Central Archive of the Russian Ministry of Defence

The Central Archive of the Russian Ministry of Defence (TsAMO RF, ЦАМО РФ) is located in Podolsk, just south of the city of Moscow.

As a departmental archive of Russia, it stores documents of different staffs and offices, associations and formations, units, institutions and military academies of the Soviet Defence Ministry from 1941 until the end of the 1980s. It comes under the command of the Rear Services of the Armed Forces of Russia. It has data on the history, culture and military education of the Ministry of Defence (Russia).

Founded in 1936, the archive moved to Podolsk in Moscow Oblast around 1946.

In 1992 a branch of TsAMO was established in Pugachyov in Saratov Oblast.

As of 2010^[update]Colonel Igor Albertovich Permyakov functions as Head of the archive.

In late March 2008 media reported unofficiallythat during the visit to TsAMO of Defence Minister Anatoliy Serdyukov, it was decided to close TsAMO and transfer of territory for building an archive. In case of confirmation of this information, the likelihood that material may go missing or be destroyed during the relocation of the archives, is high enough.

TsAMO Russia keeps some 90,000 funds, including 18,600,000 units of storage. The organization funds are in general conformity with the principles of the organization of the Soviet Armed Forces: independent foundations are documents departments of the central apparatus of the Ministry of Defense, offices of military districts, armies, departments, divisions, units and individual agencies.

TsAMO's structure includes more than a dozen departments, including the following departments that store documents on the integration of personnel:

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