State-of-the-art of the Russian Archives: Salaries of the Archivists is the Most Urgent Problem

An Anonymous Patron writes News From Russia where the Head of the Russian Archives Administration (Rosarchiv) Dr. V.P. Kozlov talked about a number of factors influencing the situation in Russian archives.

In 2004, 79 employees left the largest archive in Europe – the Russian State Historical Archive, for which modern archive facilities are being built in St. Petersburg. “Who will work in the new building?”, Dr. Kozlov asked.”