Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Soviet Union. Voenno-Morskoĭ Flot
- Abstract:
- Photographs depicting Soviet naval leaders, ships, and sailors.
- Extent:
- 2 manuscript boxes (0.8 Linear Feet)
- Language:
- Russian
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Voenno-Morskoĭ Flot photographs, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The photographs, mostly black and white, cover all the Soviet fleets: Northern, Pacific, Baltic, Black Sea, and the Caspian Flotilla, with the earliest photos from 1955 and the final series from 1988. The collection includes some photographs of ships and sailors, but many more are of high-ranking naval officers during various official functions in Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, and Sevastopol, as well as visits to such countries as Cuba, Indonesia, India, Yemen, Ethiopia, and Somalia. Most frequently the photographs include the two top officers of the Soviet Navy of the Cold War era: Fleet Admiral Sergei Gorshkov, commander-in-chief of the Soviet Navy for nearly thirty years, and the chief of the Political Directorate, Admiral Vladimir Grishanov. A few photographs include top Communist Party and government leaders: Nikita Khrushchev, Nikolai Bulganin, Leonid Brezhnev, and Nikolai Podgorny, as well as the leaders of Soviet satellite countries of the Warsaw Pact.
- Biographical / historical:
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Soviet navy.
- Acquisition information:
- Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library Archives in 2015.
- Physical location:
- Hoover Institution Library & Archives
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
- Terms of access:
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For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Voenno-Morskoĭ Flot photographs, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
- Location of this collection:
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Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford UniversityStanford, CA 94305-6003, US
- Contact:
- (650) 723-3563