Gulnara Musina: “We want to preserve the history of Kazan in the municipal archive”

Gulnara Musina: “We want to preserve the history of Kazan in the municipal archive”

<p> Residents of Kazan can hand over documents, photographs and other records about their relatives, who participated in wars, were famous artists, writers or public figures to the municipal archive. Personal funds will be formed from the documents provided. Gulnara Musina, head of the Department of the Municipal Archive of the city, told reporters about the service provided by the municipal archive at the press tour. </p> <p> “We want to preserve the history of Kazan, so we offer residents to hand over documents, photos, letters from famous relatives,”- Gulnara Musina noted. This year, the personal funds of Mikhail Devyataev, the Hero of the Soviet Union, pilot, honorary citizen of Kazan, as well as Full Cavalier of the Order of Glory Anatoly Tyakin were created. </p> <p> In January 2022, the Municipal Archive of Kazan moved to a specially equipped facility at 5a, 8 Marta Street. Now the city archive occupies an area of 7,000 square meters, and 4,609 square meters have been allocated for storing documents. “After moving, the archive area has increased 6 times, and the storage reserves are designed for 30-50 years,”- Gulnara Musina said. </p> <p> The archive has a reception area and a modern reading room. Since the beginning of the year, the specialists have provided over 9,100 services, more than half of them are municipal. Most often, residents apply for certificates of work experience and salary, copies of documents, for advice on the location of archival documents. </p> <p> The archive's reading room is also popular with residents of the city. Since the beginning of the year, almost 3,500 visitors have come here to study the documents. </p> <p> One of the important areas of work of the municipal archive is the digitization of permanent records, which is carried out using a planetary scanner of domestic production. The device is equipped with a book cradle for digitization documents without stitching, basically this is how old documents are scanned. “As of today, 840 records or 190 thousand sheets have been digitized,”- G.Musina said. </p> <p> The archive building occupies 7 floors, 2 of which are underground. 5 floors have been allocated for the storage of records, on which 48 archives are located, equipped with racks with a total length of 4 km. Presently, the archive of the city comprises 1,615 funds with 143,557 records. Basically, these are management documents, personnel records or birth records. </p> <p> All repositories are equipped with a gas fire-fighting system, video cameras and air conditioners to maintain temperatures from +17 to +19 degrees and air humidity of 50-55%. In addition, before moving records to the repository, they are taken to a special room where they get used to new storage conditions – they undergo so-called acclimatization and are cleaned of dust with a vacuum cleaner. </p> <p> The archive also contains especially valuable documents, among which is a copy from the plan of Kazan, which was prepared in 1890 for the installation of the monument to Alexander II. Now the archive staff is preparing this document to obtain the status of an “Especially valuable document”. The archive also contains records of the Kazan City Department of Utilities of 1917-1931, a letter from the front dated June 1942, written in Latin verses, and others. </p>

2022-10-26T13:37:00+0300