of the leadership of the South African Communist Party (SACP) to admit to the Soviet Union one representative of the SACP for special training in party work (expenses to be paid by the KPSS); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1980 November-December

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 12

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal of the Ministry of Defense to send a Soviet military delegation to Syria; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Drugov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs, re the trip, members of the delegation, its financing and aims; four tables with personal data of each member of the delegation; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from Marshal N. Ogarkov, Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces, 1980 November-December

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 13

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving proposals of the Committee for State Security (KGB) presented to the TsK KPSS in a memorandum to the TsK KPSS and giving instructions to the State Committee for Radio and Television (Gosteleradio) re production of a special television film exposing agents of Chinese secret services; the memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, 1980 December

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 14

File is unavailable, 1918-1992

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 15

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request of the leadership of the Communist Party of Uruguay (CPU) to admit to the Soviet Union two members of the CPU for training in methods of clandestine work (expenses to be paid by the KPSS); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Brutents, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum (translated into Russian) to the TsK KPSS from R. Arismendi, First Secretary General of the CPU, 1980 December

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 16

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request from the Communist Party of Israel (CPI) to admit D. Vilner, activist of the CPI, to the Soviet Union for training (expenses to be paid by the KPSS); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Brutents, Deputy Chief of the International Department; extract from the memorandum of a conversation with M. Vilner, Secretary General of the CPI, recorded by N. Slepov, Reference Adviser of the International Department, 1980 August 1980 December

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 17

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to award Soviet orders and medals to a group of employees of the organs of internal affairs and servicemen of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for assistance to Afghanistan; copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, 1980 December

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 18

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the proposal of the Committee for State Security (KGB) and the News Publishing Agency (Agenstvo Pechati Novosti - APN) to establish an APN station in the city of Gdansk (Poland) (position of assistant chief to be occupied by a KGB officer, and his KGB benefit to be retained); extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov (KGB) and L. Tolkunov (APN), 1981 January

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 19

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving draft directives of the USSR Council of Ministers on adding the position of first secretary - assistant ambassador for administrative and legal matters - to the personnel of the Soviet Embassy in Nicaragua; the draft directives of the USSR Council of Ministers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs, and N. Pegov, Chief of the Department of Business Trips and Cadres Abroad; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, proposing that the position be occupied by a KGB officer; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; copy of the draft directives of the USSR Council of Ministers; directives of the USSR Council of Ministers, 1981 January

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 20

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal of the Minister of Defense to send to Cuba a group of specialists from the Ministry of Defense; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs, naming the members of the delegation; nine tables with personal data of each member of the delegation; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from Marshal N. Ogarkov, Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces; two memoranda to the TsK KPSS from N. Ogarkov requesting authorization to include additional members to the delegation, 1981 January-February

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 21

File is unavailable, 1918-1992

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 22

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a draft resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers re pensions to wives and children of officers who were killed or who died while doing intelligence or counterintelligence work abroad; the draft resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; extract from the April 1961 resolution of the TsK KPSS; resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1981 January-February

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 23

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a memorandum, submitted by TsK KPSS departments, authorizing implementation of instructions on mobilization for trade union and VLKSM (All-Union Young Communists League) organs in case of war; the memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs, and N. Petrovichev, Deputy Chief of the Department of Organizational and Party Work; the instructions for trade union organs; the instructions to the VLKSM organs, 1981 February-March

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 24

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request of the Communist Party of Chile (CPC) to admit to the Soviet Union in 1981 twenty CPC activists and eight CPC leaders for special training in clandestine work; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Brutents, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum (translated into Russian) to the TsK KPSS from L. Corvalán, Secretary General of the CPC, 1980 November 1981 January

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 25

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request of the Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDPF) to organize an exchange of party delegations between the KPSS and SDPF (expenses of both delegations to be paid by the KPSS); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and P. Smolskii, Deputy Chief of Organizational and Party Work, 1980 August

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 26

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re supply by the KPSS of paper for L'Humanité newspaper and re measures for increased economic and trade relations with companies run by the French Communist Party; distribution list, 1980 August

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 27

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving measures for strengthening relations between the KPSS and the Italian Communist Party; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department; list of authorities who approved the draft resolution; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from Z. Kruglova, Chairwoman of the Presidium of the Union of Soviet Societies of Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, re fulfillment of the resolution of the TsK KPSS [Secretariat], 1980 August-September 1981 July

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 28

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat with assignments to the International Department, to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and to the Ministry of Defense; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and O. Rakhmanin, Deputy Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries, re proposals of A. de Smaele, Belgian public leader, on strengthening the status of European non-nuclear states; resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving instructions to Soviet ambassadors to Bulgaria, Romania, East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Belgium; the instructions asking for use of the Smaele proposals in the struggle against the placement of new American missiles in Western Europe; copy of the last page of the instructions, 1980 August-September

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 29

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers authorizing payment for the round trip of A. M. M'Bow, General Director of UNESCO, with his wife, from Yugoslavia to the Soviet Union; draft resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Trapeznikov, Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions, and V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. A. Kotelnikov, Acting President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and A. Fokin, Acting Chief Academic Secretary of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences; resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers, 1980 August-September

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 30

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the TsK KPSS re financial assistance to the great-grandson of K. Marx, M. Longuet; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Trapeznikov, Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions, and V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, proposing to pay 20,000 francs to M. Longuet to give K. Marx's documents over to the Institute of Marxism-Leninism; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Yegorov, Director of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism; statement re the history of payments made to M. Longuet for Marx's documents, 1980 July 1980 September

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 31

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Afghanistan re measures to oppose discussion on the draft resolution, containing anti-Soviet and anti-Afghan issues, at the 67th Conference of the Interparliamentary Union; the instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Afghanistan; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Cherniaev, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1980 September

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 32

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat authorizing the Soviet Peace Committee to invite 600 foreign delegates of the Peoples for Peace World Parliament to stay in the Soviet Union on their way to Sofia or on their way back (expenses to be paid by the Soviet Peace Fund); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IE. Fedorov, Chairman of the Soviet Peace Committee, 1980 September

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 33

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a directive of the USSR Council of Ministers re participation of the Olimpiada-80 Organizing Committee in the General Assembly of the Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee; draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers to be signed by A. Kosygin, Chairman of the Council of Ministers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Tiazhelnikov, Chief of the Propaganda Department, and L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Novikov, Chairman of the Olimpiada-80 Organizing Committee; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; draft directives of the TsK KPSS, unsigned; instructions to the delegation of the Olimpiada-80 Organizing Committee; directive of the USSR Council of Ministers signed by N. Tikhonov, Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers; brief instructions to familiarize TsK secretaries with the documents; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Novikov with information about the agenda and course of the Assembly; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Pavlov, Chairman of the State Committee for Physical Culture and Sports (Goskomsport) of the USSR Council of Ministers, re results of the General Assembly; report (unsigned) on the participation of representatives of the Goskomsport in the General Assembly of the General Association of International Sports Federations; brief notes directing TsK secretaries to familiarize themselves with the documents; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Novikov re results of the participation of the Olimpiada-80 delegation in the meeting of the Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee, 1980 August-November

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 34

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat appointing V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department, as a member of the KPSS delegation to talks with the delegation of the French Communist Party on the international trade union movement; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1980 September

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 35

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat giving assignments to the State Committee for Planning, the Ministry of Geology, the USSR Academy of Sciences, the State Committee for Prices, the Ministry of Trade, and the Ministry of Foreign Trade to work out regulations on output, utilization, and export of minerals, taking into consideration a memorandum from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB); extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Baskakov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Heavy Industry; brief handwritten note to S. Baksakov (from unidentified author); the memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov; report on shortfalls in output, processing, and export of minerals signed by G. Grigorenko, Chief of the 2nd Main Directorate of the Committee for State Security (KGB); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Yastrebov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Heavy Industry, 1980 August-October 1981 March

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 36

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers leasing Soviet trawlers to the Soviet-Swedish joint stock fishing company Skarus(?) to work in Canadian territorial waters; the draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from F. Mochalin, Chief of the Department of Light and Food Industries, and V. Shaposhnikov, Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Kamentsev, Minister of the Fishing Industry; resolution of the TsK KPSS; copy of the draft resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers; calculation of economic efficiency of Soviet fishing ships in Canadian waters; directive of the USSR Council of Ministers, 1980 September-October

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 37

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re measures to improve management in industrial and construction enterprises and increase wages of the employees; distribution list; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Kapitonov and V. Dolgikh re conflicts between the workers and the administration of some enterprises that resulted in work stoppages and in other workers' actions; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, 1980 October

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 38

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Greece; the instructions to the Ambassador re payment by the KPSS of pensions to political émigrés who repatriated to Greece; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum (translated into Russian) to the TsK KPSS from the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece, 1980 August and October

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 39

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers re paper supply for Barricade newspaper published by the Sandinista National Liberation Front of Nicaragua; the draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Brutents, Deputy Chief of the InternationalDepartment, and P. Luchinskii, Chief of the Propaganda Department; statement re paper stocks reserved for fraternal parties; appeal to the TsK KPSS from the Nicaraguan Embassy; directive of the USSR Council of Ministers, 1980 October

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 40

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat appointing a KPSS delegation to the funeral of L. Longo, Secretary General of the Italian Communist Party; personal data of the members of the delegation, 1980 October

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 41

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a telegram to be sent to the Soviet ambassador to Denmark; the instructions to be passed on to A. Jorgensen, Prime Minister and Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Denmark, re his appeal to the Soviet government to allow the family of V. Brailovskii to leave the Soviet Union; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department; telegram (translated into Russian) to the International Department from A. Jorgensen, 1980 November-December

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 42

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a plan for cultural relations of the Soviet Union with foreign countries in 1981-1982 (submitted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and the draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers issuing related orders and assignments; two similar draft directives of the USSR Council of Ministers (differently formatted, one with handwritten annotations); extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shauro, S. Trapeznikov, E. Tiazhelnikov, I. Dmitriev, N. Savinkin, B. Gostev, V. Zagladin, O. Rakhmanin, V. Falin, V. Bazovskii, and P. Luchinskii; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Maltsev (Ministry of Foreign Affairs); draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; two identical directives of the USSR Council of Ministers, 1980 December - 1981 January

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 43

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal of the Central Committee of the Young Communists League (TsK VLKSM) re participation of a Soviet youth delegation in the World Youth and Students Forum for Peace, Détente, and Disarmament in Finland; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and N. Petrovichev, Deputy Chief of the Department of Organizational and Party Work; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Pastukhov, Secretary of the TsK VLKSM; brief notes; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Pastukhov summarizing the results of the World Youth and Students Forum for Peace, Détente, and Disarmament, 1980 December - 1981 February

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 44

Two identical resolutions of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving draft directives of the USSR Council of Ministers on establishing trade missions of foreign companies in Moscow; two draft directives of the USSR Council of Ministers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Bazovskii, Deputy Chief of the Department of Business Trips and Cadres Abroad, and V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Semichastnov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade; resolution of the TsK KPSS; protocol no. 7 on the decision adopted by the Interdepartmental Commission for Establishing Foreign Companies, Banks, and Organizations under the Ministry of Foreign Trade; six reports containing information about the companies Thomesto OY and Neste OY (Finland), Chilewich Corporation (United States), Société Générale de Surveillance S.A. (Switzerland), Prodag S.A. (Spain), Sytco S.p.A (Italy); directive of the USSR Council of Ministers, 1980 November - 1981 January

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 45

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal of the editorial board of Novoe vremia (New Times) magazine to establish an office for Central America in Nicaragua and to shut down the office in Peru; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Sevruk, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department, V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and V. Falin, Deputy Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from M. Fedorov, Editor in Chief of the New Times, 1980 December - 1981 January

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 46

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the 1981 plan for contacts between Soviet social organizations and social organizations of capitalist and liberated countries; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; two similar memoranda (differently formatted, one with handwritten annotations) to the TsK KPSS from V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and N. Petrovichev, Deputy Chief of the Department of Organizational and Party Work; copy of the said resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with handwritten annotations; cover letter to the TsK KPSS from L. Tolkunov, Chairman of the Board of the News Publishing Agency (Agenstvo Pechati Novosti - APN), accompanying the APN proposals on contacts with foreign media and publishing houses (not included), with handwritten statement of V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1980 December - 1981 January

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 47

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Nicaragua; the instructions requesting that the ambassador transmit to B. A. Castano, Member of the National Directorate of the Sandinista National Liberation Front of Nicaragua, L. Brezhnev's thanks for his New Year's greetings and Brezhnev's best wishes to Castano, 1981 January

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 48

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on preparation for the Medical Research Scientists for Prevention of Nuclear War Soviet-American Conference (Washington, United States); extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Trapeznikov, Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions, L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Foreign Political Information, and V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from Academicians IE. Chazov, L. Ilyin, and M. Kuzin re preparation for the Physicians for Nuclear Disarmament Conference, 1980 December - 1981 January

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 49

Draft resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Italy (copy to be passed on to the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party); the instructions requesting that the Ambassador transmit to E. Berlinguer or his deputy the TsK KPSS considerations re the L. Walesa visit to Italy; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev, 1981 January

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 50

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a message to be sent at the request of the French Communist Party (FCP) to a meeting of French democratic intelligentsia from writers IU. Bondarev, V. Kataev, and IU. Trifonov and film directors S. Iutkevich and A. Tarkovskii, and a message to G. Marchais, Secretary General of the FCP, from space pilot L. Leonov; the messages; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1981 January

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 51

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat requesting that the State Committee for Planning (Gosplan) study Main Trends in the Economic Reform in Poland and submit the conclusions and proposals resulting from the study; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from O. Rakhmanin, Deputy Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries, and IU. Belik, Chief of the Department of Planning and Financial Organs, 1981 January

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 52

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat authorizing participation of the Soviet Peace Committee delegation in the session of the Bureau of the World Peace Council in the city of Antananarivo (Madagascar); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department; tables with personal data of the members of the delegation; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IE. Primakov, Deputy Chairman of the Soviet Peace Committee, 1981 January

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 53

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat authorizing the establishment of contacts between Kommunist (Communist) magazine and Neue Gesellschaft magazine, a theoretical publication of the Social Democratic Party of Germany; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to West Germany; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Cherniaev, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and E. Tiazhelnikov, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department, 1981 January

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 54

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat requesting that the Ministry of Civil Aviation provide for the Soviet Peace Committee round-trip transportation for 500 delegates from foreign countries to different cities of the Soviet Union and one-way transportation for 300 delegates; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs; brief note stating that the Soviet Peace Committee was provided with 400 air tickets; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IE. Fedorov, Chairman of the Soviet Peace Committee; resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1980 December - 1981 January

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 55

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal from the State Committee for Cinematography to deliver production and creative assistance (to be paid for in convertible currency) to the Europe Film Company (France) to make a six-part television film about the French diplomat Talleyrand; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shauro, Chief of the Department of Culture, and V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from F. Yermash, Chairman of the State Committee for Cinematography; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1980 December - 1981 February

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 56

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal of the Soviet Peace Committee to send G. Arbatov, Director of the Institute for the Study of the United States of America and Canada, to Austria (February 1981) to participate in the International Commission on Disarmament and Security (the Palme Commission); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IE. Fedorov, Chairman of the Soviet Peace Committee, 1981 January-February

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 57

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re transportation of the delegations of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan and the Yemen Socialist Party to the 26th KPSS Congress; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1981 February

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 58

Extract from the meeting of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re a letter from workers re bread supply to the population and re conservation of bread resources (according to the Chernenko memorandum); draft resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; the Chernenko memorandum, 1981 February

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 59

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re transportation by Aeroflot planes, for the Soviet Women's Committee, of representatives of foreign women's organizations to the Soviet Union and to international events; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and O. Rakhmanin, Deputy Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries; brief note; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Nikolaeva-Tereshkova, Chairwoman of the Soviet Women's Committee; table reflecting the distribution of special permits (obmennyi order), given to the Soviet Women's Committee, in accordance with destinations, 1981 February

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 60

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving participation of the Soviet delegation in the session of the Council of the Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organization in the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen and payment for the transportation of foreign delegates and their stay in the Soviet Union, and suggestions about Soviet media coverage of the session; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Dzasokhov, Deputy Chairman of the Soviet Committee of Solidarity with the Countries of Africa and Asia, 1981 January-February

Opis 43, Reel 1.1003, File 61

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat requesting that the Ministry of Civil Aviation provide transportation for 300 foreigners invited to the Soviet Union by the Union of Soviet Societies of Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from Z. Kruglova, Chairwoman of the Presidium of the Union of Soviet Societies of Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1981 January-February

 

Opis 44

Opis 44, Reel 1.1004, File 1

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat directing that the Ministry of Finance allocate 6,000 pounds sterling to the Institute of Marxism-Leninism to be transferred to the leadership of the Karl Marx Memorial House in London; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Cherniaev, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum of a conversation between N. Lunkov, Soviet Ambassador to Great Britain, and A. Rothstein, President of the Karl Marx Memorial Library in London, re employment of a new librarian, Rothstein's vacations in the Soviet Union, and the situation in the Communist Party of Great Britain, 1974 July-August

Opis 44, Reel 1.1004, File 2

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on introduction of three positions of full-time party workers within the KPSS organization of the Committee for State Security (KGB) and on establishing an Office of Political Education under the KPSS Committee of the 15th Main Directorate of the KGB; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, and G. Ageev, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of the KGB, 1974 August

Opis 44, Reel 1.1004, File 3

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on selection of KPSS, Soviet, and VLKSM (All-Union Young Communists League) workers to be trained to occupy leading positions in KGB organs; two lists of republics and krais designated to send KPSS, Soviet, and VLKSM workers (with number of workers to be sent from each republic or krai) to a two-year course for training leading specialists in the KGB Higher Schoolin 1975-1977; draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs, and N. Petrovichev, Deputy Chief of the Department of Organizational and Party Work; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB); two draft resolutions of the TsK KPSS; directive of the USSR Council of Ministers, 1974 December - 1975 January 1974 December - 1975 January

Opis 44, Reel 1.1004, File 4

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a report on the implementation of the 1974 KPSS budget; report to the TsK KPSS from G. Pavlov, Administrator of the Administration of TsK KPSS Affairs, on the implementation of the 1974 KPSS budget; account for the implementation of the 1974 budget; table of the 1974 KPSS budget receipts; table of expenditures for the TsK KPSS apparatus in 1974; table of expenditures for local KPSS organs in 1974; table of expenditures for propaganda in 1974; table of expenditures for training and retraining of KPSS and Soviet cadres in 1974; table of expenditures for structuring and restructuring of party organs, party enterprises, and party press headquarters; economic expenses of local KPSS organs; statement on appropriations from the KPSS budget conducted by decisions of KPSS committees in krais and oblasts and by central committees of union republics; statement on the balance of the 1974 budget as of January 1, 1975, 1975 May

Opis 44, Reel 1.1004, File 5

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re memoranda from the Committee for State Security (IU. Andropov) of May 19, 1975, and from V. Grishin, Secretary of the Moscow City KPSS Committee, of May 20, 1976; the memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, re undesirable trends in the activity of Soviet artistic young people owing to weaknesses in the work of the Union of Soviet Theater Workers and the Union of Soviet Artists; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Grishin re unauthorized art exhibitions organized by avant-garde artists in Moscow; two distribution lists, 1975 May-June

Opis 44, Reel 1.1004, File 6

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a visit of Japanese scholars to a camp for Japanese war criminals and authorizing the meeting of the scholars with inmates there; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Vinogradov, Deputy Chief of the Department for Liaison with Foreign Communist Parties, and I. Shcherbakov, Head of a Sector of the same department; reference containing personal data of the Japanese scholars; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Perevertkin, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1955 March and May

Opis 44, Reel 1.1004, File 7

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on early release of Japanese war criminals, convicted by Soviet courts; list of the Japanese war criminals to be released, with their personal data; copy of the resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat (differently formatted); extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium, 1956 April, June-July

 

Opis 45

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 1

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium re a telegram from IU. Andropov, Soviet Ambassador to Hungary; the telegram re information provided by M. Rákosi, First Secretary of the Hungarian Workers' Party (HWP), and A. Hegedüs, Prime Minister of Hungary, re the situation in the country and in the party after the 22nd Congress of the KPSS, with a distribution list, 1956 April

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 2

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Voroshilov summarizing his conversation with M. Rákosi re the situation in Hungary and in the Hungarian Workers' Party, 1956 June

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 3

Memorandum (made by IU. Andropov) of a conversation of A. Mikoian with M. Rákosi, A. Hegedüs, E. Gerö, and B. Veg re the situation in the Hungarian Workers' Party (HWP); memorandum (made by IU. Andropov) re speeches given at a meeting of the Central Committee of the HWP Politburo by members of the HWP Politburo and by A. Mikoian, and re the election of J. Kádár as First Secretary of the HWP instead of M. Rákosi; memorandum of a conversation between A. Mikoian and J. Kádár; cover letter to the TsK KPSS from A. Mikoian, accompanying the documents, 1956 July

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 4

Report to the TsK KPSS from I. Serov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), re reaction of the Hungarian opposition (writers and journalists) to the situation in the country and in the Hungarian Worker's Party after M. Rákosi's forced resignation, 1976 July

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 5

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium re a message from IU. Andropov, Soviet Ambassador to Hungary; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Gromyko re Andropov's reports about the situation in Hungary and in the Hungarian Workers' Party and about anti-Soviet publications in the Hungarian press, 1956 September

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 6

Report to the TsK KPSS from G. K. Zhukov, Minister of Defense, and V. Sokolovskii, Chief of the General Staff, re measures taken by the USSR Ministry of Defense to assist the Government of Hungary in suppressing political disturbances, 1956 October 24

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 7

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Perevertkin, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, re invasion of Hungary by Soviet troops; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from Perevertkin re the situation on the Soviet-Hungarian border, 1956 October 24

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 8

Extract from the diary of A. Gromyko, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, re his conversation with J. Boldoczky, Hungarian Ambassador to the Soviet Union, about the urgent departure of Hungarian communists (currently staying in Moscow) for Hungary in connection with the events there and re the inquiry of Western journalists into the invasion of Hungary by Soviet troops, 1956 October 26

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 9

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Serov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), and A. Mikoian, Member of the TsK KPSS Presidium and Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, re their participation in a meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Workers' Party about a new government to be headed by I. Nagy and about the current situation in the country, and re a request from J. Kádár to increase the number of Soviet troops in Hungary, 1956 October 27

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 10

Memorandum to A. Mikoian, Member of the TsK KPSS Presidium and Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, from I. Serov, Chairman of the KGB, re the situation in Hungary as of October 28, 1956, 1956 October 28

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 11

Memorandum to A. Mikoian, Member of the TsK KPSS Presidium and Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, and M. Suslov from I. Serov, Chairman of the KGB, re the situation in Hungary as of October 29, 1956, 1956 October 29

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 12

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Mikoian, Member of the TsK KPSS Presidium and Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, and M. Suslov reporting the worsening situation in Hungary and urgently requesting that Marshal I. Konev come to Hungary, 1956 October 30

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 13

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving the Declaration of the USSR Government on the Principles of Development and Further Strengthening of Friendship and Cooperation Between the Soviet Union and Socialist Countries , with amendments made at the meeting; the declaration, including a statement of the Soviet government re the situation in Hungary, 1956 October 30

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 14

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving a telegram to be sent to P. Togliatti, Secretary General of the Italian Communist Party, re the situation in Hungary; telegram to the Soviet ambassador to Italy to be transmitted to P. Togliatti, 1956 October 31

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 15

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium re the situation in Hungary; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Yugoslavia to meet with J. Tito and transmit to him a request from N. Khrushchev to arrange an incognito meeting between J. Tito and the Soviet delegation to discuss the situation in Hungary, 1956 October 31

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 16

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium appointing G. K. Zhukov, M. Suslov, I. Konev, I. Serov, and L. Brezhnev to develop measures for improving the situation in Hungary, 1956 November 1

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 17

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS Presidium accompanying a statement from Colonel Starovoitov, Chief of the 2nd Department of the MVD (Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh Del - Ministry of Internal Affairs) Directorate of Border Troops of the South-West Territory, about his conversation with Colonel Vigh, Chief of the Szabolcs Provincial Directorate of the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs, and his colleagues who defected to the Soviet Union; the said statement, 1956 October-November

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 18

Extract from the diary of V. Zorin, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, about his meeting with Lewikowski(?), Polish Ambassador to the Soviet Union, re the I. Nagy protest against the invasion of Hungary by additional troops from Romania and other countries and re the Nagy appeal to the UN to defend Hungary, 1956 November 2

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 19

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving measures to be taken with regard to the events in Hungary (not included), 1956 November 2

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 20

Extract from the diary of V. Zorin, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, about his meeting with Lewikowski(?), Polish Ambassador to the Soviet Union, and Zorin's answer to Lewikowski's inquiry about the legitimacy of the invasion of Hungary by Soviet troops, 1956 November 2

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 21

Extract from the diary of V. Zorin, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, re his meeting with N. Bischoff, Austrian Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Bischoff's refutation of radio broadcasts of Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Romania, and some other countries that stated that Austria allowed Horthy gangs and other hostile elements to enter Hungary from Austria, and Bischoff's assertion that the Austrian government allowed only planes with medical supplies, food, and clothing to fly to Hungary from Austria, and that Austria observed its neutrality, 1956 November 3

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 22

Draft appeal (with handwritten amendments) to the Hungarian people and program of the Hungarian revolutionary workers' and peasants' government (in Hungarian), 1956 November 4

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 23

Report on the situation in Hungary as of noon, November 4, 1956, signed by G. K. Zhukov, 1956 November 4

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 24

Report on the situation in Hungary as of 9 p.m., November 4, 1956, signed by G. K. Zhukov, 1956 November 4

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 25

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving a telegram to the Soviet ambassador to Yugoslavia re I. Nagy and his group; the telegram confirming the inexpediency of I. Nagy's public statement; ciphered telegram from N. Firiubin, Soviet Ambassador to Yugoslavia, re negotiations between E. Kardelj, Secretary of the Executive Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, and I. Nagy, about the expression of Nagy's support to the J. Kádár government in Szolnok and re Kardelj's request for defense of the Yugoslav Embassy from possible attacks, 1956 November 4

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 26

Report on the situation in Hungary as of 9 a.m., November 5, 1956, signed by G. K. Zhukov, 1956 November 5

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 27

Report on the situation in Hungary as of 9 p.m., November 5, 1956, signed by G. K. Zhukov, 1956 November 5

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 28

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving a draft resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers on urgent delivery of goods to Hungary; the resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers on urgent delivery of food and construction material, with cover letter to the TsK KPSS from N. Bulganin, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers; memorandum to J. Kádár, Prime Minister of the Hungarian revolutionary workers' and peasants' government, from Bulganin, with a list of food and construction supplies to be delivered to Hungary; appeal for assistance to the governments of fraternal parties from J. Kádár, 1956 November 5

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 29

Extract from the diary of D. Shepilov, Minister of Foreign Affairs, re his conversation with V. Micunovic, Yugoslav Ambassador to the Soviet Union, about the statement of K. Popovic, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia, on firing by Soviet tanks near the Yugoslav Mission in Budapest and about the Soviet protest against the Yugoslav Embassy's giving refuge to I. Nagy and his group, 1956 November 7

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 30

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium directing that Soviet representatives to the World Peace Council not approve publication of any document denouncing the actions of Soviet troops in Hungary, instructing the Soviet Peace Committee about their possible statements re Hungary, and containing instructions for the Soviet ambassador to France; instructions for the Soviet ambassador to France with explanations to be given to F. Joliot-Curie on the situation in Hungary; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev, Chief of the Department for Liaison with Foreign Communist Parties, and V. Tereshkin, Deputy Chief of the same department, re ways of improving relations with the peace supporters critical of the events in Hungary; directives for the Soviet ambassador to France to ask Joliot-Curie to speak in favor of the Soviet actions in Hungary; directives to the Soviet ambassador to Hungary to oppose the criticism of Soviet troops in Hungary; letter to N. Khrushchev from I. Erenburg [Soviet writer] re possible reaction of the World Peace Council to the events in Hungary and offering a draft statement of the World Peace Council; the draft statement, 1956 October-November

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 31

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving a draft of N. Bulganin's response to the letter from US President D. Eisenhower re the events in Hungary and requesting that the letter be delivered to the American ambassador to the Soviet Union on November 7, 1956, that it be broadcast on the same day by Soviet radio and publishedin the press on November 8; the letter; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Gromyko, submitting draft letters from Bulganin to Eisenhower, A. Eden, Prime Minister of Great Britain, and Guy Mollet, Premier of France, explaining Soviet policy toward Hungary and denouncing the situation in the Middle East (Israeli-Egyptian conflict); the letter (translated into Russian) to Bulganin from Eisenhower, 1956 November 5-7

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 32

Report on the situation in Hungary as of 9 a.m., November 7, 1956, signed by G. K. Zhukov, 1956 November 7

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 33

Report on the situation in Hungary as of 9 a.m., November 8, 1956, signed by G. K. Zhukov, 1956 November 8

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 34

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving a telegram to the Soviet ambassador to Hungary; the telegram, with a message (to be transmitted to J. Kádár) approving establishment of two regiments of the Hungarian army, approving Kádár's decision to deny I. Nagy the right to stay in the Yugoslav Embassy in Hungary, and directing that Nagy issue a statement renouncing political activity, and that Kádár adhere to his position in his conflict with the Yugoslav Embassy in Hungary related to Nagy's refuge there; ciphered telegram to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov re his conversation with Kádár, 1956 November 8-9

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 35

Ciphered telegram to the Soviet ambassador to Yugoslavia from A. Gromyko responding to J. Kádár's considerations on measures to intensify struggle with insurgents, denying I. Nagy and his group permission to go to Yugoslavia, and denouncing the position of Yugoslavia toward Nagy and his group, 1956 November 9

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 36

Report on the situation in Hungary as of 9 a.m., November 9, 1956, signed by G. K. Zhukov, 1956 November 9

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 37

Extract from the diary of N. Patolichev, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, re his conversation with J. Boldoczky, Hungarian Ambassador to the Soviet Union, about putting I. Kovács in charge of food and drug supply in Hungary and about sending two or three employees of the Hungarian Embassy in the Soviet Union to Hungary to clarify the fate of the children of the employees of the Embassy, of the trade mission, and of other Hungarian enterprises in Moscow, 1956 November 9

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 38

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving a letter to the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia from the TsK KPSS re I. Nagy and his group; two copies of the letter to J. Tito from N. Khrushchev, First Secretary of the TsK KPSS; message from IU. Andropov, sent from Budapest via high frequency line, with comments of J. Kádár on the draft letter to Tito from Khrushchev; message from Yepishev, sent from Bucharest via high frequency line, with comments of the leaders of the Romanian Communist Party on Khrushchev's letter to Tito; letter to Khrushchev, from Tito, re Nagy and his group, the policy of Yugoslavia toward those issues, and protection of the international reputation of Yugoslavia, 1956 November 8 1956 November 10

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 39

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving a business trip to Hungary of M. Suslov and A. Aristov, Secretaries of the TsK KPSS, with a group of specialists in economics and approving a telegram to the Soviet ambassador to Hungary; the telegram to the Soviet ambassador to Hungary, with a message to be transmitted to J. Kádár; memorandum to N. Khrushchev, Secretary of the TsK KPSS, from I. Serov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), re results of his conversation with F. Münnich, Minister of Public Security of Hungary, re Münnich's order to cease establishing local organs of state security, and re his conversation with J. Kádár about arrests of ordinary insurgents pardoned by the declaration of the government, and re the situation in the organs of state security of Hungary, 1956 November 9-10

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 40

Report on the situation in Hungary as of 9 a.m., November 10, 1956, signed by G. K. Zhukov, 1956 November 10

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 41

Report to the TsK KPSS from I. Serov, Chairman of the KGB, re arrest of counterrevolutionary elements, confiscation of weapons, and secret activity of foreign journalists in Hungary, 1956 November 11

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 42

Report to the TsK KPSS from I. Serov, Chairman of the KGB, re arrests of active counterrevolutionaries, confiscation of weapons, the program of the students' conference in Budapest and measures to destroy student counter-revolutionary organizations, and release of Professor T. Nagy at the request of J. Kádár and F. Münnich, 1956 November 13

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 43

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving a draft telegram to the Soviet ambassador to Hungary; the draft telegram to the Soviet ambassador to Hungary, with a message to be transmitted to J. Kádár that the TsK KPSS approved his proposal to hold a conference and that G. Malenkov, M. Suslov, and A. Aristov would discuss with him the problems resulting from his proposal; ciphered telegram to the TsK KPSS from Suslov and Aristov about their conversation with Kádár re I. Nagy and his group and the decision to be made about their future place of residence, re the situation in the country, and re groundless arrests of people in Hungarian provinces by military and security organs; ciphered telegram to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov transmitting the letter to N. Khrushchev from J. Kádár proposing to hold a conference of representatives of the KPSS and of other fraternal parties to discuss their national policy and the relations between the countries; holograph letter to Khrushchev from J. Kádár, 1956 November 12-13

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 44

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov and I. Serov re the protest of J. Kádár and F. Münnich against taking Hungarian students to Siberia and the explanation given by the Soviet authorities, 1956 November 14

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 45

Brief note submitting a memorandum sent by M. Suslov and A. Aristov to the members and candidate members of the TsK KPSS Presidium and to the TsK KPSS secretaries; the memorandum re transition of the Hungarian opposition from armed to political resistance, the greater strength of the opposition in Budapest than in rural areas, and the J. Kádár proposal to appoint representatives of parties other than the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party as members of the Hungarian government, 1956 November 14

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 46

Report to N. Dudorov, Minister of Internal Affairs, from M. Kholodkov, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, re the procedure for placement and maintenance of Hungarian counterrevolutionaries (totaling 4,000-5,000 people) in Ukrainian prisons and demanding speedy investigation of their cases to eliminate mistakes made during mass arrests; appeal (translated into Russian) to Soviet authorities from Hungarian communists M. Szepesi and L. Szelõsi claiming to have been arrested by mistake, 1956 November 11 1956 November 15-16

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 47

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Gerö, A. Hegedüs, and I. Kovács criticizing the policy of the Hungarian government and of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party toward leaders and participants in the armed insurgency, toward I. Nagy and his group, and discussing practical measures to deal with the aftermath of the upheaval, 1956 November 18

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 48

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS and to N. Khrushchev from I. Serov containing a report on the activity of Soviet state security organs in Hungary, 1956 November 19

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 49

Memorandum to N. Khrushchev from G. Malenkov, M. Suslov, and A. Aristov (sent via high frequency communication line) re the situation in Hungary as of November 22, 1956: agreement with Yugoslavia on I. Nagy and his group, stabilization of political and social life in the country, the situation in the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (HSWP), and a discussion with J. Kádár and the Executive Committee of the HSWP about the scheduled Conference of Representatives of Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries; brief note submitting the memorandum to the members and candidate members of the TsK KPSS Presidium and to the TsK KPSS secretaries, 1956 November 22

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 50

Memorandum to N. Khrushchev from G. Malenkov, M. Suslov, and A. Aristov (sent via high frequency communication line) re the situation in Hungary as of November 24, 1956: restoration of order in the radio and press, the firing of L. Fehér, Editor in Chief of Népszabadság (People's Freedom) newspaper, and changes in the editorial board of the newspaper, directives on procedures for registrationof former members of the Hungarian Workers' Party and for admission to the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, struggle with pro-Yugoslav elements re expulsion of I. Nagy and his group, and the work done in Hungary by Romanian leaders G. Gheorghiu-Dej, C. Stoica, and E. Bodnâras; brief note submitting the memorandum to the members and candidate members of the TsK KPSS Presidium and to the TsK KPSS secretaries, 1956 November 24

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 51

Memorandum to N. Khrushchev from I. Serov, Chairman of the KGB, re arrest of leaders of the armed uprising and re a silent demonstration in Budapest meant to protest the Kádár government and Soviet troops and to attract the attention of the UN to the situation in Hungary, 1956 November 24

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 52

Memorandum to N. Khrushchev from G. Malenkov, M. Suslov, and A. Aristov (sent via high frequency communication line) re the situation in Hungary as of November 26, 1956 (worsening of the situation in connection with the expulsion of I. Nagy and his group, change in the position of the All-Hungarian Workers' Council, transition of Kádár's government and the Executive Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party to more active actions against the counterrevolution), demanding a court trial of arrested counterrevolutionaries and sentencing five or seven of them to death; extracts from the unedited verbatim record of a speech delivered by J. Kádár to party and government activists and representatives of workers councils, 1956 November 25 1956 November 26-27

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 53

Memorandum to N. Khrushchev from I. Serov, Chairman of the KGB, reporting the investigation of previously arrested counterrevolutionaries and new arrests, the resumption of work in industrial enterprises, plans to withdraw Cardinal Mindszenty from the American Embassy and his subsequent arrest, and the number of Hungarians seeking refuge in Austria (700 daily), 1956 November 27

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 54

Extract from the diary of I. Zamchevskii, Chief of the 5th European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, re his conversation with J. Boldoczky, Hungarian Ambassador to the Soviet Union, on November 28 re the situation in Hungary, reasons for the events there and for the negative attitude of Hungarians toward the Soviet Union, 1956 November 30

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 55

Handwritten memorandum of a conversation of M. Suslov and A. Aristov with J. Kádár on December 1, 1956, about the outline of his report to the Plenum of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, to be held on December 2, 1956, 1956 December 2

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 56

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium re a response to the note of the Yugoslav government about I. Nagy and his group; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from D. Shepilov, Minister of Foreign Affairs; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; draft note to the State Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia from the Soviet Embassy in Yugoslavia; note to the Soviet Embassy in Yugoslavia from the State Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia; ciphered telegram to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from N. Firiubin, Soviet Ambassador to Yugoslavia, with the text of the note sent by the State Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Yugoslavia to the Hungarian Embassy in Yugoslavia re I. Nagy and his group, 1956 November 24 1956 December 4 1956 December 6

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 57

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving the activity of G. Malenkov, A. Aristov, and M. Suslov in Hungary and appointing M. Saburov, A. Aristov, and N. Nikitin to consider sending a group of Soviet specialists to Hungary for assistance in economic affairs, 1956 December 8

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 58

Report signed by S. Ivanov, Chief of the Economic Department for European Countries (of the State Committee for Foreign Economic Relations), on free assistance provided to Hungary by the Soviet Union and other countries, 1956 December

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 59

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium re sending to Hungary a group of Soviet specialists in the coal industry, economics, and finance, and a group of party workers, 1956 December 14

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 60

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium directing that the Committee for State Security (KGB) and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, at the request of J. Kádár and F. Münnich, send Soviet specialists to work as advisers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from G. Malenkov and A. Aristov re their conversation with J. Kádár about Kádár' report to be delivered at the Plenum of the Hungarian Socialist Workers'Party; memorandum (translated into Russian) to the TsK KPSS from J. Kádár and F. Münnich requesting that 23 Soviet advisers be sent to Hungarian organs of state security, militia, and border troops, with cover letter from Malenkov and Aristov; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Serov, Chairman of the KGB, confirming the dispatch of 23 advisers to Hungary, 1956 December 3 1956 December 12 1956 December 14

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 61

Memorandum (translated into Russian) to N. Khrushchev, First Secretary of the TsK KPSS, from M. Rákosi, with his considerations and proposals re the situation in Hungary, 1956 December 15

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 62

Memorandum to N. Khrushchev from IU. Andropov, Soviet Ambassador to Hungary, re his conversation with J. Kádár about strengthening state power in Hungary and the leadership of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, 1956 December 18

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 63

Memorandum (translated into Russian) to N. Khrushchev, First Secretary of the TsK KPSS, from M. Rákosi, with M. Rákosi's considerations re the situation in Hungary in response to the statement of the Hungarian government of January 7, 1957, 1957 January 9

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 64

Memorandum (translated into Russian) to the Presidium of the TsK KPSS and to N. Khrushchev, First Secretary of the TsK KPSS, from I. Kovács analyzing the course of events that led to the counterrevolution in Hungary, denouncing the policy of the current leadership of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, and requesting KPSS assistance in returning to Hungary Hungarian communists forced to stay in the Soviet Union by J. Kádár, 1957 January 10

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 65

Message (sent via high frequency line) to I. Zamchevskii, Chief of the 5th European Department of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from IU. Andropov, Soviet Ambassador to Hungary, submitting the text of a declaration on the main principles of the state, on the social and economic system of Hungary, and prospects for its political development, delivered to the Soviet Embassy by I. Bibo, member of the Executive Committee of the Petöfi Party, and approved by the Petöfi Party (National Peasant Party), the Social Democratic Party, the Peasants' Union, the Revolutionary Council of Hungarian Professionals, and the Union of Hungarian Writers, 1957 January 11

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 66

Extract from the diary of I. Zamchevskii, Chief of the 5th European Department of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, re his conversation with J. Boldoczky, Hungarian Ambassador to the Soviet Union, on February 16, 1957, about Boldoczky's impressions after a ten-day trip to Hungary, 1957 February 22

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 67

Memorandum (translated into Russian) to N. Khrushchev, First Secretary of the TsK KPSS, from M. Rákosi noting some improvement in the economic and political situation in Hungary, the slow increase in number and influence of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party (HSWP), denouncing some of the leaders of the Hungarian government, criticizing the promotion of specialists of Jewish origin to the apparatus of the HSWP, and recommending efforts to attract to the HSWP old party cadres from internal and external exile, 1957 February 15

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 68

Memorandum (translated into Russian) to the TsK KPSS Presidium from E. Gerö, J. Revai, A. Hegedüs, and I. Kovács criticizing the leadership of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party for its position in 1944-1956, for determining erroneous reasons for the counterrevolutionary events of 1956, for allowing the spread of revisionist opinions in the media and social and educational institutions, and for their cadres' policy; first page of the memorandum (in Hungarian), 1957 February 22 1957 February 25

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 69

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium re a ciphered telegram [to the TsK KPSS] from A. Yepishev; the ciphered telegram re the visit of E. Bodnarôs to the Soviet Embassy in Romania with a proposal to the Hungarian government to prepare the trial of I. Nagy and his group while they are in Romania, 1957 February-March

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 70

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving resolutions of the TsK KPSS re the request of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party about M. Rákosi, E. Gerö, and other Hungarian comrades staying in the Soviet Union and re Rákosi's letter of March 25, 1957; resolution of the TsK KPSS supporting the decision of the Central Committee of the HSWP banning the return of M. Rákosi and E. Gerö to Hungary for five years and the return of A. Hegedüs and others for one year; resolution of the TsK KPSS denouncing M. Rákosi's position on the situation in Hungary, on KPSS policy in Hungary, and on his own mistakes, and commissioning the TsK KPSS Secretariat to find a place of residence and a job for M. Rákosi in some part of the Soviet Union, 1957 April 18

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 71

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium disapproving the dispatch of a telegram to the Soviet ambassador to Hungary and requesting that D. Shepilov, Minister of Foreign Affairs, talk with the Soviet ambassador to Hungary; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from Shepilov and IU. Andropov submitting the proposal of A. Kethly, leader of the Hungarian social democrats abroad, to legalize the Social Democratic Party and proposing that Hungarian friends contact A. Kethly in order to oppose her actions; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; draft instructions to the Soviet Ambassador to Hungary, 1957 May

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 72

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium re the arrival of J. Kádár and B. Biszku in Moscow for consultations; two directives to the Soviet ambassador to Hungary (differently formatted); memorandum to N. Khrushchev (from an unidentified official, first page only) re the agenda of Kádár's consultations with the TsK KPSS; statement on the Kádár visit to Moscow; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; comments on the Code of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, signed by IU. Andropov, Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries, 1957 June

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 73

Extract from the diary of L. Ilichev, Chief of the Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, re his conversation with B., Hungarian writer, re the situation in Hungary and re the joint production of the Rhapsody of Carpathia feature film based on the Illyés novel, 1957 July

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 74

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, R. Rudenko, and P. Ivashutin re their conversation with B. Biszku, Minister of Internal Affairs of Hungary, about the trial of I. Nagy and his group and about the resolutions of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Worker' Party, 1957 August

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 75

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries, re his conversation with B. Biszku,Minister of Internal Affairs of Hungary, about rescheduling the court trial of I. Nagy and his group to December 1957 or January 1958, because of the Conference of Representatives of Communist and Workers' Parties, scheduled for November 1957, the 7th Congress of Communists of Yugoslavia, and the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the October revolution, 1957 August

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 76

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium charging the TsK KPSS Secretariat with the task of considering the matters raised in a conversation between V. Baikov, Councilor of the Soviet Embassy in Hungary, and S. József, Chief of the Department of Party and Mass Organizations of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Social Workers' Party, on September 16, 1957, about internal events and the economic situation in Hungary; extract from Baikov's diary, re the conversation, 1957 September-October

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 77

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving draft instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Hungary with respect to a note from Yugoslavia; the instructions to be transmitted to E. Sik, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary, with Soviet views on the response to the note from Yugoslavia; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Gromyko re the Yugoslav note that doubted the reliability of published accounts of the court trial of I. Nagy and his group, with the recommendation of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs as to a response; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; draft instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Hungary; message (sent via high frequency line, translated into Russian) from V. Astafiev, Soviet Chargé d'Affaires ad Interim to Hungary, with the text of the verbal note from the Yugoslav Embassy in Hungary denouncing violation of the agreement not to prosecute I. Nagy and his group; ciphered telegram from V. Astafiev reporting the reaction of the Hungarian population to the judicial sentence imposed on I. Nagy and his group, protests from Great Britain and Switzerland, and demonstrations of Hungarian émigrés at Hungarian embassies, 1958 June-July

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 78

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving, with amendments, directives to the Soviet ambassador to Hungary; the directives (two copies, differently formatted), directing that the ambassador visit Sik, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary, and transmit to him a message that the draft note from Hungarian comrades had been approved by the TsK KPSS Presidium; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Kuznetsov, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs; resolution of the TsK KPSS approving a draft directive to the Soviet ambassador to Hungary; directive to the Soviet ambassador to Hungary, with Soviet amendments to the draft note of the Hungarian government to Yugoslavia to be transmitted to Sik; verbal note (translated into Russian) from Hungary to Yugoslavia, 1958 July

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 79

Confidentiality agreement signed by I. Nagy as an agent of the 2nd Department of the United Main Political Directorate (OGPU) of the Council of People's Commissars, 1930 September

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 80

Statement on the activity of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) agent I. Nagy ("Volodia") resulting in the arrest and trial of a counterrevolutionary group of Hungarian émigrés; two identical reports to V. Karutskii, Deputy Chief of the 4th Department of the NKVD Main Directorate on National Security, from Altman, Chief of the 2nd Division of the 4th Department of the Main Directorate on National Security, re the arrest and release of I. Nagy, 1938 March

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 81

Statement on the biography and activity of the NKVD agent "Volodia," with cover letter to G. Malenkov from V. Merkulov, Deputy People's Commissar of Internal Affairs, submitting the statement about "Vladimir Iosifovich" Nagy, 1940 June

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 82

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Kriuchkov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), re release to the Hungarian government (to oppose the campaign for Nagy's rehabilitation) of archival documents revealing the activity of I. Nagy as an NKVD agent, 1989 June

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 83

Cover page to the letter of January 10, 1957, to the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (CC LCY) from the TsK KPSS and the letter to the TsK KPSS from the CC LCY of February 7, 1957; resolution of the TsK KPSS approving the letter to the CC LCY from the TsK KPSS; the letter to the CC LCY from the TsK KPSS, criticizing the Yugoslav position toward the events in Hungary and its interference in the internal affairs of other countries and communist parties, its military cooperation with the United States, and Yugoslav opposition to the Soviet socialist system introduced in Yugoslavia, 1957 January-February

Opis 45, Reel 1.1004, File 84

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from J. Tito in the name of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (CC LCY), reporting that the letters that the LCY and the KPSS had exchanged were presented at the Plenum of the CC LCY, and submitting a letter to the TsK KPSS from the Plenum of the CC LCY; the letter denouncing Soviet allegations re the Yugoslav position toward I. Nagy and the activity of the Kádár government, criticizing the TsK KPSS position toward the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party and toward Yugoslavia, asserting the rights of the LCY to have its own position toward the development of socialist countries and the Soviet socialist system, and complaining of intelligence and other hostile activity of Albania, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia in Yugoslavia, 1957 February

 

Opis 46

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 1

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Serbin, Chief of the Department of Defense Industry, recommending that V. Yemelianov, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, reject a prize from the Atoms for Peace Rockfeller Foundation (two copies); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Slavskii, Minister of Medium Machine Building Industry; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from M. Keldysh, President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and IA. Peive, Chief Academic Secretary of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences, requesting that the TsK KPSS authorize Yemelianov to receive the Prize; letter (translated into Russian) to Yemelianov from G. Killian, Jr., Chairman of the Atoms for Peace Foundation; Yemelianov's personal data, 1966 July-August

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 2

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from D. Shevliagin, Chief of the Department of Information, proposing measures to oppose the conclusions drawn in New Trends in Soviet Economics, published in five volumes by the Economic Commission of the US Congress, 1966 August

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 3

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Zaichikov, First Deputy Chairman of the Board of the News Publishing Agency (Agenstvo Pechati Novosti - APN), supported by D. Shevliagin, Chief of the Department of Information, requesting that the TsK KPSS approve the creation, in cooperation with the ABC American television network, of a television program about a worker from the Rostov-on-Don plant, 1966 August 1966 September

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 4

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Semichastnyi and V. Kuznetsov re the accidental crossing of the Soviet state border by the American citizen T. Dowson(?), member of the Peace Corps in Iran, 1966 September

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 5

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Burkov, Chairman of the Board of the News Publishing Agency (Agenstvo Pechati Novosti - APN), supported by D. Shevliagin, Chief of the Department of Information, requesting that the TsK KPSS authorize the broadcast by an American company of a program on Vietnam based on Soviet documents, with commentaries by G. Borovik, Chief of the APN station in the United States, 1967 March

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 6

File is unavailable, 1918-1992

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 7

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and I. Makarov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions, supporting the request from G. Hall, Secretary General of the National Committee of the Communist Party USA (N.C. CPUSA), to award the title of Honorable Doctor of Historical Science of Moscow State University (MGU) to J. Jackson, member of the N.C. CPUSA; memorandum (translated into Russian) to the TsK KPSS from G. Hall; the same memorandum in English, 1969 September-October

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 8

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), proposing measures to denounce S. Allilueva's book Only One Year (Tolko odin god) containing anti-Lenin and anti-Soviet propaganda, 1969 November

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 9

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov and A. Gromyko re measures to use the stay of four US Navy servicemen (who deserted from the Vietnam war) for propaganda purposes; three additional copies of the first page of the memorandum, each signed by a TsK secretary; report signed by G. Shumeiko, Head of a Sector of the International Department, on the discussion that took place in his Department re the servicemen's stay in the Soviet Union, 1967 November

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 10

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and N. Petrovichev, Deputy Chief of the Department of Organizational and Party Work, re assisting the Student Union of East Pakistan in celebration of V. Lenin's 100th anniversary; personal data of G. Ptitsyn (head of the delegation to East Pakistan) and of S. Serebrianyi and V. Kozlov (members of the same delegation); recommendation provided for Ptitsyn by A. Danilov, Secretary of the VLKSM (All-Union Young Communists League) Committee of Omskaia oblast; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Tiazhelnikov, Secretary of the VLKSM Central Committee; list of supplies to be delivered to the Student Union of East Pakistan; statement signed by G. Shumeiko, Chief of the International Department, about the Student Union of East Pakistan, 1969 September 1970 March

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 11

Copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a draft letter to be sent to KPSS organizations re distribution of America magazine in the Soviet Union; the draft letter accompanied by a cover letter to the TsK KPSS from F. Konstantinov, Chief of the Department of Propaganda and Agitation of the TsK KPSS Bureau for the Union Republics, 1956 July-August

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 12

Copy of the extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the text of a note to the commandant of the US sector of Berlin from the commandant of the Soviet sector re provocative actions of American authorities toward the Soviet writer and defector A. Cheishvili, and directing that the Committee for State Security (KGB) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs take all possible steps to clarify the circumstances of Cheishvili's "kidnapping" and to bring him back from West Germany; the draft note to General Hamlet(?); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Mukhitdinov, A. Gromyko, and K. Lunev, with Cheishvili's biographical data and description of the circumstances under which he defected; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; report about Cheishvili and the officials who recommended him for a business trip to East Germany and authorized his trip, 1958 December

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 13

Copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat appointing B. Ponomarev, L. Ilichev, and G. A. Zhukov to work out proposals with respect to a memorandum from the writer B. Polevoi; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev, Chief of the International Department, proposing measures to facilitate rapprochement of the Soviet and American peoples as discussed in the Polevoi memorandum; summary of Polevoi's memorandum, signed by N. Mostovets, Head of a Sector of the International Department; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium; the memorandum to N. Khrushchev from B. Polevoi; resolution and extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Commission for Ideology, Culture, and International Party Relations, 1958 May 1958 November-December

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 14

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Ilichev, Chief of the Department of Propaganda and Agitation of the TsK KPSS Bureau for the Union Republics, and G. Kazakov, Head of a Sector of the same department, re measures to be taken to actively oppose hostile propaganda broadcasts to the Soviet population; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Sergiichuk, Minister of Communications, proposing an improvement in distribution of broadcasting equipment to oppose hostile radio propaganda; statement from V. Snastin, Deputy Chief of the Department of Propaganda and Agitation of the TsK KPSS Bureau for the Union Republics, and G. Kazakov approving measures proposed by Sergiichuk; report to the TsK KPSS from M. Yegorov, Chief of the Technical Directorate of the State Committee for Radio and Television (Gosteleradio), and V. Kuzmin, Chief Engineer of the Main Radio Directorate of the Ministry of Communications, re introduction of special programs for eastern regions of the Soviet Union; report to the TsK KPSS Bureau for the RSFSR from A. Kosulnikov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Propaganda and Agitation of the TsK KPSS Bureau for the RSFSR, re broadcasting to Magadankaia oblast; memorandum to the TsK KPSS Bureau for the RSFSR from P. Afanasiev, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Magadankaia oblast; 14 memoranda to the TsK KPSS: from A. Miglinik, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Latvia, from L. Mokerov, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Kirovskaia oblast, from I. Senkin, Secretary of the Karelia KPSS Committee, from I. Kirienko, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Permskaia oblast, from KH. Sairanov, Secretary of the KPSS Committee of Bashkiria, from the Secretary of the Central Committee of the Uzbek Communist Party (signature is illegible), from P. Tashliev, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan, from V. Agkantsev, Secretary of the North Ossetian KPSS Committee, from L. Lentsman, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Estonia, from N. Rocher, Secretary of the Komi KPSS Committee, from N. Gadzhiev, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan, from M. Belenov, Chief of the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, from K. Dzharkimbekov, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, and from T. Uldzhabaev, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Tadzhikistan, re implementation of the TsK KPSS resolution On Measures for Active Opposition to Hostile Radio Propaganda ; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Romanov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Propaganda and Agitation of the TsK KPSS Bureau for the Union Republics, and G. Kazakov; report to the TsK KPSS from A. Kaftanov, Chairman of the State Committee for Radio and Television (Gosteleradio); program of Soviet broadcasting to be aired simultaneously with hostile (foreign) radio propaganda; resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, 1960 July - 1961 January

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 15

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Rudenko and P. Ivashutin re the arrest of, and possible penalty for M. Kaminskii, American tourist, charged with intelligence activity against the Soviet Union (according to a resolution of the TsK KPSS); decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet on the expulsion from the Soviet Union of M. Kaminskii, sentenced to a seven-year prison term; copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, 1960 September

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 16

Copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request from W. Foster, Honorary Chairman of the National Committee of the Communist Party USA, to provide financial assistance to his daughter S. Kolko; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Tereshkin, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1961 July

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 17

Copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request from the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) that the KPSS arrange the distribution in the Soviet Union of The Worker Midweek newspaper, supplement to The Worker newspaper (CPUSA) in the Soviet Union; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Yegorov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Propaganda and Agitation of the TsK KPSS Bureau for the Union Republics, and V. Korionov, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Sazhin, Chief of the Main Directorate for All-Union Publishing (Soiuzpechat); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from D. Robinson (Distribution Department of The Worker; statement signed by A. A. Pavlov, Deputy Chairman of the Mezhdunarodnaia kniga (International Book) All-Union Association, with information about The Worker Midweek and its subscription price; cover letter to the TsK KPSS from Pavlov, accompanying a sample of The Worker Midweek, 1961 October-December

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 18

Copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a memorandum from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Committee for State Security (KGB); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Gromyko and IU. Andropov re a petition for pardoning the American citizen McKinnon(?) sentenced to an eight-year prison term for espionage, and re Soviet policy toward this petition; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1962 April-May

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 19

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal from TASS (Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union) to establish the additional position of correspondent of the TASS New York department and to appoint the American journalist A. Shields, member of the Communist Party USA, to this position; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from T. Kuprikov, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department, and IE. Kuskov, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from D. Goriunov, General Director of TASS; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1966 July-September

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 20

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re Soviet measures to increase exposure of US imperialistic policy toward Latin America; cover letter to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, V. Kuznetsov, D. Shevliagin, and R. Ulianovskii accompanying the draft resolution of the TsK KPSS on the issue; possible topics of articles to be published in the Soviet press; memorandum to D. Shevliagin from L. Zamiatin with instructions to the media on the issue, 1966 July 1966 September

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 21

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request from the leadership of the Communist Party USA to appoint H. Jaris(?) as permanent correspondent of The Worker newspaper in the Soviet Union (expenses to be paid by the Executive Committee of the Union of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Beliakov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1966 October

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 22

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat authorizing canceling the debts of American companies selling Soviet books; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Beliakov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and A. Paniushkin, Chief of the Department of Cadres Abroad; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Makarov, Chairman of the Mezhdunarodnaia kniga (International Book) All-Union Association; information on reasons for the economic ineffectiveness of the Soviet book trade in the United States; list of outdated publications not sold by American partners of the International Book Association; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Semichastnov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade; draft resolution (of the TsK KPSS); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Cherniakov, Charg d'Affaires in the United States, and S. Shevchenko, Trade Counselor of the Soviet Embassy in the United States; statement on results of import-export activity of the International Book Association in 1967, with cover letter from B. Makarov, Chairman of International Book Association, 1968 January 1968 March-April

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 23

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat directing that the USSR State Bank (Gosbank) exchange 4,150 rubles for US dollars; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii re a request of F. Nassar, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Jordan (CPJ), to exchange 4,150 rubles (collected from Jordan communists in the USSR as CPJ membership fees) for hard currency; petition (translated into Russian) to the TsK KPSS from F. Nassar; original petition in Arabic, 1969 June-August

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 24

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request from the leadership of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) to accredit M. Davidow as a Moscow correspondent of The Daily World (expenses to be paid by the Executive Committee of the Union of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IE. Kuskov, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum (translated into Russian) to the TsK KPSS from G. Hall, General Secretary of the CPUSA; original memorandum (in English) to the TsK KPSS from G. Hall, 1968 November-December

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 25

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving proposals of the Propaganda Department re transmitting information in the Ukrainian language from the Radio and Telegraph Agency of the Ukraine (RATAU) in New York via TASS (Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union) communication lines; the memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Dmitriuk, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from F. Ovcharenko, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Ukraine, and S. Lapin, Director General of TASS; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1960 October 1960 December 1970 January

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 26

File is unavailable, 1918-1992

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 27

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium re a lump sum of financial assistance ("hard" currency equivalent to 114,000 rubles) to the France-USSR Society; copy of the extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, 1956 October

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 28

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on reorganizing the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (Vsesoiuznoe obshchestvo kulturnykh sviazei s zagranitsei - VOKS) into the Union of Soviet Societies of Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (Soiuz sovetskikh obshchestv druzhby i kulturykh sviazei s zarubezhnymi stranami - SSODKS); two memoranda to the TsK KPSS from O. Kuusinen, N. Popova, G. A. Zhukov, V. Moskovskii, IU. Andropov, and V. Tereshkin (one of them signed) submitting the draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; two memoranda to the TsK KPSS from M. Suslov (differently formatted); two identical tables reflecting the structure, staff charts, and salary of the SSODKS personnel; two lists of organizations over which the Administration of Affairs of SSODKS has jurisdiction; the draft resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with handwritten amendments; brief handwritten note to M. Tupitsyn from V. Chernukha; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Tereshkin, Deputy Chief of theInternational Department, and B. Miroshnichenko, Deputy Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Popova, Chairwoman of the Board of VOKS, submitting the VOKS Board's proposals for the consideration of the TsK KPSS; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; draft code of the SSODKS, 1957 August-November

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 29

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re assistance in ideological work to the Sudanese Union of the Republic of Mali party; draft resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers re delivery of "mobile clubs," films, printing paper, and typeface material; two lists of typefaces (French) for a newspaper printing office to be delivered to Mali; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev; directive of the USSR Council of Ministers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Korionov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and A. N. Yakovlev, Deputy Chief of the Department of Propaganda and Agitation, with their views on publishing a newspaper for Africa in the USSR; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Beliakov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and A. Yegorov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Propaganda and Agitation, re increase in Soviet broadcasting to Asia, Africa, and Latin America; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Psurtsev, N. Mesiatsev, and S. Skachkov, with Psurtsev's handwritten notes re broadcast to Africa, 1965 February 1965 May 1965 October

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Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 30

Copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the text of instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Finland; the instructions directing that he transfer 200,000 Finnish markka to E. Blumquist(?), the owner of the house where V. Lenin was in hiding in August-September 1917; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Snastin, Deputy Chief of the Department of Propaganda and Agitation of the TsK KPSS Bureau for the Union Republics, and V. Tereshkin, Deputy Chief of the International Department, re financial assistance to E. Blumquist; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from G. Obichkin, Director of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism; picture of a memorial plaque from the Workers' House in Finland that was established in honor of Lenin's Speech at the 3rd Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party in 1907, 1957 November 1958 February

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 31

Copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat authorizing the transfer to the Society of British-Soviet Friendship of 5,000 pounds sterling paid to Soviet circus actors for performances in Great Britain; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Mikhailov, Minister of Culture, 1959 July-August

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 32

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat authorizing the exchange of one of Kandinskii's paintings (oil from the holdings of the Tretiakov Gallery) for Lenin's letter to G. Aleksinskii (exchange to be made by the Committee for State Security); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB; statement from A. Soloviev, Deputy Director of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism, confirming the authenticity of Lenin's holograph copy; the holograph copy, 1974 January-February

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 33

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re the main principles of a media propaganda campaign in connection with the visit of L. Brezhnev, General Secretary of the TsK KPSS, to the United States; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from G. Smirnov, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department, and IE. Kuskov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, submitting a draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, the text of the information for the media, and list of propagandistic and organizational measures; the text of the information for the media; the list of measures; the draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; subject matter for publications related to L. Brezhnev's visit to the United States; list of the most important publications related to Brezhnev's visit to the United States; resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, 1973 July

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 34

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re the procedure for authorizing private trips of Soviet citizens to socialist countries; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Organov, Chairman of the Commission for Trips Abroad, N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs, S. Tsvigun, First Deputy Chairman of the KGB, and B. Shumilin, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, 1973 January

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 35

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving measures to oppose distribution of anti-Soviet and other politically harmful materials; list of the measures, 1971 June

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 36

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving in principle a draft resolution on the work performed by the KPSS organization of the Minsk Tractor Plant (MTP) to increase economic, social, and political activity of the plant's workers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Petrovichev, V. Medvedev, V. Shauro, I. Kozlov, and N. Savinkin re evaluation of the KPSS organization by instructors from TsK KPSS departments; memorandum, signed by members of the commission sent to the MTP by the TsK KPSS, containing analyses of the work performed by the KPSS organization of the MTP; resolution of the TsK KPSS; table of technical and economic indexes of several Soviet tractor plants in 1970; the resolution, with handwritten amendments, 1972 January

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 37

Copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat stating that a memorandum from the Committee for State Security (KGB) (not included) was discussed without any resolution being adopted, 1972 July

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 38

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re actions to be taken in cooperation with developingcountries and international organizations to enhance mass information in developing countries; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, and V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Ignatenko, Deputy Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, re technical support to facilitate cooperation between the Soviet Union and other countries in the area of mass information to oppose influence of the United States, 1978 May 1978 October

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 39

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers re a business trip of Soviet specialists to the 33rd International Airplane and Space Engineering Show; copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with a list of documents submitted to the TsK KPSS Politburo, 1979 May

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 40

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re participation in, preparation for, and conduct of the International Conference on Solidarity with the Struggle of the Nicaraguan People; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Brutents, Deputy Chief of the International Department; four tables with personal data of members of the delegation to the conference; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IE. Fedorov, Chairman of the Soviet Peace Committee; resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1979 June-July

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 41

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re creative and productive assistance to PTV Production, Inc. television company (United States), in shooting a ten-part documentary about Soviet architectural and historical memorial sites and museums in the USSR; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shauro, Chief of the Department of Culture, and V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from F. Yermash, Chairman of the State Committee for Cinematography (Goskino); draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1979 May 1979 July

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 42

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat authorizing the appointment of Colonel V. Voskoboinikov as Member of the Military Council of the Independent Air Defense Army; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs, describing V. Voskoboinikov; Voskoboinikov's personal data, 1979 June-July

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 43

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal of the State Committee for Cinematography (Goskino) to start preliminary negotiations with F. Coppola, American producer and film director, re production of a Soviet-American feature film on disarmament; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shauro, Chief of the Department of Culture, and V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from F. Yermash, Chairman of Goskino, 1979 June-July

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 44

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the world conference For a Peaceful and Happy Future to All Children in Moscow (September 7-11, 1979); two draft directives of the USSR Council of Ministers to organizations and agencies involved in the preparation for and the conduct of the conference; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, O. Rakhmanin, Deputy Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries, N. Petrovichev, Deputy Chief of the Department of Organizational and Party Work, and G. Smirnov, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department; statement on financial matters related to the conference, signed by V. Shaposhnikov; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Nikolaeva-Tereshkova, Chairperson of the Soviet Women's Committee, A. Shibaev, Chairperson of the VTsSPS (All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions), and B. Pastukhov, Secretary of the TsK VLKSM (All-Union Young Communists League); attachment to the memorandum specifying that the participants of the conference will be housed in the Ukraine (Ukraina) hotel; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; directive of the USSR Council of Ministers, 1979 June-August

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 45

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on an increase in USSR participation in the activities of UNESCO; draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers appointing staff members in the Secretariat of the Soviet Interdepartmental Commission for UNESCO Affairs; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Bazovskii, Deputy Chief of the Department of Business Trips and Cadres Abroad, V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and I. Zemskov, Chairman of the Soviet Commission for UNESCO Affairs and Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs; directives of the USSR Council of Ministers; distribution list; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Zemskov, 1979 August 1980 December

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 46

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat authorizing participation of Soviet representatives in the next Session of the Bureau of the World Peace Council (September 1979, Panama) and approving the members and the head of the delegation; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department; table of personal data of V. Orel, member of the delegation; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from O. Kharkhardin, Deputy Chief of the Soviet Peace Committee, recommending Academician IE. Fedorov, Chairman of the Soviet Peace Committee and Vice President of the World Peace Council, as head of the delegation and requesting that four members (one of them a top official from the International Department) and ten interpreters be included in the Soviet delegation, 1979 August-September

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 47

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat appointing M. Gorbachev, N. Savinkin, and F. Mochalin to consider information presented in the memorandum of December 25, 1979, from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the results of the discussion at the TsK KPSS Secretariat meeting andto work out proposals; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; brief note to V. Karlov and F. Mochalin from A. Kirilenko; the memorandum from N. Shchelokov, Minister of Internal Affairs, re conditions facilitating the embezzlement of raw wool during procurement and processing; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Lakhtin, Minister of Light Industry, re measures taken by the Ministry of Light Industry to regulate and improve the system of state wool procurements, 1979 December-1980 January

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 48

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a reduction in cultural exchanges between the Soviet Union and the United States; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shauro, Chief of the Department of Culture; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from P. Demichev, Minister of Culture, 1980 January-February

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 49

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat putting the International Department, the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries, and the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad in charge of publishing the secret Informational Bulletin of the TsK KPSS (on International Problems) and establishing a procedure for disseminating, preserving, and making use of the bulletin; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Cherniaev, Deputy Chief of the International Department, O. Rakhmanin, Deputy Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries, and L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, 1980 March

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 50

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a plan for ties between the KPSS and the Sandinista National Liberation Front of Nicaragua; brief handwritten note re amendments to the resolution; the plan, with a cover letter to the General Department of the TsK KPSS from M. I. Kovalev, Chief of the Secretariat of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Brutents, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and P. Smolskii, Deputy Chief of the Department of Organizational and Party Work, 1980 March-April

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 51

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the election of Z. Kamalidenov and IE. Bashmakov as secretaries of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan; memorandum to the TsK KPSS, with personal data of the candidates; table of Bashmakov's personal data, 1980 March

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 52

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on the implementation of the TsK KPSS resolution On Organizational and Propaganda Measures in Anticipation of the 1980 Olympic Summer Games ; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IE. Tiazhelnikov, Chief of the Propaganda Department, L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, IA. Kabakov, Chief of the Trade and Consumer Service Department, and I. Dmitriev, Chief of the Construction Department, 1980 March-April

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 53

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal of the State Committee for Cinematography (Goskino) re creative and production assistance to the Foreign Transactions Corporation television company (US) in making a series of documentaries about cultural assets of the 22nd Olympic Summer Games in Moscow; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shauro, Chief of the Department of Culture, and A. Cherniaev, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from F. Yermash, Chairman of Goskino; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1980 March-April

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 54

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat directing that the Ministry of Foreign Trade and the State Committee for Foreign Economic Relations give preference in commercial relations to the Greek businessman and publisher G. Bobolas(?), taking into consideration his role in promoting Soviet-Greek relations; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of International Information, and V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department, supporting the proposal of the Committee for State Security (KGB) re commercial relations with Bobolas(?); brief note; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Tsvigun, Deputy Chairman of the KGB; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1980 April

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 55

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat putting Ponomarev, Zimianin, Zamiatin, and B. Petrovskii in charge of working out a response of Soviet medical scientists to the American scientists who issued the statement Danger: Nuclear War; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat (see also opis31, file 48); resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the text of the response; the response; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of International Information, S. Shcherbakov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions, and V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department; brief handwritten note; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Petrovskii, Minister of Health, submitting the draft response compiled with respect to the proposals from the USSR Academy of Sciences, the Committee for State Security (KGB), and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the draft response; note containing information about the American scientists who signed the statement and about the Russian scientists to be appointed to sign the response, 1980 April

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 56

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat authorizing financial assistance to the All-India Organization for Peace and Solidarity; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IE. Fedorov, Chairman of the Soviet Peace Committee; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1980 May

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 57

Draft resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re a meeting on international matters of the secretaries of central committees of fraternal parties from socialist countries; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev, TsK KPSS Secretary; brief note recommending that B. Ponomarev and K. Rusakov be included in the delegation to the meeting; brief note, signed by A. Balmashnov, stating that the meeting took place on July 14-16, 1980, in Budapest; memorandum (translated into Russian) to B. Ponomarev from H. Axen, member of the Politburo of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SUPG), proposing the agenda of the meeting, with attachment pertaining to the position of the SUPG leadership toward the mass movement for peace, security, and disarmament, 1980 May-July

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 58

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re the conduct of the 19th Coordinating Conference of the National Commissions of the Socialist Countries for UNESCO Affairs in Moscow in 1981 and participation of representatives from the Afghanistan National Commission in the conference; two versions of the draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers re financing of the conference and transportation of the delegates; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Zemskov, Chairman of the Soviet Interdepartmental Commission for UNESCO Affairs and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; directive of the USSR Council of Ministers, 1980 June

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 59

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on charging M. Suslov and chiefs of related departments with the task of improving the draft resolution on propaganda and counterpropaganda measures to be taken in Poland; copy of the resolution; brief note; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, E. Tiazhelnikov, Chief of the Propaganda Department, and O. Rakhmanin, Deputy Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries, with their proposals for propaganda and counterpropaganda; resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the proposals; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, 1980 September-October

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 60

Chapters from the survey Soviet-American Relations, 1917-1963 , prepared by the Historical-Diplomatic Directorate of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, undated

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 61

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on the publication of an article in response to the anti-Soviet action of the Italian Socialist Party (ISP); extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; text of the article denouncing the Lefts for Afghanistan international conference, organized by the ISP, and criticizing the participation of members of the Italian Communist Party in the conference; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Cherniaev, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1980 October

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 62

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat directing that airfare for transportation of foreign journalists to events organized by the International Organization of Journalists be paid by the Union of Soviet Journalists; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from G. Smirnov, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department, and R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department, supporting the request from the USSR Union of Journalists for free transportation of Afghan journalists to the session of the General Secretariat of the International Organization of Journalists in Prague; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IA. Lomko, Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Union of Soviet Journalists; statement from the Propaganda Department proposing to pay part of the transportation of Afghan journalists, 1980 October

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 63

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the participation of Soviet representatives in a conference of the International Commission on Disarmament and Security (the Palme Commission); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, describing aims of the commission and presenting information about its members; three reports on the December 13-15, 1980, February 6-9, 1981, and December 3-9, 1981, conferences of the commission, signed by G. Arbatov, with his cover letters to the TsK KPSS; schedule of the sessions of the commission and their agenda; distribution list, 1980 November-December 1981 February 1981 December

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 64

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a text to be sent to the Soviet ambassadors to Bulgaria, Hungary, East Germany, Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, and the Netherlands; the text about the initiative of A. de Smaele, Belgian public leader, re strengthening the status of European non-nuclear states and limiting nuclear weapons in Europe; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and G. Kiselev, Deputy Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries, submitting the text of the information for the ambassadors approved by A. Kovalev, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, and N. Ogarkov, Deputy Minister of Defense, 1980 November

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Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 65

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat outlining measures to strengthen anti-military trends in major international events, taking into consideration the results of the Peoples for Peace World Parliament; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department, G. Kiselev, Deputy Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries, and V. Falin, Deputy Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, 1980 November

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 66

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the appropriation of 14,000 rubles for the Soviet Peace Fund to be spent on souvenirs for foreign organizations participating in the celebration of V-E Day; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Maresiev, Executive Secretary of the Soviet War Veterans Committee; list of souvenirs (with the quantity and price of each item) to be sent to the Soviet Embassy in France; memorandum to the International Department of the TsK KPSS (copies to A. Kovalev, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, and P. Batov, Chairman of the Soviet War Veterans Committee) from the Soviet Embassy in France, re celebration of the 35th anniversary of V-E Day in France and the role of the French Communist Party in it (incomplete), 1980 July October-November

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 67

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal of the Main Directorate for Foreign Tourism of the USSR Council of Ministers to reduce temporarily the exchange of tourists between the Soviet Union and Poland; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Bazovskii, Deputy Chief of the Department of Business Trips and Cadres Abroad, N. Petrovichev, Deputy Chief of the Department of Organizational and Party Work, and O. Rakhmanin, Deputy Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries; brief instructions to Bazovskii, Petrovichev, and Rakhmanin from K. Rusakov; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Nikitin, Chief of the Main Directorate for Foreign Tourism of the USSR Council of Ministers, A. Shibaev, Chairman of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, and B. Pastukhov, First Secretary of the All-Union Young Communists League, giving the reasons for the reductions, 1980 November

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 68

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat authorizing the establishment of the Directorate for Informational Systems within the News Publishing Agency (Agenstvo Pechati Novosti - APN); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Tiazhelnikov; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Tolkunov, Chairman of the APN, 1980 November-December

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 69

Draft resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a response to the resolution of the leadership of the Italian Communist Party on the situation in Poland; instructions to the Soviet ambassadors to Bulgaria, Hungary, East Germany, and Czechoslovakia and instruction to the Soviet ambassador to Poland; copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with the list of documents directed to the Politburo, 1980 December

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 70

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers re requests from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (CPC) and from the government of Grenada and re instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Cuba; draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers ordering the dispatch of two Soviet specialists and one interpreter to Cuba to assist in assembling and adjusting a radio broadcasting station to be transferred from Cuba to Grenada and to train Granadian radio station personnel; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Cuba; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum (translated into Russian) to V. A. Shamshin, USSR Minister of Communications, from B. Coard, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, Planning, and Trade and Member of the Politburo of the New Jewel Movement of Grenada; memorandum (translated into Russian) to V. Vorotnikov, Soviet Ambassador to Cuba, from J. M. Oropesa, Member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the CPC; directive of the USSR Council of Ministers, 1980 October-December

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 71

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on conducting a consultative conference of representatives from the peace movements of socialist countries in Moscow (December 1980) (expenses to be paid by the Soviet Peace Fund); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from G. Kiselev, Deputy Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries, and V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IE. Fedorov, Chairman of the Soviet Peace Committee, 1980 November-December

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 72

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re financing of international events in scientific cooperation in which the USSR Academy of Sciences planned to participate in 1981; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Trapeznikov, Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Aleksandrov, President of the USSR Academy of Sciences; list of international scientific events in which academies of sciences from union republics and scientific centers and divisions of the USSR Academy of Sciences are scheduled to participate in 1981 (expenses to be paid by participating parties); list of international events in which the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences is scheduled to participate in 1981; three lists of international scientific events in chemical engineering and biology, in earth science, and in social sciences scheduled for 1981 (expenses to be paid by participating parties), 1980 October 1980 December

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 73

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on increasing cooperation between the Soviet State Radio and Television and Italian television and radio stations; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Lapin, Chairman of the State Committee for Radio and Television (Gosteleradio), proposing measures to increase cooperation with Italian television and radio stations influenced by the Italian Communist Party; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Tiazhelnikov, Chief of the Propaganda Department, V. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, and V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1980 October-December

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 74

Resolution (with handwritten amendments) of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on measures to assist the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan in ideological work; draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers re delivery of 16 soundtrucks and special training to four Afghan printing trade workers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Tiazhelnikov, Chief of the Propaganda Department, V. Falin, Deputy Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, and R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department, proposing steps to assist Afghanistan in ideological work; statement confirming approval of the steps by the authorities; resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the steps proposed by the TsK KPSS departments; directive of the USSR Council of Ministers; report to the TsK KPSS from L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, P. Luchinskii, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department, and R. Ulianovskii on implementation of the TsK KPSS resolutions on strengthening informational and propaganda work for Afghanistan; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii re implementation of the TsK KPSS decisions on assistance to Afghanistan in ideological work; brief handwritten note to Ulianovskii from B. Ponomarev; brief handwritten note to the General Department from an unidentified author; report to the TsK KPSS from L. Zamiatin and E. Tiazhelnikov on implementation of the TsK KPSS resolutions, 1980 December 1981 February 1981 November-December

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 75

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving preliminary talks between the USSR Academy of Sciences and the US National Academy of Sciences as part of the preparation for the Soviet-American conference on international security and arms control; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Trapeznikov, Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions, and. A. Cherniaev, Deputy Chief of the International Department; brief handwritten note; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Aleksandrov, President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and G. Skriabin, Chief Academic Secretary of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences, 1980 November-December

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 76

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat directing that the Soviet Peace Committee invite the Palme Commission to conduct a meeting in Moscow (April-May 1981), dispatch Soviet representatives abroad to participate in the work of the commission, and allocate $10,000 to its budget; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Brutents, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from G. Arbatov, Director of the Institute for the Study of the United States of America and Canada, with information about Arbatov's talks with D. Edwards(?), Academic Secretary of the Palme Commission, 1980 November-December

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 77

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a business trip of M. Zimianin to Finland in December 1980; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Falin, Deputy Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, and A. Cherniaev, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1980 December

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 78

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers on a trade settlement with the Magra GmbX company run by the French Communist Party; the draft directive; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Cherniaev, Deputy Chief of the International Department, requesting that the TsK KPSS authorize a five-year extension to settle the debts of Magra GmbX; two brief handwritten notes; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Komarov, Minister of Foreign Trade; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; draft resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers; directive of the USSR Council of Ministers, 1980 November-December

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 79

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a telegram to the Soviet ambassador to Finland and directing that the Administration of TsK KPSS Affairs buy an appropriate gift for K. Sorsa, Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Finland; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Finland requesting that he transmit greeting from the KPSS and an appropriate gift for Sorsa's 50th birthday; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Cherniaev, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1980 December

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 80

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a draft decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet on awarding the Friendship of Peoples Order to the Belarus (Belorussia) publishing house and authorizing the Belorussian State Committee for Publishing to recommend five employees of the publishing house and workers of the printing house for decoration with orders and medals; the draft decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet; copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with the list of documents directed to the TsK KPSS Politburo, 1980 December

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 81

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re control of the distribution of Polish printed media items in the Soviet Union; list of Polish newspapers and magazines to be banned for retail sale and subscription; list of Polish newspapers and magazines to be controlled by the Main Directorate for Safeguarding State Secrets in the Press (Glavlit); instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Poland; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, E. Tiazhelnikov, Chief of the Propaganda Department, and O. Rakhmanin, Deputy Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries; brief handwritten note; two memoranda (of October 1980 and of March 1981) to the TsK KPSS from P. Romanov, Chairman of Glavlit; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; brief handwritten instruction; distribution list; table results of the inspection of Polish newspapers and magazines delivered from October 23, 1980, to March 1, 1981; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Tiazhelnikov summarizing information from Glavlit, the Ministry of Communications, and the State Committee for Planning (Gosplan) aboutimplementation of the resolution of the TsK KPSS on improvements in material and technical equipment of Glavlit; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from Romanov, V. A. Shamshin, Minister of Communications, and V. Biriukov, Deputy Chairman of Gosplan, 1980 October 1980 December 1981 March 1981 August

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 82

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers and instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Australia; draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers authorizing a proposal from the Ministry of the Merchant Marine to write off the debts of the Palanga Travel Company (Australia) and to stop legal proceedings against the company; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Australia; copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with a list of related documents, directed to the TsK KPSS, 1980 December

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 83

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal of the Soviet Committee of Solidarity with the Countries of Africa and Asia to provide transportation for representatives of developing countries and of national liberation movements participating in international events in 1981; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Dzasokhov, Deputy Chief of the Soviet Committee of Solidarity with the Countries of Africa and Asia, 1980 December - 1981 January

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 84

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat putting the Party Control Committee in charge of investigating claims from working people re shortfalls in the delivery of table salt to the population; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Yakovlev, Chief of the Department of Letters, summarizing the public's claims re insufficient supplies of salt, its poor quality and the limited number of brands available, 1981 February

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 85

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a list of measures designed by the Ministry of Defense and the Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Armed Forces and Navy to develop ties between the Soviet army and foreign armies; the plan for 1978-1979; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs, O. Rakhmanin, Deputy Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries, and R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department; cover letter to the TsK KPSS from D. Ustinov, Minister of Defense, submitting the plan for contacts with foreign armies designed by the Ministry of Defense; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; cover letter to the TsK KPSS from G. Sredin, Chief of the Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Armed Forces and Navy, submitting the plan for contacts with foreign armies designed by the Main Political Directorate; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from D. Ustinov and A. Yepishev and draft resolution of the TsK KPSS re measures to strengthen contacts between the political organs of the Soviet Armed Forces and the political organs of the armies of North Vietnam, Cuba, and Laos; list of the measures, 1978 January-February

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 86

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving measures to encourage foreign national Olympic committees to participate in the 22nd Olympic Summer Games in Moscow; draft list of the measures; instructions to Soviet ambassadors and Soviet representatives [to the UN]; list of capitals to which the instructions should be sent; instruction to the Soviet ambassador to Ireland re his meeting with M. Killanin, President of the International Olympic Committee; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Mexico re his meeting with M. Rania(?), President of the Association of National Olympic Committees; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Switzerland re his meeting with T. Keller, President of the General Association of International Sports Federations; two memoranda (differently formatted) to the TsK KPSS from E. Tiazhelnikov, Chief of the Propaganda Department, and L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of International Information; two identical memoranda to the TsK KPSS from I. Novikov, Chairman of the Olimpiada-80 Organizing Committee; draft list of measures to encourage foreign national Olympic committees to participate in the 22nd Olympic Summer Games in Moscow; information to be sent to Soviet ambassadors; list of capitals the information should be sent to; memorandum to the Soviet ambassador to Ireland re transmitting the information to M. Killanin; memorandum to the Soviet ambassador to Mexico, re transmitting the information to M. Rania(?); memorandum to the Soviet ambassador to Switzerland re transmitting the information to Keller; resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the list of measures to encourage foreign national Olympic committees to participate in the 22nd Olympic Summer Games in Moscow, 1980 June-July

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 87

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal of the State Committee for Cinematography (Goskino) to lend creative and productive assistance to the Granada television company (Great Britain) in shooting a series of documentaries about the history of Soviet cinematography; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shauro, Chief of the Department of Culture, and A. Cherniaev, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from F. Yermash, Chairman of Goskino; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; brief note, 1980 June-July

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 88

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers establishing a procedure for evaluating requests from other countries re trips to the 22nd Olympic Summer Games; the draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Tiazhelnikov, Chief of the Propaganda Department; note re the draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; three directives of the USSR Council of Ministers (differently formatted); resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1980 June-July

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 89

Resolution (with handwritten amendments) of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on strengthening information and propaganda work in Iran; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; two memoranda (differently formatted) to the TsK KPSS from L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, P. Luchinskii, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department, and R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department; two identical statements on the propaganda situation in Iran, issued by the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad; two identical lists of the organizations that approved the draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; resolution of the TsK KPSS, with handwritten amendments; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Falin, Deputy Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, G. Smirnov, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department, and Ulianovskii re implementation of the TsK KPSS resolution, 1980 June-July 1981 July

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 90

Two different resolutions of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re establishing and strengthening ties between Soviet and foreign cities; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and N. Pegov, Chief of the Department for Business Trips and Cadres Abroad; information about Soviet and foreign cities; brief note; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from Z. Kruglova, Chaiwoman of the Presidium of the Union of Soviet Societies of Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from Kruglova, containing amendments to her previous memorandum; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; list of measures to improve relations between Soviet cities and cities of capitalist and developing countries and, 1980 March-April 1980 June-July

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 91

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the establishment of ties between the KPSS and the Socialist Party of Japan (SPJ) in 1980; list the events to take place in 1980 to strengthen relations between the KPSS and the SPJ; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and P. Smolskii, Deputy Chief of the Department of Organizational and Party Work; brief statement on the number of Japanese delegations to the USSR and Soviet delegations to Japan and terms of their stay; draft list of events to take place in 1980 to strengthen relations between the KPSS and the SPJ, with a cover letter from A. Cherniaev, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1980 July

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 92

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat awarding the Order of Friendship of Peoples to Lord Killanin, President of the International Olympic Committee; draft decree of the USSR Supreme Soviet; copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with a list of documents sent to the TsK KPSS Politburo, 1980 July

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 93

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re establishment and strengthening of ties between Soviet and foreign cities; list of measures to improve relations between Soviet cities and cities of capitalist and developing countries (the documents are identical to those of file 90 of this opis), 1980 July

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 94

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving proposals of IU. Andropov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), and a draft resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers re the proposals; two draft resolutions (differently formatted) of the USSR Council of Ministers granting the Secretariat of the KGB the status of Administration of Affairs with the right to manage the KGB central apparatus independently; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Savinkin, Deputy Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs; brief handwritten note from B. Ponomarev (General Department) to N. Savinkin; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers, 1980 July

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 95

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal of the Soviet Peace Committee to send a delegation to the International Conference on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, to be held in Japan; list of the members of the delegation; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department; four tables with personal data of the delegates; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IE. Fedorov, Chairman of the Soviet Peace Committee, 1980 July

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 96

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on the results of the 22nd Olympic Summer Games; copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with handwritten amendments (pages out of order); two identical pages of an unidentified related document submitted to M. Zimianin, 1980 August

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 97

Two versions of a resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat authorizing the Soviet Olympic Committee to recommend that 5,000 people who prepared and conducted the 22nd Olympic Games in Moscow be decorated with Soviet orders and banners and approving a proposed distribution of state awards among ministries and departments; table re the distribution of state awards among ministries, departments, and organizations; copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with a list of documents sent to the TsK KPSS Politburo; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs, re recommending employees of the Ministry of Civil Aviation for awards; draft resolution and resolution of the TsK KPSS authorizing the Ministry of Civil Aviation to recommend 450 workers of the ministry for awards; draft resolution and resolution of the TsK KPSS authorizing the Ministry of Communications Equipment Industry, the State Committee for Radio and Television (Gosteleradio), and the Moscow City KPSS Committee to recommend 750 industrial workers from three enterprises for awards; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Serbin, Chief of the Department of Defense Industry, and E. Tiazhelnikov, Chief of the Propaganda Department, 1980 August

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 98

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat authorizing the Ministry of Defense, the Committee for State Security (KGB), and the Ministry of Internal Affairs to recommend that 2,650 people be decorated with Soviet orders and banners for participation in preparing and conducting the 22nd Olympic Summer Games; copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with a list of documents sent to the TsK KPSS Politburo, 1980 August

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 99

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on a discussion of the results of the 22nd Olympic Summer Games to be delivered to central committees of communist and workers' parties of socialist countries; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, O. Rakhmanin, Deputy Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries, and M. Gramov, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department; resolution (not accepted) of the TsK KPSS approving the text of a telegram summarizing the results of the 22nd Olympic Summer Games to be sent to Soviet ambassadors for transmission to the central committees of communist and workers' parties of socialist countries; text of the telegram, 1980 August

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 100

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Trapeznikov, Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions, and A. Cherniaev, Deputy Chief of the International Department, re unwillingness of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism to accept a book by V. Lenin as a gift from A. Hammer (American businessman); instructions to the Soviet Ambassador to the United States; letter to A. Aleksandrov from A. Dobrynin, Soviet ambassador to the United States, with annotations; brief handwritten note; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from P. Rodionov, Deputy Director of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism, with a proposed letter to the Soviet ambassador to the United States, 1981 January-February

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 101

Memorandum of a conversation between V. Sedykh, Director of the Progress Publishers, and A. Hammer (American businessman) re publication of the book by B. Considine about A. Hammer, 1981 April

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 102

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request from the leadership of the Lebanese Communist Party to admit twelve Lebanese comrades to the Soviet Union for training in military operations (expenses to be paid by the Ministry of Defense); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1973 December

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 103

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the text of an appeal to the leaders of the Parcham (Banner) and Khalq(Masses) wings of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan to be sent to Kabul via KGB channels; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Afghanistan to transmit the appeal to K. Babrak and N. M. Taraki (separately); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1974 January

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 104

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a telegram to the Soviet ambassador to Zambia re the situation within the leadership of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (PMLA); text of the telegram; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department, describing the crisis within the leadership of the PMLA as a result of a struggle for power and intertribal conflicts; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Kulikov, Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces, re cessation of the liberation struggle in Angola, 1973 December - 1974 January

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 105

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on including the position of Chief of the 12th Department of the 2nd Main Directorate of the Committee for State Security (KGB) in the list of the TsK KPSS nomenklatura; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, 1973 December - 1974 January

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 106

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a draft decree of the USSR Supreme Soviet re the question put forward by the Ministry of Chemical and Petroleum Refining Industry and by the Gorkii City KPSS Committee, 1974 January

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 107

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving requests from the leaderships of the Communist Party of Argentina (CPA), the People's Party of Panama (PPP), the Nicaraguan Socialist Party (NSP), and the Popular Vanguard Party of Costa Rica (PVP) to admit communists from those countries for military training (expenses to be paid by the Ministry of Defense); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IE. Kuskov, Deputy Chief of the International Department; four memoranda (translated into Russian) to the TsK KPSS from O. Ghioldi, Secretary of the CPA, R. D. Souza, Secretary General of the PPP, L. S. Sancho, First Secretary of the NSP, and H. V. Carbonell, Secretary of the PVP, 1973 November - 1974 January

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 108

Copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re the memorandum of March 28, 1974, from R. Rudenko, USSR Prosecutor General; brief note; the memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Rudenko describing the crime situation in the country (January 1973-January 1974), 1974 March-April

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 109

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re a memorandum from the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Health, and theMinistry of Medical Equipment; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Petrovskii, I. Tuzhilkin, and S. Kurkotkin re development of new antibiotics and chemical preparations for protection from weapons of mass destruction; resolution of the TsK KPSS and the USSR Council of Ministers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Trapeznikov, Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions, N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs, and V. Bushuev, Chief of the Department of Chemical Industry, 1974 March-April

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 110

)Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request from the leadership of the Syrian Communist Party (SCP) to provide Syrian communists with training in secret work (in Damascus) and to admit one representative of the SCP for training in special methods of work with passports (training to be paid by the International Department and the Committee for State Security (KGB), and living expenses by the Administration of TsK KPSS Affairs); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IE. Kuskov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1974 April-May

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 111

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request from the leadership of the Brazilian Communist Party (BCP) to admit L. Leal, executive of the BCP, for special training in party technique (expenses to be paid by the KPSS); memorandum to the International Department; memorandum (translated into Russian) to the TsK KPSS from L. C. Prestes, Secretary-General of the BCP, 1974 May

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 112

Two identical resolutions of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request from the leader of the Parcham (Banner) wing of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan to admit to the USSR the Afghan citizen D. Barlai (his sister-in-law) for treatment (expenses to be paid by the Ministry of Health and by the KPSS); telegram to the KGB resident in Kabul; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1974 May

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 113

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the text of a telegram about the visit of M. Daoud, Prime Minister of Afghanistan, to be transmitted by the KGB resident in Afghanistan to B. Karmal and N. M. Taraki, leaders of the Parcham (Banner) and Khalq (Masses) wings of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan; the telegram; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1974 June

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 114

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat putting D. Ustinov in charge of considering the facts presented by a memorandum from IU. Andropov; the memorandum containing information about the failed attempt of V. Beletskii to transmit secret information on the location of Soviet missiles to the US Embassy in the Soviet Union and re shortcomings in preserving secrecy by enterprises related to the defense industry; statement on measures taken as a result of Andropov's memorandum, 1974 June

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 115

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request from the leadership of the Syrian Communist Party to admit to the USSR three Syrian communists for training in secret work (expenses to be paid by the KPSS); instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Syria; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1974 June

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 116

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers re establishing the position of Deputy Commander for Protection of Secrets in Special Aviation Detachment No. 235 under the Ministry of Civil Aviation; two draft directives of the USSR Council of Ministers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Drugov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov (Committee for State Security) and B. Bugaev (Ministry of Civil Aviation); draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1974 June-July

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 117

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat requesting that the Board of the USSR Foreign Trade Bank (Vneshtorgbank) exchange 3,000 rubles for Czech korunas (at the request of A. Muhammad, First Secretary of the Iraqi Communist Party); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department, 1974 June-July

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 118

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat requesting that the Committee for State Security (KGB) manufacture, at the request of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party (SACP), 100 Swaziland passports with necessary seals; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from Y. M. Dadoo, Chairman of the SACP, 1974 June-July

Opis 46, Reel 1.1005, File 119

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request from the leadership of the Lebanese Communist Party to admit twelve Lebanese comrades to the Soviet Union for training in military operations (expenses to be paid by the Ministry of Defense); copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, 1974 July

 

Opis 47

Opis 47, Reel 1.1006, File 1

List of original resolutions and other materials included in the file of documents related to the agenda of the meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo (Protocol No. 187, items I-VI and 1-10 of the agenda), 1990 May 4-8 1990 June 28

Opis 47, Reel 1.1006, File 2

List of original resolutions and other materials included in the file of documents related to the agenda of the meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo (Protocol No. 187, items 11-20 of the agenda), 1990 May 10-11

Opis 47, Reel 1.1006, File 3

List of original resolutions and other materials included in the file of documents related to the agenda of the meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo (Protocol No. 187, items 21-29 of the agenda), 1990 May 11-12

Opis 47, Reel 1.1006, File 4

List of original resolutions and other materials included in the file of documents related to the agenda of the meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo (Protocol No. 187, items 30-42 of the agenda), 1990 May 15-17

Opis 47, Reel 1.1006, File 5

List of original resolutions and other materials included in the file of documents related to the agenda of the meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo (Protocol No. 187, items 43-53 of the agenda), 1990 May 17-21

Opis 47, Reel 1.1006, File 6

List of original resolutions and other materials included in the file of documents related to the agenda of the meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo (Protocol No. 187, items 54-66 of the agenda), 1990 May 21-24

Opis 47, Reel 1.1006, File 7

List of original resolutions and other materials included in the file of documents related to the agenda of the meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo (Protocol No. 187, items 67-79 of the agenda), 1990 May 25

Opis 47, Reel 1.1006, File 8

List of original resolutions and other materials included in the file of documents related to the agenda of the meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo (Protocol No. 187, items 89-99 of the agenda), 1990 May 30 - June 1

Opis 47, Reel 1.1006, File 9

List of original resolutions and other materials included in the file of documents related to the agenda of the meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo (Protocol No. 187, items 100-113 of the agenda), 1990 June 1-8

Opis 47, Reel 1.1006, File 10

List of original resolutions and other materials included in the file of documents related to the agenda of the meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo (Protocol No. 187, items 114-120 of the agenda), 1990 June 8

Opis 47, Reel 1.1006, File 11

List of original resolutions and other materials included in the file of documents related to the agenda of the meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo (Protocol No. 187, items 168-173 of the agenda), 1990 June 28

Opis 47, Reel 1.1006, File 12

List of original resolutions and other materials included in the file of documents related to the agenda of the meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo (Protocol No. 188, items 1-10 of the agenda), 1990 June 29

Opis 47, Reel 1.1006, File 13

List of original resolutions and other materials included in the file of documents related to the agenda of the meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo (Protocol No. 188, items 11-20 of the agenda), 1990 June 30-July 5

Opis 47, Reel 1.1006, File 14

List of original resolutions and other materials included in the file of documents related to the agenda of the meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo (Protocol No. 188, items 21-35 of the agenda), 1990 July 5-6

Opis 47, Reel 1.1006, File 15

List of original resolutions and other materials included in the file of documents related to the agenda of the meetingof the TsK KPSS Politburo (Protocol No. 188, items 36-50 of the agenda), 1990 July 8-10

Opis 47, Reel 1.1006, File 16

List of original resolutions and other materials included in the file of documents related to the agenda of the meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo (Protocol No. 188, items 51-62 of the agenda), 1990 July 11-13

Opis 47, Reel 1.1006, File 17

List of original resolutions and other materials included in the file of documents related to the agenda of the meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo (Protocol No. 188, items 63-70 of the agenda), 1990 July 13

Opis 47, Reel 1.1006, File 18

List of the original resolutions and other materials included in the file of documents related to the agenda of the meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo (Protocol No. 188, items 71-83 of the agenda), 1990 July 13

 

Opis 48

Opis 48, Reel 1.1006, File 1

Ciphered telegram to S. Kosior and V. Chubar from J. Stalin re the court trial of Yefremov and others, offering Stalin's view of the trial, 1930 January

Opis 48, Reel 1.1006, File 2

Ciphered telegram to all members of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo from J. Stalin requesting approval of the expulsion from the VKP(b) and immediate arrest of G. Yagoda, former People's Commissar of Internal Affairs, 1937 March

Opis 48, Reel 1.1006, File 3

Ciphered telegram from J. Stalin to the national central committees of the VKP(b) and to VKP(b) committees in krais and oblasts suggesting, on behalf of the TsK VKP(b), that they organize meetings of workers, peasants, and rank and file of the Red Army and adopt resolutions demanding capital punishment for M. Tukhachevskii, I. Yakir, I. Uborevich, and others (top Red Army commanders) and stating that the court trial of these people should end that night and the sentence be published the next day, 1937 June

Opis 48, Reel 1.1006, File 4

Brief memorandum to L. Beria from J. Stalin authorizing, on behalf of the TsK VKP(b), the arrest of Z. Lordkipanidze, Secretary of the Executive Committee of Adzharia, 1937 July

Opis 48, Reel 1.1006, File 5

Ciphered telegram to J. Stalin from L. Beria, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) of Georgia, requesting authorization to arrest Z. Lordkipanidze, Secretary of the Executive Committee of Adzharia, with Stalin's signature authorizing the arrest, 1937 July

Opis 48, Reel 1.1006, File 6

Ciphered telegram to L. Grishchuk, Secretary of the Lvov City Committee (gorkom) of the Communist Party of the Ukraine, from J. Stalin demanding that Lvov authorities stop abusing the Polish population of the city (copies to N. Khrushchev and M. Burmistenko), 1940 July

Opis 48, Reel 1.1006, File 7

Telegram to Anna-Mukhamedov from J. Stalin authorizing, on behalf of the TsK VKP(b), the arrest of all Afghan citizensfound guilty and stating that the situation re the Afghan Consul would be solved through diplomatic channels, 1937 July 25

Opis 48, Reel 1.1006, File 8

Ciphered telegram to J. Stalin from Anna-Mukhamedov, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) of Turkmenistan, informing Stalin about a nationalistic insurgent organization involved in espionage on behalf of British intelligence and requesting the arrest of 23 Afghan citizens and of the Afghan consul in Merv associated with the organization (the telegram has Stalin's annotation authorizing the arrest of the Afghan citizens); magnified last page of the telegram, with Stalin's handwritten annotation, 1937 July 23

Opis 48, Reel 1.1006, File 9

Ciphered telegram to A. Andreev, Secretary of the VKP(b) Committee of Saratovskaia oblast, from J. Stalin approving Andreev's proposal re a court trial and execution of former MTS (Machine and Tractor Station) employees, 1937 July

Opis 48, Reel 1.1006, File 10

Ciphered telegram to J. Stalin from L. Mirzoian, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Kazakhstan, requesting authorization to arrest Kulumbetov, former Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of Kazakhstan, with Stalin's handwritten annotation authorizing the arrest, 1937 July

Opis 48, Reel 1.1006, File 11

Ciphered telegram to A. Andreev from J. Stalin re a resolution of the TsK VKP(b) authorizing the arrest of leaders of the Betbruder (Brothers in Praying) religious sect of Povolzhie Germans (living in the Volga area), the replacement of native Germans in the personnel of the Povolzhie ChK (Extraordinary Commission) with native Russians, and Andreev's business trip to Moscow, 1937 August

Opis 48, Reel 1.1006, File 12

Ciphered telegram to secretaries of VKP(b) committees in krais and oblasts and to secretaries of the central committees of national communist parties from J. Stalin directing that they organize in each oblast two or three show trials of "enemies of the people who work in agriculture"; identical telegram with Stalin's amendments, corrections, and signature, 1937 August

Opis 48, Reel 1.1006, File 13

Ciphered telegram to P. Postyshev from J. Stalin and V. Molotov canceling Postyshev's telegram to districts about using milk cows to transport sheaves to grain stacks and about dismantling public buildings for materials to cover the stacks, 1937 August

Opis 48, Reel 1.1006, File 14

Ciphered telegram to U. Ashurov, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Tadzhikistan, from J. Stalin informing Ashurov that the TsK can approve neither the first nor the second candidate to be elected as chairman of the Central Executive Committee Tadzhikistan and suggesting postponement of the elections, 1937 August

Opis 48, Reel 1.1006, File 15

Ciphered telegram from J. Stalin and V. Molotov (with handwritten amendments and Stalin's and Molotov's signatures) to the central committees of the national communist parties, to the VKP(b) committees in krais and oblasts, to Councils of People's Commissars of the republics, to the executive committees in krais and oblasts, to the authorized representatives of the Committee for Procurement of the USSR Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom) in republics, krais and oblasts, to the chiefs of Zagotzerno (Grain Procurement - Zagotovka zerna) bureaus in republics, krais, and oblasts, informing them of the arrest of I. Kleiner, Chairman of the Committee for Procurements of the USSR Sovnarkom, and directing that all possible measures be taken to ensure successful procurement of grain, to inspect the work of the Committee for Procurement, and to punish severely those attending to interfere with the bread procurement, 1937 August

Opis 48, Reel 1.1006, File 16

Ciphered telegram to L. Beria, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia, from J. Stalin approving Beria's report, show trials of N. Lakoba and Z. Lordkipanidze, and convocation of an expanded plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia, 1937 August

Opis 48, Reel 1.1006, File 17

Ciphered telegram to S. Korotchenkov, Secretary of the VKP(b) Committee of Smolenskaia oblast, from J. Stalin advising him to sentence to death saboteurs from the Andreevskii raion and to publish the news of their execution in the local press, 1937 August

Opis 48, Reel 1.1006, File 18

Ciphered telegram to J. Stalin and V. Molotov from S. A. Kudriavtsev, Secretary of the Committee of the Communist Party of the Ukraine in Kievskaia oblast (obkom), re organization of show trials in Kievskaia oblast and re his request to authorize a trial of officials from procurement agencies (with the signatures of Molotov and Kaganovich approving the request), 1937 September

Opis 48, Reel 1.1006, File 19

Ciphered telegram to J. Stalin from P. Postyshev informing Stalin about the "counterrevolutionary conversation" held by Filippov, former Chief of the Penza Directorate of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD), and requesting authorization for Filippov's arrest (with Stalin's handwritten authorization), 1937 September

Opis 48, Reel 1.1006, File 20

Ciphered telegram (with Stalin's amendments and signature, Molotov's signature, and voting record of top party officials) to all secretaries of VKP(b) committees in oblasts and krais and of central committees of national republics, and to all chairmen of councils of people's commissars and of executive committees in krais and oblasts, directing that every republic, krai, and oblast organize three to six show trials of "enemies of the people" guilty of sabotage in animal husbandry, that the trials be conducted in the presence of the peasant massesand with intensive coverage in the press, and that the defendants be sentenced to death, 1937 October

Opis 48, Reel 1.1006, File 21

Ciphered telegram to J. Stalin from V. Molotov informing him that artillery and money ($100,000) requested by N. Zachariadis, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece, were sent to him, and that foreign footwear and clothing requested by Zachariadis were not available, 1947 September

Opis 48, Reel 1.1006, File 22

Ciphered telegram to J. Stalin from V. Molotov suggesting a negative response to the request from the American ambassador that American senators be allowed to visit the US Embassy in the Soviet Union and engage in sightseeing in Moscow, and that the senators be denied entrance visas for the second time (with Stalin's handwritten annotation approving Molotov's proposal), 1947 September

Opis 48, Reel 1.1006, File 23

Ciphered telegram to J. Stalin from V. Molotov informing Stalin that Molotov had to invite KH. Choybalsan for lunch in return for Choybalsan's dinner and that the warning to Choybalsan about "his weak point" would be sent via his physicians, 1947 September

Opis 48, Reel 1.1006, File 24

Ciphered telegram to J. Stalin from V. Molotov suggesting approval of Vyshinskii's proposal to oppose appearance of Greek émigrés at the UN General Assembly because it might establish a precedent for Polish, Yugoslav, Bulgarian, and Hungarian émigrés, 1947 October

Opis 48, Reel 1.1006, File 25

Memorandum to the TsK VKP(b) and to J. Stalin from V. Balitskii, Chairman of the Politburo Commission for the Passport System and for Relieving Cities of Unwanted Elements, submitting draft resolutions of the Central Executive Committee (TsIK) of the Soviets of Peoples' Deputies and the Council of People's Commissars related to establishment of the passport system, 1932 November

 

Opis 49

Opis 49, Reel 1.1006, File 1

Extract from the minutes of the TsK RKP(b) Politburo approving a proposal of L. Trotsky to agree temporarily to the participation of clergy in Pomgol (Pomoshch golodaiushchim - Famine Relief) in connection with the confiscation of valuables from the church; copy of the protocol of the meeting re the campaign for the confiscation of valuables from the church in order to raise money to help the starving people of Povolzhie, with cover letter to V. Molotov from R. Yezerskaia, Secretary of the Presidium of the State Political Directorate (GPU) of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD); appeal to all believers from Tikhon, Patriarch of Moscow and of Russia, expressing his disapproval of the confiscation of valuables from churches, with cover letter to V. Molotov from R. Yezerskaia, 1922 March

Opis 49, Reel 1.1006, File 2

Protocol no. 1 of the meeting of the Commission for the Confiscation of Church Valuables re the competence of the Commission, transportation, storing, packaging material, instructions to the commissions in gubernias and uezds, personnel, posters, scales to weigh valuables, oral propaganda and publications, payment for valuables, participation of believers in Pomgol (Famine Relief), and housing for clergy (copy very poor, the first page practically illegible), 1922 March

Opis 49, Reel 1.1006, File 3

Extract from the minutes of the TsK RKP(b) Politburo approving (with amendments) Trotsky's draft directive on the confiscation of valuables from churches; Trotsky's draft directive on secret guiding commissions for confiscation of valuables as well as official commissions of committees for famine relief, on the members of the central commission, and on propaganda and agitation, 1922 March

Opis 49, Reel 1.1006, File 4

Ciphered telegram to all RKP(b) committees in gubernias and oblasts and RKP(b) bureaus in oblasts suspending temporarily the confiscation of valuables from churches because of complications and directing that more effort be put into education of the population and into agitation, 1922 March

Opis 49, Reel 1.1006, File 5

Report to a secretary of the TsK RKP(b)(name not indicated) from N. Muralov, Commander of the Moscow Military District, re his departure to the city of Shuia, 1922 March

Opis 49, Reel 1.1006, File 6

Cover letter to Molotov from an unidentified sender in State Political Directorate (GPU) of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) (document illegible); ciphered telegram to the GPU and to M. Kalinin from Bulatov, Chairman of the Executive Committee of Smolenskaia oblast, re a failed attempt (owing to the resistance of believers) to begin the confiscation of valuables from the Smolensk cathedral; cover letter to Molotov from an unidentified sender in the GPU NKVD accompanying a copy of the report on clerical activity related to the confiscation of valuables; the report; ciphered telegram to the TsK RKP(b) from the Secretary of the RKP(b) Committee of Kaluzhskaia gubernia (gubkom) re a three-day strike of plant workers and unrest among workers in connection with the confiscation of valuables from churches owing to the activities of Patriarch Tikhon, 1922 March

Opis 49, Reel 1.1006, File 7

Extract from the minutes of the TsK RKP(b) re clerical activity connected with the confiscation of valuables from churches; attachment to the minutes establishing policy toward the clergy (arrest of the Patriarch and Synod, arrest and trial by the tribunal of clergymen and others responsible for the unrest in Shuia and execution of their leaders, organizing a show trial of priests accused of stealing church valuables, mass publicizing of data on clerical uprisings in Smolensk, Petrograd, and other cities, and starting forced massive confiscation of valuables from churches all over the country); handwritten memorandum to V. Molotov from T. Sapronov requesting thatTrotsky's response to the confiscation of valuables be discussed at a Politburo meeting and that Sapronov himself be called to the Politburo discussion on the GPU (with Molotov's handwritten statement on the date of the Politburo re the GPU); report on clerical activity related to the confiscation of valuables (identical to that of file 6 of this opis), with cover letter to all Politburo members and L. Trotsky from R. Yezerskaia, Secretary of the Presidium of the State Political Directorate (GPU) of the NKVD, 1922 March

Opis 49, Reel 1.1006, File 8

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving L. Trotsky's proposals on the confiscation of church valuables; list of Trotsky's proposals addressed to all members of the TsK RKP(b) Politburo and to V. Lenin, J. Stalin, L. Kamenev, G. Zinoviev, and V. Molotov, with cover letter from M. Burakova, 1922 March

Opis 49, Reel 1.1006, File 9

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving practical proposals for the confiscation of church valuables to be presented at the meeting of the secretaries of VKP(b) committees and of chairmen of executive committees in gubernias; minutes of the Don RKP(b) Committee denouncing the work of the Commission for the Confiscation of Church Valuables and demanding that repressive measures be taken against those opposing the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK) Decree and inciting counterrevolutionary uprisings and armed insurgents against Soviet power; minutes of the Commission for the Confiscation of Church Valuables in Moscow re shortcomings in propaganda and agitation work and proposals for their improvement, 1922 March

Opis 49, Reel 1.1006, File 10

Memorandum to M. Kalinin and V. Molotov, members of the Politburo, from L. Trotsky re his concern that the Politburo decision to appropriate a million gold rubles for bread to be delivered to famine victims was not implemented and suggesting that one or two trains with bread be sent to the Volga area (with Molotov's handwritten annotation), 1922 March

Opis 49, Reel 1.1006, File 11

Ciphered telegram to all executive committees and VKP(b) committees in gubernias from M. Kalinin, Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, and V. Molotov, Secretary of the TsK RKP(b), directing that priests be punished for robberies and thefts from churches, that "rich churches" be protected appropriately, and that valuable church furnishing be replaced by less valuable furnishing removed from other churches and monasteries, 1922 April

Opis 49, Reel 1.1006, File 12

Ciphered telegram to all RKP(b) committees in gubernias (gubkoms) and departments of the State Political Directorate (GPU) in krais directing that they inform the TsK and the GPU about any persons sent to their krais in charge of policy toward the church, 1922 April

Opis 49, Reel 1.1006, File 13

Ciphered telegram to all RKP(b) committees in gubernias (gubkoms) (copy to executive committees in gubernias) directing that loyal clergy calling on believers to obey the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK) Decree on the confiscation of church valuables be supported, 1922 April

Opis 49, Reel 1.1006, File 14

Extract from the minutes of the RKP(b) Politburo directing that the Organizational Bureau select two assistants to L. Trotsky to work in the Commission for the Confiscation of Church Valuables; extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo appointing A. Bubnov and Pashkevich as Trotsky's assistants and recalling Pashkevich from his work in the Petrograd VKP(b) organization; extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo replacing Bubnov with N. Popov as Trotsky's assistant, 1922 May

Opis 49, Reel 1.1006, File 15

Extract from the minutes of the RKP(b) Politburo characterizing the campaign for the confiscation of valuables as slow and inefficient and reprimanding all participants in the campaign, 1922 May

Opis 49, Reel 1.1006, File 16

Extract from the minutes of the Bureau of the Central Commission for the Confiscation of Church Valuables re the slow rate of confiscation of valuables in the RSFSR and suggesting that the TsK reprimand those RKP(b) committees in gubernias (gubkoms) with slow rate of confiscation of valuables; list of the territories of Russia and Belorussia where the confiscation of valuables from churches is going slowly and where valuables are getting stolen (very bad copy and original); list of additional territories where the confiscation of valuables is slow, 1922 May

Opis 49, Reel 1.1006, File 17

Extract from the minutes of the RKP(b) Politburo approving a proposal of L. Trotsky and reprimanding M. Kalinin and A. Yenukidze for slow implementation of the resolution of the Politburo and directing that they implement it the same day; memorandum to the TsK RKP(b) Politburo from Trotsky proposing to postpone the convocation of the church Synod for two or three months to observe the struggle between different trends in the church that would weaken or destroy the church; memorandum to the TsK RKP(b) Politburo from Trotsky with analysis of the situation in the Russian church and with his conclusions to be presented at the meeting of secretaries of RKP(b) committees and of chairmen of executive committees in gubernias, 1922 March 1922 May

Scope and Contents note

See also file 11 of this opis.
Opis 49, Reel 1.1006, File 18

Memorandum to R. Karklin (Directorate for Currency of the USSR People's Commissariat of Finance) from S. Kuznetsov, Ukrainian People's Commissar of Finance, requesting that a representative be sent to the talks on valuables confiscated from the Kievo-Pecherskaia Lavra (Monastery) and transferred to the Ukrainian Children's Relief Commission by the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Ukrain, 1925 February

Opis 49, Reel 1.1006, File 19

Extract from the minutes of the RKP(b) Politburo postponing for a week a decision re valuables from the Kievo-Pecherskaia Lavra (Monastery); memorandum to the TsK RKP(b) from N. Briukhanov, USSR Deputy People's Commissar of Finance, and R. Karklin, Deputy Chief of the Directorate for Currency of the USSR People's Commissariat of Finance, expressing disapproval of the decision adopted by the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Ukraine to transfer to the Ukrainian Children's Relief Commission valuables, in the form of metal and foreign currency, that were hidden in the monastery by persons who escaped abroad, 1925 February

Opis 49, Reel 1.1006, File 20

Extract from the minutes of the RKP(b) Politburo authorizing the spending of all valuables found in the Kievo-Pecherskaia Lavra (Monastery) on famine victims and children in the Ukraine, 1925 February

Opis 49, Reel 1.1006, File 21

Handwritten note to I. Tovstukha, secretary of J. Stalin, from A. Likhachev, secretary of IE. Yaroslavskii, submitting the article by M. Olminskii; Olminskii's article proposing to remove Kremlin bells and to cast "useful things" out of the bells and of hundreds of French cannon captured in 1812, to rename the Kremlin gates, and to transform the Cathedral of Christ the Savior into a museum; Olminskii's note to the editorial board stating that he has brought up the question for the third time because it was twice turned down by the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK), 1930 January 1930 February

Opis 49, Reel 1.1006, File 22

Cover letter to the TsK VKP(b) from S. Bochin, Chief of the Department of Classified Materials of the Administration of Affairs of the Council of People's Commissars, submitting a copy of a ciphered telegram signed by D. Sulimov, Chairman of the RSFSR Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom), and sent to the chairmen of executive committees in krais and oblasts and to the councils of people's commissars in autonomous republics and oblasts; the ciphered letter canceling the Sovnarkom directive of November 14, 1930, about confiscation of church bells, 1930 December

Opis 49, Reel 1.1006, File 23

Memorandum to D. Sulimov, Chairman of the RSFSR Council of People's Commissars, V. Chubar, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukraine, N. Goloded, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of Belorussia, and I. Pavlunovskii (Higher Council of the People's Economy - VSNKh) canceling proposals of the VSNKh to remove bells from churches in cities in which bell-ringing is prohibited, 1930 December

Opis 49, Reel 1.1006, File 24

Memorandum to the TsK VKP(b) and to J. Stalin from L. Beria, Deputy People's Commissar of Internal Affairs, reporting a failed attempt by local authorities to remove bells in a village of Chernaia Zavod of Yaroslavskaia oblast and blaming the local authorities for the incident, with J. Stalin's handwritten note to Malenkov, directing that he look into the situation and report the results, 1938 September

Opis 49, Reel 1.1006, File 25

Report to J. Stalin from G. Malenkov, Chief of the TsK VKP(b) Department of Leading Party Organs, on the incident in the village of Chernaia Zavod confirming Beria's conclusions (see file 24 of this opis), with a cover letter to A. Poskrebyshev [Stalin's secretary]; resolution of the VKP(b) Committee of Yaroslavskaia oblast (obkom) canceling the previous resolution of the executive committee of the oblast re the procedure for bronze bell procurement, making those guilty accountable to the party and law and specifying NKVD measures to "remove hostile elements" responsible for resistance to the bell confiscation, 1938 October

 

Opis 50

Opis 50, Reel 1.1006, File 1

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo directing that the Ministry of Finance (A. Kosygin) provide 500,000 Japanese yen to F. Kuznetsov, Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Information of the USSR Council of Ministers, for special purposes, 1948 November

Opis 50, Reel 1.1006, File 2

Memorandum to J. Stalin from V. Grigorian, Chairman of the Foreign Political Commission of the TsK VKP(b), re a request of Nosaka, member of the Politburo of the Japanese Communist Party (JCP), for financial assistance to the JCP; draft response to Nosaka's request ciphered by the Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), 1949 November

Opis 50, Reel 1.1006, File 3

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a request of the Japanese Communist Party for financial assistance, directing that the Ministry of Finance provide $100,000 to V. Grigorian, Chairman of the Foreign Political Commission of the TsK VKP(b), for special purposes, and putting the Committee for Information (V. Zorin) in charge of the money transfer, 1951 June

Opis 50, Reel 1.1006, File 4

Memorandum to J. Stalin from V. Zorin, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, re a successful secret transfer of $100,000 received from Chinese friends to a representative of the Japanese Communist Party, 1951 September

Opis 50, Reel 1.1006, File 5

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a request of the Japanese Communist Party for financial assistance in 1952 and directing that $300,000 be withdrawn from the account of the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions and transferred to the Japanese Communist Party via Ministry of State Security (MGB) channels, 1952 February

Opis 50, Reel 1.1006, File 6

Receipt (translated into Russian) for $100,000 received by Omura (Japanese Communist Party) from a representative [of the USSR]; original receipt (in Japanese), 1952 September

Opis 50, Reel 1.1006, File 7

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from the Peking Bureau of the Central Committee of the Japanese Communist Party requesting $300,000 (in addition to $200,000 transferred by the KPSS in December 1954) and the dispatch of five or six interpreters with good knowledge of the Japanese language and of the essentials of Marxism-Leninism, and of Comrade I. Kalinin (to help with the work of a political school and of the Voice of Free Japan radio station); original memorandum (in Japanese), 1955 January

Opis 50, Reel 1.1006, File 8

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party confirming its agreement to transfer between $200,000 and $300,000 from the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations via Chinese channels; original memorandum (in Chinese), 1955 April

Opis 50, Reel 1.1006, File 9

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving a request of the Peking Bureau of the Central Committee of the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) for financial assistance in 1955 and the transfer of $250,000 to the JCP from the account of the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations under the Romanian Council of Trade Unions, directing that the money be transferred via the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CC CCP), and approving a letter to the CC CCP; the letter to the CC CCP from N. Khrushchev, Secretary of the TsK KPSS, 1955 April

Opis 50, Reel 1.1006, File 10

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving financial assistance to the Japanese Communist Party ($50,000) from the account of the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations, putting N. Fedorenko, Soviet Ambassador to Japan, in charge of the money transfer, and approving the text of a telegram to the Soviet ambassador to Japan, 1958 October

Opis 50, Reel 1.1006, File 11

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium acknowledging the expediency of providing the Japanese Communist Party with financial assistance ($50,000) in 1959 (to be paid from the account of the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations), and putting N. Fedorenko, Soviet Ambassador to Japan, in charge of the money transfer, 1959 September

Opis 50, Reel 1.1006, File 12

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium acknowledging the expediency of providing the Japanese Communist Party with financial assistance ($100,000) in 1960, putting the Committee for State Security (A. Shelepin) in charge of the money transfer, and directing that the JCP be informed that the assistance was provided by the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations, 1960 December

Opis 50, Reel 1.1006, File 13

Memorandum [to the TsK KPSS] from S. Nosaka, Chairman of the Japanese Communist Party (JCP), requesting financial assistance ($150,000 to $200,000) in 1962 for the JPC election campaign to the upper chamber of the parliament and for construction of buildings of the Central Committee and of the party school; the original memorandum (in Japanese), 1961 November

Opis 50, Reel 1.1006, File 14

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium acknowledging the expediency of providing the Japanese Communist Party with financial assistance ($150,000) in 1962, putting the KGB (V. Semichastnyi) in charge of the money transfer, and directing that the JCP be informed that the assistance was provided by the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations, 1961 December

Opis 50, Reel 1.1006, File 15

Brief handwritten note (unsigned) confirming the transfer of 28,785,000 yen to S. Nosaka, Chairman of the Japanese Communist Party, and the execution of the instruction to transfer to the JCP the full amount of 53,785,000 yen; original receipt (in English) for 28,785,000 yen signed by S. Nosaka, 1962 August-September

Opis 50, Reel 1.1006, File 16

Brief handwritten note (unsigned) confirming the transfer of 28,785,000 yen to S. Nosaka, Chairman of the Japanese Communist Party, and the execution of the instruction to transfer to the JCP the full amount of 53,785,000 yen; original receipt (in English) for 28,785,000 yen signed by S. Nosaka, 1962 August-September

Opis 50, Reel 1.1006, File 17

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium acknowledging the expediency of providing the Japanese Communist Party with financial assistance ($150,000) in 1963, putting the KGB (V. Semichastnyi) in charge of the money transfer, and directing that the JCP be informed that the assistance was provided by the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations, 1963 February

Opis 50, Reel 1.1006, File 18

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS (for the International Department) from V. Semichastnyi, Chairman of the KGB, stating that a KGB representative saw S. Hakamada, member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Japanese Communist Party (JCP), and delivered 17,928,280 yen to him, and that Hakamada requested that the same amount of money be delivered to the JCP in two months, 1963 May

Opis 50, Reel 1.1006, File 19

Memorandum to B. Ponomarev from A. Sakharovskii, Chairman of the 1st Main Directorate of the KGB, stating that a KGB representative saw S. Hakamada, member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Japanese Communist Party (JCP), and delivered 17,928,200 yen ($50,000) to him, and that Hakamada requested that the rest of the money be delivered to the JCP in September, 1963 June

 

Opis 51

Opis 51, Reel 1.1006, File 1

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Semichastnyi, Chairman of the Committee for State Security, re circulation of a large number of anonymous anti-Soviet documents (including those sent abroad to anti-Soviet radio stations and bourgeois newspapers) as compared with the first six months of 1961, 1962 July

Opis 51, Reel 1.1006, File 2

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving the proposals forwarded by the Committee for State Security (V. Semichastnyi) in the memorandum of December 26, 1962 (not included), 1963 February

Opis 51, Reel 1.1006, File 3

Memorandum to L. Brezhnev, General Secretary of the TsK KPSS, from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), re all aspects of work conducted by the KGB and its local organs in 1967 and re establishment of the 5th Directorate to oppose ideological actions of the enemy, 1968 May

Opis 51, Reel 1.1006, File 4

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re activity of KGB organs to stop state crime during six months of 1980; note from K. Bogomolov, dispatching the memorandum to Politburo members and to N. Savinkin, 1980 August

Opis 51, Reel 1.1006, File 5

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo re selection of KPSS, Soviet, and VLKSM (All-Union Young Communists League) workers to be trained to occupy leading positions in organs of the Committee for State Security (KGB); list of republics, krais, and oblasts that will in 1983 send KPSS, Soviet, and VLKSM workers (with the number of workers to be sent from each republic, krai, and oblast) to the two-year Course for Training Leading Specialists attached to the KGB Higher School, 1982 December

Opis 51, Reel 1.1006, File 6

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving proposals of the Committee for State Security (KGB) re selection of cadres for the KGB and directing that the TsK KPSS departments assist the KGB in 1986-1990 in selecting appropriate specialists for KGB organs; table of organizations, ministries, and departments from which the specialists for the KGB will be selected (with the number of workers to be sent by each organization, ministry, and department in every year), 1985 September

Opis 51, Reel 1.1006, File 7

Report to the TsK KPSS and M. Gorbachev from V. Chebrikov, Chairman of the KGB, on the work done by the Committee for State Security (KGB) in 1985, 1986 February

Opis 51, Reel 1.1006, File 8

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Chebrikov, Chairman of the KGB, re an all-union conference of the leading personnel of the KGB organs and KGB troops; greeting to the TsK KPSS from the participants in the conference; brief note transmitting the memorandum to the members and candidate members of the TsK KPSS Politburo and to the TsK KPSS secretaries, 1986 May-June

Opis 51, Reel 1.1006, File 9

Report to the TsK KPSS and M. Gorbachev from V. Chebrikov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), on the work done by the KGB in 1986, 1987 January

Opis 51, Reel 1.1006, File 10

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Chebrikov, Chairman of the KGB, summarizing KGB activity on the investigation of authors of anti-Soviet anonymous materials in 1986, 1987 February

Opis 51, Reel 1.1006, File 11

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Chebrikov, Chairman of the KGB, re measures to strengthen the security of the KPSS and government leaders, 1987 March

Opis 51, Reel 1.1006, File 12

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Chebrikov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), summarizing KGB activity on the prevention of terrorist actions on USSR territory, 1988 January

Opis 51, Reel 1.1006, File 13

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Chebrikov, Chairman of the KGB, summarizing KGB investigation of authors of anti-Soviet anonymous materials in 1985, 1986 March

Opis 51, Reel 1.1006, File 14

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving the appointment of General L. Shebarshin as Deputy Chairman of the KGB and Chief of the 1st Main Directorate of the KGB, 1989 February

Opis 51, Reel 1.1006, File 15

Report to the TsK KPSS and M. Gorbachev from V. Kriuchkov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), on the work done by the KGB in 1988, 1989 February

Opis 51, Reel 1.1006, File 16

Report to M. Gorbachev, Chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet, from V. Kriuchkov, Chairman of the KGB, on the work done by the Committee for State Security in 1989, 1990 February

Opis 51, Reel 1.1006, File 17

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo putting K. Voroshilov, L. Kaganovich, and L. P. Smirnov in charge of making a final decision on the play Beg (The Flight) by M. Bulgakov; political analyses of the play, 1929 January

Opis 51, Reel 1.1006, File 18

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving a proposal of the TsK KPSS Politburo commission not to stage the play Beg (The Flight) by M. Bulgakov; memorandum to the TsK KPSS Politburo and J. Stalin from K. Voroshilov stating that the members of the commission considered production of Beg inexpedient, 1929 January

Opis 51, Reel 1.1006, File 19

Protocol no. 3 of the meeting of an ad hoc group on problems related to the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, with a list of the members of the group and of those invited to the meeting, and with the following agenda: medical services to the accident victims, dispatch to Chernobyl of a second team from the Governmental Commission, press conference for foreign journalists, dispatch of Soviet journalists to the area affected by the accident, progress of decontamination in the areas neighboring the Chernobyl nuclear power station, refusal of Austrian workers and specialists employed in construction of a metallurgical plant in Gomelskaia oblast to continue their work, and press release for the Soviet press, 1986 May

Opis 51, Reel 1.1006, File 20

Protocol no. 8 of the meeting of an ad hoc group on problems related to the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, with a list of the members of the group (including M. Gorbachev) and of those invited to the meeting, and with the following agenda: radioactive situation in the European part of the USSR, treatment of accident victims, stay in the USSR of H. Blix, General Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), purchase of necessary materials and equipment abroad, situation at the Chernobyl nuclear power station, progress of decontamination there, and draft appeal to be issued by the TsK KPSS, the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet, the USSR Council of Ministers, and the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, 1986 May

Opis 51, Reel 1.1006, File 21

Protocol no. 9 of the meeting of an ad hoc group on problems related to the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, with a list of the members of the group and of those invited to the meeting, and with the following agenda: radioactive situation in the European part of the USSR, hospitalization and treatment of accident victims, progress of decontamination at the Chernobyl nuclear power station, television appearance of A. Vorobiev and IE. Gogin, TASS (Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union) report re limitation by foreign countries of imports of some Soviet goods, manufacture of chemical materials required for handling the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, progress of decontamination, the next governmental report, some proposals of Shcherbina (installation of a governmental high frequency communication line for each nuclear power station, measures to increase safety of operating nuclear power stations, etc.), 1986 May

Opis 51, Reel 1.1006, File 22

Protocol no. 10 of the meeting of an ad hoc group on problems related to the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, with a list of the members of the group and of those invited to the meeting, and with the following agenda: radioactive situation in the European part of the USSR, hospitalization and treatment of accident victims, progress of decontamination at the Chernobyl nuclear power station, design of the project for isolating the failed power block in the Chernobyl nuclear power station, measures for securing safety of power blocks 1, 2, and 3 of the Chernobyl nuclear power station and of other power stations, 1986 May

Opis 51, Reel 1.1006, File 23

Statement on the radioactive situation and radioactive contamination of the environment as a result of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, with a cover letter to N. Ryzhkov, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, from IU. Izrael, Chairman of the State Committee for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Control (Goskomgidromet), 1986 May

Opis 51, Reel 1.1006, File 24

Protocol no. 21 of the meeting of an ad hoc group on problems related to the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, with a list of the members of the group and of those invited to the meeting, and with the following agenda: measures taken by the Ministry of Power Engineering and Electrification, and the Ministry of Medium Machine Building to secure the safety of the operating nuclear stations and to avoid shortcomings in these projects, draft resolution of the TsK KPSS and the USSR Council of Ministers re measures to close down the facilities of theChernobyl nuclear power station affected by the accident on the Fourth power block and to prevent flow of contaminated water from the area, draft resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers and the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions re the salary and supplies for employees of enterprises, organizations, and institutions appointed to handle the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident and to protect the environment from contamination, draft directive of the USSR Council of Ministers re establishment of the Directorate for Constructions of the Ministry of Medium Machine Building; directives to participants in the next press conference for Soviet and foreign journalists; directives on press coverage of the main questions related to the Chernobyl nuclear accident and to the progress in handling the aftermath of the failure of the Fourth power block of the Chernobyl nuclear power station; report on radioactivity and on progress in handling the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident (materials prepared for the press conference), 1986 June

Opis 51, Reel 1.1006, File 25

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo directing that financial assistance be rendered via KGB channels to the Communist Party of Bolivia ($30,000), the Paraguayan Communist Party ($30,000), the National Liberation Front of Bolivia ($20,000), the Congress of Struggle for Independence of Madagascar ($8,000), the People's Democratic Party of Sudan (10,000 pounds sterling), and the National Congress of Sierra Leone (500 pounds sterling), 1966 June

Opis 51, Reel 1.1006, File 26

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo directing that financial assistance via KGB channels be rendered to the leader of the Marxist group of the National Revolutionary Movement of Congo (Brazzaville) ($5,000); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, reporting that the money was delivered to A. Numazalai(?), that he asked for more assistance ($100,000), and proposing, in the event that Numazalai's request was approved, to deliver the money gradually in order to avoid suspicion by the authorities; letter (translated into Russian) from Numazalai(?), 1968 January-February

Opis 51, Reel 1.1006, File 27

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo directing that financial assistance be rendered via KGB channels to the Spanish Communist Party ($120,000), the Communist Party of Denmark ($90,000), the Guatemalan Party of Labor ($65,000), the Lebanese Communist Party ($50,000), the Union of Peoples of Kenya ($50,000), the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola ($25,000), the Socialist Working People's Party of Nigeria ($45,000), and the National Congress of Sierra Leone (15,000 pound sterling), 1968 March

Opis 51, Reel 1.1006, File 28

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving a proposal of the International Department re establishment of the International Trade Union Trust for Assistance to Leftist Workers' Organizations for 1969 ($16,550,000), the KPSS contribution ($14,000,000), and the contribution of each participating party, and directing that the International Department inform the leaders of the participating parties of the 1968 expenditures, 1969 January

Opis 51, Reel 1.1006, File 29

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo re training new radio operators from the Italian Communist Party (ICP), re practical measures to organize ciphered radio communication between the ICP and the Committee for State Security (KGB), re free delivery by the KGB of five radio stations, two receiving devices, and special ciphering documents to support a secret communication line with the ICP, and re supply of one radio transmitter with two exciters and one amplifier to Bulgaria, 1970 August

Opis 51, Reel 1.1006, File 30

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re urgent underground delivery by the Committee for State Security (KGB) of weapons to the Progressive Party of the Working People of Cyprus (AKEL), at the request of E. Papaiannou, General Secretary of the AKEL, 1974 July

Opis 51, Reel 1.1006, File 31

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo re supply of weapons to Syria at the request of the Lebanese Communist Party (LCP) and upon the approval of Syrian partners; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Lebanon to pass on to the General Secretary of the LCP information re the weapons to be supplied to the LCP; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Syria to transmit to H. Shehabi information about the weapons for Lebanon to be delivered to Syria, 1975 October

Opis 51, Reel 1.1006, File 32

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov re exchange with North Vietnam of arms made in the USSR for captured arms made in capitalist countries, 1975 December

Opis 51, Reel 1.1006, File 33

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo directing that the Ministry of Foreign Trade sell to the Italian company Interexpo unrefined oil and diesel fuel on favorable terms so that the company can make a profit of $4,000,000 from the deal, 1983 January

Opis 51, Reel 1.1006, File 34

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving instructions to the Soviet ambassador to North Vietnam, approving a one-time financial gift of $2,000 to General Kong Le (Laos); the instructions to the Soviet ambassador to North Vietnam to transmit to a representative of the Laotian Patriotic Front (NLHX) information about Kong Le's willingness to return to Laos and to lead the neutralists' armed forces; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev and A. Gromyko re Kong Le's proposals and re his request for financial assistance, 1968 January

 

Opis 52

Opis 52, Reel 1.1006, File 1

Eleven lists of positions in the area of education included in the nomenklatura of the Department of Registration and Appointments of the TsK VKP(b)(the Socialist Academy, the Institute of Red Professors, the Sverdlov University, the KUTV (Communist University of Workers of the East), the Communist University for National Minorities of the West, the Academy of Social Education(?), the editorial boards of newspapers and magazines, the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions, the People's Commissariat of Education (Narkompross) and its main committees, the Central Committee of Proletkult (Proletarian Culture), the higher educational institutions and "rabfaks" [workers' schools]), 1924 January-February

Opis 52, Reel 1.1006, File 2

Table of the availability of party cadres as of January 1, 1919, in gubernias and at the front, indicating the length of service, profession, education, and class status of the party members (with handwritten note by S. Uralov stating that the work had been done by him at the request of IA. Sverdlov, that the amendments with red ink were done by Sverdlov, and that Sverdlov could not use the table because of his death), 1919 January

Opis 52, Reel 1.1006, File 3

List of leading positions in party, Soviet, trade union, and cooperative apparatuses subject to registration by party organs (according to the resolution of the All-Russian Conference of the heads of registration departments on February 9-11, 1923); list of positions in the districts subject to registration; cover letter from the Central Party Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninizm of September 1985, 1923 February

Opis 52, Reel 1.1006, File 4

Holograph note to I. Piatnitskii from B. Kantorovich, Administrator of the Administration of Affairs of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs (NKID), re transfer (at the request of G. Chicherin and L. Karakhan) of valuables withdrawn from the People's Bank to E. Shelepina, wife of A. Ransome (both left for Great Britain); receipt for six packages of diamonds, and one package of pearls (total price 1,039,000 rubles) received by B. Kantorovich for the NKID; Shelepina's receipt for diamonds and pearls, 1922 October

Opis 52, Reel 1.1006, File 5

Document on transfer of precious silver, gold, and metal ware from Gokhran (state holdings) to a representative of the Comintern (Communist International), 1922 April

Opis 52, Reel 1.1006, File 6

List of valuables and currency transferred in 1919-1920 to representatives of communist and leftist movements of Europe and America via the Comintern (Communist International) compiled on the basis of receipts kept in the archives of Comrade Krumin (or before), 1920 June

 

Opis 53

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 1

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo re information delivered by V. Dolgikh about the Chernobyl nuclear accident, measures to address the aftermath of the accident, and measures to provide jobs, food, and shelter to the population evacuated from the Chernobyl zone, re analyses of the causes of the accident and of measures to prevent accidents at the currently operating nuclear stations, and re media reports; press release prepared by the USSR Council of Ministers for the media, 1986 April

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 2

Resolution of the TsK KPSS on the measures to address the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident: establishing an ad hoc group, appointing its members, and setting goals, submitting information to the Soviet public, leaders of fraternal parties, and the governments of European countries, the United States, and Canada; press release for the Soviet press issued by the USSR Council of Ministers; instructions to the Soviet ambassadors to socialist countries re information to be released to the leaders of fraternal parties; brief note to TASS (Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union) from A. Lukianov re the dates for release of the report on the accident to television and the press, 1986 April

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 3

Resolution of the TsK KPSS on the progress in addressing the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident and on measures to increase the effectiveness of the process; text of an oral message to M. Gorbachev, General Secretary of the TsK KPSS, from President R. Reagan; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Shevardnadze, Minister of Foreign Affairs, re reaction of foreign countries to the Chernobyl nuclear accident, their inquiries, and proposals for assistance; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Chebrikov, Chairman of the KGB, re reaction to the accident of foreign diplomats in Moscow; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Shevardnadze, re reaction of foreign leadership, the public, and the media to the Chernobyl nuclear accident, possible claims for indemnity, fear of foreign countries to continue trading with the Soviet Union, criticism of the Soviet regime in the foreign press, etc., and re Shevardnadze's proposals for measures to improve the situation, 1986 April-May

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 4

Letter (translated into Russian) to M. Gorbachev, General Secretary of the TsK KPSS, from B. Craxi, President of Italy, with expression of sympathy and proposal for assistance; original letter (in Italian), 1986 May

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 5

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Ryzhkov, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, re voluntary donation of money offered by the Soviet public as assistance in addressing the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, 1986 May

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 6

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Gubarev, Editor for the Department of Science of Pravda (Truth) newspaper, re his trip to Chernobyl on May 4-9, 1986, and his criticism of insufficient protection of the population from radioactivity, 1986 May

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 7

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Shevardnadze, Minister of Foreign Affairs, re the proposal of A. Hammer (American businessman) to organize a visit to the USSR of M. Culler,President of the Electric Power Research Institute, who would assist Soviet scholars in evaluating the Chernobyl accident and investigating its causes, and re Hammer's request that M. Gorbachev meet Dr. R. Gale (American physician) and his colleagues for a short conversation and that Gorbachev attend the opening of Hammer's art show in Moscow; original letter (in English) to M. Gorbachev from A. Hammer, 1986 May

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 8

Resolution of the TsK KPSS on problems related to the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, 1986 June

Scope and Contents note

See also opis51, file 24.
Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 9

Resolution of the TsK KPSS on a response to a proposal from Israel; voting record of Politburo members; IE. Ligachev's brief note sending documents to Politburo members for their vote; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Shevardnadze suggesting that the Soviet government reject the Israeli proposal to send specialists in bone marrow transplants; letter (translated into Russian) to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from the Dutch Embassy in the Soviet Union transmitting a message to the Chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet from Israeli President C. Herzog, 1986 May-June

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 10

Draft resolution of the TsK KPSS approving a draft resolution of the TsK KPSS and the USSR Council of Ministers on the procedure for compensating the population evacuated from the Chernobyl zone; list of localities from which the evacuated population is eligible for compensation; brief note sending the joint draft resolution to the TsK KPSS secretaries and Politburo members; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Ryzhkov, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers; distribution list, 1986 June

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 11

Voting record of Politburo members on a press release re investigation of the mistakes that caused the Chernobyl nuclear accident; brief note from A. Lukianov sending the press release to Politburo members; the draft press release, with handwritten amendments, 1986 July

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 12

Resolution of the TsK KPSS on the results of investigation of the mistakes that caused the Chernobyl nuclear accident, on measures to address the aftermath of the accident, and on the safety of the atomic power industry, with a cover letter from an ad hoc group (N. Ryzhkov, IE. Ligachev, V. Vorotnikov, V. Chebrikov, V. Dolgikh, S. L. Sokolov, and A. V. Vlasov); voting record of Politburo members, 1986 July

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 13

Resolution of the TsK KPSS approving a draft resolution of the TsK KPSS and the USSR Council of Ministers on measures to provide jobs, housing, social services, and damage compensation to the population evacuated because of the Chernobyl nuclear accident; the draft resolution of the TsK KPSS and the USSR Council of Ministers; list of localities from which the population would be eligible for evacuation in August-September 1986; list of localities from which the population had already been evacuated (the zone with a radiation level of 5-20 mr per hour as of May 10, 1986); table of capital investments to be appropriated to the Council of Ministers of the Ukraine and the Council of Ministers of Belorussia and to be spent on building new homes, fixing old ones, and building new cultural and social establishments, shopping centers, and public utilities for the population evacuated from the Chernobyl zone; list of materials, automobiles, and equipment transferred to the disposal of the Council of Ministers of the Ukraine and the Council of Ministers of Belorussia to provide housing and cultural and social services to the population evacuated from the Chernobyl zone; brief instruction transmitting the documents to Politburo members; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Ryzhkov, 1986 August

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 14

Resolution of the TsK KPSS approving a resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers on measures to improve economic conditions of the population in localities where supplies of local agricultural products are limited because of the Chernobyl nuclear accident; the resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers; list of localities that are subject to limitation in the consumption of local food and of products from private plots, 1986 August

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 15

Resolution of the TsK KPSS on USSR participation in a special conference and in the 30th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and in the sessions of IAEA managers, with a distribution list; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Shevardnadze, V. Dolgikh, S. L. Sokolov, and L. Riabev, submitting a Program for Establishment of International Safety Measures in the Development of Nuclear Power Engineering to be presented at the special session of the IAEA General Conference (incomplete); the program, with handwritten amendments, 1986 September

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 16

Two identical voting records of Politburo members; two identical resolutions of the TsK KPSS re signing by the Ukraine and Belorussia of the convention on prompt notification in the event of nuclear accidents and the convention on mutual assistance in the event of nuclear accidents; Ligachev's brief note transmitting the resolution to Politburo members; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Dolgikh, A. Kovalev, and L. Riabev, 1986 September

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 17

Voting record of Politburo members; two identical resolutions of the TsK KPSS on awarding the Hero of the Soviet Union title to Major L. Teliatnikov, Lieutenant V. Kibenok, and Lieutenant V. Pravik for their work in the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident; decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet re the award for L. Teliatnikov; decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet re the awards of V. Kibenok and V. Pravik; brief note transmitting the documents to Politburo members for voting; memorandum to the TsK KPSS (incomplete and unsigned); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shcherbitskii, Secretary of the CentralCommittee of the Communist Party of the Ukraine, recommending state awards to firemen for exceptional performance extinguishing the fire at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, 1986 August-September

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 18

Resolution of the TsK KPSS on the implementation of the TsK KPSS resolution of July 14, 1986, On Results of the Investigation of the Course of the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, on Measures to be Taken to Handle the Aftermath of the Accident, and on Safety Measures in Nuclear Power Engineering ; brief note transmitting the resolution to Politburo members; distribution list for the resolution; list of KPSS and governmental authorities and organizations and of KPSS and governmental leaders the resolution should be sent to; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Dolgikh, V. Frolyshev, N. Shakhov, and V. Pimenov about the investigation of the Chernobyl nuclear accident; distribution list for the memorandum, 1986 September-October

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 19

Resolution of the TsK KPSS approving a resolution of the TsK KPSS and the USSR Council of Ministers on the construction of a new city for permanent residence of the personnel of the Chernobyl nuclear plant; the resolution of the TsK KPSS and the USSR Council of Ministers; Ligachev's brief note requesting that the resolution be transmitted to Politburo members and candidate members and TsK KPSS secretaries; distribution list for the memorandum from IE. Ligachev, G. Aliev, V. Dolgikh, and IU. Batalin, for the draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, and for the resolution of the TsK KPSS and the USSR Council of Ministers (with attachments); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IE. Ligachev, G. Aliev, V. Dolgikh, and IU. Batalin, 1986 September-October

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 20

Resolution of the TsK KPSS on the results of the conference on improvement in safety of nuclear power engineering held by the countries participating in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Ligachev's brief note requesting that the resolution be transmitted to Politburo members and candidate members and TsK KPSS secretaries; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IE. Ligachev and V. Dolgikh re participation of the Soviet delegation in the conference; distribution list for the draft resolution of the TsK KPSS and for the memorandum; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Legasov summarizing the information submitted by ministries and state committees to the conference of IAEA experts on the Chernobyl nuclear accident; brief note requesting that Legasov's memorandum be transmitted to Politburo members and candidate members and to TsK KPSS secretaries; distribution list for Legasov's memorandum; brief handwritten note to I. Yastrebov, 1986 September-October

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 21

Resolution of the TsK KPSS on a letter to the TsK KPSS from a group of people involved in the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, denouncing the government for poor medical treatment and insufficient financial and social support to the victims of the Chernobyl nuclear accidentthe letter to V. Afanasiev, Editor in Chief of Pravda (Truth) newspaper and a member of the TsK KPSS, from people who participated in extinguishing the fire at the Chernobyl nuclear plant and suffer from leukemia, 1986 October

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 22

Resolution of the TsK KPSS directing that the Ukraine and Belorussia ratify the convention on prompt notification in the event of nuclear accidents and the convention on mutual assistance in the event of nuclear or radioactive accidents; voting record of the TsK KPSS Politburo members; brief instruction to transmit the resolution to Politburo members; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Shevardnadze, V. Dolgikh, and L. Riabev, 1986 November-December

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 23

Resolution of the TsK KPSS on progress in addressing the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident; voting record of Politburo members; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from an ad hoc group re the situation at the Chernobyl nuclear plant; brief note transmitting the resolution to Politburo members for voting; distribution list for the resolution, the memorandum, and the text of a press release (not included); list of KPSS and governmental organizations and officials the documents should be sent to; two pictures of the Chernobyl nuclear plant and of the city of Pripiat(?), 1986 December

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 24

Resolution of the TsK KPSS approving a directive of the USSR Council of Ministers re appropriations from the reserve of the USSR Council of Ministers to cover expenditures in the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident; voting record of Politburo members; the directive of the USSR Council of Ministers; brief note transmitting the document to Politburo members; eleven memoranda to the TsK KPSS from N. Ryzhkov (differently formatted, each with a vote of one Politburo member), 1986 December

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 25

Two identical voting records of Politburo members; resolution of the TsK KPSS approving a memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Shevardnadze, V. Dolgikh, L. Riabev, N. Lukonin, and V. Malyshev re proposal from H. Blix, Director of the IAEA, that the USSR invite a group of international experts in safety measures in nuclear power plants; brief note sending documents to Politburo members; said memorandum to the TsK KPSS from Shevardnadze, Dolgikh, Riabev, Lukonin, and Malyshev; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Austria requesting that he inform H. Blix that the Soviet authorities are considering his proposal; eight copies of the first page of the said memorandum (each with a vote of one Politburo member), 1986 December

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 26

Resolution of the TsK KPSS on progress in addressing the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident and on safety measures in power engineering; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Ryzhkov and V. Dolgikh; brief note transmitting the documents to Politburo members and candidate members and to TsK KPSS secretaries, 1987 March-April

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 27

Resolution of the TsK KPSS approving a list of propaganda measures to commemorate the first anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident; the list of measures, with handwritten corrections; two identical memoranda (one with holograph signatures of several Politburo members) to the ad hoc group from I. Yastrebov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Heavy Industry and Power Engineering, and IU. Skliarov, Chief of the Propaganda Department, submitting the list of measures; three brief holograph notes from Politburo members; cover letter to the TsK KPSS from B. Shcherbina submitting the list of propaganda measures in commemoration of the first anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident; the list of propaganda measures; list of press publications, radio and television broadcasts, and TASS (Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union) materials about measures taken in the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident, about safety measures in nuclear power engineering, and about Soviet international initiatives aimed at freeing the world from nuclear weapons; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Kravchenko, First Deputy Chief of the USSR State Committee for Radio and Television (Gosteleradio), submitting proposals of Gosteleradio on the propaganda campaign related to the anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, 1987 March-April

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 28

Resolution of the TsK KPSS on the development of nuclear power plants and nuclear safety measures; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Ryzhkov submitting the draft resolution of the TsK KPSS and the USSR Council of Ministers On Further Improvement in Design and Construction of Nuclear Power Plants, 1987 April-May

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 29

Appeal to M. Gorbachev from a group of Ukrainian intelligentsia expressing their concern over the Ukrainian environment because of the high concentration of nuclear power plants in the Ukraine and their protest against building new nuclear power stations or adding power blocks to existing stations, 1988 November

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 30

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), re violations of design and technological standards during the construction of the Chernobyl nuclear plant and installation of equipment there; brief handwritten note; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from P. Falaleev, Deputy Minister of Power Engineering and Electrification (Minenergo), summarizing the results of the investigation of design and technological standards violations at the construction site of the Chernobyl nuclear plant; directives to related organizations from Minenergo on improvement in the quality of construction and installation and on fire safety improvement at nuclear power plants; statement on the investigation of the quality of construction and installation of the first section of the Chernobyl nuclear plant signed by the members of an ad hoc commission; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Frolov, Chief of the Machine-Building Department, re shortcomingsin the construction of the Chernobyl nuclear plant, 1979 February-March

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 31

Resolution of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Ukraine re a recommendation for awards to workers for exceptional performance during construction of the first section of the Chernobyl nuclear plant; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Volskii, Deputy Chief of the Machine-Building Department, 1980 March 1980 May

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 32

Urgent report to the TsK KPSS from N. Neporozhnyi, Minister of Power Engineering and Electrification, on a fire at the construction site of block no. 3 of the Chernobyl nuclear plant, 1981 September

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 33

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on the greetings from the TsK KPSS and the USSR Council of Ministers to construction workers, installers, operators, designers, machine builders, and all other participants in the construction of the Fourth block of the Chernobyl nuclear plant, and on a recommendation to award orders and medals to the most distinguished workers; first page of the same resolution; the greetings, with handwritten amendments; copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat authorizing to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Ukraine and the Ministry of Power Engineering and Electrification to recommend awards to the most distinguished workers, 1984 March

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 34

Resolution of the TsK KPSS on serious problems re housing and living conditions of workers evacuated from the Chernobyl nuclear plant to the Zaporozhie nuclear plant (city of Energodar), with handwritten amendments; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IE. Razumov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Organizational and Party Work, and I. Yastrebov, Chief of the Department of Heavy Industry and Power Engineering; brief memorandum to IE. Razumov and N. Strela from G. Razumovskii putting them in charge of investigation of petitions from workers residing in the city of Energodar; Ligachev's brief holograph; petition to the USSR Supreme Soviet from former workers of the Chernobyl nuclear plant evacuated to Energodar filing complaints against city authorities, with cover letters from A. Gromyko to the TsK KPSS and to M. Gorbachev; Lukianov's brief holograph note reporting on measures concerning the petition, 1986 June

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 35

Statement on the summary of extraordinary incidents of April 21-27, 1986, sent to the TsK KPSS by the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, undaated

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 36

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Izrael, Chairman of the State Committee for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Control (Goskomgidromet), re the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident; map depicting the level of radioactive contamination of the Chernobyl area measured at a heightof 200 meters on April 27, 1986, between 12:30 and 2:30 p.m., 1986 April

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 37

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Vlasov, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department, submitting analyses of letters sent to M. Gorbachev by foreign citizens in connection with the Chernobyl nuclear accident; excerpts from telegrams addressed to M. Gorbachev, 1986 May

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 38

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on serious shortcomings in health care, medical treatment, and financial and social services rendered to workers of a number of ministries who were victims of the Chernobyl nuclear accident and its aftermath (with handwritten annotations); identical first page of the resolution; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs, I. Yastrebov, Chief of the Department of Heavy Industry and Power Engineering, and K. Mogilnichenko, Deputy Chief of the Department of Organizational and Party Work; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from an ad hoc commission that investigated the problems brought up in the letter of a group of workers who participated in recovery from the Chernobyl nuclear accident; two brief notes of Ligachev, 1986 November-December

Scope and Contents note

See also file 21 of this opis.
Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 39

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Grigoriev, Deputy Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions, requesting approval of a proposal from the Ministry of Health on the inexpediency of dispatching Soviet specialists to the international conference on the Chernobyl nuclear accident to be held on July 8, 1986, in Los Angeles; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Burenkov, Minister of Health, 1986 July

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 40

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Skliarov, Chief of the Propaganda Department, re a press conference for Soviet and foreign journalists on assistance given to the population of Kievskaia and Gomelskaia oblasts, 1986 August

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 41

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Batalin re progress in recovery of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, 1986 September

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 42

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS (Department of Heavy Industry and Power Engineering) from E. Sizenko, First Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Agricultural Industry (Gosagroprom) and Minister, re utilization of agricultural products from the area affected by radioactive contamination, 1986 September

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 43

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. V. Vlasov, Minister of Internal Affairs, re measures to strengthen law and order and to maintain routine in the area of the Chernobyl nuclear plant, 1986 October

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 44

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from M. Kovalev, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Belorussia, re jobs, housing, andsocial and everyday services for the population evacuated from Gomelskaia oblast, 1986 October

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 45

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Chebrikov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), re utilization of various Western systems for protecting water resources from radioactive contamination, 1986 October

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 46

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Izrael, Chairman of the State Committee for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Control (Goskomgidromet), denouncing publications and broadcasts criticizing the Ministry of Health and related ministries for insufficient protection of the population from radioactivity; two handwritten notes (from A. N. Yakovlev to IU. Skliarov and to Yakovlev from V. Dolgikh), 1986 October

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 47

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Sizenko, First Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Agricultural Industry (Gosagroprom) and Minister, re decontamination and use of agricultural products produced in the area affected by radioactive contamination; brief statement from V. Onisovets, Deputy Chief of the Department of Agriculture and Food Industry, confirming familiarity of the department with the information, 1986 November-December

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 48

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Sidorenko, First Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Safety in the Atomic Power Industry, re implementing the resolution of the TsK KPSS of July 14, 1986, 1986 November

Scope and Contents note

See also file 18 of this opis.
Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 49

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS (Department of Defense Industry) from V. Bukatov re progress in implementing the TsK KPSS resolution of July 14, 1986; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from the Minister of Medium Machine Building re improving safety of nuclear plants and re recovery from the Chernobyl nuclear accident (incomplete, first page only), 1986 November

Scope and Contents note

See also file 18 of this opis.
Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 50

Memorandum to V. Dolgikh, Secretary of the TsK KPSS, from Marshal S. Akhromeev, re work done by troops in recovery from the Chernobyl nuclear accident; brief holograph note from Dolgikh to I. Yastrebov, 1986 December

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 51

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Liashko, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukraine, re progress in implementing the TsK KPSS resolution of July 14, 1986, 1986 December

Scope and Contents note

See also file 18 of this opis.
Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 52

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Yastrebov, Chief of the Department of Heavy Industry and Power Engineering, A. Volskii, Chief of the Machine-Building Department, and O. Beliakov, Chief of the Defense Department, re progress in implementing the TsK KPSS resolution of July 14, 1986, 1986 November

Scope and Contents note

See also file 18 of this opis.
Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 53

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on a plan for pre-emptive counterpropaganda actions in connection with the first anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Skliarov, Chief of the Propaganda Department, and I. Yastrebov, Chief of the Department of Heavy Industry and Power Engineering; list (continuation) of the officials the resolution should be sent to; A. N. Yakovlev's brief note transmitting the material to A. I. Vlasov; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Falin, Chairman of the Board of the News Publishing Agency (Agenstvo pechati Novosti - APN), with his speculations re actions of foreign states in connection with the anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, 1987 January-March

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 54

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Liashko, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukraine, re progress in implementing the TsK KPSS resolution of July 14, 1986 (see file 18); V. Dolgikh's brief instructions dispatching the material to I. Yastrebov, 1986 December - 1987 January

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 55

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS (IE. Ligachev) and N. Ryzhkov, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, from B. Shcherbina, Chairman of the Governmental Commission, denouncing the play Sarkofag (The Sarcophagus) by V. Gubarev; review of the play by Professors A. Guskova and IU. Grigoriev; brief instructions from IE. Ligachev, A. N. Yakovlev, N. Ryzhkov, and V. Legostaev; memorandum to the TsK KPSS (IE. Ligachev) and N. Ryzhkov from V. Gubarev; memorandum to IE. Ligachev, member of the Governmental Commission and Secretary of the TsK KPSS, from IE. Zaitsev and P. Slezko, 1986 November-December 1987 January

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 56

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Rekunkov, USSR Prosecutor General, re completion of the investigation of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, with a list of defendants, 1987 January

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 57

Memorandum to V. Dolgikh from B. Shcherbina, I. Yastrebov, and A. Kovalev submitting their proposals for handling telegrams from Stockholm, the Hague, and Bern, and draft instructions to Soviet ambassadors on possible requests from the foreign media to allow journalists to visit the Chernobyl zone; brief note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (A. Kovalev) from B. Batsanov, stating that the proposals were approved by N. Ryzhkov, V. Dolgikh, and A. N. Yakovlev; draft instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Switzerland requesting that he warn P. Feuz, Secretary of the European Nuclear Society, that the materials submitted to the IAEA General Conference were to be shown to specialists only; draft instructions to Soviet ambassadors in Greece, Switzerland, West Germany, Belgium, the United States, Austria, the Netherlands, Ireland, Denmark, Portugal, Great Britain, Spain, Norway, Canada, France, Italy, Sweden, Japan, and Finland re the inexpediency of trips by foreign journalists to the Chernobyl zone, 1987 February

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 58

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Terebilov, Chairman of the USSR Supreme Court, re the beginning of the criminal case against those blamed for the Chernobyl nuclear accident; brief note to N. Savinkin from A. Lukianov requesting that he prepare proposals on the issue, 1987 February

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 59

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Lukonin, Minister of Atomic Power Engineering, re counterpropaganda actions in anticipation of the first anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident; brief note by V. Kuznetsov, 1987 March-April

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 60

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Savinkin, IU. Skliarov, I. Yastrebov, V. Petrovskii, and G. Ageev re the procedure for and date and place of the trial of those accused in connection with the Chernobyl nuclear accident, the admission of Soviet and foreign correspondents to the courtroom, and the coverage of the trial by the Soviet media, 1987 April

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 61

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Yastrebov, Chief of the Department of Heavy Industry and Power Engineering, and O. Beliakov, Chief of the Department of Defense Industry, re work of the Ministry of Atomic Power Engineering and the Ministry of Medium Machine Building on securing operational safety of nuclear power plants as a result of implementing the TsK KPSS resolution of July 14, 1986, and on the investigation of the course of the Chernobyl nuclear accident; two brief notes from V. Dolgikh; Ligachev's handwritten note, 1987 May

Scope and Contents note

See also file 18 of this opis.
Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 62

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Yastrebov, Chief of the Department of Heavy Industry and Power Engineering, requesting that professionals with the participation of the Councils of Ministers of the RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, and Belorussian SSR coordinate their joint efforts in researching radioactivity in the Chernobyl area and develop recommendations for further recovery from the Chernobyl nuclear accident; memorandum to a group of professionals and top officials from V. Dolgikh and B. Shcherbina requesting that they urgently consider these issues; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Yastrebov re discussion of radioactivity situation and recovery from the Chernobyl nuclear accident at the meeting of an ad hoc group of the TsK KPSS Politburo, 1987 June-July

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 63

Brief instructions to D. Yazov and V. Govorov from A. Lukianov; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs, summarizing progress and criticizing shortcomings in recovery work from the Chernobyl nuclear accident by detachments and units of the Ministry of Defense, 1987 July

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 64

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Sadovskii, First Deputy Minister of Power Engineering and Electrification, reconstruction of social and cultural buildings and homes for permanent residence for employees of the Chernobyl nuclear plant; brief handwritten note from V. Dolgikh, 1987 July

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 65

Statement on radioactivity in Gomelskaia and Mogilevskaia oblasts of Belorussia in May-June 1987, with cover letter to the TsK KPSS from G. Sergeev, First Deputy Minister of Power Engineering and Electrification; brief note from V. Dolgikh, 1987 July

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 66

Statement signed by E. Sizenko, First Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Agricultural Industry (Gosagroprom), on progress in and prospects for decontamination and on agricultural activity of Gosagroprom in the area affected by the Chernobyl nuclear accident (with two tables), 1987 July

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 67

Report of V. Pikalov, Chief of Chemical Troops of the Ministry of Defense, at the meeting in the TsK KPSS on June 15, 1987, on radioactivity situation in the Chernobyl area and proposals re further operation of the Chernobyl nuclear plant, 1987 June

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 68

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from the Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine re analyses of the situation at the Chernobyl nuclear plant and conclusions made by the Academy of Sciences: inexpediency of returning the evacuated population to the Chernobyl zone, necessity of establishing a network of research fields and reserves in the Chernobyl zone, and necessity of launching a scientific and technical project to isolate the Fourth block and to work out a plan for further operation of the Chernobyl nuclear plant, 1987 June

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 69

Memorandum to V. Dolgikh, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Ukraine, re insufficient appropriation for capital investment, deficiency of material and technical supplies and human resources at the construction site of the city of Slavutich, which is being built for permanent residence for employees of the Chernobyl nuclear plant; brief instructions to B. Shcherbina, N. Lukonin, and A. Maiorets from V. Dolgikh, directing that they consider the problems presented in the said memorandum; brief handwritten note from V. Dolgikh to V. Frolyshev; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Shcherbina, Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, re his inspection of the situation at the construction site of Slavutich, 1987 August

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 70

Report to the TsK KPSS from A. V. Vlasov, Minister of Internal Affairs, re implementing the resolutions of the TsK KPSS and the USSR Council of Ministers of May 22, June 5, and August 22, 1986, on recovery from the Chernobyl nuclear accident, 1987 September

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 71

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Yevtukh, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Belorussia, re jobs, housing, and social services for the population evacuated from Gomelskaia oblast, 1987 October

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 72

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Vasiliev, Minister of Reclamation and Water Resources Management, re progress in implementing the TsK KPSS resolution of July 14, 1986, 1987 October

Scope and Contents note

See also file 18 of this opis.
Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 73

Memorandum to V. Dolgikh, Secretary of the TsK KPSS, from IU. Sedunov, First Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Control (Goskomgidromet), re investigation of the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident carried out by the Gosgidromet from September 1986 to September 1987, 1987 October

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 74

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Shcherbina, Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, re progress in carrying out the tasks assigned to ministries and departments and their subsidiaries in the resolution of the TsK KPSS of July 14, 1986, 1987 October

Scope and Contents note

See also file 18 of this opis.
Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 75

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IE. Chazov, Minister of Health, re medical aspects of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, 1987 November

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 76

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Izrael, Chairman of the State Committee for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Control (Goskomgidromet), re radioactivity resulting from the Chernobyl nuclear accident; map of the area affected by the Chernobyl nuclear accident, indicating radioactivity levels, 1987 December

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 77

Report to V. Dolgikh, Secretary of the TsK KPSS, from General P. Lushev, First Deputy Minister of Defense, on the response by troops of the Soviet Army to the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident in December 1987, 1987 December

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 78

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re talks about signing a Soviet-Austrian agreement on prompt notification in the event of nuclear accident and on the exchange of information about nuclear plants; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Yastrebov, Chief of the Department of Heavy Industry and Power Engineering, N. Luzhin, Deputy Chief of the Department of Defense Industry, and G. Kornienko, Deputy Chief of the International Department, supporting the proposal of related ministries to limit the information about Soviet nuclear plants to be revealed to Austria; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Shevardnadze (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), L. Riabev (Ministry of Medium Machine Building), and L. Voronin (Ministry of Atomic Power Engineering), submitting proposals on Soviet policy toward the talks, 1988 April

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 79

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Skliarov, Chief of the Propaganda Department, and IU. Voronov, Chief of the Department of Culture, requesting that the TsK KPSS authorize a proposal to erect a monument to all Chernobyl victims in the city of Pripiat (in addition to the memorial at the grave site of the Chernobyl accident victims buried at Mitinskoe cemetery in Moscow); distribution list; note about the design for a memorial monument to the Chernobyl victims in the Mitinskoe cemetery; note about the same monument stating that the monuments in the USSR could be erected only upon a resolution of the government; cover letter to the Propaganda Department (V. Zhitenev) from V. Kazenin, Deputy Minister of Culture, accompanying the said reference; brief instructions to IU. Skliarov and IU. Voronov from A. N. Yakovlev; letter to R. Gorbacheva [wife of the General Secretary of the TsK KPSS M. Gorbachev] from L. Kulish, resident of Grodnenskaia oblast, proposing to erect a memorial monument in the Chernobyl area; copy of an article from Moskovskii komsomolets (Moscow Komsomol Member) newspaper re a contest for the best design for the monument at Mitinskoe cemetery, 1988 July

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 80

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Frolyshev, Deputy Chief of the Department of Heavy Industry and Power Engineering, re moral and political situation at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, with the voting record of Politburo members, 1988 October

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 81

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Degtiarev, Deputy Chief of the Ideology Department, re publication in Novyi Mir (New World) magazine of the story Chernobyl Journal by GH. Medvedev, supported by Academician A. Sakharov and subject to approval by the Politburo (in consultation with B. Shcherbina, Chairman of the Bureau for Fuel and Power Complex), with a note from A. Degtiarev, Deputy Chief of the Ideology Department, stating that Academician Sakharov and the Bureau for Social Development of the USSR Council of Ministers were informed of the pending decision; brief handwritten note (signature illegible); brief handwritten note to A. Kapto from I. Smirnov; letter to M. Gorbachev, Chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet and General Secretary of the TsK KPSS, from Academician Sakharov supporting the publication and warning that if the story is not published he will make all possible efforts to familiarize the Soviet people with it, 1988 November - 1989 January-March

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 82

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from G. Revenko, Secretary of the Committee of the Communist Party of the Ukraine in Kievskaia oblast (obkom), re the failed attempt of participants in handling the recovery from the Chernobyl nuclear accident to establish an informal society to protect their rights, 1989 April

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 83

Memorandum to M. Gorbachev, General Secretary of the TsK KPSS, and N. Ryzhkov, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, from R. Aleksakhin, Acting Director of the All-Union Scientific-Research Institute of Agricultural Radiology (VNIISKhR), and B. Annenkov, Deputy Director of the VNIISKhR, re designing a state program for recovery from the Chernobyl nuclear accident to be carried out by the VNIISKhR, 1987 July

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 84

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Syroegina, Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Belorussia, submitting the resolution of the Supreme Soviet of Belorussia On a State Program for Handling the Aftermath of the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident in Belorussia and requesting that item 5 of the resolution be considered by the TsK KPSS; the resolution; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Voronin (Ministry of Atomic Power Engineering) re problems referred to in item 5 of the resolution, 1989 July 1989 September 1989 November

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 85

Telegram to M. Gorbachev, General Secretary of the TsK KPSS and Chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet, from V. Budko, Secretary of the Narodich Bureau (raikom) of the Communist Party of the Ukraine, denouncing the publication in Pravda (Truth) newspaper of an article re a meeting of the governmental commission on handling the Chernobyl nuclear accident; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Mariin, Deputy Chairman of the Governmental Commission for Handling the Aftermath of the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident (approved and signed by V. Mozhin, Deputy Chief of the Socio-Economic Department), re benefits to be provided to the population in the area affected by radioactive contamination and re the procedure for evacuating the population from the contaminated area and for reimbursing them for related expenses, 1989 October

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 86

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Babichev, Deputy Chief of the Department of Party Work and Cadres, and I. Zaramenskii, Deputy Chief of the Ideology Department, describing the unauthorized Chernobyl Way march and Chernobyl Tragedy and Election Law in Belorussia rally, names of those who were most active at the meeting, their speeches and goals, and counteractions taken by the authorities; brief instruction to TsK KPSS secretaries to familiarize themselves with the information, 1989 October

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 87

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Skiba, Chief of the Agricultural Department, re a radio broadcast about the use at the Yaroslavl meat-processing factory of meat contaminated with radioactive elements during the Chernobyl nuclear accident and about poultry meat that was delivered to Yaroslavl from Leningrad and rotted there; ten brief notes directing that TsK KPSS secretaries familiarize themselves with the material; brief handwritten note to V. Nikitin (USSR Council of Ministers) and I. Skiba from A. N. Yakovlev; excerpts from the radio broadcast; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Nikitin, 1989 October 1989 December

Opis 53, Reel 1.1007, File 88

Urgent message to the TsK KPSS from A. Makukhin, First Deputy Minister of Power Engineering and Electrification, about the explosion of the Fourth block of the Chernobyl nuclear plant, stating that there was no need for special help or for evacuation of the population, 1986 April 26

 

Opisi 54

Opis 54, Reel 1.1007, File 1

Cover letter to the TsK KPSS from I. Shcherbakov, Soviet Ambassador to North Vietnam, submitting a message from Le Duan, First Secretary of the Vietnam Workers' Party, and Pham Van Dong, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, and stating that the same message was sent to other socialist countries; the message expressing gratitude to the KPSS, Soviet government, and Soviet people for their support in the struggle of Vietnam against the United States, 1970 December - 1971 January

Opis 54, Reel 1.1007, File 2

Statement (translated into Russian) of the government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam re the escalation of war and the expansion of US aggression in Laos, 1971 February

Opis 54, Reel 1.1007, File 3

Memorandum of a conversation between I. Shcherbakov, Soviet Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV), and Hoang Van Tien, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the DRV, re the current situation in Indochina, 1971 February 2

Opis 54, Reel 1.1007, File 4

Memorandum of a conversation between V. Vdovin, Deputy Chief of the Department of South East Asia of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Vo Tuang, Counselor and Envoy of the DRV Embassy in the Soviet Union, re information on the current situation in Indochina, 1971 February 24

Opis 54, Reel 1.1007, File 5

Memorandum of a conversation between V. Vdovin, Deputy Chief of the Department for South East Asia of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Vo Tuang, Counselor and Envoy of the DRV Embassy in the Soviet Union, re participation of the delegation from the Vietnam Workers' Party in the 14th Congress of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and visit of Le Thanh Nghi, Deputy Prime Minister of the DRV, to Moscow on his way from Prague to Vietnam and re his concerns that the problems of American pilots brought down in Vietnam might be discussed at the conference of experts in international law and at the International Conference of Red Cross Societies to be held in Geneva in May, 1971 May

Opis 54, Reel 1.1007, File 6

Memorandum of a conversation between I. Shcherbakov, Soviet Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV), and Nguyen Co Thach, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the DRV, re a private meeting between Vietnamese representatives Le Duc Tho and Huan Thuy with H. Kissinger, US Secretary of State, changes in their policy toward the United States and South Vietnam, and support offered to the DRV by the world community and the Soviet Union, 1971 July

Opis 54, Reel 1.1007, File 7

Memorandum of a conversation between V. Zorin, Soviet Ambassador to France, and Xuang Thuy, leader of the Vietnamese delegation to the conference on Vietnam in Paris, re a secret meeting with Kissinger's representative (July 12, 1971), new DRV proposals on the settlement of the situation in Vietnam, secret meetings between H. Kissinger (US Secretary of State) and the DRV delegation, American policy toward Vietnam, and the position of the American delegation at the conference, 1971 July

Opis 54, Reel 1.1007, File 8

Report (translated into Russian) of Hoang Anh, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Workers' Party (CC VWP), presented at the Plenum of the CC VWP (end of December 1970 - beginning of January 1971) issued by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces, 1971

Opis 54, Reel 1.1007, File 9

Memorandum of a conversation between I. Shcherbakov, Soviet Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, and Pham Van Dong, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, re building of a mausoleum for Ho Chi Minh [deceased Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Workers' Party], preservation of Ho Chi Minh's body, and economic issues, 1971 February

Opis 54, Reel 1.1007, File 10

Political letter On the Policy of the Vietnam Workers' Party Toward the Settlement of Indochinese Problems and on the Goals Set by the Decisions of the Twenty-Fourth Congress of the KPSS sent to the leadership of the Vietnam Workers' Party by I. Shcherbakov, Soviet Ambassador to the DRV, 1971 May

Opis 54, Reel 1.1007, File 11

Memorandum of an official meeting between V. Zorin, Soviet Ambassador to France, and Vo Van Chung, leader of the delegation of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam to France, re American-Vietnamese relations, possible progress in French-Vietnamese relations, a visit of the Chinese delegation headed by Chou En-lai to Hanoi, and appreciation by the Vietnam Workers' Party of KPSS efforts in support of the struggle of the Vietnamese people, 1971 March

Opis 54, Reel 1.1007, File 12

Memorandum of a conversation between I. Shcherbakov, Soviet Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, and Nguyen Co Thach, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, re security measures to be taken by Vietnam and the Soviet Union to guarantee the safe visit of Pham Van Dong, Prime Minister of the DRV, to Cambodia, re appreciation of the support provided by the Soviet Union for Vietnam's position concerning American prisoners of war, and re the Vietnamese response to the proposal of the American businessman R. Perot to rebuild hospitals, temples, and schools destroyed as a result of bombing by American air forces in exchange for the return of American prisoners of war, 1970 January

Opis 54, Reel 1.1007, File 13

Memorandum of a conversation between I. Merkulov, Counselor at the Soviet Embassy in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV), and Ta Huy Chanh, Deputy Chief of the Department for the USSR and East European Countries of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the DRV, re permission given to families of American prisoners of war to send Christmas parcels (via the Moscow Main Post Office) and postcards (by mail or via the Committee for Connections with American Prisoners of War in North Vietnam located in New York), and re issues to be dealt with by the Society of Vietnamese-Soviet Friendship, 1970 November

Opis 54, Reel 1.1007, File 14

Report on a business trip taken by a delegation from the International Committee of Inquiry (G. Frank, Sweden, and Professor A. Poltorak, Soviet Union) to North Vietnam, July 16 - August 1, 1970, to investigate criminal actions of the United States in Indochina, with the following headings: (1) cooperation of Vietnamese organizations (from North and South Vietnam) with the ICI, (2) collection by the said delegation of evidence of the crimes committed by the United States in Vietnam, (3) consultations held by Professor A. Poltorak with Vietnamese investigative agencies, (4) members of the ICI, (5) procedure for the first ICI session, (6) joint memorandum of the lawyers from socialist countries, and (7) summary and proposals, 1970 August 1

Opis 54, Reel 1.1007, File 15

Record of a conversation between M. Isaev, Second Secretary of the Department for South East Asia of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Nguyen Van Quang, First Secretary of the Embassy of the DRV in the Soviet Union, re decisions adopted by the DRV government re American pilots taken prisoner in North Vietnam, 1970 November

Opis 54, Reel 1.1007, File 16

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from P. Ivashutin re a report presented by General Chang Van Quang, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army, at a meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Workers' Party, re possible cooperation with patriots from the Saigon authorities and army, 1972 November

Opis 54, Reel 1.1007, File 17

Statement on the International Commission for Observation and Control in Laos; statement on the situation in the regions of Laos under control of the Neo Lao Hak Xat (Laotian Patriotic Front) (both statements issued by the Department for South East Asia of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs), 1969 September

Opis 54, Reel 1.1007, File 18

Brief review of the international situation as of 9 a.m. September 1, 1969 (China, NATO, Federal Republic of Germany, and Italy, Northern Ireland, Middle East, Israel and Lebanon, Yemen, India and Nepal, Nigeria, Vietnam, and foreign intelligence satellites), sent to K. Rusakov (TsK KPSS) by P. Ivashutin (Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff), 1969 September

Opis 54, Reel 1.1007, File 19

Brief review of the international situation as of 9 a.m. August 15, 1969 (China, Czechoslovakia, Norway, Sweden, Greece, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) and Thailand, China and the DRV, and Kenya), dispatched to K. Rusakov by P. Ivashutin (Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff), 1969 August

Opis 54, Reel 1.1007, File 20

Brief review of the international situation as of 9 a.m. July 19, 1969 (China, Czechoslovakia, Federal Republic of Germany, NATO, Israel and Ethiopia, People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, Pakistan and China, Vietnam, China and Japan, the United States, and flight of Apollo-11), sent to K. Rusakov by P. Ivashutin (Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff), 1969 July

Opis 54, Reel 1.1007, File 21

Memorandum of a conversation between S. Divilkovskii, Counselor at the Soviet Embassy in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV), and Nguyen Phu Xoay(?), Acting Head of the Permanent Representatives of the National Front of Liberation (NFL) of South Vietnam in the DRV, re New Year's greetings from L. Brezhnev to Nguyen Huu Tho, Chairman of the NLFSV, re a student demonstration in Saigon demanding a cease-fire and negotiations with NLFSV, re the importance of the NLFSV being recognized by the United States, and re military actions taken by Saigon-American troops, 1968 December 1969 January

Opis 54, Reel 1.1007, File 22

Memorandum of a conversation between G. Cheshev, Second Secretary of the Soviet Embassy in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV), and W. Badura, First Secretary of the Polish Embassy in the DRV, re information provided by Dobrovolskii, Polish Ambassador in Saigon, about the American position toward a political settlement in Vietnam, about the Chinese colony in Cambodia, and about a failed attempt of the Catholic Church in South Vietnam to hold a "general national assembly", 1969 January

Opis 54, Reel 1.1007, File 23

Extract from document no. 38995 re 1,205 American prisoners of war captured in North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, their military ranks, living conditions, and the possibility of using this issue to maneuver the United States toward a policy favorable to North Vietnam, 1972 December 1

 

Opis 55

Opis 55, Reel 1.1008, File 1

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re problems brought up by the memorandum from the Committee for State Security (KGB) of December 21, 1970; the memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re circulation of underground (samizdat) political literature demonstrating political opposition to the KPSS and Soviet regime and establishment of a "democratic movement," cities where the forbidden literature is published and circulates on a large scale, names of the authors of the publications, and proposed measures to oppose their activity; brief instructions to TsK secretaries to familiarize themselves with Andropov's memorandum, 1970 December - 1971 January

Opis 55, Reel 1.1008, File 2

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re measures to oppose illegal circulation of anti-Soviet and other politically harmful materials, 1971 April

Opis 55, Reel 1.1008, File 3

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat referring to the Moscow City KPSS Committee problems brought up by a memorandum from the Committee for State Security (KGB); said memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re a court trial of N. Gorbanevskaia [poet and translator] charged with anti-Soviet activity, the behavior of Gorbanevskaia's friends at the court entrance, the policy of S. Kalistratova, Gorbanevskaia's defense attorney, and of other democratically minded attorneys participating in political trials; brief handwritten instruction directing that the Ministry of Justice investigate the defense attorneys mentioned in Andropov''s memorandum; brief instruction to TsK secretaries to familiarize themselves with the memorandum; brief note on absent TsK secretaries; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. IA. Pavlov, Secretary of the Moscow City KPSS Committee, re measures worked out by the Moscow City KPSS Committee to implement the resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re the problems brought up in Andropov's memorandum, 1970 July-August

Opis 55, Reel 1.1008, File 4

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re selection of 600 communists with secondary and higher education to serve as deputy chiefs of border guard units in the border guard troops of the KGB; order re the number of communists to be selected from republics, krais, and oblasts and to be assigned to military districts; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Savinkin, Deputy Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs, and N. Petrovichev, Deputy Chief of the Department of Organizational and Party Work, re selection of communists; brief instructions to Savinkin from D. Ustinov; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; two orders re the number of communists to be selected from republics, krais, and oblasts and to be assigned to military districts in response to the KPSS appeal; cover letter to the TsK KPSS from V. Chebrikov, Deputy Chairman of the KGB, submitting the orders, 1970 March-May

Opis 55, Reel 1.1008, File 5

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal from the VTsSPS (All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions) to assist financially the Bolivian Workers' Trade Union Center and directing that the Ministry of Finance add the amount of $5,000 to the foreign currency estimate of the VTsSPS; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Shelepin, Chairman of the VTsSPS Presidium, supported by R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department; two notes stating that the amount of $5,000 to be dispatched to the Bolivian Workers' Trade Union Center was approved by the USSR State Bank (Gosbank) and by the Ministry of Finance, 1968 April-May

Opis 55, Reel 1.1008, File 6

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal from the Institute of Marxism-Leninism to dispatch 5,000 pounds sterling for remodeling the Karl MarxMemorial House in London; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Great Britain stating that an appeal for financial assistance from English friends was approved; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IE. Chekharin, Deputy Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions, A. Beliakov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and G. Pavlov, Administrator of the Administration of TsK KPSS Affairs, re a request for financial assistance from A. Rothstein, director of the Karl Marx House museum; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from P. Fedoseev, Director of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism, 1967 May-July

Opis 55, Reel 1.1008, File 7

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re measures in anticipation of the All-Union Conference of Soviet Societies of Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries; statute of the Union of Soviet Societies of Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries; list of the number of representatives to be sent from union and autonomous republics, krais, oblasts, and cities to the conference; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev, Chief of the International Department, with the agenda and the total number of delegates to the conference; brief note to B. Ponomarev from M. Suslov; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Popova, Chairman of the Board of the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, with cover letter to the TsK KPSS from M. Suslov; draft statutes of the Union of Soviet Societies of Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, 1958 January-February

Opis 55, Reel 1.1008, File 8

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re trips abroad of specialized tourist groups recommended by the Union of Soviet Societies of Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries; cover letter to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, D. Shevliagin, and N. Popova, submitting the draft resolution of the TsK KPSS On Recommendations for Trips Abroad of Specialized Tourist Groups by the Union of Soviet Societies of Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (not included); memorandum to N. Popova, Chairwoman of the Union of Soviet Societies of Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, from S. Nikitin, Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Inturist (Foreign Tourist) All-Union Corporation, with cover letter to the TsK KPSS from V. Gorshkov, Deputy Chairman of the Union of Soviet Societies of Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, 1961 March and May

Opis 55, Reel 1.1008, File 9

Copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a request from the Communist Workers' Party of Sweden (CPS) for financial assistance to the Sweden-Soviet Union Society; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from D. Shevliagin, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and A. Legasov, Head of a Sector of the same department, supporting the request of the CPS for 100,000 Swedish kroner; memorandum (translated into Russian) to the TsK KPSS from H. Hagberg, Chairman of the CPS; original letter in Swedish, 1961 November 1962 January

Opis 55, Reel 1.1008, File 10

Copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving inclusion of the position of director of the House of Soviet Culture in Warsaw in the nomenklatura of the TsK KPSS Secretariat and approving the appointment of N. Sukhanov as director; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries, and A. Paniushkin, Chief of the Department of Cadres for Diplomatic and Foreign Trade Organs, recommending N. Sukhanov for the position, with Sukhanov's personal data; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Popova, Chairwoman of the Union of Soviet Societies of Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, recommending N. Sukhanov for the position; chart with Sukhanov's personal data; Sukhanov's note, signed by Boikova, Secretary of the Leningrad City KPSS Committee, 1962 March-May

Opis 55, Reel 1.1008, File 11

Copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal from the State Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries of the USSR Council of Ministers and from the USSR Ministry of Education re admitting fifty teachers from Yugoslav schools for a one-month Russian class (expenses to be paid from the RSFSR budget); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Kirillin, Chief of the Department of Science, Higher Educational Institutions, and Schools, and IE. Chetrazhi, Chief of the Department of Science, Higher Educational Institutions, and Schools of the TsK KPSS Bureau for the RSFSR; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Romanovskii, Chairman of the State Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries of the USSR Council of Ministers; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1962 July

Opis 55, Reel 1.1008, File 12

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re measures for ideological assistance to the Sudanese Union of the Republic of Mali party; draft resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers re delivery of "mobile clubs," films and documentaries, printing paper, and typeface to the Republic of Mali; two lists of typefaces (French) for a newspaper printing office to be delivered to Mali; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Ponomarev, Chief of the International Department, re request for political and ideological assistance from the Republic of Mali; directive of the USSR Council of Ministers; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Korionov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and A. N. Yakovlev, Deputy Chief of the Department of Propaganda and Agitation, re publishing another newspaper for Africa in the USSR; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Beliakov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and A. Yegorov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Propaganda and Agitation, re an increase in Soviet broadcasts to Asia, Africa, and Latin America; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Psurtsev, N. Mesiatsev, and S. Skachkov, with Psurtsev's handwritten notes re broadcasts to Africa. File is identical to file 29, opis46, 1965 February 1965 May 1965 October

Opis 55, Reel 1.1008, File 13

Copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat directing that the Party Control Committee investigate Colonel Litkens's violation of Soviet law; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Zolotukhin, Deputy Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs, and V. Tikunov, Head of a Sector of the same department, about violations of Soviet law by Colonel Litkens during his work in the state security organs in 1949-1953 and stating that Litkens has been fired from the organs of state security, 1955 August-September

Opis 55, Reel 1.1008, File 14

Copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat directing that the Party Control Committe investigate S. Galkin's violation of Soviet law; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Zolotukhin, Deputy Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs, and V. Tikunov, Head of a Sector of the same department, re use by Galkin of illegal methods during the trial of D. Lazurkina and S. Utkin (as it was claimed in Lazurkina's letter), stating that Galkin was demoted from his position of senior adviser of the KGB in Czechoslovakia; review of the materials of the trial of S. Utkin signed by Captain Bakhmutov, Senior Investigator of the Special Inspection of the KGB Personnel Directorate, Lieutenant-Colonel Sokolov, Chief of a Division of the Special Inspection of the KGB Personnel Directorate, and Colonel Sokolov, Chief of the Special Inspection of the KGB Personnel Directorate, approved by P. Grigoriev, Deputy Chairman of the KGB, with cover letter to the TsK KPSS from P.(?) Sokolov, Deputy Chief of the KGB Personnel Directorate; [Lazurkina's?] handwritten letter to N. Khrushchev, 1955 March 1955 May-June

Opis 55, Reel 1.1008, File 15

Copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat directing that the Party Control Committee investigate materials about flagrant violation of Soviet law by General N. Yermolaev; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Zolotukhin, Deputy Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs, re illegal actions of N. Yermolaev during his work as Chief of the Ministry of State Security (MGB) Directorate in 1951-1953, resulting in the arrest and expulsion from Leningrad of hundreds of innocent people, 1955 March-April

Opis 55, Reel 1.1008, File 16

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re establishment of the Lithuanian Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, 1955 December

Opis 55, Reel 1.1008, File 17

Copy of the extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re establishment of the Lithuanian Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Vinogradov, F. Konstantinov, and D. Polikarpov re proposal of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Lithuania to establish the Lithuanian Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, its goals, activity, and financing, and to publish Sovetskaia Litva (Soviet Lithuania) monthly magazine; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Snechkus, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Lithuania; staff charts for the Lithuanian Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries; staff structure for the editorial board of Sovetskaia Litva magazine, 1955 October 1955 December

Opis 55, Reel 1.1008, File 18

Copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re establishment of the position of representative of the VOKS (All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries - Vsesoiuznoe obshchestvo kulturnykh sviazei s zagranitsei) in Belgium and Luxembourg, and appointment of M. Sharov as the representative; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Vinogradov, Deputy Chief of the Department for Liaison with Foreign Communist Parties, and A. Legasov, head of a Sector of the International Department; chart with Sharov's personal data; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Denisov, Chairman of the VOKS Board, 1956 May-July

Opis 55, Reel 1.1008, File 19

Copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re financial assistance to the Austrian-Soviet Society; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium, 1956 December

Opis 55, Reel 1.1008, File 20

Copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re restructuring the activity of the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS); two brief handwritten notes re dispatch of materials, 1957 August

Opis 55, Reel 1.1008, File 21

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re restructuring the activity of the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries; two copies (one of them unsigned) of a memorandum to the TsK KPSS from O. Kuusinen, N. Popova, G. A. Zhukov, V. Moskovskii, IU. Andropov, and V. Tereshkin submitting the draft resolution of the TsK KPSS On Restructuring the Activity of the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries ; two memoranda (differently formatted) to the TsK KPSS from M. Suslov; three staff charts for the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, with handwritten amendments; brief handwritten note to M. Tupitsyn from V. Chernukha; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Tereshkin, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and B. Miroshnichenko, Deputy Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries; Suslov's brief note; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Popova, Chairman of the Board of the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations, with proposals to be implemented in anticipation of the Conference of Societies of Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS On Measures in Anticipation of the All-Union Conference of the Soviet Societies of Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries ; draft statute of the Union of Soviet Societies of Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, 1957 August-November

Opis 55, Reel 1.1008, File 22

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re restructuring the activity of republican societies for cultural relations with foreign countries; list of krais, oblasts, and republics in which divisions of societies for friendship and cultural relations with individual foreign countries are to be established; cover letter to the TsK KPSS from A. Shelepin, I. Vinogradov, V. Moshetov, and V. Gorshkov submitting an edited draft resolution of the TsK KPSS On Restructuring the Activity of Republican Societies for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, 1958 July

Opis 55, Reel 1.1008, File 23

Copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re financial assistance ("hard" currency equivalent to 114,000 rubles) to the France-USSR Society; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium, 1956 October

Opis 55, Reel 1.1008, File 24

Copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat putting the Ideology Commission of the TsK KPSS in charge of investigating problems related to the memorandum of the Committee for State Security (KGB); anonymous thesis Art and Policy confiscated by the KGB from IU. Gerasimov and submitted to the TsK KPSS, with cover letter to the thesis from V. Semichastnyi, Chairman of the KGB; brief handwritten note to A. Romanov from L. Ilichev requesting that strong measures be taken against those who prepared the thesis; brief note directing materials to the TsK KPSS secretaries; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Semichastnyi stating that the author of the thesis and friends who intended to establish a Communist Labor Union (underground student organization) were identified and reporting the measures that were taken by the KGB to stop the activity of the group; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Kuznetsov, Secretary of the Moscow City KPSS Committee (gorkom), re measures taken by officials of Moscow State University to punish the students who were involved in preparation of the thesis and who intended to establish the illegal organization, 1963 March-April 1963 June

Opis 55, Reel 1.1008, File 25

Copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving the proposals of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and of the KGB presented in the memorandum of April 14, 1962; the memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Gromyko and V. Semichastnyi proposing that a response to the pardon petition filed by the father of the American citizen McKinnon(?), sentenced to an eight-year prison term for espionage, be delayed in order to induce American authorities to influence Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) authorities to release an arrested staff member of the Soviet trade mission in the FRG; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1962 April-May

Opis 55, Reel 1.1008, File 26

Copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat directing that the Department of Administrative Organs and the Ministry of Internal Affairs investigate the allegations contained in a letter from A. Melikhanova and report the results to the TsK KPSS; the letter complaining of the poor treatment of inmates in the Krasnoiarsk correctional labor camp, the stirring up of inmates against one another, and violation of the law by the Orsk militia; private letter to A. Melikhanova from her son, V. Melikhanov; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Kidin and N. Dudorov presenting the results of the investigation of Melikhanova's claim; statement on the investigation of use of inmate labor, of the regime and conditions of the inmates in the Krasnoiarsk correctional labor camp, signed by Zakusin, Instructor of the Department of Administrative and Trade and Financial Organs of the TsK KPSS Bureau for the RSFSR; decree of General A. Senatov, Chief of the Directorate of Internal Affairs of the Krasnoiarsk Executive Committee of the Soviets of People's Deputies, with cover letter to G. Drozdov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Administrative and Trade and Financial Organs of the TsK KPSS Bureau for the RSFSR, from S. Shevchenko, Chief of the Political Department of the Main Directorate for Correctional Labor Institutions of the RSFSR Ministry of Internal Affairs; memorandum to A. Kidin, Chief of the Department of Administrative and Trade and Financial Organs of the TsK KPSS Bureau for the RSFSR, from A. Seluianov, Acting Prosecutor of Orenburgskaia oblast, re violation of socialist law in Orsk by the city militia; memorandum to V. Shurygin from N. Fateev, Prosecutor of Orenburgskaia oblast, re violation of Soviet law by the Orenburg militia, 1958 January 1958 October-December

Opis 55, Reel 1.1008, File 27

Copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat directing that the Party Control Committee investigate violations of socialist law by members of state security organs in Khabarovskii krai in 1941-1949, suggesting that the Committee for State Security (KGB) consider the dismissal from the KGB of those guilty of legal violations, and requesting that the Prosecutor General's Office speed up the investigation of cases related to the NKVD provocation establishment (the so-called "mill") in Khabarovskii krai; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Boitsov, Deputy Chairman of the Party Control Committee, and V. Zolotukhin, Deputy Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs, describing the provocative activity of the Khabarovsk Directorate of the NKVD-MGB (People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs - Ministry of State Security) in 1941-1949, which resulted in the arrest and sentencing to death of innocent people; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Zolotukhin and V. Tikunov, Head of a Sector of the Department of Administrative Organs, stating that the "mill" was approved by Serov, former Deputy People's Commissar of Internal Affairs, and that more than 1,000,000 rubles were spent on the construction and operation of the said "mill" 1956 September-October

Opis 55, Reel 1.1008, File 28

Copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat directing that N. Dudorov, Minister of Internal Affairs, investigate materials submitted by the Central Commission for Surveillance of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet re cases of those serving prison terms for political crimes, malfeasance, and economic offenses; statement on the observations made by the commissions of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet re work of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) organs; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Startsev, Deputy Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs, re measures taken by N. Dudorov to improve MVD work; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Dudorov, Minister of Internal Affairs, about measures to improve the work of correctional labor camps, reformatories, and prisons, 1956 August 1956 October-November

Opis 55, Reel 1.1008, File 29

Copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re financial assistance to trade union centers of Argentina, Bolivia, and Ceylon; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from D. Shevliagin, Deputy Chief of the International Department, suggesting to offer financial assistance to trade unions of Argentina, Bolivia, and Ceylon and to delay assistance to the trade union of Colombia because of its unstable situation; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Grishin, Chairman of the VTsSPS (All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions), suggesting to offer financial assistance to the trade union centers of Colombia, Argentina, and Bolivia; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from Grishin suggesting to offer financial assistance to the trade union center of Ceylon; note signed by Sharapov, Expert in the International Department, stating that financial assistance to the trade unions of Argentina and Colombia was never rendered, and that the Bolivian Workers' Trade Union Center was granted $10,000 in 1962, 1963 December - 1964 January

 

Opis 56

Opis 56, Reel 1.1008, File 1

Memorandum to the USSR Council of Ministers from M. Kovalev, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Belorussia, requesting expansion of the list of localities of Gomelskaia and Mogilevskaia oblasts in which the population was eligible for financial assistance owing to limited consumption of agricultural products produced in those localities, 1987 March

Opis 56, Reel 1.1008, File 2

List of measures related to problems connected with the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, with handwritten remarks, 1987 March

Opis 56, Reel 1.1008, File 3

Protocol No. 5 of a meeting of the Governmental Commission for recovery from the Chernobyl nuclear accident (with the list of members of the commission who participated in the meeting); list of work at the Chernobyl nuclear plant and in the neighboring area, signed by B. Shcherbina, Chairman of the Governmental Commission, 1987 April 8

Opis 56, Reel 1.1008, File 4

Resolution of a meeting of the Interdepartmental Commission for Radioactivity Control of the State Committee for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Control (Goskomgidromet), with the list of members and of those invited to the meeting, signed by IU. Izrael, Chairman of the Interdepartmental Commission, and N. Shusharina, Secretary of the commission, with the following agenda: (1) introduction of new members of the Interdepartmental Commission, (2) radioactivity and possible contamination of surface waters during a flood in Mogilevskaia oblast, (3) approval of a plan for precise determination of radioactivity in spring and summer of 1987, (4) program for evaluating and forecasting radioactivity in water resources, (5) discussion of the results of investigation of radioactivity in a five-kilometer zone around the Chernobyl nuclear plant, (6) approval of instructions for taking the samples to determine the radioactivity, (7) organization of scientific research in the area of the Chernobyl nuclear accident, 1987 March

Opis 56, Reel 1.1008, File 5

Memorandum to the USSR Council of Ministers from A. Liashko, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukraine, requesting the inclusion of additional inhabited localities of Kievskaia and Zhitomirskaia oblasts in the list of localities eligible for financial assistance owing to limited consumption of agricultural products produced in those localities, 1987 May

Opis 56, Reel 1.1008, File 6

Memorandum to the USSR Ministry of Health from V. Ulashchik, Minister of Health of Belorussia, re medical and preventive treatment of the population affected by the Chernobyl nuclear accident in Gomelskaia and Mogilevskaia oblasts, 1987 May

Opis 56, Reel 1.1008, File 7

Memorandum to IE. Chazov, USSR Minister of Health, from A. Romanenko, Minister of Health of the Ukraine, re medical and preventive treatment of the population affected by the Chernobyl nuclear accident in Kievskaia, Zhitomirskaia, and Chernigovskaia oblasts, 1987 May

Opis 56, Reel 1.1008, File 8

Report on radioactivity in Mogilevskaia and Gomelskaia oblasts of Belorussia, Brianskaia oblast of the RSFSR, Kievskaia oblast of the Ukraine (outside the evacuation zone), on the determination of radioactivity, and on proposals for proceeding; list of inhabited localities with a density of cesium-137 contamination close to or higher than 80 curies per square kilometer; list of inhabited localities with a density of cesium-137 contamination from 40 to 80 curies per square kilometer, 1987 July

Opis 56, Reel 1.1008, File 9

Memorandum to G. Sergeev, USSR Deputy Minister of Health, from V. Panov, Deputy Minister of Health of the RSFSR, re medical and preventive treatment of the population affected by the Chernobyl nuclear accident in Brianskaia, Tulskaia, Smolenskaia, Orlovskaia, and Kaluzhskaia oblasts, 1987 June

Opis 56, Reel 1.1008, File 10

Memorandum to IU. Chazov, USSR Minister of Health, from IU. Izrael, Chairman of the State Committee for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Control (Goskomgidromet), re radioactivity on USSR territory on June 15-20, 1987; map of the area affected by the Chernobyl nuclear accident, with indications of radioactivity levels, 1987 July

Opis 56, Reel 1.1008, File 11

Memorandum to the USSR Council of Ministers from M. Kovalev, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Belorussia, re new regulations for granting benefits and compensation to the population in the territory of Belorussia contaminated as a result of the Chernobyl nuclear accident; list of additional localities in Mogilevskaia and Gomelskaia oblasts of Belorussia to be included in the index of localities approved by resolution no. 1006-286 of the USSR Council of Ministers of August 22, 1986, as eligible for benefits and compensation; list of localities of these oblasts to be excluded from the index of localities approved by the resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers; list of localities of these oblasts where the limitations on consumption of local food and agricultural products from private plots are to be maintained, 1987 June

Opis 56, Reel 1.1008, File 12

Memorandum to IU. Izrael, Chairman of the State Committee for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Control (Goskomgidromet), from G. Sergeev, USSR Deputy Minister of Health, supporting a proposal of the Council of Ministers of Belorussia to include 66 more localities of Gomelskaia and Mogilevskaia oblasts in the index of localities in which the population is eligible for benefits and compensation according to resolution no. 1006-286 of the USSR Council of Ministers of August 22, 1986, exclude 30 localities from the index, preserve benefits to the population of 21 localities, pay compensation (20 rubles monthly per person) to retired people residing in the zone with a high level of radioactive contamination, and provide free care to pre-school children and free food to schoolchildren; distribution list, signed by V. Murakhovskii with the seal of the Administration of Affairs of the USSR Council of Ministers, 1987 July

Opis 56, Reel 1.1008, File 13

Memorandum to the USSR Ministry of Health and the USSR Council of Ministers from F. Tabeev, Deputy Chairman of the RSFSR Council of Ministers, re changes in resolution no. 1006-286 of the USSR Council of Ministers of August 22, 1986; draft resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers approving the proposed changes; list of localities in Brianskaia oblast to be included in the index of localities in which the population is eligible for benefits and compensation according to resolution no. 1006-286; list of localities of Brinaskaia oblast to be excluded from the index, 1987 July

Opis 56, Reel 1.1008, File 14

Resolution of July 12, 1987, of the Interdepartmental Commission for Radioactivity Control under the State Committee for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Control (Goskomgidromet), with a list of members and of those invited to the meeting, signed by IU. Izrael, Chairman of the Interdepartmental Commission, and N. Shusharina, Secretary of the commission, re radioactivity in the contaminated areas of the Ukraine and Belorussia and the possibility of returning the evacuated population to their homes; schedule of operations re description of the radioactivity in territories of the Ukraine, Belorussia,and the RSFSR contaminated by the Chernobyl nuclear accident, 1987 June

Opis 56, Reel 1.1008, File 15

List of data (as of July 1, 1987) re the number of people who participated in recovery from the Chernobyl nuclear accident, or were evacuated from the Chernobyl zone, or lived in the area with a high radioactivity level and were being watched by health care institutions in different Ukrainian oblasts; table (uncaptioned) re the number of births, abortions, premature births, stillborn, and percentage of congenital diseases that occurred in 1985 and 1986 in the contaminated oblasts of the Ukraine , 1987 July 1

Opis 56, Reel 1.1008, File 16

Resolution of the Governmental Commission signed by B. Shcherbina, Chairman of the commission, criticizing ministries and administrations for violating the procedure established by directive no. 2204 of the USSR Council of Ministers of October 31, 1986, for collecting and transmitting to the authorized organizations data on radioactive contamination of the environment in the Chernobyl zone and neighboring area, 1987 September

Opis 56, Reel 1.1008, File 17

Memorandum to IE. Chazov, USSR Minister of Health, from IU. Izrael, Chairman of the State Committee for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Control (Goskomgidromet),re radioactivity on USSR territory during January 15-31, 1988; map of the area affected by the Chernobyl nuclear accident, with indications of radioactivity levels, 1988 February

 

Opis 57

Opis 57, Reel 1.1008, File 1

Resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers on amendments to the resolution of the Central Executive Committee (TsIK) and the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom) of September 3, 1932, On Establishing Balanced Land Tenure by Collective Farms, 1950 April

Opis 57, Reel 1.1008, File 2

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Secretariat re approval by the Politburo of the draft resolution of the TsK VKP(b) On Amalgamation of Small Collective Farms and on the Related Tasks of Party Organizations ; the draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1950 May

Opis 57, Reel 1.1008, File 3

Memorandum to J. Stalin from A. Kozlov, Chief of the Agricultural Department of the TsK VKP(b), advocating the amalgamation of small collective farms, 1950 May

Opis 57, Reel 1.1008, File 4

Message to all VKP(b) committees in krais and oblasts and to all central committees of communist parties of the union republics from A. Poskrebyshev, Chief of the TsK VKP(b) Special Sector, allowing them to familiarize secretaries of KPSS committees in raions with the resolution of the TsK VKP(b) of May 30, 1950, On Amalgamation of Small Collective Farms and on the Related Tasks of Party Organizations, 1950 June

Opis 57, Reel 1.1008, File 5

Memorandum to J. Stalin from A. Kozlov, Chief of the Agricultural Department, reporting on implementing the TsK VKP(b) resolution of May 30, 1950, On Amalgamation of Small Collective Farms and on the Related Tasks of Party Organizations , with cover letter to Stalin from G. Malenkov, 1950 July

Opis 57, Reel 1.1008, File 6

Resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers re forced transfer of individual farms and land plots from private ownership to the ownership of collective farms and re individual farmers forced to join the collective farms in the Volynskaia, Drogobychskaia, Lvovskaia, Rovenskaia, Stanislavskaia, Ternopolskaia, Chernovitskaia, and Izmailskaia oblasts of the Ukraine, 1950 July

Opis 57, Reel 1.1008, File 7

Extract from the minutes of the VKP(b) Politburo approving a telegram to VKP(b) committees in oblasts and krais and to central committees of communist parties of the union republics re preservation of livestock in the process of amalgamating small collective farms; the telegram from J. Stalin warning against the slaughter of communal livestock in the process of amalgamating small collective farms, 1950 July

Opis 57, Reel 1.1008, File 8

Extract from the minutes of the VKP(b) Secretariat asking that the Politburo approve a draft telegram to be sent to VKP(b) committees in oblasts and krais and to central committees of communist parties of the union republics re preservation of livestock during the process of amalgamating small collective farms; the draft telegram warning against the slaughter of communal livestock in the process of amalgamating small collective farms, 1950 July

Opis 57, Reel 1.1008, File 9

Extract from the minutes of the VKP(b) Politburo designating a commission for designing a TsK document on tasks related to amalgamation of small collective farms, 1951 March

Opis 57, Reel 1.1008, File 10

Personal letter to J. Stalin from N. Khrushchev containing Khrushchev's acknowledgment of his mistakes in response to Stalin's criticism of his speech On Building and Improvement of Collective Farms and proposing to prepare another publication with self-criticism (with Stalin's handwritten annotation sending the letter to the TsK archives), 1951 March

Opis 57, Reel 1.1008, File 11

Extract from the minutes of the VKP(b) Politburo approving the text of a secret letter from the TsK VKP(b) to the central committees of union republics, VKP(b) committees in krais, oblasts, cities, okrugs, and raions On the Tasks for Building Collective Farms with Respect to Amalgamation of Small Collective Farms ; the secret letter, 1951 April

Opis 57, Reel 1.1008, File 12

Extract from the minutes of the VKP(b) Politburo approving a request from local party organs to familiarize communists with the secret letter On the Tasks for Building Collective Farms with Respect to Amalgamation of Small Collective Farms, 1951 April

Opis 57, Reel 1.1008, File 13

Extract from the minutes of the VKP(b) Secretariat asking that the Politburo approve a request from local party organs to familiarize communists with the secret letter On the Tasks for Building Collective Farms with Respect to Amalgamation of Small Collective Farms, 1951 April

Opis 57, Reel 1.1008, File 14

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium canceling the secret letter from the TsK VKP(b) On the Tasks for Building Collective Farms with Respect to Amalgamation of Small Collective Farms ; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; brief note dispatching material to members and candidate members of the TsK KPSS Presidium; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS signed by V. Ignatov, IE. Furtseva, and P. Pospelov, 1958 March-April

Opis 57, Reel 1.1008, File 15

Extract from the minutes of the VKP(b) Politburo relating to the harvest and procurement of agricultural products in 1952, denouncing the collective farm practice of distributing among collective farmers what was left from the harvest after state procurement before creating seed, fodder grain, insurance stocks, and other communal stocks, and directing that the collective farms change this practice, 1952 July

Opis 57, Reel 1.1008, File 16

Extract from the minutes of the VKP(b) Politburo approving, with amendments, draft resolutions of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture (Narkomzem) on calculation in work-days [unit of payment in collective farms] of different types of agricultural work and on the approximate rate of output for 1933, and putting the Narkomzem and Agricultural Department of the TsK VKP(b) in charge of improving regulations on agricultural work, of taking stock of expenses, labor resources, and number of work-days per household and per different kind of agricultural work in different regions; said two draft resolutions of the Narkomzem; memorandum to the [VKP(b)] Politburo and J. Stalin from L. Kaganovich and IA. Yakovlev requesting approval of the draft resolution of the Narkomzem, 1933 February-March

Opis 57, Reel 1.1008, File 17

Extract from the minutes of the VKP(b) Politburo approving a draft resolution of the USSR Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom) and the TsK VKP(b) on the procedure for creating grain stock for collective farms and for distribution of grain among collective farmers; the draft resolution regulating the procedure for creating seed stock, insurance stock, and fodder grain stock and for distribution of seed among collective farmers, 1933 August

Scope and Contents note

See also file 15 of this opis.
Opis 57, Reel 1.1008, File 18

Extract from the minutes of the VKP(b) Politburo clarifying the procedure for distribution of the work-days among collective farmers in 1933 and 1934, 1933 August

Opis 57, Reel 1.1008, File 19

Memorandum to the TsK VKP(b) and J. Stalin and to the USSR Soviet of People's Commissars from A. Vyshinskii, USSR Prosecutor General, re regulations for child labor in collective farms, 1939 March

Opis 57, Reel 1.1008, File 20

Memorandum to J. Stalin from L. Beria re reports on the lack of food supplies in Moldavia, Izmailskaia oblast of the Ukraine, and Voronezhskaia and Stalingradskaia oblasts and re complaints obtained by the Ministry of State Security (MGB) through secret inspection of private letters of oblasts' population; report to V. Abakumov, USSR Minister of State Security, from Mordovets, Minister of State Security of Moldavia, on the cases of dystrophy, atrophy, and swelling (totaling 10,834) caused by insufficient food supply in some areas of Moldavia; special report to V. Abakumov from Savchenko, Minister of State Security of the Ukraine, re insufficient food supply, famine, and several death cases among residents of Tarutinskii and Borodinskii raions of Izmailskaia oblast of the Ukraine; list of excerpts from letters mailed by the population of Voronezhskaia and Stalingradskaia oblasts complaining of inadequate food resulting in swelling and diseases, 1946 November-December

Opis 57, Reel 1.1008, File 21

Cover letter to L. Beria and Andreev from J. Stalin, accompanying an amended resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers and the TsK VKP(b) and requesting that the resolution and an old resolution of 1939 be published in the press as soon as possible; the resolution of the TsK VKP(b) on the measures to avoid violation of the Code of Agricultural Society (Artel) in collective farms; resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers and the TsK VKP(b); draft resolution of the TsK VKP(b) with handwritten amendments; draft resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers and the TsK VKP(b) with handwritten amendments, 1946 September

Opis 57, Reel 1.1008, File 22

Memorandum to L. Beria from J. Stalin directing that Beria send him a draft resolution of the TsK KPSS banning the raise in salaries and that the resolution be formulated in a strong manner; Stalin's holograph memorandum, 1946 September

 

Opis 58

Opis 58, Reel 1.1008, File 1

Cover letter to J. Stalin from V. Potemkin, Deputy Commissar of Foreign Affairs, accompanying a memorandum of his conversation with Grzibowski, Polish Ambassador to the USSR; memorandum of the meeting between V. Potemkin and Grzibowski, in which V. Potemkin handed Grzibowski a note from V. Molotov; clipping from Pravda (Truth) newspaper no. 259 of September 18, 1939, with the note, 1939 September

Opis 58, Reel 1.1008, File 2

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a resolution of the Defense Committee on the introduction of martial law for escort troops of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) in Belorussian, Kiev, and Leningrad military districts and directing that all stations in the Belorussian and Kiev districts and all distribution camps in the cities of Kozelsk (Belorussia) and Putivl (Ukraine) with prisoners of war be guarded by NKVD escort troops; memorandum to V. Molotov, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, from L. Beria, People's Commissar of Internal Affairs; resolution of the Defense Committee, 1939 September

Opis 58, Reel 1.1008, File 3

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving proposals put forth by L. Mekhlis and L. Beria re treatment and accommodations of prisoners of war of different nationalities and different ranks; draft resolution on prisoners of war, with cover letter to A. Zhdanov from L. Beria and L. Mekhlis (with their signatures), 1939 October

Opis 58, Reel 1.1008, File 4

Memorandum to the TsK VKP(b) and J. Stalin from L. Beria and L. Mekhlis containing their proposals re prisoners of war, with signatures of Stalin, A. Mikoian, K. Voroshilov, V. Molotov, L. Kaganovich, and A. Zhdanov confirming their approval (with amendments) of the proposals, 1939 October

Scope and Contents note

See also file 3 of this opis.
Opis 58, Reel 1.1008, File 5

Memorandum to the USSR Council of People's Commissars and V. Molotov from L. Beria, People's Commissar of Internal Affairs, containing Beria's proposals re the procedure for handing over to German authorities 33,000 Polish prisoners of war who were residents of the portion of Poland occupied by Germany (approved by V. Molotov, K. Voroshilov, A. Mikoian, Andreev, L. Kaganovich, A. Zhdanov, and M. Kalinin), 1939 October

Opis 58, Reel 1.1008, File 6

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving L. Beria's proposals re procedure for handing over to German authorities 33,000 Polish prisoners of war who were residents of the part of Poland occupied by Germany, 1939 October

Opis 58, Reel 1.1008, File 7

Memorandum to J. Stalin, Secretary of the TsK KPSS (copies to V. Molotov and L. Beria) from V. Potemkin (People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs) re a request from the Lithuanian government that 14,000 Polish internees born in western Belorussia and the western Ukraine be admitted to these territories from Lithuania; draft resolution approving the request, 1939 November

Opis 58, Reel 1.1008, File 8

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo re the procedure for admitting into the USSR former servicemen from the Polish army who are natives of the western Ukraine and Belorussia, 1939 November

Opis 58, Reel 1.1008, File 9

Memorandum to the Council of People's Commissars (V. Molotov) from L. Beria, People's Commissar of Internal Affairs, with a planned procedure for admitting into the USSR former servicemen from the Polish army who are natives of the western Ukraine and Belorussia, 1939 November

Opis 58, Reel 1.1008, File 10

Memorandum to the TsK VKP(b) and J. Stalin from L. Beria, People's Commissar of Internal Affairs, re a proposal from the German Embassy and from the Hungarian and the Slovak missions in the Soviet Union that they hand over to the Soviet Union Polish prisoners of war who are former residents of the western Ukraine and Belorussia, 1940 April

Opis 58, Reel 1.1008, File 11

Memorandum to the TsK VKP(b) and J. Stalin from L. Beria, People's Commissar of Internal Affairs, re the position of Polish and Czech prisoners of war in the Soviet Union toward participation in Polish and Czech military detachments in the war against Germany and Beria''s proposals for organizing Polish and Czech military units within the Soviet Armed Forces and for the possible commanders of the units, 1940 November

 

Opis 59

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 1

Memorandum to L. Ilichev, Secretary of the TsK KPSS, from S. Suvorov, Editor in Chief of Fizmatgiz (State Publishing House on Physics and Mathematics) reporting on the plan of the Pergamon Press publishing house (Great Britain) to publish a thousand-volume book series The Commonwealth and International Library of Science, Technology, and Engineering to be distributed in former colonies to aid education, denouncing the ideological character of the enterprise, and proposing measures to oppose this action by cooperative efforts of publishing houses of socialist countries; letter (in English) to S. Suvorov from R. Maxwell, Publisher, presenting the first volumes of the publication for review and advertising material, including favorable mentions from the prime ministers of India, Nigeria, Canada, Australia, Ceylon, Sierra Leone, Rhodesia, and Tanganyika and the presidents of Pakistan and Cyprus; the letter translated into Russian, 1962 May-September

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 2

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Shaumian, Deputy Chairman of the Academic Council of the Soviet Encyclopedia state publishing house, reporting on the publication by Pergamon Press of the book Information About the USSR , and requesting instructions for future talks with R. Maxwell [British publisher] re the books Information About Great Britain and Information About the United States, 1962 December

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 3

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Yegorov, Deputy Chief of the Ideology Department, and K. Bogoliubov, Head of a Sector of the same department, requesting approval of a meeting to be held in January or February 1963 between L. Shaumian, Deputy Chairman of the Academic Council of the Soviet Encyclopedia State Scientific Publishing House, and R. Maxwell [British publisher], 1962 December

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 4

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Yegorov, Deputy Chief of the Ideology Department, and K. Bogoliubov, Head of a Sector of the same department, presenting their opinions of the proposal of S. Suvorov, Editor in Chief of Fizmatgiz (State Publishing House on Physics and Mathematics) that Soviet publishing houses, in cooperation with publishing houses of socialist countries, publish books to be distributed in developing countries, 1963 January

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 5

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Burkov, Chairman of the Board of the News Publishing Agency (Agenstvo pechati Novosti - APN), re a campaign waged in Great Britain and inspired by the United States in order to prevent the conclusion of an agreement between the APN and the Daily Mirror (International Publishing Corporation) on publishing and distributing Sputnik magazine in the English-speaking countries on the ground of employment by Sputnik of K. Philby, famous Soviet spy in Great Britain, 1967 October

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 6

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Pankin, Chairman of the Board of the All-Union Agency on Copyright (VAAP), re publication of the book Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev: Brief Biographic Essay by the Pergamon Press publishing house (Great Britain), 1977 January

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 7

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Medvedev, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department, requesting approval for the publication of the book Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev: Brief Biographic Essay by the Pergamon Press publishing house (Great Britain); brief handwritten note dispatching the material to TsK secretaries; brief note from B. Pankin, Chairman of the Board of the All-Union Agency on Copyright (VAAP), requesting that his memorandum be sent to M. Zimianin's secretariat, January

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 8

Memorandum of a conversation between V. Popov, Soviet Ambassador to Great Britain, and R. Maxwell, Director of the Pergamon Press publishing house, re a Soviet proposal that Maxwell publish the book Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev: Pages of His Life , first published in 1978 by the Simon and Schuster publishing house (United States), instead of the book Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev: Brief Biographic Essay , 1981 January

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 9

Memorandum of a conversation between V. Bykov, Counselor and Envoy of the Soviet Embassy in Great Britain, and R. Maxwell, Director of Pergamon Press, re status of the publication by R. Maxwell of the book Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev: Pages of His Life, 1981 January

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 10

Memorandum of a conversation between V. Popov, Soviet Ambassador to Great Britain, and R. Maxwell, Director of Pergamon Press, re Maxwell's high-level conference with the Soviet authorities, publication by Pergamon Press of Brezhnev's memoirs and other books by Soviet leaders and of a series of annotated bibliographies on social sciences prepared in the socialist countries, and invitation to Great Britain of R. Mdivani, Chief of the Department of Scientific and Bibliographic Information of the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Maxwell's willingness to cooperate with Soviet publishing houses taking propaganda actions in Great Britain in anticipation of the 60th anniversary of the USSR, and publication in Great Britain of the book Modern Diplomacy of Bourgeois States with an introduction by A. Gromyko, 1982 March

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 11

Memorandum of a conversation between V. Popov, Soviet Ambassador to Great Britain, and R. Maxwell, Director of Pergamon Press, re the importance of representation in Great Britain of the books by Soviet leaders that are published by Pergamon Press, Maxwells impressions from N. Tikhonov(?), Maxwell's opinion on the coming conference of the leaders of seven Western countries in Versailles and the main problems to be discussed there, on the Falkland crisis, and the visit of Pope John Paul II to Great Britain, confidential information on Maxwell's plans to start publishing a labor party newspaper in Manchester, Popov's observations on the TsK KPSS Plenum and the Food Program worked out there, and Maxwell's opinion of Soviet agriculture, 1982 June

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 12

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from D. Ustinov approving the publication of his book We Serve Our Motherland and Communism by the Pergamon Press publishing house, 1982 June

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 13

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Dolgov, Chairman of the Board of the All-Union Agency on Copyright (VAAP), re publication in Great Britain by Pergamon Press of a collection of articles and speeches of V. Grishin, Member of the TsK KPSS Politburo and Secretary of the Moscow City KPSS Committee, 1983 February

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 14

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Stukalin, Chief of the Propaganda Department, and V. Ignatenko, Deputy Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, requesting approval of the publication in Great Britain by Pergamon Press of a collection of articles and speeches of V. Grishin, Member of the TsK KPSS Politburo and Secretary of the Moscow City KPSS Committee; brief handwritten note, 1983 March

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 15

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Yeliutin, USSR Minister of Higher and Secondary Special Education, re awarding the title Doctor honoris causa by Moscow State University to R. Maxwell, Director of the Pergamon Press publishing house, in connection with his 60th birthday, 1983 April

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 16

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Trapeznikov, Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions, and A. Cherniaev, Deputy Chief of the International Department, requesting approval to award the title Doctor honoris causa from Moscow State University to R. Maxwell, 1983 May

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 17

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Dolgov, Chairman of the Board of the All-Union Agency on Copyright (VAAP), re publication in Great Britain of the second edition of the collection of works by IU. Andropov, General Secretary of the TsK KPSS and Chairman of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet; list of the works included in the said edition, 1983 July

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 18

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, and V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department, requesting approval of the publication in Great Britain of the second edition of the collection of works by IU. Andropov, General Secretary of the TsK KPSS and Chairman of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet; brief handwritten note, 1983 July

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 19

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Chetverikov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and V. Zakharov, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department, re publication by the Pergamon Press publishing house (Great Britain) of the propaganda materials related to the 40th anniversary of V-E Day, 1984 December

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 20

Memorandum of a conversation between V. Popov, Soviet Ambassador to Great Britain, and R. Maxwell, Director of Pergamon Press and the Mirror newspaper group, re Maxwell's comments about answers given by K. Chernenko, General Secretary of the TsK KPSS and Chairman of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet, to questions put by a correspondent of the CAN television company with respect to military competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, Maxwell's request to interview K. Chernenko, publication by Pergamon Press of a new book by K. Chernenko, measures proposed by Maxwell for Pergamon Press in anticipation of the 40th V-E Day, and Maxwell's evaluation of the political situation in Great Britain, 1985 February

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 21

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Chetverikov, Chairman of the Board of the All-Union Agency on Copyright (VAAP), re publication in Great Britain of a series of collections of works by M. Gorbachev, General Secretary of the TsK KPSS and Chairman of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet, including materials on Gorbachev's summit with R. Reagan in Reykjavik, 1986 October

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 22

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Skliarov, Chief of the Propaganda Department, requesting approval for publication in Great Britain of a second collection of works by M. Gorbachev, General Secretary of the TsK KPSS and Chairman of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet; brief handwritten instructions to N. Shishlin from A. N. Yakovlev, 1986 October-November

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 23

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Falin, Chairman of the Board of the News Publishing Agency (Agenstvo pechati Novosti - APN), re cooperation with the Pergamon Media Trust publishing corporation (Great Britain) on the following: publication of an annual Perestroĭka edition, regular publication of a Soviet press digest with regard to political problems, publication in the English language (and possibly later in other languages) of the weekly Moskovskie novosti (Moscow News ), publication by the Soviet Cultural Foundation of Nashe nasledie (Our Heritage) magazine (expenses to be paid by R. Maxwell in British currency), 1988 March

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 24

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat on cooperation with the Pergamon Media Trust publishing corporation (Great Britain), with handwritten amendments, 1988 March

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 25

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Skliarov, Chief of the Propaganda Department, and V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, re cooperation with the Pergamon Media Trust publishing corporation (Great Britain), 1988 March

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 26

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a memorandum from the Propaganda Department re proposals from the Pergamon Media Trust publishing corporation (Great Britain); the memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Vlasov, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from the Propaganda Department, 1988 April

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 27

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Afanasiev, Editor in Chief of Pravda (Truth) newspaper, re negotiations of representatives of the editorial board of Pravda and of the Administration of TsK KPSS Affairs with the leadership of the Pergamon Press publishing company re joint publication of a daily newspaper; brief note from IE. Ligachev dispatching the material to the TsK KPSS secretaries, 1988 May

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 28

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Skliarov, Chief of the Propaganda Department, supporting the opinion of the editorial board of Pravda (Truth) newspaper not to start publishing a joint daily newspaper with the Pergamon Press publishing house, 1988 May

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 29

Memorandum to the International Department of the TsK KPSS (N. Kovalevskii) from N. Afanasievskii, Soviet Chargé d'Affaires ad Interim to France, submitting several pages from the collection of works by IU. Andropov (prepared for publication by the Pergamon Press publishing house) in need of revision because of the changed international situation; the pages in French, 1983 February

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 30

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Dolgov, Chairman of the Board of the All-Union Agency on Copyright (VAAP), accompanying a memorandum from the Soviet Embassy in France and stating that the text of the collection of Andropov's works (not included) was corrected, 1983 April

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 31

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Cherniaev, Deputy Chief of the International Department, stating that the text of the collection of Andropov's speeches (not included) was corrected, 1983 April

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 32

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Dolgov, Chairman of the Board of the All-Union Agency on Copyright (VAAP), re publication in Great Britain of a collection of works by K. Chernenko, General Secretary of the TsK KPSS; list of the works to be included in the collection, 1984 February

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 33

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Vvedenskii, First Deputy Chairman of the Board of the All-Union Agency on Copyright (VAAP), re publication in Great Britain of a collection of works by D. Ustinov, Member of the TsK KPSS Politburo and USSR Minister of Defense, 1984 August

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 34

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, requesting approval of the publication in Great Britain of a collection of works by D. Ustinov, Member of the Politburo TsK KPSS and USSR Minister of Defense; brief handwritten note, 1984 September

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 35

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from K. Dolgov, Chairman of the Board of the All-Union Agency on Copyright (VAAP), re publication in Great Britain of a collection of works by M. Gorbachev, General Secretary of the TsK KPSS; list of the works to be included in the collection, 1986 January

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 36

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. N. Yakovlev, Chief of the Propaganda Department, and A. Vlasov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, requesting approval of the publication in Great Britain by the Pergamon Press publishing house of a collection of works by M. Gorbachev, General Secretary of the TsK KPSS, 1986 January

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 37

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Chetverikov, Chairman of the Board of the All-Union Agency on Copyright (VAAP), re a proposal of R. Maxwell, Chairman of the Maxwell Communications Corporation, that he organize in London an exhibition about perestroĭka in the Soviet Union timed to coincide with Gorbachev's visit to Great Britain; resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1989 March

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 38

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Degtiarev, Deputy Chief of the Ideology Department, and V. Falin, Chief of the International Department, re a Soviet exhibition in London; list of organizations and their leaders that approved the TsK KPSS resolution On Soviet Exhibition in London, 1989 March

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 39

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Maslennikov, Deputy Chairman of the Board of the All-Union Agency on Copyright (VAAP), re a business trip of N. Chetverikov, Chairman of the Board of the VAAP, to Great Britain to help in setting up the Soviet exhibition to be held in London April 5-9, 1989, 1989 March

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 40

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Kapto, Chief of the Ideology Department, re a business trip of N. Chetverikov, Chairman of the Board of the VAAP, to Great Britain, 1989 March

Opis 59, Reel 1.1008, File 41

Resolution of the TsK KPSS On Soviet Exhibition in Great Britain , with the signatures of TsK KPSS secretaries, approving the resolution; distribution list for the resolution, 1989 March

 

Opis 60

Opis 60, Reel 1.1008, File 1

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), about a collection of reviews of the book August 1914 by A. Solzhenitsyn, being prepared under the guidance of L. Chukovskaia, member of the Union of Soviet Writers, and her daughter, IE. Chukovskaia, and naming the authors who contributed to the collection, 1972 November

Opis 60, Reel 1.1008, File 2

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re increase in the number of marriages of Soviet artists to foreigners, behavior of those who left the Soviet Union, slander fabrications of the bourgeois propaganda about these marriages, and development of tolerant attitude to those marriages in some Soviet films, 1982 November

Opis 60, Reel 1.1008, File 3

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re the court trial of participants in the anti-Soviet organization VSKhSON (All-Russian Social-Christian Union for the Liberation of the People), personal data of the defendants, their behavior and speeches in the court, and the sentence passed upon each defendant, 1968 April

Opis 60, Reel 1.1008, File 4

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from G. Belov, Chief of the Main Archival Directorate of the USSR Council of Ministers, stating that documents from the archives of the Russian gendarmerie confirm that V. Skriabin (Molotov) belonged to the Socialist-Revolutionary Party; certified copy of an excerpt from report no. 5188 of June 9, 1910, from the Chief of the Gendarme Directorate of the Police Department in Kazanskaia gubernia, 1962 February

Opis 60, Reel 1.1008, File 5

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re a conversation at KGB headquarters with General P. Grigorenko (charged twice with anti-Soviet activity and sentenced to forced treatment in psychiatric clinics) in which Grigorenko was reprimanded for renewal of his relations with anti-Soviet elements, 1976 February

Opis 60, Reel 1.1008, File 6

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, reporting on a letter written by L. Chukovskaia in support of activities of A. Solzhenitsyn and A. Sakharov, her anti-Soviet public and literary activity, and her contacts in the Soviet Union, and suggesting that the Secretariat of the Union of Soviet Writers not give her permission to create a museum in memory of her father, K. Chukovskii, in their country house (dacha) in Peredelkino [settlement in Moscow suburb where many Soviet writers had country houses]; note from A. A. Beliaev, Deputy Chief of the Department of Culture, stating that L. Chukovskaia was not allowed to establish K. Chukovskii's museum at his dacha in Peredelkino and that L. Chukovskaia was excluded from the Union of Soviet Writers, 1973 November - 1974 January

Opis 60, Reel 1.1008, File 7

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), re the divorce of A. Solzhenitsyn and N. Reshetovskaia and the possible marriage of Solzhenitsyn to N. Svetlova, which might give him the opportunity to register for residence in Moscow; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov about the divorce proceeding of A. Solzhenitsyn and N. Reshetovskaia, their speeches in court, and the assets transferred by Solzhenitsyn to Reshetovskaia; reference from N. Malshakov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs, stating that, upon considering Reshetovskaia's appeal, the Riazan Provincial Court reversed the judgment of the Court of Oktiabrskii raion of the city of Riazan re the divorce and that Solzhenitsyn filed an appeal to the RSFSR Supreme Court; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov re the reversal of the judgment of the Court of Oktiabrskii raion of the city of Riazan, re information obtained by KGB sources that Reshetovskaia and her lawyer were preparing materials to discredit Solzhenitsyn's grounds for divorce and that the actions of Solzhenitsyn, Reshetovskaia, and her lawyer are under the KGB control, 1972 June 1972 August-September

Opis 60, Reel 1.1008, File 8

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, about the baptism ceremony for Solzhenitsyn's son and about those present at the ceremony and dinner, 1972 December

Opis 60, Reel 1.1008, File 9

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shauro, Chief of the Department of Culture, recommending that the actor G. Khazanov make revisions in his show Evident-Unbelievable, 1982 June

Opis 60, Reel 1.1008, File 10

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Shauro, Chief of the Department of Culture, denouncing the performance of M. Zhvanetskii, writer-satirist, at the Central Actors Club on April 1, 1982, 1982 June

Opis 60, Reel 1.1008, File 11

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Dedov, Chief of the Administrative Department, stating that the standing order to issue an MVD warrant to dispatch those convicted of counterrevolutionary crimes to life in exile or in a settlement in distant areas of the USSR after they have served their terms in prison or in a labor camp contradicts the law and directing that the problem be reviewed; decreeof the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet directing that those convicted of counterrevolutionary crimes be sent by the Ministry of State Security to exile or to live in a settlement after serving their terms in prison or in labor camps and that state criminals released after serving their terms in prison or in labor camps after World War II also be sent into exile, 1948 February 1955 March

Opis 60, Reel 1.1008, File 12

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), re permission for departure from the USSR for General P. Grigorenko [human rights activist], 1977 November

Opis 60, Reel 1.1008, File 13

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Udaltsov, Chairman of the News Publishing Agency (Agenstvo pechati Novosti - APN), reporting the informational and propaganda activity conducted by the APN to discredit A. Solzhenitsyn in connection with the revocation of his Soviet citizenship, 1974 February

 

Opis 61

Opis 61, Reel 1.1009, File 1

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Doluda, Deputy Chief of the Department of Cadres for Diplomatic and Foreign Trade Organs, and V. Korionov, Chief of the International Department, re a proposal from N. Belokhvostikov, Soviet Ambassador to Sweden, to promote cooperation with Estonian émigrés in Sweden (organize tours from Sweden to Estonia, with participation of Estonian émigrés, send a group of party and Soviet activists from Estonia to Sweden for propaganda purposes, and consider reducing the price of tours to Sweden), 1964 March

Opis 61, Reel 1.1009, File 2

Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Estonia on issues brought up in a letter from N. Belokhvostikov, Soviet Ambassador to Sweden, 1964 March

Opis 61, Reel 1.1009, File 3

Memorandum to A. Orlov, USSR Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, from N. Belokhvostikov, Soviet Ambassador to Sweden, re measures to be taken toward Estonian émigrés in Sweden in anticipation of N. Khrushchev's visit to Sweden, 1964 March

Opis 61, Reel 1.1009, File 4

Memorandum to A. Orlov, USSR Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, from A. Elvikh, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia, re special trips from Sweden to the capitals of the Baltic states, re a decision to be made about Latvian citizens who applied for a trip to Sweden, and re feature films and documentaries produced by a Riga studio to be sent to the Soviet Embassy in Sweden, 1964 March

Opis 61, Reel 1.1009, File 5

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re handing over to the organs of state security of East Germany and Poland a report on the counter-revolutionary underground in Czechoslovakia, prepared on the basis of intelligence information; the report signed by A. Sakharovskii, Chief of the 1st MainDirectorate of the KGB, with the following chapters: 1. Activity of anti-socialist forces before invasion of Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia, 2. Counterrevolutionary activity after the intervention of Allied armed forces,3. Counterrevolutionary forces in Czech party organs, 4. Use of the media and propaganda by counterrevolutionary elements, 5. Provocation and armed attacks against Allied troops, 6. Counterrevolutionary activity fostering nationalism within the population, 7. Prosecution of people known for their friendly attitude toward the Soviet Union or cooperation with Soviet representatives, 8. Ties between the counterrevolution in Czechoslovakia and Western subversive centers, 9. Activity of counterrevolutionary forces in the army, 10. Subversive activity of counterrevolutionary elements in the Czech Ministry of Internal Affairs after the intervention of Allied forces, 1968 October

Opis 61, Reel 1.1009, File 6

Memorandum (to be presented orally) containing critical comments about the military and political action of August 21, 1968 [intervention of Allied troops in Czechoslovakia], and drafting measures to improve the situation there (top secret, the only copy), unsigned, undated

Opis 61, Reel 1.1009, File 7

Protocol No. 67 of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving draft decrees of the Presidium of the RSFSR Supreme Soviet and of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet restoring the territory of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (two identical copies), 1957 January

Opis 61, Reel 1.1009, File 8

Decree of the Presidium of the RSFSR Supreme Soviet On the Restoration of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and Abolition of the Groznenskaia oblast, undated

Opis 61, Reel 1.1009, File 9

Decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet On Transfer of Part of the Territory of Dushetskii and Kazbegskii Raions from the Georgian SSR to the RSFSR, 1957 January

Opis 61, Reel 1.1009, File 10

Report On Complex of Measures for Increase in the Effectiveness of Economics, Improvements in Planning, and Acceleration of Progress in Science and Technology , approved by top authorities in economics, planning, science, and engineering, with cover letter signed by them; memorandum with comments on the report by N. Baibakov; memorandum with comments on the report by V. Kolesnikov; memorandum with comments on the report by S. Sitarian; memorandum to V. Kirillin (State Committee for Science and Technology) from B. Sukharevskii, Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Labor and Social Matters, with his comments on the report, 1979 December

Opis 61, Reel 1.1009, File 11

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a draft decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet on abolishing the Kalmyk Autonomous Socialist Republic and establishing Astrakhanskaia oblast within the RSFSR; thedraft(?) decree abolishing the Kalmyk ASSR and evicting Kalmyks from the territory of their republic, 1943 December

Opis 61, Reel 1.1009, File 12

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving a draft decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet canceling the restriction on the place of residence of Kalmyks evicted from their native land and directing that KPSS committees of krais and oblasts in the areas of current Kalmyk residence provide them with jobs, thus preventing their return to their native land; the decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet canceling the obligation of Kalmyk people and members of their families to register for special residence under administrative surveillance, and stating that these actions did not give Kalmyks the right to claim return of property confiscated from them at the time of eviction, 1956 March

Opis 61, Reel 1.1009, File 13

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Presidium approving a draft resolution of the TsK KPSS on restoration of national autonomy of the Kalmyk, Karachaev, Balkar, Chechen, and Ingush peoples; the draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet, 1956 November

 

Opis 62

Opis 62, Reel 1.1009, File 1

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a draft resolution on the status and tasks of elementary and middle schools and assigning L. Kaganovich, Secretary of the TsK VKP(b) and First Secretary of the Moscow VKP(b) Committee, A. Bubnov, People's Commissar of Education, and A. Stetskii, Chief of the Department of Agitation and Propaganda of the TsK VKP(b), to work out the final version of the resolution; final version of the resolution of the TsK VKP(b), 1931 August

Opis 62, Reel 1.1009, File 2

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a draft resolution of the TsK VKP(b) on use of the Ukrainian language in Dalnevostochnyi krai, in Kazakhstan, Central Asia, the Central Black Soil Area and other areas of the USSR; the resolution of the TsK VKP(b) denouncing the proposal of Ukrainian comrades to introduce mandatory use of the Ukrainian language for the media, books, and schools in a number of USSR areas, 1932 December

Opis 62, Reel 1.1009, File 3

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a decision to announce a contest for the best elementary school textbook on USSR history (including brief treatment of world history); resolution of the USSR Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom) and the TsK VKP(b) on the said contest, 1936 March

Opis 62, Reel 1.1009, File 4

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo identifying as harmful the existence of special national schools (Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, German, English, Greek, etc.) on the territories of corresponding republics,establishing a commission to formulate directives for VKP(b) and Soviet authorities, requesting that all those schools be transformed into regular Soviet schools, and that the People's Commissariat of Education (Narkompross) submit proposals on the abolition of national pedagogical secondary schools, educational centers (doma prosveshcheniia), and other cultural and educational institutions, 1937 December

Opis 62, Reel 1.1009, File 5

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Orgburo (Organizational Bureau) bringing up the issue of national schools for the consideration of the Politburo, 1937 December

Opis 62, Reel 1.1009, File 6

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo directing that national Soviets (German, Finnish, Korean, Bulgarian) in raions and villages be abolished and reorganized into regular Soviets, 1937 December

Opis 62, Reel 1.1009, File 7

Resolution of the TsK VKP(b) on reorganization of national schools, 1938 January

Opis 62, Reel 1.1009, File 8

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a draft resolution of the TsK VKP(b) and the USSR Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom) on mandatory teaching of the Russian language at schools located in national republics and oblasts; the resolution of the TsK VKP(b) and Sovnarkom, 1938 March

Opis 62, Reel 1.1009, File 9

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo re implementation of the resolution of the TsK VKP(b) and the USSR Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom) on teaching the Russian language in non-Russian schools in rural areas, 1938 July

Opis 62, Reel 1.1009, File 10

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Orgburo (Organizational Bureau) asking that the Politburo consider the issue of teaching the Russian language in non-Russian schools in rural areas, 1938 July

Opis 62, Reel 1.1009, File 11

Memorandum to the [TsK VKP(b)] Politburo from A. Andreev, Secretary of the TsK VKP(b), and A. Zhdanov re amendments to the resolution of the TsK VKP(b) and the USSR Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom) of March 13, 1939, on teaching the Russian language in non-Russian schools, specifying the number of Russian lessons per week to be introduced in rural schools scheduled to have classes seven days a week, 1938 July

 

Opis 63

Opis 63, Reel 1.1009, File 1

Memorandum to L. Karakhan, Deputy Commissar of Foreign Affairs, K. Voroshilov, People's Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs, and SH. Eliava, Deputy People's Commissar of Foreign Trade, from J. Stalin denouncing a telegram from M. Okhtin about the situation in Mongolia and suggesting that Eliava's departure to Mongolia be accelerated, that a directive on Mongolia be prepared by the Mongolian Commission of the TsK and be submitted for Politburo [of the TsK VKP(b)] vote, and that L. Karakhan be instructed to prohibit M. Okhtin from sending telegrams containing more than 200 words; original memorandum, in Stalin's handwriting, 1932 May

Opis 63, Reel 1.1009, File 2

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a telegram on Mongolia to be sent to SH. Eliava, Deputy People's Commissar of Foreign Trade, and M. Okhtin; the telegram containing directives to the Central Committee of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party re the political situation there, 1932 June

Opis 63, Reel 1.1009, File 3

Distribution list for a memorandum, prepared by SH. Eliava, Deputy People's Commissar of Foreign Trade, and distributed according to Stalin's instructions, on the situation in Mongolia; the memorandum considering the following issues: importance of relations with Mongolia, special features of Mongolia, nature and role of cattle breeding in Mongolia, reasons for the insurrection, handling of the insurrection, political measures taken by the government and by the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, the economic situation, and participation of the Soviet Union in the Mongolian economy, 1932 August

Opis 63, Reel 1.1009, File 4

Protocol of a meeting of the Mongolian Commission of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo, with the following agenda: approval of Eliava's (Deputy People's Commissar of Foreign Trade) report and proposals for Soviet policy toward Mongolia, fulfillment of the plan for export to and import from Mongolia, issues related to Soviet military assistance to Mongolia, 1932 August

Opis 63, Reel 1.1009, File 5

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo requesting that the Mongolian Commission of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo, in cooperation with J. Stalin and taking into consideration SH. Eliava's report, work out measures for handling the situation in Mongolia, 1932 September

Opis 63, Reel 1.1009, File 6

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving, with amendments, a draft resolution on Mongolia, developed by the Mongolian Commission of the TsK BKP(b) Politburo, and directing that a special commission submit to the Politburo a final plan for delivery of goods to Mongolia with established retail prices; the resolution of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo on measures to be taken re cattle breeding and agriculture, strengthening of the financial situation, improvement in transportation, development of industry, handicrafts, and commercial cooperation, organization of Soviet-Mongolian trade, improvements in communications, dispatch of Soviet specialists to Mongolia, training of Mongolian cadres, cultural services to the Soviet people working in Mongolia, delivery of goods from the Soviet Union, and a long-term loan to Mongolia, 1932 November

Opis 63, Reel 1.1009, File 7

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving, with amendments, SH. Eliava's proposals re delivery of goods to Mongolia in 1933 and directing that SH. Eliava, Deputy People's Commissar of Foreign Trade, A. Svanidze, Chairman of the Board of the Foreign Trade Bank (Vneshtorgbank), and others leave for Mongolia in the next few days; 1933 plan for export to Mongolia by the associations of the People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry (Narkomtiazhprom); plan for procurement of goods to be exported to Mongolia by associations under the People's Commissariat of Supplies (Narkomsnab) in 1933; plan for procurement of goods to be exported to Mongolia by associations of the People's Commissariat of Light Industry (Narkomlegprom) in 1933; plan for procurement of goods to be exported to Mongolia by Vsekopromsovet (Industrial Cooperation Council) in 1933, 1932 November

Opis 63, Reel 1.1009, File 8

Memorandum to J. Stalin from SH. Eliava, Deputy People's Commissar of Foreign Trade, re the export of goods to Mongolia; draft resolution [of the TsK VKP(b)]on expediting the delivery of goods to Mongolia, 1933 February

Opis 63, Reel 1.1009, File 9

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving proposals of Voroshilov's Commission on Mongolia (Mongolian Commission of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo); directives to SH. Eliava, Deputy People's Commissar of Foreign Trade, directing that he check the implementation of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo resolutions on Mongolia by Soviet and Mongolian organizations, develop proposals for improvements in the Mongolian economy, clarify the political situation there and investigate counterrevolutionary or pro-Japanese activity, oppose agitation and economic activity of lamas by proclaiming religious freedom, reduce violation of Mongolian-Soviet borders, etc., 1933 November

Opis 63, Reel 1.1009, File 10

Brief memorandum of the conversation of S[talin?] and V[oroshilov?] with S. Dovchin and B. Eldev-ochir (Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party officials) re the economic, political, and military situation in Mongolia, and measures to oppose the influence of lamas there, 1933 December 25

Opis 63, Reel 1.1009, File 11

Letter to P. Gendung from J. Stalin, with Stalin's holograph signature, giving advice on the situation in Mongolia and offering a gift of automatic rifles, which might help in the struggle against "two-legged and four-legged creatures," 1934 March

Opis 63, Reel 1.1009, File 12

Protocol of the meeting of the Mongolian Commission [of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo] re intensification of the work of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, relations within the Mongolian leadership, increase in price of Soviet goods sold to Mongolia, personnel changes, living conditions of Soviet specialists in Mongolia, transport matters, etc., 1934 July 31

Opis 63, Reel 1.1009, File 13

Brief memorandum (with handwritten amendments) of a conversation between J. Stalin and a Mongolian delegation (members of the Mongolian delegation and Soviet officials who participated in the conversation are listed) re the internal situation in Mongolia (legal and ideological means of struggle against lamas, state newspapers and educational institutions, education of the monks, economic problems, cattle breeding, the political system in Mongolia, election to the leading organs of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, structure and appointment of the government, unity within the Mongolian leadership, and formal recognition by other countries of Mongolian independence and its separation from China), 1934 November

Opis 63, Reel 1.1009, File 14

Minutes of a meeting of J. Stalin and top Soviet officials with a Mongolian delegation re Soviet-Mongolian financial and economic relations (favorable conditions for repayment of a loan from the Soviet Union, free transfer of former joint ventures to Mongolian ownership, discount on Soviet goods bought by Mongolia and increase in price of Mongolian goods sold), re establishment in Mongolia of a state monopoly on tobacco, salt, alcoholic beverages, and matches, re the Mongolian army (number of servicemen, Soviet financial assistance for maintenance of the army), and re political agreements (nonaggression pact and agreement on mutual assistance), 1934 November

Opis 63, Reel 1.1009, File 15

Letter to J. Stalin from the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (CC MPRP) announcing approval of a loan settlement, of the signing of four Soviet-Mongolian agreements, and of valuable advice given by the leadership of the VKP(b) and the Soviet state to the Mongolian delegation; resolution of the Presidium of the CC MPRP of December 17, 1934, on a report by P. Gendung, Prime Minister of Mongolia, about the results of the Mongolian delegation's trip to Moscow; resolution of the Presidium of the CC MPRP of December 11, 1934, re settlement of all issues in dispute with the Soviet Union; the original resolution of December 17, 1934 (in Mongolian), 1934 December

Opis 63, Reel 1.1009, File 16

Letter (translated into Russian) to J. Stalin, V. Molotov, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, and K. Voroshilov, People's Commissar of Defense, from P. Gendung, Prime Minister of Mongolia, re a number of practical measures taken by the Mongolian leadership following Stalin's advice on Mongolian internal and foreign affairs, government, and army, and re improvement in economic and cultural life there; three pages of the original document in Mongolian, 1935 October

Opis 63, Reel 1.1009, File 17

Memorandum of a conversation of J. Stalin, V. Molotov, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, K. Voroshilov, People's Commissar of Defense, M. Litvinov, People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs, and K. Stomoniakov, Deputy People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs, with P. Gendung, Mongolian Prime Minister, Marshal G. Demid, Mongolian Minister of War and Commander in Chief, and Namsrai, Chief of the Mongolian Security Service, criticizing Gendung for Mongolia's policy toward the army, and both Namsrai and Gendung for insufficient struggle against the lamas' counterrevolutionary activity, 1935 December

Opis 63, Reel 1.1009, File 18

Brief handwritten memorandum of a conversation of J. Stalin, V. Molotov, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, K. Voroshilov, People's Commissar of Defense, M. Litvinov, People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs, and K. Stomoniakov, Deputy People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs, with P. Gendung, Mongolian Prime Minister, Marshal G. Demid, Mongolian Minister of War and Commander in Chief, and Namsrai, Chief of the Mongolian Security Service, about military assistance to be provided to Mongolia by the Soviet Union in peace and in case of war, 1936 January

Opis 63, Reel 1.1009, File 19

Memorandum to V. Tairov, Soviet Ambassador Plenipotentiary to Mongolia, from K. Stomoniakov, Deputy People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs, reporting on meetings (December 30, 1935, and January 7, 1936) of a Mongolian delegation (P. Gendung, G. Demid, and Namsrai) in the Kremlin with J. Stalin, V. Molotov, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, K. Voroshilov, People's Commissar of Defense, M. Litvinov, People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs, and K. Stomoniakov, Deputy People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs, on Soviet criticism of the Mongolian leadership (especially Gendung) for Mongolian policy toward lamas, national defense, and military assistance from the Soviet Union, 1936 January

Opis 63, Reel 1.1009, File 20

Memorandum (translated into Russian) to M. Kalinin, Chairman of the USSR Central Executive Committee (TsIK), and V. Molotov, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, from A. Amar, Chairman of the National Little Khural of Mongolia, and P. Gendung, Mongolian Prime Minister, requesting assistance from the USSR in weapons, ammunition, and troops to defend the achievements of the Mongolian revolution from the attacks of Japanese and Manchurian armed forces along the eastern border of Mongolia (area of the Khalkhyn Gol River); resolution (translated into Russian) of the Presidium of the Little Khural and the Council of Ministers; one page of the original document in Mongolian, 1936 January

Opis 63, Reel 1.1009, File 21

Memorandum to J. Stalin, V. Molotov, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, and K. Voroshilov, People's Commissar of Defense, from P. Gendung, former Prime Minister of Mongolia, containing his greetings upon the 19th anniversary of the October revolution, self-criticism and acknowledgment of his own mistakes that led him to be dismissed from all positions in the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party and in the government, gratitude for permission to live in the Soviet Union, and a request to be assisted in finding the correct political orientation (translated into Russian from Gendung's oral presentation), 1936 October

Opis 63, Reel 1.1009, File 22

Memorandum (copies to be sent to V. Molotov and K. Voroshilov) to J. Stalin, General Secretary of the TsK VKP(b), from K. Stomoniakov, Deputy People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs, accompanying a list of proposals from the Mongolian leadership submitted by A. Amar, Mongolian Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, and stating that Amar hopes to have a meeting with Stalin in order to get directives from him similar to those given by Stalin to P. Gendung in November 1934 and January 1936; list of Mongolian proposals for Soviet-Mongolian cooperation in defense, transportation, delivery of Soviet goods, road construction, exploration of Mongolian natural resources by Soviet specialists in geology, health care, and veterinary work; K. Stomoniakov's comments on the list of proposals; memorandum to J. Stalin (copies to be sent to V. Molotov and K. Voroshilov) from K. Stomoniakov re additional proposals to increase the total number of Mongolian students in Soviet medical, veterinary, agricultural, and animal research schools, 1936 November

Opis 63, Reel 1.1009, File 23

Memorandum of a conversation between a Mongolian delegation, headed by A. Amar, and Soviet leaders (during a reception at Molotov's office) about Amar's proposals re the Mongolian army and defense, Soviet-Mongolian trade relations, transport, and state monopoly of wells, and re his request that Soviet leaders give him advice on Mongolian internal policy, 1936 December

Opis 63, Reel 1.1009, File 24

Memorandum of a conversation between a Mongolian delegation, headed by A. Amar, and Soviet leaders (during a reception at Molotov's apartment in the Kremlin) re the Mongolian military budget and Soviet subsidization of it (up to 30%), a Soviet loan to Mongolia and interest on it, Soviet assistance to Mongolia in road construction, and terms for signing agreements, 1937 January 4

Opis 63, Reel 1.1009, File 25

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo putting the People's Commissariat of Health (Narkomzdrav) in charge of treating and feeding P. Gendung [former Mongolian Prime Minister], the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) in charge of Gendung's expenses and security, and the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs (NKID) in charge of general oversight of the services rendered to Gendung and his family, 1937 February

Opis 63, Reel 1.1009, File 26

Handwritten message to S. Mironov, Soviet Plenipotentiary to Mongolia, M. Frinovskii, Deputy People's Commissar of Internal Affairs, and Smirnov (Soviet Embassy in Mongolia) requesting that they inform A. Amar, Chairman of the Mongolian Government, of the decision of the Soviet government to send Soviet troops to Mongolia to guard Mongolian borders, 1937 August

Opis 63, Reel 1.1009, File 27

Memorandum to Smirnov and M. Frinovskii, Deputy People's Commissar of Internal Affairs, from J. Stalin directing that they explain to the commissars and commanders ofSoviet troops in Mongolia the political meaning and aim of bringing Soviet troops into Mongolia; original memorandum, in Stalin's handwriting, 1937 August

Opis 63, Reel 1.1009, File 28

Ciphered telegram to J. Stalin from M. Frinovskii, Deputy People's Commissar of Internal Affairs, and Smirnov, confirming receipt of and obedience to Stalin's message, 1937 September

Opis 63, Reel 1.1009, File 29

Ciphered telegram to J. Stalin, V. Molotov, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, K. Voroshilov, People's Commissar of Defense, and N. Yezhov, People's Commissar of Internal Affairs, from S. Mironov, Soviet Plenipotentiary to Mongolia, submitting a telegram adopted by the Mongolian leadership expressing the gratitude of the Mongolian people to the Soviet state and its leadership for permanent military and economic assistance, 1937 December

Opis 63, Reel 1.1009, File 30

Memorandum of a conversation between Mironov, Chief of the Second Eastern Department of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, and Marshal KH. Choybalsan, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers, re KH. Choybalsan's desire for a meeting with J. Stalin, V. Molotov, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, L. Kaganovich, People's Commissar of Heavy Industry, K. Voroshilov, People's Commissar of Defense, N. Yezhov, People's Commissar of Internal Affairs, and M. Frinovskii, Deputy People's Commissar of Internal Affairs, in order to ask the Soviet government for assistance in the construction of a railway line, and to express his appreciation for the assistance rendered to his country by the Soviet Union and for medical treatment that he and his family received during their stay in the Soviet Union, 1938 September

Opis 63, Reel 1.1009, File 31

Memorandum (translated into Russian) to J. Stalin, General Secretary of the TsK VKP(b), V. Molotov, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom), and K. Voroshilov, People's Commissar of Defense, from KH. Choybalsan, asking that the Soviet leadership assist Mongolia in constructing brickworks and an auto repair shop and send an instructor to the Central Committee of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, an instructor to the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Union of Mongolian Youth, an instructor for agitation, propaganda, and press, three specialists in social sciences, forty doctors, forty nurses, and ten pharmacists, one specialist in planning, three specialists in gold mining, and a team to participate in developing textbooks on political science, the party code, and the constitution of the country; original memorandum in Mongolian, undated

Opis 63, Reel 1.1009, File 32

Ciphered telegram to M. Litvinov, People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs, from Skripko, submitting an appeal to J. Stalin from the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, expressing the gratitude of the Mongolian people to Stalin for the warm reception given to the Mongolian delegation in the Soviet Union and for the assistance rendered to Mongolia by the Soviet government, 1939 February

Opis 63, Reel 1.1009, File 33

List of issues submitted by KH. Choybalsan, Mongolian Minister of Internal Affairs, to be discussed with leaders of the Soviet government (party work, the Mongolian constitution, cattle breeding, and construction of a railway road, a meat-processing factory, a cement plant, and an auto repair shop), with Stalin's handwritten note across the page and marginal notes, 1939 December

Opis 63, Reel 1.1009, File 34

Memorandum of a conversation between J. Stalin and KH. Choybalsan, Prime Minister of Mongolia, re an agreement on friendship and mutual assistance between the USSR and Mongolia, work with Mongolian tribes in Inner Mongolia, (part of China), and Sino-Mongolian relations after the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, 1946 February

 

Opis 64

Opis 64, Reel 1.1009, File 1

One page of the Protocol of a meeting of the Small Council of People's Commissars (Malyi Sovnarkom) re a draft agreement between the People's Commissariat of Post Offices and Telegraph and the (Danish) Great Northern Telegraph Society, re reduction of the number of employees of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection, and re a draft resolution on raising the age limit of those obliged to participate in sanitary works and removal of snow; two copies of a resolution of the Small Council of People's Commissars requesting that the People's Commissariat of Post Offices and Telegraph, upon approval of relevant departments, develop a detailed draft agreement with the Great Northern Telegraph Society, without reference to the concession of 1906, 1921 March

Opis 64, Reel 1.1009, File 2

Note submitted by Grachev, Inspector of the Main Committee for Concessions, to a meeting of the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom) on providing the Great Northern Telegraph Society with a second iron communication line between Leningrad and Khabarovsk and with a bronze communication line between Khabarovsk and Vladivostok as an additional provision to the agreement between the society and the People's Commissariat of Post Offices and Telegraph (with distribution list), 1928 July

Opis 64, Reel 1.1009, File 3

Extract from the minutes of the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom) (two identical copies) approving a second iron communication line between Leningrad and Khabarovsk for the Great Northern Telegraph Society as an additional provision to the agreement between the society and the People's Commissariat of Post Offices and Telegraph, 1928 July

Opis 64, Reel 1.1009, File 4

Addendum to the concession agreement between the Great Northern Telegraph Society and the People's Commissariat of Post Offices and Telegraph specifying the terms of theinstallation of an additional iron communication line between Leningrad and Khabarovsk and of a bronze communication line between Khabarovsk and Vladivostok, 1928 August

Opis 64, Reel 1.1009, Files 5-7

Files are unavailable, 1918-1992

Opis 64, Reel 1.1009, File 8

Report of May 1931 on the activity of the Great Northern Telegraph Society concession enterprise with cover letter to the Main Committee for Concessions from H. Christiansen(?), representative of the society; report of August 1931 on the activity of the Great Northern Telegraph Society concession enterprise with cover letter to the Main Committee for Concessions from H. Christiansen(?), representative of the society, 1931 January 1-March 31 1931 April 1-June 30 1931 May 1931 August

Opis 64, Reel 1.1009, Files 9-10

Files are unavailable, 1918-1992

Opis 64, Reel 1.1009, File 11

List of acting concessions and of the institutions overseeing them, 1936 February 15

Opis 64, Reel 1.1009, File 12

Memorandum to Golubev, Deputy Plenipotentiary for Repatriation of the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom), from V. Beliaev, Chief of the Consular Department of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, re a request from the Danish mission to issue exit visas to Danish citizens who escaped from the German concentration camp for communists in Stuthof; memorandum to V. Beliaev from General Basilov, Deputy Plenipotentiary for Repatriation of the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom); memorandum to M. Vetrov, Chief of the 5th European Department of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, from General Basilov, 1945 May

Opis 64, Reel 1.1009, File 13

List of Allied prisoners of war and internees departing from the Odessa transit camp to the city of St. Valentin, 1946 February

Opis 64, Reel 1.1009, File 14

Memorandum to Golubev, Deputy Plenipotentiary for Repatriation of the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom), from General Krivenko, Chief of the Main Directorate for POW and Internee Affairs (Glavnoe upravlenie po delam voennoplennykh i internirovannykh - GUPVI) of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD), stating that 23,217 prisoners of war and internees of different nationalities held in NKVD camps are scheduled for departure in May, and requesting instructions about where they could be handed over to the authorities responsible for repatriation, 1946 March

Opis 64, Reel 1.1009, File 15

List of foreign repatriates handed over to a representative of the French Department for Repatriation in Berlin inFebruary and March 1946, with their names, dates of birth, and last place of stay, 1946 March

Opis 64, Reel 1.1009, File 16

Memorandum to Colonel Gavrilov, Chief of the Department for Administration of the Plenipotentiary for Repatriation of the USSR Council of Ministers, from General Ratushnyi, Deputy Chief of the MVD Main Directorate for POW and Internee Affairs (Glavnoe upravlenie po delam voennoplennykh i internirovannykh - GUPVI), stating that there are 177 prisoners of war (with indication of their nationalities) in camp no. 60 in Frankfurt an der Oder who were not admitted to camp no. 232 for further repatriation and requesting that directives be issued to admit them, 1946 April

Opis 64, Reel 1.1009, File 17

Memorandum to General Golubev, Deputy Plenipotentiary for Repatriation of the USSR Council of Ministers, from Colonel A. Parshinskii, Acting Chief of the Directorate for Repatriation attached to the Military Council of the Central Group of Troops, and Major Skablevich, Chief of the Department for Registration and Statistics of the same Directorate, submitting lists of foreign prisoners of war and internees to be handed over to the Allied command; list of foreign citizens handed over to the Allied command from the camps of the Central Group of Troops, with the indication of the number of people of each nationality and the place from which they were dispatched to the camps of the Central Group of Troops, 1946 May

Opis 64, Reel 1.1009, File 18

List of prisoners of war of Danish nationality who were handed over to a representative of the Danish Mission for Repatriation of the Danish Army by a representative of the Red Army in the city of St. Valentin, 1946 June

Opis 64, Reel 1.1009, File 19

Memorandum to M. Vetrov, Chief of the 5th European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from General Basilov, Assistant Plenipotentiary for Repatriation of the Council of Ministers, complaining about the refusal of the Danish consul to accept five Danish citizens (former prisoners of war) and requesting that General Golubev clarify the matter with the Danish Government; memorandum to M. Vetrov from Basilov stating that Danish citizens were handed over to the Danish consul on December 28, 1946, 1947 January

Opis 64, Reel 1.1009, File 20

Memorandum to M. Vetrov, Chief of the 5th European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from General Basilov, Assistant Plenipotentiary for Repatriation of the USSR Council of Ministers, stating that six Danish citizens who were former prisoners of war and who were not accepted by the Danish consulate in Vienna escaped from the transit camp in St. Valentin, 1947 February

Opis 64, Reel 1.1009, File 21

Memorandum to General Golubev, Deputy Plenipotentiary for Repatriation of the USSR Council of Ministers, stating that 913 prisoners of war (with indication as to the number of each nationality) are kept in the camps of Kiev, Kharkov,and Odessa, and are prepared to be moved to camp no. 186 in Lustdorf for repatriation; memorandum to the Chief of the MVD Main Directorate for POW and Internee Affairs (Glavnoe upravlenie po delam voennoplennykh i internirovannykh - GUPVI), from General Basilov, Assistant Plenipotentiary for Repatriation of the USSR Council of Ministers, stating that Danes, Norwegians, Finns, Turks, Gypsies, and Jews should not be dispatched to the Odessa camp, because Norwegians and Finns should depart from the city of Vyborg and Danes through Germany, because the Turkish Government does not admit Turks, and because Jews and Gypsies are not foreigners and are not subject to repatriation, 1947 April-May

Opis 64, Reel 1.1009, File 22

Memorandum to General Golubev, Deputy Plenipotentiary for Repatriation of the USSR Council of Ministers, from General T. Filippov, Chief of the MVD Main Directorate for POW and Internee Affairs (Glavnoe upravlenie po delam voennoplennykh i internirovannykh - GUPVI), requesting directives on the immediate extradition, upon request of the Danish Mission in the USSR, of the Danish citizen K. Knutz(?), wanted for criminal proceedings for his crimes during World War II; memorandum to General T. Filippov from General Golubev stating that K. Knutz(?) was released from camp no. 69 and sent to the place of his residence in Denmark, 1947 June-July

Opis 64, Reel 1.1009, File 23

Statement on the repatriation of foreign citizens and prisoners of war in 1945-1951 with indication as to the total number of repatriated people of each nationality, number of people liberated from German captivity, and number of prisoners of war and internees in each year and during the whole time period, and as to reimbursement for expenses incurred by the Soviet Union during the repatriation of foreign citizens (this part incomplete), undated

Opis 64, Reel 1.1009, File 24

File is unavailable, 1918-1992

 

Opis 65

Opis 65, Reel 1.1009, File 1

Cover letter to the TsK KPSS from V. Tereshkin, Deputy Chief of the International Department, submitting a letter from the Central Committee of the Japanese Communist Party (JCP) and a report on the situation in the JCP; the letter to the TsK KPSS from the Central Committee of the JCP, expressing gratitude for the financial assistance received by the JCP from the communist parties of the Soviet Union and China and expressing concerns about the political situation in the JCP after its 4th National Conference and with the financial situation in the JCP resulting from the financial activity of Shigeo Shida; the report (translated into Russian) on the situation in the JCP, containing criticism of the Tokyo party organization, of its leadership, and of anti-JCP activity of former party leaders, presenting information on the preparation of a new program and a new JCP code, on fund-raising, etc., and explaining difficulties with distribution of Akahata (Red Flag) newspaper; original report in Japanese, 1957 October

Opis 65, Reel 1.1009, File 2

Memorandum of a conversation between K. Krutikov, Counselor of the Soviet Embassy in China, and Lo Min(?), member of the Japanese Communist Party, re the political and economic situation in Japan, the JCP and its prospects in the coming parliamentary elections, the state of workers' movement, and the importance of Japanese-Chinese trade relations, 1958 January

Opis 65, Reel 1.1009, File 3

Memorandum of a conversation between K. Krutikov, Counselor of the Soviet Embassy in China, and Lo Min(?), member of the Japanese Communist Party, re the political situation in Japan, economic difficulties, the reaction of Japan to measures taken by the Chinese government to establish economic, trade, and cultural relations with Japan, and prospects for Chinese-Japanese relations, 1958 June

Opis 65, Reel 1.1009, File 4

Cover letter to the TsK KPSS (B. Ponomarev) from S. Antonov, Soviet Chargé d'Affaires ad Interim in China, transmitting a letter to the TsK KPSS from Japanese friends; the letter (in Japanese); statement re the request from Lo Min, representative of the Japanese Communist Party in China, that Soviet authorities invite Takakura Teru(?), Japanese writer and member of the JCP, residing in China, to the Conference of Writers from Asia and Africa in Tashkent so that he can apply for a Japanese visa at the Japanese Embassy in the Soviet Union, thus ensuring his legal return to Japan, 1958 September-October

Opis 65, Reel 1.1009, File 5

Cover letter to the TsK KPSS (V. Kovazhenkov) from S. Antonov, Soviet Chargé d'Affaires ad Interim in China, transmitting a letter from Lo Min re the arrival of Taka Kurateru [Takakura Teru?] at the Congress of Writers in Tashkent, with handwritten note from V. Kovazhenkov stating that Takakura Teru was present at the Congress of Writers in Tashkent and left for Peking; the letter from Lo Min (in Japanese), 1958 September

Opis 65, Reel 1.1009, File 6

Memorandum of a conversation between V. Sanfirov, First Secretary of the Soviet Embassy in China, and Lo Min, representative of the Japanese Communist Party in China, re request to authorize a visit to Moscow of Yanagisave Yasyo(?), representative of the Nippon Danba News telegraph agency (Japan), for negotiations on television program exchange between Japan and the Soviet Union, and re improvement in Sino-Japanese relations, 1961 February

Opis 65, Reel 1.1009, File 7

FQuestionnaire (in German) containing personal data of A. Schmidt, citizen of the Netherlands, member of the Communist Party and of the Young Communists League of the Netherlands, dispatched to the International Lenin School, 1933 December

Opis 65, Reel 1.1009, File 8

Autobiography of H. J. Averink (Annie Schmidt), citizen of the Netherlands, member of the Communist Party and of the Young Communists League of the Netherlands, her social origin and political and professional activity. undated

Opis 65, Reel 1.1009, File 9

Memorandum to the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) from the Communist Party of the Netherlands (CPN) appointing H. J. van Ommeren-Averink to represent the CPN in a discussion about Indonesia, 1950 September

Opis 65, Reel 1.1009, File 10

Memorandum of a conversation between N. Kosov, First Secretary of the Soviet Embassy in the Netherlands, and Anna Averink, Dutch communist, re the negative impression that A. Averink gained during her visit to the Soviet Union and re a telegram that was sent to US President Eisenhower and N. Khrushchev, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, by a group of Dutch public activists, 1959 October

Opis 65, Reel 1.1009, File 11

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), assessing the response of the Soviet people to the report of L. Brezhnev, General Secretary of the TsK KPSS, at the meeting in the Kremlin in honor of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1973 January

Opis 65, Reel 1.1009, File 12

Memorandum to N. Khrushchev from V. Semichastnyi, Chairman of the KGB, stating that KGB archival materials do not contain documents confirming the involvement of Academician T. Lysenko in the arrest and trial of Academician N. Vavilov, former Vice President of the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re confiscation of the copies of Lysenko's report On the Situation in the Biological Sciences from T. Lysenko's family in order to prevent the transfer of the report abroad where it could be used in a manner unfavorable to the Soviet Union, 1964 September 1976 December

Opis 65, Reel 1.1009, File 13

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Semichastnyi, Chairman of the KGB, assessing the response in the Soviet Armed Forces to the report presented by L. Brezhnev, General Secretary of the TsK KPSS, at the meeting in the Palace of Congresses in honor of the 20th anniversary of V-E Day, 1965 May

Opis 65, Reel 1.1009, File 14

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from M. Zakharov (General Staff), re the possible transport of American prisoners of war in Vietnam by Aeroflot charter flights from Peking to any city in Western Europe (via Moscow) and from Hanoi to Paris or any other Western capital (via Moscow); two brief handwritten notes, 1971 July

Opis 65, Reel 1.1009, File 15

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Bugaev, Minister of Civil Aviation, approving the establishment of charter flights to Western Europe from Hanoi and disapproving those from Peking, 1971 July

Opis 65, Reel 1.1009, File 16

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Chebrikov, Chairman of the KGB, approving the establishment of charter flights from Hanoi to Paris and advising that the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs discuss the matter with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of North Vietnam, 1971 July

Opis 65, Reel 1.1009, File 17

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Administrative Organs, O. Rakhmanin, Deputy Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers Parties of Socialist Countries, and R. Ulianovskii, Deputy Chief of the International Department, raising objections to the possible establishment of charter flights to transport American prisoners of war from Hanoi to Paris, 1971 August

Scope and Contents note

See also files 14-16 of this opis.
 

Opis 66

Opis 66, Reel 1.1010, File 1

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving an analysis of the situation in Poland provided by L. Brezhnev, General Secretary of the TsK KPSS, establishing a commission of the TsK KPSS to monitor the situation in Poland and to draft proposals for the Politburo re measures that might be taken by the Soviet Union toward Poland, 1980 August

Opis 66, Reel 1.1010, File 2

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving theses for a discussion with representatives of the Polish leadership; the theses addressing the following issues: the situation in Poland, agreement with the "joint strike committees" in Gdansk and Szczecin, preparation of a counterattack and restoration of control by the Polish United Workers' Party (PUWP) over the people and working class, strengthening of the leading role of the PUWP and its control over propaganda and the media, reform of trade union activity, and restoration of socialist law and order, 1980 September

Opis 66, Reel 1.1010, File 3

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving conclusions of the report on the situation in Poland presented by the commission of the TsK KPSS Politburo and authorizing measures to be taken to assist the leadership of the Polish United Workers' Party (PUWP) in strengthening the organizational and ideological work of the PUWP; the report on the internal situation in Poland and in the PUWP; list of measures for strengthening Soviet influence on the situation in Poland, 1981 April

Opis 66, Reel 1.1010, File 4

Memorandum of a telephone conversation between L. Brezhnev and W. Jaruzelski, after the election of W. Jaruzelski as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party, with a cover letter to the TsK KPSS from L. Brezhnev, 1981 October

Opis 66, Reel 1.1010, File 5

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo re reception in the Soviet Union of a delegation from the Polish United Workers' Party and the Polish government and re an oral message to W. Jaruzelski from L. Brezhnev; instructions to the Soviet ambassador to Poland directing that he meet W. Jaruzelski and transmit to him a message from L. Brezhnev denouncing Jaruzelski's policy toward Solidarity (Solidarnosc) and suggesting that he put more effort into fighting the counterrevolution, 1981 November

Opis 66, Reel 1.1010, File 6

Working record of a meeting of the TsK KPSS Politburo re the situation in Poland, Polish economics, Soviet economic assistance to Poland, and discussion of the introduction of a state of emergency or military dictatorship in Poland, and of the possibility of sending Soviet troops to Poland, 1981 December

Opis 66, Reel 1.1010, File 7

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving instructions to the Soviet ambassadors to Bulgaria, Hungary, East Germany, Mongolia, Czechoslovakia, Cuba, North Vietnam, and Laos re the situation in Poland to be transmitted to the leadership of these states; the instructions (copy to be sent to the Soviet ambassador to Poland), 1981 December

Opis 66, Reel 1.1010, File 8

Statement on Soviet economic assistance to Poland in 1980-1981(totaling $2,934,000,000), 1982 September

 

Opis 67

Opis 67, Reel 1.1010, File 1

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Dudorov, Minister of Internal Affairs, re his reception of T. Gede, Polish Ambassador to the Soviet Union, and M. Popiel, Polish Representative for Repatriation in the USSR, re repatriation of Poles; memorandum of a conversation of N. Dudorov with Gede and Popiel about the process of repatriation of Polish citizens, text of instructions to local MVD organs, list of documents that could be accepted by the MVD as confirmation of the Polish origin of repatriates, the monthly number of those allowed to repatriate, complaints of repatriates about delays in obtaining MVD permission for repatriation, and the process of repatriation of inmates of prisons and labor camps, 1957 August

Opis 67, Reel 1.1010, File 2

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Dudorov, Minister of Internal Affairs, re fulfillment of the agreement between the Soviet Union and Poland on repatriation of Polish citizens, with indication of the number of people in each Soviet republic and total number of people in each month granted permits for repatriation, and re release and repatriation of inmates of labor camps and prisons; memorandum of a conversation between Dudorov and W. Wicha, Polish Minister of Internal Affairs, regarding repatriation to and resettlement in Poland of the repatriates, 1957 December - 1958 January

Opis 67, Reel 1.1010, File 3

Memorandum from V. Vakhrameev, Soviet Consul General in Gdansk, re an anti-Soviet and anti-socialist meeting in Gdansk on May 3, 1980, activity of the people at the meeting, names of speakers, topics of their speeches, slogans, and actions of the organs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Poland, 1980 May

Opis 67, Reel 1.1010, File 4

Statement signed by P. Timofeev, Counsel to the Soviet Consulate General in Szczecin, about anti-Soviet actions of anti-socialist groups in Szczecin in April 1980 (attemptsto hold a meeting with prayers for "Katyn victims" at the Szczecin cemetery, procedure of the meeting, leaflets, and actions taken by the Szczecin authorities), 1980 May

Opis 67, Reel 1.1010, File 5

Political memorandum from V. Vakhrameev, Soviet Consul General in Gdansk, re events on the Gdansk coast and other provinces of the Gdansk Consulate General district in August 1980 (strikes of industrial enterprises, of the Gdansk dockyard, and of transportation workers, economic and political demands of the joint strike committee, its leaders, actions taken by the authorities, and terms for settling the strike); list of demands put forth by striking workers and submitted by the joint strike committee, 1980 September

Opis 67, Reel 1.1010, File 6

Memorandum from B. Zelenov, Consul of the Soviet Consulate General in Gdansk, re activity of opposition elements on the Gdansk coast in a new social and political situation (increase in number of strikes and opposition meetings, leaders of the opposition movement, objectives of the opposition movement, new movements and organizations that joined the opposition actions of the Solidarity independent trade union), 1980 November

Opis 67, Reel 1.1010, File 7

Resolution of the TsK KPSS on results of the visit of W. Jaruzelski, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party and Chairman of the State Council of Poland, on April 21-22, 1987, defining prospects for Soviet-Polish cooperation; brief note dispatching the resolution to TsK KPSS Politburo members and candidate members and to TsK KPSS secretaries, 1987 April

Opis 67, Reel 1.1010, File 8

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Bakaev, Minister of the Merchant Marine, re detention of the Soviet Tuapse tanker by the Taiwanese Navy, return of 29 members of the crew, their account of their stay in Taiwan (living conditions, torture, humiliations by Taiwanese authorities, their attempts to force Soviet seamen to file for political asylum), 1955 August

Opis 67, Reel 1.1010, File 9

Appeal to N. Bulganin, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, and N. Khrushchev, First Secretary of the TsK KPSS, from the Tuapse tanker seamen, 1955 August

Opis 67, Reel 1.1010, File 10

Urgent telephone message (sent via high frequency communication line) to the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs from Lomakin, Chargé d'Affaires ad Interim in China, re the arrival of seamen from the Tuapse tanker in Moscow, 1955 July

Opis 67, Reel 1.1010, File 11

Memorandum of a conversation of A. Likhachev, Counselor of the Soviet Embassy in Israel, and V. Lavrov, Attaché of the Soviet Embassy in Israel, with Y. Tsaban, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Young Communists League of Israel, and B. Gnezdovich, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Young Communists League of Israel, re B. Gnezdovich's impressions as a participant in the 16thCongress of the VLKSM (All-Union Young Communists League) in Moscow and re activity of the Young Communists League of Israel in anticipation of the Youth Festival in Helsinki, 1962 May

Opis 67, Reel 1.1010, File 12

Memorandum of a conversation between N. Slepov, Second Secretary of the Soviet Embassy in Israel, and Y. Tsaban, First Secretary of the Young Communists League of Israel, re participation of members of the Young Communists League of Israel in summer student classes in Kiev (Ukraine), 1963 July

Opis 67, Reel 1.1010, File 13

Memorandum (translated into Russian) to the TsK KPSS from M. Vilner, Secretary of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Israel, denouncing the National Congress of the Y. Tsaban (or Zaban) faction that split off from the Young Communists League (YCL) of Israel and denouncing the provocative actions of the faction; two copies of the same memorandum in English; memorandum (translated into Russian) to the TsK KPSS from B. Gonen, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the YCL, and G. Toubi, Secretary of the CC YCL; the same memorandum in English, 1967 February-March

Opis 67, Reel 1.1010, File 14

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Bannikov, Deputy Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), transmitting a letter sent to the writer M. Sholokhov by the writer and translator A. Kosterin, with Kosterin's personal data; the letter to M. Sholokhov from A. Kosterin, criticizing Sholokhov for his speech about freedom of press at the 23rd Congress of the KPSS, 1967 July 1967 September

Opis 67, Reel 1.1010, File 15

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from P. Reshetov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Information, and A. Dmitriuk, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department, asking for approval of the publication in the USSR, at the request of the National Liberation Front (NLF) of South Vietnam, of a leaflet in English, French, and Spanish about the losses of "American aggressors" during the "dry seasons" (1965/1966 and 1966/1967) to be distributed by the NLF through channels without indication as to the place of publication; text (in Russian) of the leaflet, 1967 June

Opis 67, Reel 1.1010, File 16

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS and L. Brezhnev from Marshal A. Grechko, USSR Minister of Defense, reporting on the measures taken by Soviet air defense troops in Vietnam to fight American F-111 planes and about one F-111 plane brought down by a Soviet SA-75M (Dvina) anti-aircraft missile, 1968 April

Opis 67, Reel 1.1010, File 17

Memorandum to K. Rusakov (Department of the TsK KPSS) from S. Chervonenko, Soviet Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, about the reaction in Czechoslovakia to the game between the Soviet and Czech hockey teams and suggesting that all games between Soviet and Czech teams be temporarily banned;memorandum, signed by IU. Zhuravlev, Second Secretary of the Soviet Embassy in Czechoslovakia, and I. Ivashchenko, Third Secretary of the Soviet Embassy in Czechoslovakia, 1967 April

Opis 67, Reel 1.1010, File 18

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS (A. Blatov) from P. Ivashutin re anti-Soviet marches, meetings, and disturbances in Czech cities where Soviet troops were stationed in connection with the Soviet-Czech hockey game on March 28, 1969, 1969 March

Opis 67, Reel 1.1010, File 19

Report of the Soviet Embassy in Czechoslovakia on the result of the World and European Hockey Championships in Prague (April 26-May 14, 1978) re the behavior of Soviet and Czech hockey players during the games, reaction of the Czech press and public to the victory of the Soviet team, and related issues, 1978 June

Opis 67, Reel 1.1010, File 20

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re the appeal of Academician A. Sakharov (signed by more than fifty human rights activists and sent to the West with the help of IE. Bonner, Sakharov's wife) to grant amnesty to political prisoners in the Soviet Union in honor of the adoption of a new Soviet constitution, 1977 June

Opis 67, Reel 1.1010, File 21

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re the arrest of and criminal proceedings against G. Snegirev, former director of the Kiev Documentaries Studio and member of the Union of Soviet Writers and Union of Soviet Cinematographers, for his anti-Soviet writings, letters, connections with foreign anti-socialist Kontinent (Continent) magazine and with foreign journalists accredited to Moscow; application to the USSR government from Snegirev containing Snegirev's renunciation of Soviet citizenship and the reasons for his decision, 1977 July 1977 September

Opis 67, Reel 1.1010, File 22

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Andropov, Chairman of the KGB, re investigation of the case against the writer G. Snegirev, 1977 December

 

Opis 68

Opis 68, Reel 1.1010, File 1

Copy of the performance evaluation of Colonel Vasilii Stalin [J. Stalin's son], with his personal data, education, and job history, 1945 July

Opis 68, Reel 1.1010, File 2

Copy of a memorandum (confidential) to S. Kruglov, Minister of Internal Affairs, from I. Serov, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, about the interrogation of the commandant of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and the commander of the guard battalion of the same camp, re detention of IA. Dzhugashvili [J. Stalin's son and V. Stalin's half- brother] in the camp and the circumstances of his death, 1946 September

Opis 68, Reel 1.1010, File 3

Copy of the protocol of the interrogation of V. Stalin with his confirmation that as the Commander of the Air Forces of the Moscow Military District he embezzled government money, that he paid excessive attention to sports teams and sportsmen instead of carrying out his duties, that he discredited himself by drinking and by having affairs with women from the ranks of the Air Forces, and that he participated in many scandalous incidents, purchase of personal clothes, valuables, etc., paying for these personal items with hard currency appropriated by the government for the budget of the Air Forces, 1953 May

Opis 68, Reel 1.1010, File 4

Memorandum to G. Malenkov (Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet) from S. Kruglov, Minister of Internal Affairs, re the trial of V. Stalin and charges against him, 1953 August

Opis 68, Reel 1.1010, File 5

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Shelepin, Chairman of the Committee for State Security (KGB), and R. Rudenko, Prosecutor General, suggesting that V. Stalin be amnestied from prison because of multiple diseases, without serving the full term and with a clean record, that he be granted a three-room apartment in Moscow, a pension of 300 rubles per month, a cash grant of 30,000 rubles, and a free three-month treatment in a sanatorium, and that his personal property be returned to him, 1960 January

Opis 68, Reel 1.1010, File 6

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Shelepin, Chairman of the KGB, and R. Rudenko, Prosecutor General, suggesting that V. Stalin, after finishing his full prison term (April 28, 1961), be sent into exile (by a resolution of the USSR Supreme Soviet, a violation of legal procedure) in the city of Kazan [closed to foreigners' visits] and be tried if he left the city, that he be granted a one-room apartment there and a pension of 150 rubles, that he be offered (after improvement of his health) work at the aviation plant in Kazan, and that his family name on a new passport be changed, 1961 April

Opis 68, Reel 1.1010, File 7

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Semichastnyi, Chairman of the KGB, reporting that V. Dzhugashvili (Stalin) died on March 19, 1962, in Kazan as a result of alcoholic poisoning, and suggesting that he be buried without military honors in Kazan and that his immediate family be informed about his death, 1962 March

 

Opis 69

Opis 69, Reel 1.1010, File 1

Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom) on policy toward prisoners of war (POWs) of Ukrainian, Belorussian, Czech, and Polish origin, conditions of their stay in concentration camps, difference in treatment of enlisted men and officers, distribution of POWs in different camps (with the names of oblasts where the camps are located), 1939 October

Opis 69, Reel 1.1010, File 2

Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars on the admittance to the Soviet Union of servicemen from the former Polish army interned in Lithuania (number of internees admitted each day, location of checkpoints,distribution in the camps by nationality, place of residence, and rank of internees, establishment of a governmental commission for admittance, expenses for reception and transportation of internees), 1939 November

Opis 69, Reel 1.1010, File 3

Instruction of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs on the procedure for resettling Polish "osadniks" [Poles from the former territory of Poland that was annexed by the Soviet Union as a result of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact] directing that the "osadniks" be forced to leave the Ukraine and Belorussia the same date (to be appointed by NKVD) without their property and be allowed to take with them only their personal belongings, and containing instructions to the related organizations re transportation, food supplies, and health care to the "osadniks," indicating the oblasts and krais where the "osadniks" are to perform timber cutting and the procedure for their settlement, 1939 December

Opis 69, Reel 1.1010, File 4

Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom) approving the instruction of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs for the procedure for resettling Polish "osadniks," indicating the people's commissariats, executive committees in krais and oblasts that are to assume responsibility for resettling the "osadniks" and approving personnel charts for officers of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) appointed to work in the localities where the "osadniks" will be resettled; the personnel charts for NKVD commandants' offices in settlements and raions, 1939 December

Opis 69, Reel 1.1010, File 5

Statute on special settlements and on employment of the "osadniks" evicted from the western oblasts of the Ukraine and Belorussia, regulating the number of families in one settlement, the kind of labor the "osadniks" are to perform, housing for the "osadniks," administration of the settlements, responsibilities of the commandant's office, reimbursement of the expenses for maintaining the commandant's office by deducting the corresponding amount from the "osadniks" salary, criminal and administrative proceedings against violators of the regulations and labor schedule, registration of resettlers, and resettlers' salary; sample of a personal registration card for a resettler, 1939 December

Opis 69, Reel 1.1010, File 6

Resolution of the USSR Council of People's Commissars approving the proposal of the Council of People's Commissars of Belorussia re utilization of real estate and property of resettlers, 1939 December

Opis 69, Reel 1.1010, File 7

Resolution of the TsK VKP(b) and the USSR Council of People's Commissars authorizing the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs to hand over to the Ministry of Nonferrous Metallurgy 5,000 families of special resettlers from the Ukraine and Belorussia to perform mining and timber-cutting labor, 1940 January

Opis 69, Reel 1.1010, File 8

Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom), approving instructions for evicting from the western territories of the Ukraine and Belorussia the families of several categories of imprisoned Poles (former officers of the Polish army, policemen, prison governors, gendarmes, intelligence officers, former landowners, manufacturers, officials of the former Polish government, participants in counterrevolutionary and insurgent organizations, refugees from Polish territories who applied for permission to move to the territories occupied by Germany and were not admitted there, and prostitutes registered previously by the Polish police and continuing their activity) and regulating the supply of food, housing, transportation, health care, and jobs to these families (with handwritten amendments and holograph signatures of top authorities), with cover letter to V. Molotov from L. Beria; the instructions (with handwritten amendments) specifying the procedure for management of the private property and real estate of special resettlers, locations where different categories of resettlers should be sent, and related issues, 1940 March-April

 

Opis 70

Opis 70, Reel 1.1010, File 1

Memorandum from N. Solodovnik, Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Information of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and S. Lapin, Chief of the 3rd European Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, submitting analyses of the plan of Western countries for establishment of "a zone of reduced tension" in Europe, with a cover letter from A. Gromyko to N. Khrushchev, 1955 October

Opis 70, Reel 1.1010, File 2

Cover letter to B. Ponomarev (TsK KPSS) from N. Solodovnik, Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Information of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, submitting two copies of the memorandum Some Features of the Economic and Political Situation in West Germany After the War prepared by the Committee for Information of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the memorandum, 1955 December

Opis 70, Reel 1.1010, File 3

Cover letter to B. Ponomarev (TsK KPSS) from N. Solodovnik, Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Information of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, submitting two copies of the memorandum On the Changes in Arrangement and Alignment of Forces Concerning War and Peace Issues Among Foreign Bourgeois Circles of the Principal Capitalist Countries (1952-1955) ; the memorandum, 1955 December

Opis 70, Reel 1.1010, File 4

Cover letter to B. Ponomarev (TsK KPSS) from N. Solodovnik, Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Information of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, submitting two copies of the memorandum Policy of Western Powers Toward Creation of Military and Political Blocs and Imperialistic Contradictions Within Them ; the memorandum, 1955 December

Opis 70, Reel 1.1010, File 5

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS (Department of Administrative Organs) from F. Golikov, denouncing the request of a group of servicemen from the 20th Army of the Group of Soviet Troops in Germany to publish in Pravda (Truth) newspaper the pacifist Appeal of Soviet Servicemen to Servicemen of Armies of All Countries , presenting the name of the author of the appeal and his biographical data, and reporting on measures taken to denounce the appeal and pacifist spirit in the 20th Army; text of the appeal, 1961 February

Opis 70, Reel 1.1010, File 6

Excerpt from a stenographic report of a KPSS conference of the Group of Soviet Troops in Germany re readiness for action of all troops, especially of air defense troops, accidents during training flights, international issues (four-state control over West Berlin, Soviet policy toward the unification of Germany, meeting between N. Khrushchev and US President J. Kennedy in Vienna, American-German political and economic relations, the radio and television speech delivered by President Kennedy on July 26, 1961, and his speech at the UN General Assembly on September 25,1961, the possibility of a world nuclear war, the Belgrade Conference of Non-Aligned Countries), and preparation for the 22nd Congress of the KPSS, 1961 September

Opis 70, Reel 1.1010, File 7

Cover letter to M. Suslov (TsK KPSS) from A. Gromyko, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, submitting the memorandum On Possible Policy of Western Powers Toward Main International Problems at the Coming Meeting of the Heads of Government of Four Powers , prepared by the Committee for Information of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the memorandum, 1955 July

Opis 70, Reel 1.1010, File 8

Memorandum of a conversation between IU. Kvitsinskii, Attaché of the Soviet Embassy in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), and P. Köttnitz(?), Reference Adviser of the Sector of Latin American Countries of the GDR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, re public speeches of members of the Chilean parliamentary delegation after their trip to socialist countries in Europe, the reaction of parliamentary members and of the government to the creation of trade relations between Chile and socialist countries, a possible trip to Chile and Uruguay of an informal delegation from the GDR, and trade relations between the GDR and Argentina, 1961 January

Opis 70, Reel 1.1010, File 9

Cover letter to the TsK KPSS from M. Pervukhin, Soviet Ambassador to the German Democratic Republic, submitting the annotation for the document On the Elections to the Bundestag, prepared by the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Germany (CPG) for a limited number of the leading CPG officials to ensure their understanding of the policy and tactics of the CPG toward the coming elections to the Bundestag; said annotation, 1961 March

Opis 70, Reel 1.1010, File 10

Cover letter to the TsK KPSS from M. Pervukhin, Soviet Ambassador to the German Democratic Republic, submitting a memorandum on some aspects of work to be done by theCommunist Party of Germany (CPG) in anticipation of the elections to the Bundestag (September 17, 1961); the memorandum re establishment in the Federal Republic of Germany a new German Union of Peace (GUP) party and its policy toward the elections to the Bundestag; calendar of dates to establish GUP Land boards in the states (Lands) of the FRG; electoral program of the CPG adopted at the 10th Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPG (from Neues Deutchland newspaper of April 29 1961), 1961 April 1961 June

Opis 70, Reel 1.1010, File 11

Cover letter to the TsK KPSS from M. Pervukhin, Soviet Ambassador to the German Democratic Republic, submitting a memorandum (prepared by the Soviet Embassy in the GDR) on activity of the Communist Party of Germany related to the elections to the Bundestag; the memorandum, 1961 November

Opis 70, Reel 1.1010, File 12

Report to the TsK KPSS from Marshal R. Malinovskii, Minister of Defense, and Marshal M. Zakharov, Chief of the General Staff, re the situation in East Germany and East Berlin as of September 14-15, 1961, re violation of the air space of the German Democratic Republic by two planes from the Military Air Force of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and explanations given by the FRG government about the matter, and re the Check and Mate maneuvers to be held in the FRG by NATO troops; map of the flights of two FRG planes over the territory of the GDR, 1961 September

Opis 70, Reel 1.1010, File 13

Report to the TsK KPSS from Marshal R. Malinovskii, Minister of Defense, and Marshal M. Zakharov, Chief of the General Staff, re the situation in East Germany and East Berlin as of September 15-16, 1961 (patrolling by Western troops of the border between East and West Berlin, violation of the border and of GDR air space, Check and Mate NATO maneuvers, delay in discharge of Dutch and Turkish soldiers at the end of their enlistments, dispatch of an additional anti-aircraft regiment to the British troops in West Germany; map of the air Hamburg-Berlin corridor; report to the TsK KPSS from Marshal R. Malinovskii, Minister of Defense, and Marshal M. Zakharov, Chief of the General Staff, re the situation in East Germany and East Berlin as of September 16-18, 1961 (patrolling by Western troops of the border between East and West Berlin, provocative actions and insults hurled at the GDR police by groups of people on the FRG side, violation of the Bulgarian border by a plane from Greece)(incomplete), 1961 September

Opis 70, Reel 1.1010, File 14

Memorandum of a conversation between IU. Kvitsinskii, Attaché of the Soviet Embassy in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), and P. Köttnitz(?), Senior Reference Adviser of the Sector of Latin American Countries of the GDR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, re the work of a commission to draft a message to be sent from W. Ulbricht, First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, to the heads of countries participating in the Belgrade Conference of Non-Aligned Countries to draw their attention to German problems, and re an excessive fee collected by Poland for transportation between the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic, 1961 June

 

Opis 71

Opis 71, Reel 1.1010, File 1

Memorandum to A. Poskrebyshev, Head of the Special Section of the TsK KPSS Secretariat and of Stalin's private secretariat, from Podolskii specifying the circumstances under which he fulfilled Stalin's assignment to publish a report in Soviet newspapers on the state of health of Twardowski, Counselor of the German Embassy in the Soviet Union, 1932 March

Opis 71, Reel 1.1010, File 2

Excerpt from the diary of Podolskii, re the attitude of the German Embassy in the Soviet Union toward the attempt upon the life of F. Twardowski, Counselor of the German Embassy in the Soviet Union, 1932 March

Opis 71, Reel 1.1010, File 3

Excerpt from the diary of N. Krestinskii, Deputy People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs, re reception of H. Dirksen, German Ambassador to the Soviet Union, who submitted the testimony of two witnesses of the attempt upon the life of F. Twardowski, Counselor of the German Embassy in the Soviet Union, and asked questions about the investigation of the case, and re employees of the German consulate in Vladivostok, 1932 March

Opis 71, Reel 1.1010, File 4

Excerpt from the diary of N. Krestinskii, Deputy People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs, re his conversation with S. Patek, Polish Envoy in the Soviet Union, about Patek's concerns related to the TASS press release (to be published the next day) connecting the attempt upon the life of F. Twardowski, Counselor of the German Embassy in the Soviet Union, with "some Polish citizens" who might wage a hostile anti-Soviet campaign in the Polish press, 1932 March

Opis 71, Reel 1.1010, File 5

Memorandum of a conversation between N. Krestinskii, Deputy People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs, and S. Patek, Polish Envoy in the Soviet Union, re a request of the Polish government to release the names of Polish citizens involved in the attempt upon the life of F. Twardowski, Counselor of the German Embassy in the Soviet Union, 1932 March

Opis 71, Reel 1.1010, File 6

Memorandum to J. Stalin, General Secretary of the TsK VKP(b), from N. Krestinskii, Deputy People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs, reporting on inquiries from Polish and German embassies in Moscow about the terrorists revealed by the investigation of the attempt upon the life of F. Twardowski, Counselor of the German Embassy in the Soviet Union, and suggesting that a decision on the indictment be adopted by the TsK VKP(b) Politburo and a court trial be scheduled, 1932 March

Opis 71, Reel 1.1010, File 7

Memorandum of a conversation between N. Krestinskii, Deputy People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs, and S. Patek, Polish Envoy in the Soviet Union, re publications in the German press about participation of Polish citizens in the attemptupon the life of Twardowski, Counselor of the German Embassy in the Soviet Union, and re the refusal of the Polish government to issue a visa to Markov, appointed by the Soviet government as Soviet Deputy Military Attaché in Warsaw, 1932 March

Opis 71, Reel 1.1010, File 8

Memorandum to J. Stalin, General Secretary of the TsK VKP(b), from N. Krestinskii, Deputy People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs, asking that Stalin schedule a meeting of representatives from the United Main Political Directorate (OGPU), the Supreme Court, and the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs (NKID) for a final discussion about the trial of the perpetrators of the attempt upon the life of Twardowski, Counselor of the German Embassy in the Soviet Union, and for final directives to be given to V. Ulrikh, Chairman of the Military Collegium of the USSR Supreme Soviet, and N. Krylenko, Minister of Justice of the RSFSR, 1932 March

Opis 71, Reel 1.1010, File 9

Memorandum of a conversation between A. Gromyko, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, and US President J. Carter re their discussion on the development of Soviet-American relations (Soviet-American trade, human rights, emigration of Soviet Jews, international relations with respect to events in the Middle East, South Africa, Korea, Sino-American relations, Soviet relations with Western countries and American relations with socialist countries, nonproliferation of nuclear weapons, weapons sales to third parties, ban on nuclear tests, strategic arms limitation, the difference in Soviet and American interpretations of the agreement reached in Vladivostok, etc.), 1977 September

Opis 71, Reel 1.1010, File 10

Memorandum of a conversation between A. Gromyko, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, and US Secretary of State C. Vance re their discussion of Soviet-American relations (anti-Soviet propaganda in the United States caused by the increase in Soviet armament, Soviet support of Cuba and military actions in Africa, American military presence in Africa, violation of human rights in the Soviet Union, specific measures to be taken to reach mutual understanding and progress in Soviet-American relations, negotiations on disarmament, limitation of strategic weapons, the situation in Cyprus, and the detention in New York of two Soviet citizens who worked for the UN Secretariat), 1978 May

Opis 71, Reel 1.1010, File 11

Memorandum of a conversation between A. Gromyko, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, and US Secretary of State C. Vance re their discussion of negotiations on the terms and provisions of the Soviet-American agreement on the limitation of strategic offensive weapons (number of missiles allowed on a heavy bomber, Soviet planes of Backfire type, missile range allowed, terms for dismantling and terms of protocol validity, coding of telemetric data, terms of arms reduction), 1978 September 1978 October

 

Opis 72

Opis 72, Reel 1.1010, File 1

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo declining a proposal to take Lenin's brain abroad for research and suggesting that it be examined in Russia; memorandum to the TsK VKP(b) Politburo from N. Semashko, People's Commissar of Health, and I. Tovstukha, Deputy Director of the Lenin Institute, asking for directives on the proposal of the German Professor O. Vogt to take Lenin's brain to the Neurological Institute in Berlin for research; document citing reasons for research on Lenin's brain abroad signed by Professor O. Vogt and leading Russian doctors, 1925 February

Opis 72, Reel 1.1010, File 2

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a proposal to continue the study of Lenin's brain in Moscow, authorizing Professor Vogt and his wife and laboratory assistant to enter Russia, to bring necessary equipment, to do research on one microscopic section sample of the brain, and to take additional microscopic sections if warranted; memorandum to the Politburo from N. Semashko asking for authorization for further research on Lenin's brain in Moscow with the help of Professor Vogt, 1925 February

Opis 72, Reel 1.1010, File 3

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a draft agreement between the Lenin Institute and Professor Vogt and making assignments related to the agreement, 1925 May

Opis 72, Reel 1.1010, File 4

Memorandum to the TsK VKP(b) Politburo from N. Semashko, People's Commissar of Health, reporting on the work done in examining Lenin's brain and proposing to organize a Brain Institute, with Professor O. Vogt as director, 1926 January

Opis 72, Reel 1.1010, File 5

Cover letter to Zorin(?) (illegible, poor copy) (Lenin Institute) from Kanner(?) (illegible, poor copy), Deputy Secretary of the TsK VKP(b), dispatching to Zorin, at Stalin's request, a memorandum to the Politburo of the TsK VKP(b) from I. Rudzutak, Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, re appropriation of 154,480 rubles for maintenance of the medical commission for research on Lenin's brain from the budget of the Lenin Institute; the memorandum, 1926 April

Opis 72, Reel 1.1010, File 6

Memorandum to A. Bubnov, Chief of the Political Directorate of the Red Army (unclear) from P. Lamkin, Military Commissar of V.N.A.(?) R.K.K.A (Workers'and Peasants' Red Army), reporting on criticism by young Soviet scholars of the activity of Professor Vogt and his disciples at the Brain Institute, 1928 January

Opis 72, Reel 1.1010, File 7

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo putting V. Molotov in charge of further work on Lenin's brain, 1932 January

Opis 72, Reel 1.1010, File 8

Memorandum to [J.] Stalin (with Stalin's handwritten note on the top of the page), from A. Stetskii, Chief of the Department of Culture and Propaganda, re relations betweenProfessor Vogt and the Brain Institute, preservation of Lenin's brain, misuse by Professor Vogt of one microscopic section of Lenin's brain during his lectures in Germany, criticism of his theory by German scholars, and proposals re further relations with Professor Vogt; memorandum to Stetskii from the Director of the Association of Natural Sciences and the Director of the Institute of Psychoneurology (signatures are unclear) with their proposals for further handling of Lenin's brain and relations with Professor Vogt, 1932 January

Opis 72, Reel 1.1010, File 9

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo directing that the Brain Institute be restored under the Academic Committee of the USSR Central Executive Committee (TsIK), that Professor Vogt be appointed as director and S. Sarkisov as deputy director of the institute, that a group of researchers be approved by a TsK resolution, and that Comrade S. Sarkisov be sent to Berlin to conduct talks with Professor Vogt, 1932 April

Opis 72, Reel 1.1010, File 10

Memorandum to J. Stalin from V. Miliutin, Chairman of the Committee for Scientific and Educational Institutions, describing the work done while examining Lenin's brain and requesting directives to submit to the Politburo the results of the research, to publish the results of brain research on Skvortsov-Stepanov, Pokrovskii, Lunacharskii, and others, and asking for financial support for the Brain Institute, 1935 July

Opis 72, Reel 1.1010, File 11

Memorandum to the TsK VKP(b) and to Comrade J. Stalin from I. Akulov, Commissar of the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection and Secretary of the USSR Central Executive Committee (TsIK), re completion of work on Lenin's brain and presentation of the results at a meeting of the TsK VKP(b); memorandum to Ivan Alekseevich [Akulov] from S. Sarkisov, Acting Director of the Brain Institute, reporting completion of the research on Lenin's brain and presenting the history of the work, 1936 February

Opis 72, Reel 1.1010, File 12

Cover letter to the TsK VKP(b) Politburo and to Comrade J. Stalin from M. Kalinin, submitting a report from S. Sarkisov, Acting Director of the Brain Institute, and a draft resolution of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo; S. Sarkisov's report re the scholarly work done while studying Lenin's brain, with reference to chronological data; draft resolution of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo establishing the commission for evaluation of the results of the research on Lenin's brain, appointing the Central Executive Committee in charge of providing the Brain Institute with special premises and equipment for safekeeping of microscopic sections and molds, and of all texts and illustrations related to the research on Lenin's brain (and brains of other famous leaders of the Soviet Union kept in the Institute) and to produce four copies of molds, texts, and illustrations to be stored at the TsK VKP(b), at the Central Executive Committee (TsIK) and the Council of People's Commissars, at the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute, and at the Brain Institute, 1936 May

 

Opis 73

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 1

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo explaining that firing the relatives of those arrested for counterrevolutionary crimes is "incorrect" and directing that A. Vyshinskii, USSR State Prosecutor, send appropriate directives to the organs of prosecution, 1938 January

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 2

Memorandum to the TsK VKP(b) and J. Stalin from V. Ulrikh, Chairman of the Military Collegium of the USSR Supreme Court, reporting on the number of people sentenced to death (1,714) and to prison (473) by the Military Collegium of the USSR Supreme Court in Moscow and by the assizes of the Military Collegium of the USSR Supreme Court in the cities of Ufa, Cheliabinsk, Novosibirsk, Krasnodar, Baku, Stalingrad, and others in July 1938; table indicating the number of people sentenced to death and to prison in Moscow and in different republics, krais, and oblasts, 1938 July-August

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 3

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo authorizing measures proposed by the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) for labor camps: stop granting parole to camps' inmates, establish incentives (better food, clothing, cash, and less strict camp rules) for those performing highly productive labor, apply severe punishment (even death penalty) to those who evade labor, and provide labor inmates with supplies of food and clothing sufficient to allow them to reach the highest productivity; memorandum to the TsK VKP(b) and J. Stalin, and to the Council of People's Commissar and V. Molotov, from V. Ulrikh, Chairman of the Military Collegium of the USSR Supreme Court, reporting on petitions from relatives of participants in right-Trotskyist and bourgeois-national organizations and in espionage, that defense attorneys be allowed to see files and be present during trials, and suggesting that defense attorneys not be allowed to see the files and be present in court, 1939 June

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 4

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo accepting a proposal put forward by L. Beria (People's Commissar of Internal Affairs) to stop granting parole to the inmates of correctional facilities and prisons; memorandum to the TsK VKP(b) and J. Stalin, and to the USSR Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom) and to V. Molotov, from M. Pankratiev, USSR State Prosecutor, proposing that juvenile criminals (ages 12-16) be tried for counterrevolutionary activity by the Special Board (Osoboe soveshchanie) under the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) and be sent to labor facilities for a term of up to five years; memorandum to the TsK VKP(b) and J. Stalin, and to the USSR SNK and V. Molotov, from M. Pankratiev requesting instructions for handling complaints about the ban on defense attorneys and suggesting that defense attorneys not be allowed to see files and be present in court during trials of 1937-1938 crimes, 1939 June

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 5

Memorandum to the TsK VKP(b) and J. Stalin, and to the USSR Council of People's Commissars (SNK) and V. Molotov, from Rychkov, People's Commissar of Justice, M. Pankratiev, USSRState Prosecutor, and Goliakov, Chairman of the USSR Supreme Court, suggesting that, in order to maximize secrecy, the review of cases tried by the Military Collegium be made by a troĭka consisting of Goliakov (chairman), Nikitchenko and Ulrikh, Deputy Chairmen of the USSR Supreme Court (members), in the presence of M. Pankratiev, and not by the Plenum of the USSR Supreme Court as required by law, 1939 December

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 6

Memorandum (copy to the TsK VKP(b) and J. Stalin) to the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom) and V. Molotov, from L. Beria, People's Commissar of Internal Affairs, responding to Molotov's question about possible simplification of the legal procedure for revision of sentences imposed by the Military Collegium of the USSR Supreme Court on counterrevolutionary crimes, and stating that violation of the established legal procedure is inexpedient, 1939 December

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 7

Memorandum to the TsK VKP(b) and J. Stalin, and to the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom) and V. Molotov, from M. Pankratiev, USSR State Prosecutor, suggesting a procedure for revision of the cases of innocent people sentenced to death and directing that officials responsible for illegally sentencing innocent people to death be investigated and punished, 1939 December

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 8

Internal list of documents included in the file USSR NKVD: Structure, Status, and Work , opened on May 1, 1936 and closed on September 2, 1939, 1936 May 1 - 1939 September 2

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 9

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Plenum authorizing a draft resolution (already approved by the Politburo) of the TsK VKP(b) Plenum Lessons to Be Learned by the NKVD from the Sabotage and Espionage Committed by Japanese-German-Trotskyist Agents presented by N. Yezhov, People's Commissar of Internal Affairs; the resolution denouncing the NKVD for unsatisfactory work in preventing sabotage and espionage and in revealing Trotskyist anti-Soviet organizations, for wrong punitive policy toward enemies of the Soviet regime, for mild conditions of imprisonment of enemies of the people, for serious mistakes in recruiting NKVD cadres and in appointing top officials, and approving measures for defeating terrorist Trotskyist gangs, for improvement of NKVD work and of the organs of state security, for reorganization of the work of railway transport under the supervision of the NKVD, etc., 1937 March

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 10

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a new version of the Regulations for the Special Board (Osoboe soveshchanie) Under the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs ; the regulations establishing rights of the Special Board to send Soviet citizens into exile, correctional facilities, and labor camps, to deport foreign citizens found to be socially dangerous, and to send to prison those suspected of espionage, sabotage, and terrorist activity, establishing the members of the Special Board, and directing that the USSR Prosecutor participate in the sessions of the Special Board, etc., 1937 April

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 11

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo suggesting that the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) arrest and interrogate all defectors detained on the USSR borders, that defectors found, by direct or indirect evidence, guilty of intent to spy, or to commit sabotage or other anti-Soviet acts, be tried by the Military Tribunal with a mandatory death penalty, that defectors violating the Soviet border without evil intent be tried by the Special Board and be sentenced to ten-year terms in prison, and that the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, in cooperation with the NKVD, work out proposals for a revision of the USSR conventions with Iran, Turkey, and Afghanistan about their borders with the USSR, 1938 January

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 12

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo adopting a resolution on registration, verification, and approval by the TsK VKP(b) of positions for top officials in the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD), the Defense Committee, the People's Commissariat of Defense, the People's Commissariat of the Navy, the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, the People's Commissariat of Defense Industry, the Party Control Committee, and the Soviet Control Commission, with indication of the positions to be approved within each commissariat and commission and of the priorities and the terms of approval, 1938 September

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 13

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo appointing a commission in charge of working out a joint resolution of the TsK [VKP(b)], the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom), and the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs on new recommendations for arrests, investigation of cases, and prosecutorial supervision over them, 1938 October

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 14

Memorandum to the VKP(b) bureaus of city, committees in oblasts and krais, and to the central committees of national communist parties from J. Stalin, Secretary of the TsK VKP(b), establishing a procedure for registration, clearance, and appointment of all top officials of local organs of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs by appropriate local VKP(b) committees, 1938 November

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 15

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving draft directives of the TsK VKP(b) and the Council of People's Commissars to the people's commissars of internal affairs of union and autonomous republics, to the chiefs of the directorates of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs in oblasts and krais, to the prosecutors of krais, oblasts, and union and autonomous republics, to the prosecutors of military districts, railway and watertransport systems, to the chairmen of the USSR Supreme Court, of the supreme courts of union and autonomous republics, and of the Military Collegium of the USSR Supreme Court, to the chairmen of the tribunals of military districts, and to the secretaries of central committees of national communist parties and VKP(b) committees in oblasts and krais; the draft resolution directing a cessation of trials by "troĭkas," by military tribunals, and by the Military Collegium of the USSR Supreme Soviet that were established to investigate cases according to special simplified rules, and directing that prosecutors at all levels control the implementation of this resolution, 1938 November

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 16

Two identical copies of a ciphered telegram to the TsK VKP(b) and G. Malenkov from Donskoi, reporting on arrests among top officials in the Khabarovsk organs of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) made in accordance with the directive from the TsK VKP(b) and asking for help in filling the top positions in NKVD organs in oblasts with experienced and reliable personnel, 1938 November

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 17

Ciphered telegram to the TsK VKP(b) and G. Malenkov from Donskoi criticizing top officials of the directorates of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs in krai and specifically Gorbach, Chief of the NKVD Directorate of Khabarovskii krai, for ineffective implementation of the TsK VKP(b) directives (re registration, clearance, and appointment of top officials in local NKVD organs) and informing G. Malenkov about Gorbach's wrongdoing and opinions, 1938 November

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 18

Decree of L. Beria, People's Commissar of Internal Affairs, directing that, in accordance with the resolution of the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom) and the TsK VKP(b) of November 17, 1938, On Arrests and Prosecutor's Control and Investigation , mass arrests be stopped, and outlining measures for better implementation of the resolution; list of raions in which the chiefs of NKVD organs are granted the right to make arrests sanctioned by prosecutors, provided that they immediately notify NKVD organs at higher levels; statute of the Secretariat of the Special Board (Osoboe Soveshchanie) of the NKVD; personnel structure for the Secretariat, 1938 November

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 19

Decree of the USSR Prosecutor General outlining measures to be taken by local prosecutors' offices for better implementation of the resolution of the Council of People's Commissars and the TsK VKP(b) of November 17, 1938, On Arrests and Prosecuto's Control and Investigation, 1938 November

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 20

Telegram to the TsK VKP(b) and G. Malenkov from Nevezhin, Secretary of the VKP(b) Committee of Omskaia oblast, asking instructions for familiarizing the prosecutor of Omskaia oblast with the ciphered telegram from J. Stalin and V. Molotov of January 10; unidentified document (probably verifying the text of the telegram), 1939 January

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 21

Memorandum to the TsK VKP(b) and J. Stalin from A. Vyshinskii, USSR State Prosecutor, asking for permission to familiarize officials of the USSR Prosecutor's Office and officials of the local prosecutors' offices controlling the investigation of cases related to NKVD (People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs) organs, with the TsK VKP(b) ciphered telegram of January 10, 1939, 1939 January

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 22

Ciphered memorandum to the secretaries of VKP(b) committees in oblasts and krais and to the secretaries of central committees of national communist parties from J. Stalin, Secretary of the TsK VKP(b), authorizing them to familiarize officials of local prosecutors' offices controlling the investigation of the NKVD organs with the ciphered telegram from the TsK VKP(b) about methods of investigation, 1939 January

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 23

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a draft decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet establishing a procedure for canceling charges of those convicted by the former Collegium of the United Main Political Directorate (OGPU), by special boards (osobye soveshchaniia), and by "troĭkas" within the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD), 1939 April

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 24

Internal list of documents included in the file On Camps, Prisons, and Places of Exile , opened on July 19, 1919, and closed on November 13, 1932, 1919 July 19 - 1932 November 13

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 25

Extract from the minutes of the TsK RKP(b) Politburo approving the conclusion of the commission on the events in the Butyrskaia prison, putting L. Kamenev and N. Bukharin in charge of editing the final version of material to be published and of preparing, after the consultation with F. Dzerzhinskii, a publication about the ties of SRs (members of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party) and Mensheviks with Antonov and about a plot in Petrograd; brief report on the conflict between Red Army men and political prisoners in the Butyrskaia prison, provoked by a forced move of political prisoners (SRs and Mensheviks) from the Butyrskaia prison to another facility, with handwritten note at the end of the document (probably signed by V. Molotov, illegible); cover letter to the report sent to V. Molotov from the Secretary of the People's Commissar of Education; cover letter to A. Lunacharskii, People's Commissar of Education, from Molotov's Secretary submitting the report; minutes of the commission appointed to investigate the events in Butyrskaia prison (poor original), 1921 April

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 26

Extract from the minutes of the TsK [RKP(b)] Politburo requesting that the State Political Directorate (GPU) urgently move the most active representatives of anti-Soviet parties to special facilities in gubernias, and that the GPU continue keeping in prison Mensheviks, SRs, and anarchists arrested by the VChK (All-Russian Extraordinary Commission), 1922 February

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 27

Memorandum to the TsK [RKP(b)] Politburo from the Deputy Chairman of the State Political Directorate (GPU) and the Chief of the Special Department(?) of the GPU insisting on moving political prisoners from the Butyrskaia prison to the Lefortovskaia prison instead of to facilities in gubernias, with Molotov's handwritten marginal note insisting on fulfilling the previous decision of the TsK RKP(b), 1922 March

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 28

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo directing that advance payment of 7,000,000 rubles be made to the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) from the reserve of the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom) to cover expenses for maintenance of seven timber-cutting labor camps; memorandum to the TsK VKP(b) Politburo from V. Molotov; resolution of the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom) establishing the 1937 and 1938 plan for timber production by NKVD labor camps and the amount of capital investment to be made in developing new timber areas, and giving instructions to all related commissariats; list of food to be supplied to new labor camps; list of food, clothing, and equipment to be supplied to new labor camps; list of equipment and hardware to be supplied to new labor camps, 1937 September

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 29

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo directing that 46,000,000 rubles be appropriated from the reserve of the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom) to the NKVD as current assets for timber-cutting labor camps in order to facilitate fulfillment of the approved production program and that the State Bank (Gosbank) credit up to 35,000,000 rubles for supplies of food and fodder to timber-cutting labor camps under the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) in excess of the regular three-month stock; resolution of the Economic Council of the Sovnarkom establishing a procedure for the transfer of forest tracts from the authority of the People's Commissariat of Forests to the authority of the Main Directorate of Camps (GULAG) of the NKVD, 1937 October-December

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 30

Internal list of documents included in the file On the Solovetskaia Prison opened on January 5, 1919, and closed on November 23, 1939, 1919 January 5 - 1939 November 23

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 31

Extract from the minutes of the TsK RKP(b) Politburo suggesting that the Central Executive Committee (TsIK) appoint a commission to investigate an incident (proisshestvie) in the Solovetskaia prison and that F. Dzerzhinskii provide information about the incident to the press (three identical copies); handwritten distribution list; memorandum to the Central Control Commission of the RKP(b) and V. Kuibyshev, and to the TsK RKP(b) and V. Molotov, from V. Menzhinskii, Deputy Chairman of the United Main Political Directorate (OGPU), and G. Bokii, member of the OGPU Collegium and Chief of the Special Department of the OGPU, reporting on the incident in the Solovetskii labor camp between the camp administration and guards and political prisoners, which resulted in the killing of five and the wounding of three political prisoners, 1923 December - 1924 January

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 32

Extract from the minutes of the TsK RKP(b) Politburo requesting that V. Kuibyshev, Chairman of the Central Control Commission of the RKP(b), and G. Chicherin, Commissar of Foreign Affairs, upon considering the conclusions of the commission that investigated the incident in the Solovetskii labor camp, make a decision on the possibility of a publication in the press relating to the events in the Solovetskii camp; cover letter to V. Molotov, Secretary of the TsK RKP(b), from A. Smirnov [head of a special commission appointed to investigate the incident in the Solovetskii labor camp] submitting for Molotov's approval a draft resolution of the special commission; report of the special commission describing the incident, listing the reasons for the deaths of seven political prisoners, blaming political prisoners for the incident, and outlining measures to be taken to avoid incidents in future, 1924 April

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 33

Extract from the minutes of the TsK RKP(b) Politburo appointing a commission (G. Zinoviev, Chairman of the Comintern, G. Chicherin, Commissar of Foreign Affairs, and V. Kuibyshev, Chairman of the Central Control Commission) to consider the expediency of publishing in the press material about the incident in the Solovetskii labor camp, and in the event of a positive decision, to write the text of the publication, 1924 April

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 34

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo putting a commission consisting of P. Krasikov, Prosecutor of the USSR Supreme Court, R. Katanian, RSFSR State Deputy Prosecutor, and V. Menzhinskii, Deputy Chairman of the United Main Political Directorate (OGPU), in charge of providing information about the incident in the Solovetskii labor camp, suggesting that the home press should not mention the hunger strike there, etc.; memorandum to the TsK RKP(b) and I. Tovstukha from V. Menzhinskii, Deputy Chairman of the OGPU, submitting telegrams from the Solovetskii labor camp, suggesting that V. Menzhinskii and other officials who visited the Solovetskii labor camp make a report to the Politburo of the TsK RKP(b), and stating that in his judgment the hunger strike was a pretense; the telegrams from the authorities of the Solovetskii camp informing G. Bokii, member of the OGPU Collegium and Chief of the Special Department of the OGPU, about the hunger strike called by the political prisoners; memorandum to V. Molotov from G. Chicherin, Commissar of Foreign Affairs, reporting on foreign reaction (especially that of the British Labour Party) to the hunger strike in the Solovetskii camp, 1924 October

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 35

Extract from the minutes of the TsK RKP(b) Politburo approving V. Menzhinskii's (Deputy Chairman of the OGPU) proposal toclose the labor camp on Solovki Island and relocate the prisoners in other prisons, and appointing a commission consisting of M. Tomskii, Chairman of the VTsSPS (All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions), V. Kuibyshev, Chairman of the RKP(b) Central Control Commission, and V. Menzhinskii to consider the possibility of deporting some of the political prisoners and so informing the press, 1925 January

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 36

Minutes of the Commission of the TsK RKP(b) Politburo recommending deportation of all political prisoners, closing of the prison on Solovki Island, and establishment of special rules for political prisoners being kept in prisons (items of the agenda related to the last statement are crossed out); appeal to the Politburo of the TsK RKP(b) from the relatives of socialists imprisoned in the Solovetskii camp, demanding that they be notified of the names of the victims of the incident, 1925 January

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 37

Extract from the minutes of the TsK RKP(b) Politburo suggesting that the United Main Political Directorate (OGPU) immediately liquidate the political section of the prison on Solovki Island, that those who have served their full term in prison be exiled, and that those who have not served their full term be moved to another prison and after serving their full term be exiled, that the OGPU investigate the rest of the political prisoners and select those eligible for deportation and that the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom), upon the recommendations of the OGPU, finish the paper work on the cases and prepare material for publication in the press timed to coincide with the liquidation of the camp; extract from the minutes of the TsK RKP(b) Politburo putting M. Tomskii, Chairman of the VTsSPS (All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions), in charge of making an appropriate statement to J. Bromley, Secretary of the General Council of the British Trades Union Congress, 1925 January

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 38

Extract from the minutes of the TsK RKP(b) Politburo allowing M. Tomskii, Chairman of the VTsSPS (All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions), to give information to a British delegation about the liquidation of the political section of the Solovetskii labor camp; cover letter to the TsK RKP(b) and L. Mekhlis, Secretary of the TsK VKP(b), from V. Menzhinskii, Deputy Chairman of the United Main Political Directorate (OGPU) of the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom), submitting a draft resolution of the Council of People's Commissars (SNK) on the liquidation of the political section of the Solovetskii camp; the draft resolution of the SNK, 1925 March-April 1925 June

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 39

Extract from the minutes of the TsK RKP(b) Politburo adopting in principle the draft resolution of the Council of People's Commissars (SNK) on the liquidation of the political section of the Solovetskii labor camp, 1925 June

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 40

Extract from the minutes of the Council of People's Commissars (SNK) re approval of a resolution directing that the prisoners who were members of anti-Soviet parties and were charged with political crimes be moved from the Solovetskii labor camp to inland penal institutions under the authority of the United Main Political Directorate (OGPU) before August 1, 1925, and that in the future people charged with political crimes and sentenced to concentration camps serve their term in inland penal institutions under the authority of the OGPU, 1925 June

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 41

Internal list of the documents included in the file On Anti-Soviet Elements and on Establishment of the troĭkas, opened on February 9, 1933, and closed on May 25, 1943, 1933 February 9-1943 May 25

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 42

Ciphered telegram to the TsK VKP(b) and J. Stalin, and to the OGPU and G. Yagoda, from N. Gikalo, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belorussia, asking them to permit the troĭka of the Belorussian GPU to administer the death penalty to the participants in a counterrevolutionary plot in Belorussian agriculture, 1933 February

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 43

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo allowing the Ukrainian troĭka consisting of V. Balitskii, Karlson, and Leplevskii, to investigate cases related to insurrection and counterrevolution in the Ukraine, and "to administer the upper measure of social protection" [death penalty]; ciphered telegram to the TsK VKP(b) and J. Stalin, and to the OGPU and V. Menzhinskii, Chairman of the OGPU, and G. Yagoda, Deputy Chairman of the OGPU, from V. Balitskii, asking for permission to have the troĭka investigate cases related to insurrection and counterrevolution in the Ukraine and to administer the death penalty, 1933 March

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 44

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo allowing the Western Siberian troĭka under the Western Siberian GPU to investigate cases related to insurrection and counterrevolution in Western Siberia; ciphered telegram to the TsK VKP(b) and J. Stalin from R. Eikhe, Secretary of the VKP(b) Committee of Western Siberian krai, and Griadinskii, asking them to grant full court rights to the GPU troĭka on the grounds that a number of insurgent and White Guard organizations were exposed in Western Siberia, 1933 March-April

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 45

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo allowing a troĭka consisting of K. Bauman, First Secretary of the Central Asian Bureau of the TsK VKP(b), Piliar, and K. Ikramov, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Uzbek Communist Party, to investigate cases related to insurrection and counterrevolution in Central Asia, and "to administer the upper measure of social protection" [death penalty], 1933 April

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 46

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo allowing a troĭka consisting of S. Kirov, First Secretary of the VKP(b) Committee of Leningradskaia oblast, Medved, Chairmanof the Leningrad GPU, and Kadatskii, Chairman of the Executive Committee of Soviets of Leningradskaia oblast, to investigate cases related to insurrection and counterrevolution in Leningradskaia oblast, and to administer "the upper measure of social protection" [death penalty], 1933 April

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 47

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo prohibiting the troĭkas of the United Main Political Directorate (OGPU) from administering the death penalty in republics, krais, and oblasts (except for Dalnevostochnyi (Far East) krai), 1933 May

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 48

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo directing that the death penalty be administered to all active participants in insurgent organizations of kulaks who were exiled to Western Siberia, and that a troĭka consisting of Mironov, Chairman of the Western Siberian NKVD, Barkov, Prosecutor for Western Siberia, and R. Eikhe, Secretary of the VKP(b) Committee of Zapadno-Sibirskii (Western Siberian) krai, be established to investigate the cases of participants in insurgent organizations, 1937 June

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 49

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving the members of troĭkas appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements, the number of people sentenced to death, and of those sentenced to exile in different republics, krais, and oblasts, and allowing the troĭkas to investigate the cases of labor camp inmates found guilty of hostile activity and the cases of those forced to move away from Soviet western borders, and to administer the death penalty; brief handwritten note, 1937 July

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 50

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving the members of troĭkas, the number of people sentenced to death, and of those sentenced to exile in different republics, krais, and oblasts, and allowing troĭkas to review the cases of nationalist-terrorists; register of the number of distributed ciphered documents, 1937 July

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 51

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving the members of troĭkas appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in the Western, Northern, Kalininskaia, and Leningradskaia oblasts; register of the number of distributed ciphered documents, with a brief handwritten note, 1937 July

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 52

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving the members of troĭkas appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in different oblasts of the USSR; register of the number of distributed ciphered documents, with a brief handwritten note, 1937 July

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 53

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving the members of troĭkas appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in the Buriat-Mongolian and Kalmyk autonomousrepublics and in Kirghizia; register of the number of distributed ciphered documents, with a brief handwritten note, 1937 July

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 54

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving the members of troĭkas appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in different oblasts and autonomous republics of the USSR; register of the number of distributed ciphered documents, with a brief handwritten note, 1937 July

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 55

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo overruling a previous resolution of the [TsK VKP(b)] Politburo and approving Andreev, Stromin, and Kachalov as members of the troĭka appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Saratovskaia oblast; register of the number of distributed ciphered documents, with a brief handwritten note, 1937 July

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 56

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a troĭka consisting of Margolin, Krivets, and Tsvik to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Dnepropetrovskaia oblast and approving Narbut (instead of Zelikman) as member of the troĭka for Orenburgskaia oblast; register of the number of distributed ciphered documents, with a brief handwritten note (poor copy), 1937 July

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 57

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Fedorov (instead of Grishin) and Korkin (instead of Rozanov) as members of the troĭkas appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Odesskaia and Voronezhskaia oblasts, respectively, and approving Bulatov, Yevstigneev, and Gorbach as members of the troĭka for Omskaia oblast, 1937 July

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 58

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Alemasov (instead of Yelshin) and Nikolskii (instead of Irklis) as members of the troĭkas appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in the Tatar and Karelian autonomous republics, respectively; register of the number of distributed ciphered documents, with a brief handwritten note (poor copy), 1937 July

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 59

File is unavailable, 1918-1992

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 60

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a troĭka consisting of Zhigunov, Yenchinov, and Starikov to investigate anti-Soviet elements in the Oirot Autonomous Republic, 1937 August

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 61

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Yeremenko (instead of Ginzburg) and Grishin (instead of Timofeev) as members of the troĭkas appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Kievskaia and Vinnitskaia oblasts, respectively, and approving Velsh and Zaitsev (instead of Luft and Anisimov) as members of the troĭka for the Autonomous Soviet Republic of PovolzhieGermans (Respublika nemtsev Povolzhia); register of the number of distributed ciphered documents, with a brief handwritten note, 1937 August

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 62

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Berman (instead of Abaliaev) and Bobkov (instead of Nazarov) as members of the troĭkas appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Sverdlovskaia and Kalininskaia oblasts, respectively; register of the number of distributed ciphered documents, with a brief handwritten note, 1937 August

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 63

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Pinkhasik (to be replaced by Mankin), Makatov, and Adamovich as members of the troĭka appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Karagandinskaia oblast, and Simochkin, Radzivilovskii, and Marchuk as members of the troĭka for Ivanovskaia oblast; register of the number of distributed ciphered documents, with a brief handwritten note, 1937 August

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 64

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Toriabekov (instead of Baktabaev) as member of the troĭka appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Uzbekistan; register of the number of distributed ciphered documents, with a brief handwritten note, 1937 August

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 65

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Gazov (instead of Austrin) as member of the troĭka appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Kirovskaia oblast; register of the number of distributed ciphered documents, with a brief handwritten note, 1937 August

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 66

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Shchuchkin(?) (illegible) as member of the troĭka for repression of kulaks and criminals in the Crimea and approving Raikhman (instead of Shumskii) as member of the troĭka for repression of kulaks and criminals in Kharkovskaia oblast; brief handwritten note; register of the number of distributed ciphered documents, with a brief handwritten note, 1937 August

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 67

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Filippov (instead of Gorchaiev) as member of the troĭka appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Krasnoiarskii krai; Stalin's handwritten note (also signed by V. Molotov) authorizing repression of 6,000 more people "by administering the first category of punishment" [death penalty] in Krasnoiarskii krai, 1937 August

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 68

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Maltsev and Terkovskii (instead of Yaroshevskii) as members of the troĭkas appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Zapadno-Sibirskii (Western Siberian) krai and in Vinnitskaia oblast, respectively, 1937 August

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 69

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Taganskii and Kalnin (instead of Sluchak and Pintal) as members of the troĭka appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Iuzhno-Kazakhstanskaia (South Kazakhstan) oblast, Bektasov (instead of Yusupov) as member of the troĭka for Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaia (East Kazakhstan) oblast, and Yusupov (instead of Sadvokasov) as member of the troĭka for Alma-Atinskaia oblast, 1937 August

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 70

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a resolution of the Bureau of the VKP(b) Committee of the Komi Autonomous Republic to introduce an additional member to the commission appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements and to approve I. Fedchenko, Prosecutor of the Komi Republic, as the fourth member of the commission; copy of an extract from the minutes of the Bureau of the VKP(b) Committee of the Komi Autonomous Republic sent to the TsK VKP(b) by Semichev, Secretary of the VKP(b) Committee of the Komi republic, 1937 August

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 71

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Zelentsov (instead of Baidakov) as member of the troĭka appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Kustanaiskaia oblast, 1937 August

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 72

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Tselykh (instead of Stepanov) as member of the troĭka appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Severo-Kazakhstanskaia (North Kazakhstan) oblast, 1937 August

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 73

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo confirming the resolution of the TsK VKP(b) of July 10, 1937, on the number of people repressed in the Komi Autonomous Republic "with the first category (death penalty, 211 people) and the second category (labor camp, 221 people) of punishment" 1937 August

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 74

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving, in response to S. Kosior's, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Ukraine, telegram, Mikhailov as chairman of the troĭka appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Chernigovskaia oblast, 1937 August

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 75

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo overruling the previous TsK [VKP(b)] decision of July 10, 1937, and authorizing the VKP(b) Committee of Kirovskaia oblast to increase to 900 people the number of those to be repressed "with the first category of punishment" (death penalty), 1937 September

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 76

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Mikhailov and Donchenko as members of the troĭka appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Chernigovskaia oblast, authorizing the establishment of a second troĭka to investigate kulaks and other criminal elements in the cityand oblast of Moscow, and appointing Yakubovich, Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Directorate of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD), as chairman and Tarasov, Secretary of the Moscow VKP(b) Committee, and Koblenets, Moscow Prosecutor ad Interim, as members of the second troĭka, 1937 September

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 77

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Durumbetov as member of the troĭka appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Aktiubinskaia oblast during the vacation of Stetsiura, permanent member of the troĭka, 1937 September

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 78

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a request from the VKP(b) Committee of North Ossetian (Severo-Osetinskaia) oblast to authorize an increase of 200 in the number of those to be repressed with "the first category of punishment" (death penalty) in North Osseti, 1937 September

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 79

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Gorbach as member of the troĭka appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Zapadno-Sibirskii (Western Siberian) krai, and Statsevich as member of the troĭka for Dalnevostochnyi (Far East) krai, 1937 September

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 80

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Guminskii as member of the troĭka appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Kalininskaia oblast, 1937 September

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 81

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Abdraimov (instead of Dzhienbaev) as member of the troĭka appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Kirghizia, and allowing Pramnek to be replaced in the troĭka for Donetskaia oblast by Osipov, Second Secretary of the VKP(b) Committee of Donetskaia oblast, 1937 September

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 82

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Karpovich and Chertovskii as members of the troĭka appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Bashkiria during the absence of Isnachurin and Tsypniatov, permanent members of the troĭka, 1937 September

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 83

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Valukhin as member of the troĭka appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Omskaia oblast, 1937 September

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 84

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Popov as member of the troĭka appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Buriat-Mongolia, 1937 September

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 85

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Kuznetsov as member of the troĭka appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Mordovia; memorandum to J. Stalin from Kuznetsov, Acting Secretary of the VKP(b) Committee of Mordovskaia oblast, asking him to approve the change in the troĭka for Mordovia, 1937 September

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 86

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Leoninok as member of the troĭka appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Karelia and approving a request from the VKP(b) Committee of Kalininskaia oblast to increase by 1,500 the number of people "to be repressed with the first category of punishment" (death penalty) in Kalininskaia oblast, 1937 September

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 87

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Malkin, Kravtsov, and Simonchik as members of the troĭka appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Krasnodarskii krai, 1937 September

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 88

File is unavailable, 1918-1992

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 89

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Savrinskii (instead of Donchenko) as member of the troĭka appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Chernigovskaia oblast, 1937 September

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 90

File is unavailable, 1918-1992

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 91

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Aresin as member of the troĭka appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in the Autonomous Soviet Republic of Povolzhie Germans (Respublika nemtsev Povolzhia), 1937 October

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 92

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Kondakov (instead of Yevtushenko) as member of the troĭka appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Odesskaia oblast, 1937 October

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 93

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Nekrasov and Vende (instead of Riabov) as members of the troĭka appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Arkhangelskaia oblast, 1937 October

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 94

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Ivanov as member of the troĭka appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Karelia, 1937 October

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 95

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a proposal of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan to increase by 3,500 the number of people "to be repressed with the first category of punishment" (death penalty) in Kazakhstan, 1937 October

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 96

Memorandum to J. Stalin and N. Yezhov, People's Commissar of Internal Affairs, from the Party Control Committee of Kuibyshevskaia oblast, presenting examples of acts of sabotage by the NKVD Directorate of Kuibyshevskaia oblast, by the troĭka for Kuibyshevskaia oblast, and by the former chief of the NKVD Department of Kuznetskii raion (very poor copy, almost illegible), 1937 October

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 97

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Meleshkov (instead of Makarenko) as member of the troĭka appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Odesskaia oblast, 1937 October

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 98

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Simanovskii as chairman and Nikitin and Bidinskii as members of the troĭka appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Orlovskaia oblast, 1937 October

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 99

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a proposal of the VKP(b) Committee of Gorkovskaia oblast to increase by 1,000 the number of those "to be repressed with the first category of punishment" (death penalty) in Gorkovskaia oblast, 1937 October

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 100

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Samoilov and Sidorenko (instead of Nikitin and Simanovskii) as members of the troĭka appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Kurskaia oblast, 1937 October

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 101

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Badmaev (instead of Kilganov) as member of the troĭka appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Kalmykia, 1937 October

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 102

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a proposal of the VKP(b) Committee of Arkhangelskaia oblast to increase by 400 the number of counterrevolutionary elements to be repressed in Arkhangelskaia oblast "with the first category of punishment" (death penalty), and by 800 the number of those to be repressed "with the second category of punishment" (labor camp), 1937 October

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 103

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a proposal of the VKP(b) Committee of Altaiskii krai that 4,000 counterrevolutionary elements be repressed in Altaiskii krai "with the first category of punishment" (death penalty) and 4,500 people "with the second category of punishment" (labor camp), 1937 October

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 104

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo authorizing the arrest by the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) of all bais and mullahs returned from Afghanistan and Iran and expelled from collective farms by meetings of collective farmers in Turkmenia, and directing that the cases of bais and mullahs be investigated by the troĭka; ciphered telegram to the TsK VKP(b) and J. Stalin from Chubin, Acting Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan, reporting on the expulsion from the Turkmenian collective farms of more than 2,000 bais and mullahs who returned from exile in Iran and Afghanistan and were allowed to join collective farms by the directive of N. Aitakov, Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of Turkmenia, and suggesting that bais and mullahs be expelled from Turkmenia, 1937 October

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 105

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a proposal of the Buriat-Mongolian VKP(b) Committee to increase up to 1,000 the number of counterrevolutionary elements to be repressed in Buriat-Mongolia with the first category of punishment (death penalty), 1937 October

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 106

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Kaganovich (instead of Ogurtsov) as member of the troĭka appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Gorkovskaia oblast and Organov (instead of Polumordvinov) in Yaroslavskaia oblast, 1937 October

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 107

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo directing that the number of those to be repressed in Kirovskaia oblast with the "first category of punishment" (death penalty) be increased by 500 and of those to be repressed with the "second category of punishment" (labor camp) by 800, 1937 October

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 108

Memorandum to the TsK VKP(b) and J. Stalin from L. Beria, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia, complaining of overcrowded Georgian prisons, preventing proper investigation of cases, and asking that the TsK VKP(b) authorize the establishment of a special troĭka or a military collegium consisting of members of the Georgian Supreme Court to try Trotskyist, right-wing party organizations, and terrorist, sabotage, and espionage organizations exposed by the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs of Georgia, 1937 October

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 109

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a proposal of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan to approve Dzhunusov (in Aktiubinskaia oblast), Utepov (in Zapadno-Kazakhskaia [West Kazakhstan] oblast), and Bogdanov (in Kustanaiskaia oblast) as members of the troĭka appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements, 1937 November

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 110

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo appointing people's commissars of internal affairs of a number of union and autonomous republics as chairmen of troĭkas for repression of kulaks and other criminal elements in their republics, with a register of the number of distributed ciphered documents, 1937 November

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 111

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving the decision of the VKP(b) Committee of the Komi Republic to relieve Semichev, Fedchenko, and Lipin from their work in the troĭka investigating anti-Soviet elements in the Komi Republic and to appoint A. Kulinskii and K. Shchebenev as members of the troĭka, 1937 November

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 112

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Goglidze (instead of Ranava) as member of the troĭka appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Georgia,Muraviev as member of the troĭka for Rostovskaia oblast, and Anisimov as member of the troĭka for Dalnevostochnyi (Far East) krai, 1937 November

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 113

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Karasev and Tiurin (instead of Zelentsov and Pavlov) as members of the troĭka appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Kustanaiskaia oblast, and Valik (instead of Nikitin) in Orlovskaia oblast, 1937 November

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 114

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Skriabin (instead of Kliuev) as member of the troĭka appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Kuibyshevskaia oblast, 1937 November

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 115

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Oparin (instead of Naumov) as member of the troĭka appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Kirovskaia oblast, and approving a proposal of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan to increase by 2,000 the number of those to be repressed "with the first category of punishment" (death penalty), and by 3,000 the number of those to be repressed "with the second category of punishment" (labor camp) in Kazakhstan, 1937 November

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 116

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a proposal to increase by the 1,000 the number of counterrevolutionary kulak elements to be repressed in Omskaia oblast "with the first category of punishment" (death penalty) and by 1,500 the number of those to be repressed "with the second category of punishment" (labor camp), 1937 November

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 117

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving V. Malenov (instead of Maslov, dispatched on a long business trip) as member of the troĭka for "kulak operation"[repression of kulaks] in Moskovskaia oblast, 1937 November

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 118

File is unavailable, 1918-1992

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 119

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving F. Nikiforov and I. Ivankin as members of the troĭka appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Arkhangelskaia oblast, 1937 December

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 120

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a proposal of the VKP(b) Committee of Kalininskaia oblast to increase by 700 the number of counterrevolutionary elements to be repressed in Kalininskaia oblast "with the first category of punishment" (death penalty) and by 1,000 the number of those to be repressed "with the second category of punishment" (labor camp), totaling 1,700, 1937 December

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 121

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a proposal of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan to increase by 900 the number of counterrevolutionary elements to be repressed in Kazakhstan "with the first category of punishment" (death penalty) and by 3,500 the number of those to be repressed "with the second category of punishment" (labor camp) totaling 4,400, 1937 December

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 122

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Nikitin, Korkin, and Vatolin as members of the troĭka appointed to investigate counterrevolutionary elements in Voronezhskaia oblast, 1938 January

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 123

File is unavailable, 1918-1992

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 124

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo directing that the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) evacuate from Dalnevostochnyi (Far East) krai all foreigners without Soviet or foreign passport and try by troĭkas all foreigners suspected of espionage, sabotage, or other anti-Soviet activity, without regard to the citizenship they might declare, approving the NKVD proposal that 12,000 more inmates of Far East labor camps charged with terror, espionage, sabotage, high treason, insurgency, and banditry, as well as professional criminals be repressed "with the first category of punishment" (death penalty), and directing that the NKVD never send to the Far Eastern camps the above-mentioned categories of criminals nor any Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, Germans, Poles, Latvians, Finns, or former residents of Kharbin, no matter of what crime they might be guilty, 1938 February

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 125

File is unavailable, 1918-1992

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 126

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Raev as chairman and A. G. Guseinov and T. Yakubov as members of the troĭka appointed to investigate the cases of former kulaks, criminals, and anti-Soviet elements in Azerbaijan, 1938 February

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 127

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Litvin (to be replaced by Garin) as chairman and A. A. Kuznetsov and Pozern as members of the troĭka appointed to investigate the cases of former kulaks, criminals, and anti-Soviet elements in Leningradskaia oblast, 1938 February

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 128

File is unavailable, 1918-1992

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 129

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo accepting a proposal from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belorussia to approve A. Levitskii as member of the troĭka appointed to investigate the cases of former kulaks, criminals, and anti-Soviet elements, 1938 February

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 130

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo allowing the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Ukraine to authorize the participation of Pindiur, Second Secretaryof the VKP(b) Committee of Donetskaia oblast, in the work of the troĭka appointed to investigate anti-Soviet elements in Donetskaia oblast, 1938 March

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 131

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a proposal of the VKP(b) Committee of Krasnoiarskii krai to increase by 1,500 the number of counterrevolutionary elements to be repressed in Krasnoiarskii krai and to prolong the work of the troĭka through April 15, 1938 March

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 132

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a proposal of the VKP(b) Committee of Karelia to prolong the work of the troĭka investigating the cases of former kulaks, criminals, and anti-Soviet elements in Karelia through April 15, and to increase by 600 the number of those to be repressed in Karelia "with the first category of punishment," and by 150 the number of those to be repressed "with the second category of punishment", 1938 March

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 133

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo allowing the special troĭka of the Georgian People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs to investigate 1,000 cases of those to be repressed in Georgia "with the first category of punishment" (death penalty) and 500 cases of those to be repressed "with the second category of punishment" (labor camp), 1938 April

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 134

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Sobolev, First Secretary of the VKP(b) Committee of Krasnoiarskii krai (instead of the departed Filippov) as member of the troĭka appointed to investigate the cases of kulaks and anti-Soviet elements in Krasnoiarskii krai, 1938 April

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 135

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo allowing Pechnikov, Prosecutor for the Karelian Autonomous Republic, to participate in the work of the troĭka appointed to repress kulaks, criminals, and anti-Soviet elements, 1938 April

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 136

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo allowing the VKP(b) Committee of Leningradskaia oblast to have the special troĭka investigate 1,500 additional cases of kulaks, SRs (members of the Socialist Revolutionary Party), and habitual criminals in Leningradskaia oblast to be repressed "with the first category of punishment" (death penalty), 1938 April

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 137

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a request of the VKP(b) Committee of Chitinskaia oblast to prolong the work of the special troĭka in Chitinskaia oblast through June 1 and to establish a limit of 3,000 counterrevolutionary elements subject to repression, 1938 April

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 138

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Chemiakin, Prosecutor of the 8th Infantry Corps (instead of the departed Prosecutor Yarchuk), as member of the troĭka appointed to investigate the cases of kulaks and anti-Soviet elements in Yaroslavskaia oblast, 1938 April

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 139

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a request of the VKP(b) Committee of Krasnoiarskii krai to prolong the work of the special troĭka through June 15 and to increase by 3,000 the number of counterrevolutionary elements "to be repressed in Krasnoiarskii krai with the first category of punishment" (death penalty), 1938 April

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 140

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a request of the VKP(b) Committee of Irkutskaia oblast to increase by 4,000 the number of counterrevolutionary elements and kulaks "to be repressed in Irkutskaia oblast with the first category of punishment" (death penalty), 1938 April

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 141

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a request of the VKP(b) Committee of Sverdlovskaia oblast to increase by 1,500 the number of kulaks and counterrevolutionary elements to be repressed in Sverdlovskaia oblast "with the first category of punishment" (death penalty), 1938 May

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 142

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving Bulachev as chairman and Blinov as member of the troĭka appointed to investigate the cases of former kulaks, criminals, and anti-Soviet elements in Krasnoiarskii krai, 1938 May

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 143

File is unavailable, 1918-1992

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 144

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo allowing the VKP(b) Committee of Rostovskaia oblast and the Rostov Directorate of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) to submit the cases of participants in the counterrevolutionary groups exposed by the NKVD to the troĭka appointed to investigate kulaks and counterrevolutionary elements in Rostovskaia oblast and to increase for this purpose by 5,000 the number of those to be repressed (including 3,500 to be repressed "with the first category of punishment"), 1938 May

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 145

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving A. Alekseenko as chairman of the troĭka appointed to investigate the cases of former kulaks, criminals, and anti-Soviet elements in Krasnoiarskii krai, 1938 May

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 146

Memorandum to the TsK VKP(b) and J. Stalin from M. Frinovskii, Deputy People's Commissar of Internal Affairs, asking for the approval of Lupekin, Chairman of the Rostov Directorate of the NKVD, as chairman and Toshin, Chairman of the 3rd Department of State Security under the NKVD Directorate, and Dvinskii, Secretary of the VKP(b) Committee of Rostovskaia oblast, as members of the troĭka appointed to investigate the cases of active kulak elements in Rostovskaia oblast, 1938 May

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 147

Memorandum to the TsK VKP(b) and J. Stalin, Andreev, and N. Yezhov from Bykov, Secretary of the VKP(b) Committee of Checheno-Ingushetia, describing counterrevolutionary activity and crime in Checheno-Ingushetia and requesting the establishment of a special troĭka authorized to work for four or five months, approval of the chairman and members of the troĭka, approval of repression (arrest and exile) of the families of "active professional bandits," the dispossession of the kulaks in mountain areas, and the establishment of a regime of special residence in a 15-kilometer zone around the city of Groznyi, 1938 July

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 148

File is unavailable, 1918-1992

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 149

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving 15,000 counterrevolutionary elements to be repressed "with the first category of punishment"(death penalty) and 5,000 to be repressed "with the second category of punishment" (labor camp) in Dalnevostochnyi (Far East) krai, 1938 July

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 150

File is unavailable, 1918-1992

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 151

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a request of the VKP(b) Committee of Chitinskaia oblast to prolong through November 1, 1938, the work of the troĭka appointed to investigate the cases of counterrevolutionary elements and to increase by 3,000 the number of those to be repressed, 1938 August

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 152

Memorandum to the TsK VKP(b) and J. Stalin from I. Alekseev, Secretary of the VKP(b) Committee of Novosibirskaia oblast, reporting on a number of counterrevolutionary, Trotskyist, and fascist agents and organizations exposed in Novosibirskaia oblast, complaining of a large number of untried cases, and asking for permission to have the special troĭka investigate 1,000 cases in Kemerovo military and industrial district, 1938 September

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 153

File is unavailable, 1918-1992

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 154

File is unavailable, 1918-1992

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 155

Ciphered telegram to the TsK VKP(b) and J. Stalin from Valukhin, Secretary of the VKP(b) Committee of Sverdlovskaia oblast, reporting on a number of fires in Sverdlovskaia oblast and measures taken to fight them, naming sabotage as the cause of the fires, and asking them to increase by 3,000 the number of those to be repressed (2,000 by shooting and 1,000 by imprisonment) in order to clean the oblast of White Guard and kulak elements, 1938 September

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 156

File is unavailable, 1918-1992

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 157

Ciphered telegram to the TsK VKP(b) and J. Stalin as well as to N. Yezhov, People's Commissar of Internal Affairs, from L. Mekhlis, Deputy Commissar of Defense and Director of the Main Political Directorate of the Red Army, submitting the request from Ignatiev, Secretary of the VKP(b) Committee of Ulan-Udinskaia oblast, and Tkachev, People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of Buriat-Mongolia, to authorize the troĭka to try 2,500 cases against kulaks, lamas, and White Guards in Buriat-Mongolia, 1938 October

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, Files 158-160

Files are unavailable, 1918-1992

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 161

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving a draft decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet establishing a procedure for expunging convictions of those convicted by the former Collegium of the United Main Political Directorate (OGPU), the Special Board (Osoboe soveshchanie), and the troĭkas of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD); memorandum to the TsK VKP(b) and J. Stalin from L. Beria, People's Commissar of Internal Affairs, and A. Vyshinskii, USSR State Prosecutor, suggesting a procedure for expunging the convictions of those convicted by these organs who did not commit new crimes during three-year period after they finished serving their terms, 1939 February 1939 April

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 162

Internal list of the documents included in the file Courts and Prosecutor Offices, 1943-1948

Opis 73, Reel 1.1011, File 163

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving the draft decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet On Punitive Measures for German-Fascist Villains Guilty of Murders and Tortures of the Soviet Civilian Population and Captured Red Army Men and for Spies, Traitors, and Their Accomplices Among Soviet Citizens ; rules for handling secret information; the decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet, 1943 April

 

Opis 74

Opis 74, Reel 1.1012, File 1

Report on the state of the Workers' and Peasant's Red Army with respect to organizational measures (approved by the government) to be taken in 1935-1936, with indication of the total strength of the army and distribution of arms of service among military districts, undated

Opis 74, Reel 1.1012, File 2

File is unavailable, 1918-1992

Opis 74, Reel 1.1012, File 3

File is unavailable, 1918-1992

Opis 74, Reel 1.1012, File 4

Memorandum to the TsK VKP(b) and J. Stalin and to the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom) and V. Molotov from K. Voroshilov, People's Commissar of Defense, re weapons, arms, and military equipment required for reorganization of the Workers' and Peasant's Red Army (RKKA), including the following registers (signed by top RKKA officers): register of the number of supplied weapons and equipment for infantry divisions and motorized regiments of the Red Army on a peacetime status and the number of weapons required by the plan for development and reorganization; register of requirements for motorized and armored armament in infantry divisions, corps administrations, infantry corps, and motorized regiments under the reorganization of the army; register of requirements for chemical weapons in infantry divisions, administrations, infantry corps, and motorized regiments under the reorganization of the army on a peacetime status; register of requirements for communications equipment in infantry divisions, administrations, infantry corps, and motorized regiments under the reorganization of the army on a peacetime status, 1939 August

Opis 74, Reel 1.1012, File 5

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving the number and strength of infantry divisions (including mountain infantry divisions) in the Red Army, 1939 September

Opis 74, Reel 1.1012, File 6

Memorandum to the TsK VKP(b) Politburo and J. Stalin and to the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom) and V. Molotov from K. Voroshilov, People's Commissar of Defense, re a plan for the development and reorganization of ground and air forces, for the structure and strength of Red Army forces in 1939-1940, with handwritten marginal notes; resolution of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo, approving a report on the plan for development and reorganization of the Red Army, its numerical strength, and the number of servicemen to be called up from reserves in the summer of 1940; table of the structure and numerical strength of Red Army forces for 1939-1940, 1939 October

Opis 74, Reel 1.1012, File 7

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo allowing the People's Commissariat of Defense to provide the armament required for reorganization of the Red Army in 1939 from the emergency reserve and the central arsenal of the Red Army and to replenish the emergency reserve with armaments manufactured according to the orders for 1940; four lists of supplies of artillery, chemical weapons, communications equipment, and engineering equipment, respectively, to be delivered from the emergency reserve and the central arsenal in 1939, 1939 October

Opis 74, Reel 1.1012, File 8

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving the numerical strength of the Workers' and Peasants' Navy for 1940 on war and on peace status, 1940 February

Opis 74, Reel 1.1012, File 9

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving proposals of K. Voroshilov, People's Commissar of Defense, to place ten infantry divisions on peace footing, about use of their personnel, and about relocating and disbanding some military units; memorandum to the TsK VKP(b) and to J. Stalin and V. Molotov from K. Voroshilov containing the proposals, 1940 April

Opis 74, Reel 1.1012, File 10

File is unavailable, 1918-1992

Opis 74, Reel 1.1012, File 11

Resolution of the State Defense Committee approving the numerical strength and structure of the Red Army through October 1, 1940, 1940 May

Opis 74, Reel 1.1012, File 12

File is unavailable, 1918-1992

Opis 74, Reel 1.1012, File 13

Register of the structure and numerical strength (proposed and available) of Red Army units by arm of service; register of the structure and strength (proposed and available as percentage of proposed) of Red Army units by arm of service; register of artillery corps and artillery units from the Main Command Reserve distributed among military districts in 1940 on a peacetime footing; register of the distribution of infantry divisions and corps administrations among military districts; register of the distribution of cavalry units among military districts; register of the distribution of armored troops among military districts in 1940; register of the distribution of air defense units among military districts; register of the distribution of communications units among military districts; register of the distribution of motorized forces among military districts; register of the distribution of road and road-operational units of the Red Army on a peacetime status among military districts (each table is signed by top Red Army officers), 1940 May

Opis 74, Reel 1.1012, File 14

Chart of the structure of an armored division on a wartime status; chart of the structure of an armored division on a peacetime status, undated

Opis 74, Reel 1.1012, File 15

Register of the numerical strength of armored formations and units being established in different military districts, with indication of deficiency in strength in each district and of resources to cover the deficit; schedule for organization of armored formations, 1940 June

Opis 74, Reel 1.1012, File 16

Register of the number of tanks to be delivered to armored and motorized divisions before July 1, 1940, undated

Opis 74, Reel 1.1012, File 17

Memorandum to the TsK VKP(b) Politburo and J. Stalin, and to the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom) and V. Molotov, from Marshal S. Timoshenko, People's Commissar of Defense, and Marshal B. Shaposhnikov, Chief of the General Staff, reporting on the delay in reorganization of the Red Army owing to the occupation of the Baltic republics by Soviet troops, to the liberation of Bessarabia and Bukovina, stating that deferred measures should be taken immediately, suggesting that additional measures be taken to strengthen the Belorussian and the Ukrainian special military districts, and proposing a number of measures for reorganizing, restructuring, and strengthening the Red Army, 1940 July

Opis 74, Reel 1.1012, File 18

Register of the distribution of corps administrations and divisions of the Red Army among military districts, 1940 July

Opis 74, Reel 1.1012, File 19

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving (except for the chapter related to the air force) a draft resolution of the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom), submitted by Marshal Timoshenko, People's Commissar of Defense; the resolution increasing the numerical strength of the Red Army, 1940 November

Opis 74, Reel 1.1012, Files 20-22

Files are unavailable, 1918-1992

Opis 74, Reel 1.1012, File 23

Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom) directing that commanders of district and army air forces be added to military councils of districts and armies, respectively, 1938 December

Opis 74, Reel 1.1012, File 24

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo approving the number and strength of infantry divisions (including mountain infantry divisions) in the Red Army, 1939 September

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Opis 74, Reel 1.1012, File 25

Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars approving the structure of a mechanized corps, of an armored division as a part of a mechanized corps and as an independent unit, the numerical strength of a mechanized corps with a motorcycle regiment, of an armored division, and of a motorized division on war and peace status, the number of mechanized corps and independent armored divisions in the Red Army, the changes in the structure of existing military districts, the formation of a new military district, the formation of 23 new infantry divisions, the distribution of armed forces among military districts, and related issues; register of the distribution of Red Army cavalry units among military corps; register of the distribution of corps administrations and divisions of the Red Army among military districts; register of the distribution of armored brigades among military districts; register of the distribution of corps artillery regiments and regiments from the Artillery Reserve of the Commander in Chief, 1940 July

Opis 74, Reel 1.1012, File 26

File is unavailable, 1918-1992

Opis 74, Reel 1.1012, File 27

File is unavailable, 1918-1992

Opis 74, Reel 1.1012, File 28

Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom) establishing a procedure for manning pilot-training schools for the Red Army Air Forces, 1940 November

Opis 74, Reel 1.1012, File 29

Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars establishing the structure of the Red Army Air Forces, their staff and numerical strength, measures for their development, pilots' training, supply of equipment, and housing and food for the staff; amendment to the resolution related to staff changes and to supply of materials and equipment required for training of student pilots, 1940 November

Opis 74, Reel 1.1012, File 30

Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom) and the TsK VKP(b) on reorganization of the Red Army Air Forces (development of a program for training pilots and mechanics, improvement in quality and reduction in time required for pilots' and mechanics' training in handling planes of a new type and reorganization of the air force rear areas), 1941 February

Opis 74, Reel 1.1012, File 31

File is unavailable, 1918-1992

Opis 74, Reel 1.1012, File 32

Resolution of the TsK VKP(b) and the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom) on the formation of additional field administrations for three armies, on their location, numerical strength, and inclusion of three communications battalions for communication services, 1941 April

 

Opis 75

Opis 75, Reel 1.1012, File 1

Resolution of the State Defense Committee directing that all able-bodied German men and women on the territory of Romania, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia liberated by the Red Army be mobilized and sent to work in the Soviet Union, and that the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) be in charge of mobilization, and establishing a procedure for mobilization and an authority from the Red Army and the NKVD responsible for mobilization, with distribution list, 1944 December

Opis 75, Reel 1.1012, File 2

Resolution of the State Defense Committee on the use of German internee labor; table of the number of German internees sent to each oblast with indication of the number working at enterprises of the People's Commissariat of Coal Mining, the People's Commissariat of Ferrous Metals, and the People's Commissariat of Nonferrous Metals; regulations for receiving, maintaining, and using the labor of mobilized German internees, 1944 December

Opis 75, Reel 1.1012, File 3

Resolution of the State Defense Committee directing that terrorist actions of German groups left by the German command and intelligence service in the rear of the Red Army be stopped, and those guilty of terror and sabotage be shot on the spot, that all Germans with military service in the German army or in "Volksturm" units be considered prisoners of war (POWs) and be sent to the NKVD camps for POWs, that all able-bodied German men (ages 17-50) be mobilized to work in labor battalions in the Soviet Union, establishing a procedure for receiving, guarding, maintaining, feeding, and using the labor of mobilized Germans, and appointing officials in charge of the procedure, 1945 February

Opis 75, Reel 1.1012, File 4

Resolution of the State Defense Committee on distribution among people's commissariats of Germans mobilized on the territory of the active fronts in the Ukraine and Belorussia, 1945 February

Opis 75, Reel 1.1012, File 5

Memorandum to the State Defense Committee and J. Stalin from L. Beria, People's Commissar of Internal Affairs, reporting on the number of agents of enemy intelligence and counterintelligence services, terrorists, participants in fascist organizations, officers and enlisted men in the police, prisons, concentration camps, and prosecutor offices, supervisors of large economic, industrial, and administrative enterprises, officials from newspapers and magazines, traitors, betrayers, invaders' accomplices who escaped the native country with enemy troops, and other enemy elements, arrested in the course of "cleansing" the Red Army rear, with indication of the nationality of those arrested, defining the categories to be arrested in future, and suggesting that sending of all those arrested in the course of cleansing the army rear areas to the Soviet Union be stopped, that the cases of those arrested and sent to the Soviet Union be reviewed, and those disabled inmates found not guilty be sent to the places of their former residence; decree of the Peoples Commissar of Internal Affairs defining the categories of enemies to be arrested by the NKVD organs in the course of cleansing the Red Army rear, directing that those guilty of terrorist or sabotage actions be terminated immediately, that officers and enlisted men of the enemy army, militarized organizations, Volksturm, SS, SA, staff of prisons, concentration camps, military commandant's offices and courts be sent to NKVD labor camps, that officers and enlisted men of the Russian Liberation Army (ROA) be sent to NKVD camps for investigation, and that persons arrested in the course of cleansing the Red Army rear areas not be sent to the Soviet Union, and establishing a procedure for receiving, guarding, and "filtering" of those arrested, and appointing an authority responsible for implementation of this decree, 1945 April

Opis 75, Reel 1.1012, File 6

Resolution of the State Defense Committee establishing three positions of deputy front commanders for managing civil matters, defining their responsibility and affiliates, appointing commissars of state security to fill the positions, and stating that the deputy commanders are also NKVD representatives for fighting spies, terrorists, saboteurs, and other enemies in Germany, 1945 May

Opis 75, Reel 1.1012, File 7

Resolution of the State Defense Committee on improvement in living conditions and health care of German internees, on better use of their labor in industry, and on the procedure for returning disabled internees to Germany, 1945 August

Opis 75, Reel 1.1012, File 8

Resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers allowing the Ministry of Internal Affairs to select from labor camps and hospitals for prisoners of war up to 150,000 disabled officers and enlisted men of German and other Western nationalities unable to work for a long period of time to be sent to the German zone controlled by the Soviet Union, and defining responsibilities of other ministries in charge of transportation of the prisoners of war and their reception in their native countries, 1946 June

Opis 75, Reel 1.1012, File 9

) Resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers allowing the Ministry of Internal Affairs to send to Germany all disabled German internees, and directing that the Soviet Military Administration attend to their reception in the German zone controlled by the Soviet Union and that the internees be provided with food, clothing and footwear, transportation, and health care, 1946 July

Opis 75, Reel 1.1012, File 10

Memorandum to the USSR Council of Ministers and J. Stalin and L. Beria from Marshal V. Sokolovskii and General I. Serov reporting on a number of different categories of inmates in prisons and camps of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) and the Ministry of State Security (MGB) in Germany, asking for permission to release 35,000 people arrested by Soviet authorities for participating in the Volksturm, and members or low-level leaders of the fascist party, asking for authorization to establish a commission for selecting the people for release, and directing that released Germans be obliged to register in their local commandant's offices once a month (with Stalin's note on the top of the document), 1946 December

Opis 75, Reel 1.1012, File 11

Resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers directing that the Soviet Military Administration in Germany and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) select 27,500 able-bodied men held in special prisons and camps of the MVD to work in enterprises of the Ministry of Coal Industry for USSR Eastern Regions and the Ministry of Fuel Enterprises' Construction, that the Soviet Military Administration and the Command of the Soviet Armed Forces in Germany provide German internees with a one-month supply of food and one set of clothes, underwear, and linen, that the MVD feed and guard them, and that the MVD be allowed to return to Germany disabled German prisoners of war and internees in a number equal to those sent to the Soviet Union, and listing other issues related to transportation and reception of German prisoners of war; table of the distribution of Germans sent to the Soviet Union for the Ministry of Coal Industry for USSR Eastern Regions or the Ministry of Fuel Enterprises' Construction, with an indication of the number to be sent to each region, 1946 December

Opis 75, Reel 1.1012, File 12

Memorandum to the USSR Council of Ministers and to J. Stalin from V. Abakumov asking for instructions about the proposal of American authorities in Germany to hand over to the Soviet administration 1,950 Germans who were members of the SD, Gestapo, or SS and other war criminals, and suggesting that the prisoners be admitted to the Soviet zone, placed in camps, and investigated, 1947 May

Opis 75, Reel 1.1012, File 13

File is unavailable, 1918-1992

Opis 75, Reel 1.1012, File 14

Memorandum to V. Molotov from S. Kruglov and S. Ogoltsov reporting on the number of inmates in special camps and prisons arrested in the course of "cleansing" the rear of the Soviet Armed Forces in Germany and retained in Germany because of their disability, and suggesting that a commission investigate the cases against those inmates and submit the cases of those found guilty of espionage, sabotage, and terrorism against the Soviet Armed Forces and military authorities to the Military Tribunal, that those arrested without serious reasons, as well as seniors and disabled people kept in prison and camps without evidence of crimes, be released, and directing that the list of former fascists detained in the camps and prisons of the Soviet zone of occupation be submitted to the Minister of Internal Affairs and the Minister of State Security for approval, 1947 September

Opis 75, Reel 1.1012, File 15

Memorandum to the USSR Council of Ministers and J. Stalin and to the TsK VKP(b) and A. Kuznetsov from V. Abakumov, suggesting that the cases of Germans detained in the prisons and camps of the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany be reviewed, that those detained in prison and camps without evidence of criminal activity, seniors, women with children, juveniles, disabled and seriously ill people (up to 20,000) be released, and that other inmates proved to have participated in fascist organizations, espionage, sabotage, terrorism, or other criminal activity be kept in prison and camps, 1947 November

Opis 75, Reel 1.1012, File 16

Resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers appointing a special commission to review the cases of all inmates (excluding those sentenced to a prison term by court) kept in camps and prisons in the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany and putting the commission in charge of establishing local commissions to prepare cases for final investigation, defining the category of inmates not subject to release, directing that all other categories be released, establishing an arbitration organ to settle disagreements among members of the commission, and directing that the results of the work of the commission be approved by the USSR Council of Ministers, 1948 March

Opis 75, Reel 1.1012, File 17

Resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers on improvement in maintaining and using the labor of German internees in Soviet labor camps, 1948 May

Opis 75, Reel 1.1012, File 18

Resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers on releasing Germans detained in the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany (approving a report directing that 27,749 people be released in two months and putting V. Abakumov, Minister of State Security, S. Kruglov, Minister of Internal Affairs, and G. Safonov, Prosecutor General, in charge of implementation of this resolution), 1948 June

Opis 75, Reel 1.1012, File 19

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo stating the inexpediency of sending to the Soviet Union Germans convicted by Soviet military tribunals and directing that V. Chuikov within ten days submit to the TsK VKP(b) proposals for release of some of the inmates in the camps and for handing over to German authorities the remaining inmates, 1949 September

Opis 75, Reel 1.1012, File 20

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo directing that a commission be created to investigate cases of convicted and unconvicted Germans detained in the special camps and prisons of the MVD in the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany, 1949 October

Opis 75, Reel 1.1012, File 21

Cover letter to G. Malenkov, L. Beria, L. Kaganovich, and Bulganin from V. Molotov submitting the draft resolution of the TsK VKP(b) developed by V. Abakumov, S. Kruglov, A. Gromyko, Chuikov, Semenov, and Pushkin [USSR Supreme Commissar in Germany] On the Further Investigation of the Cases of Germans Detained in Special Camps and Prisons Under the MVD in the Soviet Zone of Occupation in Germany ; the draft resolution, 1949 October

Opis 75, Reel 1.1012, File 22

Memorandum to J. Stalin from V. Abakumov, S. Kruglov, and G. Safonov, asking Stalin's decision re the draft resolution of the TsK VKP(b) On Liquidation of Special Camps and Prisons Under the MVD in the Soviet Zone of Occupation in Germany , recommending that 15,033 Germans detained for minor crimes (9,634 convicted and 5,404 unconvicted) be released, that 13,945 Germans be handed over to Germany, and 649 Germans who fought the Soviet Union most actively be handed over to the USSR MVD and that the Soviet Control Commission in Germany assume control over implementation of this resolution, and presenting a decision concerning inmates with citizenship other than German, 1949 December

Opis 75, Reel 1.1012, File 23

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo directing that the MVD release 15,038 Germans from camps and prisons of the USSR MVD in the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany, that 13,945 Germans be handed over to German authorities (some for further detention in German prisons and some for trial), that 126 foreign citizens be released, and 58 very dangerous criminals who are foreign citizens be sent to prisons in the Soviet Union, that the special camps of the MVD in Sachsenhausen and Buchenwald be liquidated and their facilities be transferred to the authority of the Group of Soviet Troops in Germany before March 15, 1950, and that criminals convicted by Soviet courts in the future be handed over to the MVD of Germany to serve their terms in German prisons, 1949 December

Opis 75, Reel 1.1012, File 24

Extract from the minutes of the TsK VKP(b) Politburo putting the Politburo commission in charge of submitting to the Politburo a recast draft resolution on improvement of the work of Soviet military tribunals in Germany; cover letter to the TsK VKP(b) Politburo from N. Gorshenin, S. Ignatiev, G. Safonov, Semichastnov, and Gribanov, submitting the draft resolution recast in accordance with the remarks made at the Politburo on November 15, 1950; the draft resolution, defining the jurisdiction of Soviet military tribunals in Germany, the procedure for trying Soviet and German citizens by military tribunals, the cooperation of Soviet military tribunals with German and Soviet courts, the procedure for communication with the relatives of German citizens on trial, and the authorities responsiblefor oversight of Soviet military tribunals in Germany; sample of a court order to be issued by Soviet military tribunals, 1951 November

Opis 75, Reel 1.1012, File 25

Memorandum to G. Malenkov from IA. Malik, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, describing petitions for pardoning German citizens convicted by Soviet military tribunals in Germany and serving their terms in Germany, suggesting authorities and procedures for investigating these and future petitions, and establishing a procedure for submitting misleading information to the relatives of German citizens sentenced to death by Soviet courts, 1952 November

Opis 75, Reel 1.1012, File 26

Extract from the minutes of the permanent Commission for Foreign Affairs under the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet re revision of petitions for new trials and pardons to be granted to 5,063 German citizens convicted by Soviet military tribunals in Germany, 1953 January

Opis 75, Reel 1.1012, File 27

Resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers approving a proposal of the Ministry of State Security to organize special sections for detention of Germans, Austrians, and other foreigners convicted by military tribunals of the Soviet occupation troops in Germany and detained in camps on Soviet territory, establishing a procedure for moving the inmates to those sections, and specifying the categories of criminals to be sent to these sections in the future, 1953 February

Opis 75, Reel 1.1012, File 28

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo re review of cases of German prisoners of war convicted by Soviet courts and serving their terms on the territory of the German Democratic Republic, 1953 August

Opis 75, Reel 1.1012, File 29

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving a draft resolution of the TsK KPSS on the release of German prisoners of war, internees, and civilians convicted by Soviet courts, before completion of their terms; the draft resolution, 1953 November

Opis 75, Reel 1.1012, File 30

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Molotov suggesting that 5,628 German citizens convicted by Soviet courts be handed over to the authority of the East German government for amnesty before the fifth anniversary of the founding of the German Democratic Republic, and that each case of amnesty or parole of a German citizen convicted by Soviet courts be approved by an authorized Soviet organ, 1954 September

Opis 75, Reel 1.1012, File 31

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo directing that 5,628 German citizens convicted by Soviet courts be handed over to the East German government before January 1, 1955, that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs notify the German authorities of the need for approval of their decisions about convicted German citizens from authorized Soviet organs, and that a Soviet commission be established to review cases of German citizens considered by German authorities to be eligible for parole, 1954 October

Opis 75, Reel 1.1012, File 32

Extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Politburo approving a draft resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers authorizing the extension of a deadline for review by German authorities of cases of German citizens convicted by Soviet courts; the resolution; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from I. Serov and R. Rudenko re a request from German authorities to delay for five or six months the investigation of cases of German citizens convicted by Soviet courts, 1954 December

 

Opis 76

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 1

Memorandum (four copies of the first page, signed on the top by different TsK KPSS top officials, and one complete copy of two pages) to the TsK KPSS from V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department, re the 11th Dartmouth Conference of Representatives of the Soviet and American People to be held in the Soviet Union, members of the delegations, and financing of the conference; two pages (different) listing the members of the Soviet delegation; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Zhukov, Deputy Chairman of the Soviet Peace Committee, and G. Arbatov, Director of the Institute for the Study of the United States of America and Canada, outlining the topics to be discussed at the conference and asking for more financing; list of members of the American delegation; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from IU. Zhukov and G. Arbatov re a meeting of the working group for food supply for the Dartmouth conference to be held in Moscow, 1977 June

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 2

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal of the Ministry of Civil Aviation to send to the US President an appeal from Aeroflot [Soviet airline] pilots requesting the extradition of criminals who hijacked a Soviet airplane; two copies (differently formatted) of the appeal; extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Savinkin, Chief of the Department of Organizational Organs, and V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Bugaev, Minister of Civil Aviation, re dispatch of an open letter from Soviet civilian pilots to President J. Carter, containing a request to extradite the Brazauskas family who killed a stewardess, wounded three crew members of a Soviet plane, and hijacked the plane to Turkey; cover letter to the TsK KPSS from B. Bugaev, accompanying a draft appeal from Soviet pilots to J. Carter; the draft appeal, 1977 October-November

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 3

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Trapeznikov, Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions, E. Tiazhelnikov, Chief of the Propaganda Department, V. Shaposhnikov, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and V. Ignatenko, Deputy Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, proposing to approve the 1978-1979 plan (developed by the Ministry of Health and approved by related ministries and departments) to expose an anti-Soviet smear campaign related to "political abuse of psychiatry" waged in 1977 at the 4th World Congress of Psychiatrists in Honolulu; the plan; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Petrovskii, Minister of Health, submitting a draft plan; the draft plan; handwritten brief note to the Department of Science and Educational Institutions and S. Trapeznikov; cover letter to the TsK KPSS from B. Petrovskii submitting a report on the 4th World Congress of Psychiatrists and information about measures to oppose the smear campaign against "abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union for political purposes" waged abroad; the report, 1977 November 1978 March-April

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 4

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving a proposal of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad to publish in Pravda (Truth) newspaper an article denouncing the speech of Z. Brzezinski, Adviser to the US President; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, suggesting publication of an article denouncing Brzezinski's answers to questions related to Soviet foreign policy broadcast by US television on May 28, 1978; the article, 1978 May

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 5

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat approving and submitting for Politburo approval the text of a TASS (Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union) report on the exchange of messages between J. Carter and L. Brezhnev concerning diplomatic relations established between the United States and China; two identical copies of the TASS report; copy of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat, with a list of documents sent to the Politburo, 1978 December

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 6

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat in principle allowing L. Brezhnev to give answers to a written interview for Time magazine (US), and putting the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, and the TsK KPSS General Department, in cooperation with the Ministry of Defense, in charge of preparing materials required for Brezhnev's interview; two copies (one with the distribution list) of an extract from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat; two copies, one with Brezhnev's handwritten note, of a memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department for Political Propaganda Abroad, listing American television networks, journals, and newspapers seeking an interview with L. Brezhnev and recommending Time magazine for the interview; cover letter to K. Chernenko from L. Zamiatin, submitting the memorandum, with Chernenko's handwritten note across the letter; list of questions submitted to Brezhnev by Time magazine; draft resolution of the TsK KPSS; list of representatives of the press and television from different countries seeking Brezhnev's interview; list of questions suggested by Time magazine, 1978 December

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 7

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from E. Tiazhelnikov, Chief of the Propaganda Department, asking for approval of the dates to publish in major Soviet newspapers materials related to the anticipated summit meeting in Vienna of L. Brezhnev and J. Carter (five copies, each signed by M. Suslov and another Politburo member in approval of the proposed dates), 1979 June

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 8

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Shcherbakov, Deputy Chief of the Department of Science and Educational Institutions, V. Zagladin, Chief of the International Department, and O. Rakhmanin, Chief of the Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers' Parties of Socialist Countries, reporting on the Asia and Détente symposium held by Soviet and American specialists in July 1979, in Washington, D.C., and supporting the proposal of the USSR Academy of Sciences to conduct a similar symposium of Soviet and American scholars in the Soviet Union; handwritten brief note; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from P. Fedoseev, Acting President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and A. Fokin, Acting Chief Academic Secretary of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences; report on the Soviet-American symposium, 1979 July-September

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 9

Five identical memoranda (each signed by a different Politburo member) to the TsK KPSS from L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, and E. Tiazhelnikov, Chief of the Propaganda Department, proposing to publish in Izvestiia (News) and Sovetskii sport (Soviet Sports) newspapers a statement of the Soviet Olympic Committee opposing J. Carter's attempts to impose a boycott of the 22nd Olympic Summer Games in Moscow; the statement, 1980 January

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 10

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, proposing to publish commentary in the Soviet press and abroad by TASS (Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union), News Publishing Agency (Agenstvo pechati Novosti - APN), and the State Committee for Radio and Television (Gosteleradio) warning the Norwegian government of serious consequences if Norway participates in NATO military maneuvers scheduled to start in Norway on February 28, 1980; the commentary, 1980 February

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 11

Resolution of the TsK KPSS Secretariat re discussion on changing the correspondents' branch (korrespondentskii punkt) of the Soviet television and radio in the United States to the division of Soviet television and radio in the US; two extracts from the minutes of the TsK KPSS Secretariat (one with a distribution list); memorandum to the TsK KPSS from G. Smirnov, Deputy Chief of the Propaganda Department; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from S. Lapin, Chairman of the State Committee for Radio and Television (Gosteleradio); draft resolution of the TsK KPSS, 1980 February-March

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 12

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS and A. Cherniaev from V. Zhurkin, Deputy Director of the Institute for the Study of the United States of America and Canada, submitting a draft message from the Commission for Foreign Affairs of the USSR Supreme Soviet to the Foreign Relations Committee of the US Senate, summoning its members to fight together with Soviet colleagues to ban the creation of new strategic weapons in the two countries and calling for further cooperation in the fields of economics, technology, culture, environmental control, and humanities, denouncing the United States for discrimination against the Soviet Union in customs control and trade, for refusal to issue entrance visas to the Soviet trade union delegation, for interference with Soviet internal policy and problems; note signed by V. Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and N. Mostovets, Head of a Sector of the same department, stating that the draft message was prepared before the anticipated visit of a group of deputies of the USSR Supreme Soviet and August, 1976 June 1976 August

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 13

Report of V. Trifonov, Counselor of the Soviet Embassy in the United States, on opinions about US foreign policy expressed by J. Carter during his election campaign and after his election as US president; list of excerpts from Carter's speeches formulating his concepts related to US policy toward Asian and Pacific Basin countries, 1976 November

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 14

Report of A. Zinchuk, General Consul of the Soviet Union in San Francisco, containing analyses of possible developments in Soviet-American relations, 1977 February

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 15

Cover letter to the TsK KPSS from E. Shershnev, Deputy Director of the Institute for the Study of the United States of America and Canada, submitting the memorandum American Prognoses of US Economic Growth Through the Year 1985 ; the memorandum; brief note signed by N. Mostovets, Head of a Sector of the International Department, stating that the material was presented for information, 1977 April 1977 August

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 16

Memorandum to the TsK KPS] from B. Piadyshev, Counselor of the Soviet Embassy in Bulgaria, notifying it of the exchange of books on the Cold War written by B. Pyadyshev and M. Herz, former US Ambassador to Bulgaria, outlining the content of both books and the content of the letter he received from M. Herz, and suggesting that a review of the two books be published in a Soviet magazine, with a handwritten note from N. Mostovets, Head of a Sector of the International Department, stating that the proposed publication is inexpedient; Herz's original letter (in English), 1977 August-September

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 17

Memorandum to the International Department of the TsK KPSS from Kozlov, reporting on the establishment in the United States of a new Maoist organization, the "so-called Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)," its history, chairman (M. Klonsky), program, and China's reaction to this new party; brief note signed by Zagladin, Deputy Chief of the International Department, and by N. Mostovets, Head of a Sector of the same department, stating that the material is presented for information, 1977 December 1978 February

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 18

Cover letter to the TsK KPSS from E. Shershnev, Acting Director of the Institute for the Study of the United States of America and Canada, submitting the reports On the American Approach to the Development of Economic and Scientific Ties with European Socialist Countries (Moment-II) and Problems of Reduction in Armed Forces and Armament in Central Europe and the Position of the Carter Administration (Moment-III) , prepared by a commission that included representatives of Bulgaria, Hungary, East Germany, Poland, the Soviet Union, and Czechoslovakia at a meeting in November 1977, in Berlin; the report Moment-III, describing the main determinants influencing the approach of J. Carter to negotiations in Vienna, US objectives there, and the possible American approach to the reduction in armed forces and armament in Central Europe, 1978 February

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 19

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS and L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of International Information, from G. Arbatov, Director of the Institute for the Study of the United States of America and Canada, re a visit to the institute by political correspondents of American newspapers accompanying US Secretary of State C. Vance during his stay in Moscow as well as American correspondents accredited to Moscow, and re topics of conversations between the correspondents and the institute's employees, 1978 April

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 20

Cover letter to the TsK KPSS and M. Zimianin from G. Arbatov, Director of the Institute for the Study of the United States of America and Canada, submitting a memorandum of a conversation between workers of the institute and J. Reinhardt, Director of the International Communications Agency, during his visit to the institute on April 4, 1978; the memorandum, signed by V. Zhurkin and R. Bogdanov, deputy directors of the Institute for the Study of the United States of America and Canada, listing participants in the conversation as well as problems discussed and questions put to Reinhardt and his answers; brief handwritten note, 1978 May

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 21

Cover letter to the TsK KPSS from L. Tolkunov, Chairman of the Board of the News Publishing Agency (Agenstvo pechati Novosti - APN), submitting a statement on the publication in the foreign press, at the request of the APN, of the article On Current Policy of the US Government (originally published in Pravda (Truth) newspaper of June 17, 1978); the statement, 1978 June

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 22

Cover letter to the TsK KPSS from R. Bogdanov, Deputy Director of the Institute for the Study of the United States ofAmerica and Canada, submitting a report on the latest meeting of an international commission that discussed US policy toward European socialist countries; the report signed by IU. Zamoshkin, Chief of the Department of Ideological Problems of the Institute for the Study of the United States of America and Canada, re the objectives of the meeting, social composition of the participants, and their position on ideological issues, 1978 July

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 23

Memorandum of a conversation between A. Gurianov, Senior Reference Adviser of the Department of International Ties of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet, and R. Combs, First Secretary of the US Embassy in the Soviet Union, a meeting between American and Soviet parliament members (problems to be discussed during the meeting, list of American senators and their escort, reservations to be made at hotels in Moscow and Leningrad, and related matters), 1978 October

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 24

Cover letter to the TsK KPSS from R. Bogdanov, Deputy Director of the Institute for the Study of the United States of America and Canada, submitting a report on the latest meeting of an international commission that discussed US policy toward European socialist countries; the report signed by IU. Zamoshkin, Chief of the Department of Ideological Problems of the Institute for the Study of the United States of America and Canada, describing the objectives of the meeting, participants, and their opinions on ideological issues and on bilateral relations with the United States, outlining the procedure for further work of the international commission, and presenting conclusions and recommendations of the meeting, 1978 November

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 25

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from A. Manzhulo, Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade, submitting for the Department of International Information the article On the Importance of Trade in Soviet-American Relations, signed by N. Krainev; the report presenting analyses of Soviet-American trade cooperation; note sent to the TsK KPSS by V. Ignatenko, Deputy Chief of the Department of International Information, stating that the article, after appropriate modification, was published in Izvestiia (News) newspaper, 1979 January 1979 June

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 26

Memorandum of a conversation of August 6, 1979, between A. Gurianov, Senior Reference Adviser of the Department of International Ties of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet, and E. Djerejian, First Secretary of the US Embassy in the Soviet Union, re organizational matters related to the visit of a delegations of American congressmen and senators to the Soviet Union; list of American congressmen and their escorts; brief note; brief cover letter to N. Mostovets (International Department) from V. Vysotkin (Department of International Ties) of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet) submitting the material; memorandum of the conversation of August 15, 1979, between A. Gurianov and E. Djerejian related to the problems to be discussed by the group headed by Congressman L. Wolf and a group of deputies of the USSR Supreme Soviet and to the organizational issues related to the visit of the group headed by Senator J. Biden; memorandum related to the visit to the Soviet Union of the delegation headed by Senator Biden, 1979 August

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 27

Brief statement signed by General G. Mikhailov, Chief of the Information of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces, on aggressive actions taken by the United States in different regions of the world, 1980 January

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 28

Cover letter to the TsK KPSS from G. Baranovskii, Secretary of the Soviet Committee for European Security and Cooperation, submitting a report on the 4th Colloquium on Disarmament in Europe held by the Soviet Committee for European Security and Cooperation, Scientific Council for Research of Problems of Peace and Disarmament of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Soviet Peace Committee, and State Committee for Science and Technology (GKNT); the report, signed by A. Shitikov, Chairman of the Soviet Committee for European Security and Cooperation, and G. Arbatov, Chairman of the Disarmament Problems section of the Scientific Council for Research on Problems of Peace and Disarmament of the USSR Academy of Sciences, mentioning participants in the colloquium, participating countries and organizations, and the agenda, and summarizing discussions on the international situation, the situation in Europe, limitation of strategic offensive arms and of medium-range missiles, and other problems, 1980 March

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 29

Memorandum of a conversation of A. N. Yakovlev, Soviet Ambassador to Canada, with Canadian scholars participating in the Pugwash Movement re developments of the international situation and possible escalation of confrontation into nuclear conflict, discussions concerning the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, disarmament, and related issues, 1980 April

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 30

Report of S. Divilkovskii, Counselor to the Permanent Representatives of the Soviet Union at the UN, on the Medical Consequences of Nuclear Armament and Nuclear War symposium held in New York by the organizations Physicians for Social Responsibility and the Council for a Livable World on September 27-28, 1980, 1980 October

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 31

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, reporting on his meeting with top executives of the Time-Life publishing corporation (United States) re their request to interview L. Brezhnev, current Soviet-American relations, policy of the Reagan administration toward the arms race, position toward the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and other issues, 1981 October

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 32

Memorandum of a conversation between V. Kamenev, Counselor of the Soviet Embassy in the United States, and A. Johnson,representative of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), re invitation to the Soviet Union of a group of activists of the CPUSA, the plenum of the Central Committee of the CPUSA to be held on November 19-21, 1976, the propaganda campaign in the United States denouncing the Soviet Union for predominance over Eastern Europe, the US presidential election campaign, and a request of G. Hall, Secretary General of the CPUSA, to meet A. Dobrynin, Soviet Ambassador to the United States, after the elections, 1976 October

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 33

Memorandum of a conversation between A. Gorshenev, Soviet Consul in San Francisco, and A. Lima, Secretary of the Northern California branch of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and member of the Central Committee of the CPUSA, re the campaign waged in the United States to denounce human rights violations in the Soviet Union and other socialist countries and re the main tasks of the CPUSA, 1977 March

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 34

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from Marshal N. Ogarkov, re a report prepared by the Stanford University Center for Strategic Studies on American forward-based nuclear weapons and their possible influence on strategic arms limitation talks and on reduction of armed forces and armament in Central Europe, 1977 February

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 35

Memorandum to the International Department of the TsK KPSS and N. Mostovets from A. Dobrynin, Soviet Ambassador to the United States, re a request from the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) to allow 20 (instead of 15) activists from the CPUSA to visit the Soviet Union and re a request from H. Winter (CPUSA activist) to give an explanation to the writer V. Perlo of the Soviet approach to the peaceful uses of atomic energy, with a handwritten note from the International Department stating that 20 party activists were allowed to visit the USSR by the TsK KPSS resolution and that V. Perlo would get answers to his questions during his visit to the Soviet Union; memorandum (translated into Russian) to V. Kamenev from V. Perlo listing his questions related to Soviet-American cooperation in peaceful uses of atomic energy; letter (translated into Russian) to N. Sievering, Assistant Administrator for International Affairs of the US Energy Research and Development Administration, requesting information on Soviet-American cooperation in peaceful uses of atomic energy; response letter to V. Perlo from B. Hill(?), [Head of the East-West Relations Sector(?)], 1976 October 1977 February 1977 April

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 36

Cover letter to the TsK KPSS and A. Cherniaev from V. Zhurkin, Deputy Director of the Institute for the Study of the United States of America and Canada, submitting a brief report on the activity of the international commission for problem solving on Policy of the United States Toward Socialist Countries in Europe, listing goals and participants of the commission, organization of the work and its results, and a program for future work, 1977 March

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 37

Memorandum of a conversation between A. Gorshenev, General Consul of the Soviet Union in San Francisco, and C. Bloice, editor of People's World newspaper and member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party USA, re recruiting new subscribers for People's World, possible election of the communist M. Allen to the Berkeley city council, the state of and prospects for Soviet-American relations, and publications in the newspaper in honor of the 60th anniversary of the October revolution, 1977 March

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 38

Cover letter to the TsK KPSS from Z. Kruglova, Chairwoman of the Presidium of the Union of Soviet Societies of Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (SSOD), submitting a report, signed by A. Stepunin, Chief of the SSOD Department for the United States and Executive Secretary of the USSR-United States Society, and V. Molchanov, Reference Adviser of the SSOD Department for the USA and Secretary of the USSR-United States Society, on cooperation with F. Neal, Vice President of the US Committee on East-West Accord; the report containing information on the history of the committee, F. Neal's work there, plans for future work, names of committee co-chairs and executive officers, F. Neal's meetings and conversations with Soviet officials during his visit to the Soviet Union, and his position toward developments in Soviet-American relations, 1977 July

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 39

Cover letter to the TsK KPSS from IE. Ivanov, First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Union of Soviet Societies of Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (SSOD), submitting a report of the special SSOD tourist group on its work during its visit to the United States; the report signed by A. Druzhinin, head of the special group and political correspondent of Soviet radio and television, and V. Gorin, deputy head of the special group and Deputy Chairman of the SSOD Department for the United States, listing propaganda actions taken by the members of the special group during their tour of US cities, 1977 July

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 40

Memorandum of a conversation between V. Bazovskii, Soviet Ambassador to Bulgaria, and M. Herz, US Ambassador to Bulgaria, re Soviet-American and American-Bulgarian relations, 1976 July

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 41

Memorandum of a conversation between G. Arbatov, Director of the Institute for the Study of the United States of America and Canada, and Senator G. McGovern re the Soviet-American Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, the position of the US Senate toward American foreign policy, and Arbatov's criticism of the Carter administration, 1977 August

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 42

Memorandum (translated into Russian) to K. Fedoseev, Deputy Chief of the Department for the United States of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, from W. Brown, Political Officer of the US Embassy in the Soviet Union, asking that P. Tomsen and B. Tua, first and second secretaries of the embassy, be helped during their trip to Siberia to meet workers of the Institute of Permafrost and of the Institute of the North in Siberia; brief note signed by N. Mostovets, Head of a Sector of the International Department, stating that P. Tomsen visited Siberia as he planned and was helped with his meetings, 1977 October-November

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 43

Cover letter to the TsK KPSS from V. Ruben, Chairman of the Soviet of Nationalities of the USSR Supreme Soviet, submitting a memorandum of his conversation with M. Toon, US Ambassador to the USSR; the memorandum of the conversation re development of relations between the US Congress and the USSR Supreme Soviet, exchange of congressional delegations between the two countries, and Soviet policy toward peaceful coexistence, 1977 December

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 44

Report entitled American Approach to the Development of Economic, Scientific, and Technological Relations with European Socialist Countries (Moment II) signed by E. Shershnev, Acting Director of the Institute for the Study of the United States of America and Canada, analyzing the changes in American economic relations with the Council on Mutual Economic Assistance countries in the 1970s, the influence of the political situation in the United States on economic cooperation, and discrimination against socialist countries by the US in trade relations, and outlining the tasks of socialist countries for improvement of economic relations with the United States; table re trade relations with the United States of European countries participating in the Council for Mutual Assistance in each year from 1966 through 1976; table re the structure of trade with the United States of the European countries participating in the Council for Mutual Assistance, with indication of the kinds of goods imported and exported in each year from 1973 through 1976, 1978 August 10

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 45

Cover letter to the TsK KPSS from L. Maksudov, Chief of the Information Department of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accompanying the report entitled Several New Moments in Foreign Propaganda of the United States ; the report, 1978 April

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 46

Report entitled Disarmament Problems in American Propaganda signed by V. Kamenev, Counselor for Information of the Soviet Embassy in the United States, with a handwritten marginal note directing the document to the TsK KPSS officials, 1978 May

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 47

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS and L. Zamiatin from R. Bogdanov, Deputy Director of the Institute for the Study of the United States of America and Canada, requesting that they authorize the participation of G. Arbatov in a CBS television program on Soviet-American relations, provided that G. Arbatov be interviewed in Moscow, with Zamiatin's handwritten marginal note stating that M. Suslov (TsK Secretary) authorizes the interview; note signed by G. Grechikhin, Chief of the Secretariat of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, stating that the Institute for the Study of the United States of America and Canada (G. Arbatov) has been informed of Suslov's authorization, 1978 June

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 48

Memorandum to G. Kornienko, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, from A. Dobrynin, Soviet Ambassador to the United States, re a request from the CBS and NBC television networks (United States) to broadcast simultaneous interviews of L. Brezhnev and J. Carter; brief handwritten note to L. Zamiatin (from unidentified author) rejecting the idea of Brezhnev's interview; memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, stating that Brezhnev's interview is inexpedient since his position toward Soviet-American relations has been expressed in his speeches and reflected in the Soviet press; note to the TsK KPSS from V. Ignatenko, Deputy Chief of the Department of International Information, stating that discussion of the problem has been postponed and that the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been informed, 1978 June-August

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 49

Memorandum to A. Gromyko, Minister of Foreign Affairs, from A. Dobrynin, Soviet Ambassador to the United States, submitting a political letter, prepared by the Soviet Embassy in the United States, analyzing the main aspects of current Soviet-American relations; the political letter analyzing Soviet-American relations under the Carter administration and outlining the Soviet approach to relations between the two countries concerning the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, the settlement of Middle East problems, Sino-American relations, and a Soviet-American summit, 1978 July

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 50

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Tolkunov, Chairman of the Board of the News Publishing Agency (APN - Agenstvo pechati Novosti - APN) re some changes in imperialistic propaganda on d tente, 1978 August

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 51

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, reporting on a meeting in the department with the American public figure G. Kennan, with M. Suslov's handwritten note directing the memorandum to A. Gromyko and B. Ponomarev; brief handwritten note to A. Cherniaev and N. Mostovets from B. Ponomarev suggesting that the material be taken into consideration in preparing meetings with US senators; brief note from Gromyko, sending the material to Kornienko and Komplektov, Chairman of the Department for the United States of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1978 October

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 52

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from B. Pankin, Chairman of the Board of the All-Union Agency on Copyright (VAAP), reporting on aspects of negotiations between the VAAP and leading US publishing houses, 1978 October

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 53

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, re his conversation with O. Robison, Chairman of the US Advisory Commission on International Communication, about international relations and Soviet-American relations during the Carter administration, 1978 November

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 54

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from V. Falin, Deputy Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, reporting on his conversation with C. Whitney, correspondent of the New York Times, re a possible summit of L. Brezhnev and J. Carter, prospects for signing the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT), Sino-American relations, the situation in the Middle East, trial by an American court of Enger and Cherniaev, Soviet officials at the UN, and their possible exchange for Soviet dissidents, 1978 November

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 55

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, re an interview given by G. Arbatov, Director of the Institute for the Study of the United States of America and Canada, to International Herald Tribune newspaper, 1978 November

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 56

Cover letter to the TsK KPSS from P. Alekseev, Editor in Chief of the Izvestiia (News) newspaper, submitting a memorandum of a conversation of V. Matveev, political correspondent of the newspaper, with an American journalist (D. Shipler, correspondent of the New York Times ) and with West German diplomats about China; the memorandum, 1978 December

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 57

Cover letter to the TsK KPSS from G. Arbatov, Director of the Institute for the Study of the United States of America and Canada, submitting a copy of a memorandum of his conversation with C. Bertram, Director of the Institute for Strategic Studies (London); the memorandum concerning the political situation with respect to arms control, progress in the Vienna talks, and the next stage of talks on the limitation of strategic offensive arms (SALT), 1979 January

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 58

Cover letter to L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of International Information, from A. Dobrynin, Soviet Ambassador to the United States, submitting a report about the Press Department of the White House, prepared by V. Gan, correspondent of TASS (Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union); the report describing the structure as well as the officials of the Press Department and their responsibilities, 1979 April

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 59

Cover letter to L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of International Information, from V. Vasev, Soviet Charg d'Affaires ad Interim to the United States, submitting the memorandum On Propagandist Coverage of the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II) ; the memorandum, signed by V. Kamenev, Counselor for Informational Matters of the Soviet Embassy in the United States, analyzing determinants to be taken into consideration in spreading propaganda in the United States related to SALT-II, 1979 July

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 60

Cover letter to V. Zagladin, First Deputy Chief of the International Department, from V. Paputin, First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, submitting a memorandum of his conversation with M. Toon, US Ambassador to the Soviet Union, re the Ambassador's request that Soviet authorities increase security of the US Embassy in the Soviet Union, that they guarantee the right to leave the Soviet Union to the Vashchenko and Chmykhalov families who found refuge in the American Embassy, and that direct contact of the Embassy's security service with Soviet militia organs be established, 1979 September, November

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 61

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from G. Arbatov, Director of the Institute for the Study of the United States of America and Canada, containing a memorandum of his conversation with A. Cox, American public figure, re the campaign waged in the United States concerning "Soviet troops" in Cuba, re prospects for ratification of SALT-II, re the political situation in the United States and the forthcoming presidential elections, and re prospects for further talks on the limitation of strategic offensive arms, 1979 October

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 62

Memorandum of a conversation between V. Chaltsev, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, and M. Garrison, US Charg d'Affaires ad Interim in the Soviet Union, who handed over a response to the protest note of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the US Embassy in the Soviet Union in connection with an explosion at the building in New York of the Soviet Representatives at the UN; the note (translated into Russian), 1979 December

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 63

Cover letter to the TsK KPSS from IE. Fedorov, Chairman of the Soviet Peace Committee, submitting a memorandum of a conversation that took place during the visit of an American delegation of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom to the Soviet Peace Committee; the memorandum listing the members of the American delegation and problems discussed, 1980 January

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 64

Cover letter to the TsK KPSS from P. Alekseev, Editor in Chief of Izvestiia (News) newspaper, submitting a memorandum of a conversation between V. Matveev, political correspondent of the newspaper, and "a group of Americans"; the memorandum of the conversation that took place during a dinner in the apartment of Mr. Newbert(?), American representative of the US - USSR Economic and Trade Council, with M. Forrestal, former president of the council, and K. Jenkins, current president of the council, about the international situation and the development of Soviet-American relations, 1980 March

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 65

Cover letter to the TsK KPSS from L. Maksudov, Chief of the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,submitting a memorandum of a conversation of V. Kamenev, Counselor of the Soviet Embassy in the United States, with J. Dolf(?), representative of the Jack Dolf Associates television company (US), and D. Hanauer(?), representative of the Hanauer and Co. television company, re their request to receive twice-weekly excerpts from Soviet television news programs to be broadcast in the United States, 1980 April-May

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 66

Cover letter to the TsK KPSS from R. Bogdanov, Deputy Director of the Institute for the Study of the United States of America and Canada, submitting the analytical memorandum On the Position of the American Delegation at the Forthcoming Meeting in Madrid ; the memorandum concerning issues of the American delegation's participation in the Madrid meeting and possible actions to be taken by the American delegation there, 1980 August

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 67

Cover letter to the TsK KPSS from V. Zhurkin, Deputy Director of the Institute for the Study of the United States of America and Canada, submitting a memorandum of a number of conversations held in the institute with R. Scammon, American expert on election campaigns; the memorandum describing Scammon's opinion of the elections in the United States, 1980 October

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 68

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from N. Firiubin, Chairman of the USSR Commission for the International Labor Organization (ILO), on the participation of Soviet institutions and departments in the activity of the ILO, 1980 November

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 69

Cover letter to the TsK KPSS from V. Zhurkin, Deputy Director of the Institute for the Study of the United States of America and Canada, submitting the analytical memorandum Reagan's Approach to the Madrid Conference and the "Human Rights Problem" ; the memorandum analyzing possible changes in American foreign policy under the Reagan administration and speculating on the influence of those changes on the Madrid meeting; brief note signed by R. Bogdanov, directing the material to V. Kobysh (Department of International Information), 1980 December

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 70

Cover letter to L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of International Information, from A. Dobrynin, Soviet Ambassador to the United States, submitting a report on informational and propagandist work of the Soviet Embassy in the United States and a plan entitled Plan for Informational and Propagandist Measures to be Taken by the Embassy in 1981 ; the report outlining the main actions of the Embassy, describing the propagandist and ideological situation in the United States, anti-Soviet campaigns in the American press, possible propagandist and ideological actions to be taken by the new Reagan administration, listing the main informational and propagandist measures taken in the United States by the Soviet Embassy, outlining propaganda measures taken by the Soviet Embassy in the press and in the American media, oral propaganda,cooperation with public organizations, use of television, film distribution, records, and philately for propaganda purposes, drawing conclusions, and offering proposals for future work, 1981 January

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 71

Cover letter to the TsK KPSS from G. Arbatov, Director of the Institute for the Study of the United States of America and Canada, submitting excerpts from the memoranda of conversations held in the Institute with K. Lipper(?), senior partner of the Salomon Brothers company and Professor at Columbia University; the excerpts from the memoranda re Lipper's opinions on prices for oil and determinants influencing pricing in this area, on the production of synthetic fuel in the United States and the policy of the US government toward this problem, on interest rates and the dollar exchange rate, and on the Reagan administration and its foreign policy, 1981 August

Opis 76, Reel 1.1012, File 72

Memorandum to the TsK KPSS from L. Zamiatin, Chief of the Department of Political Propaganda Abroad, summarizing the main issues of a new program for modernization of US strategic weapons, presented in the statement of President Reagan on October, 2, 1981, 1981 October

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