Gosfilmofond of Russia — the main film archive of the Russian Federation and a member of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF)
Gosfilmofond of Russia is the main and largest film archive of the Russian Federation and a member of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF).
It is a state cultural institution that keeps the state collection of films and other film materials and carries out collecting, creative and production, cultural and educational, research, methodological and information activities in the field of cinematography.
As part of the national Culture project, since 2019 Gosfilmofond has been digitising film materials. Particular attention is also paid to cooperation and exchange of experience with the country's leading cultural institutions, including Mosfilm, the Russian National Library, the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) named after S. A. Gerasimov and the Saint Petersburg State Institute of Film and Television.
The Gosfilmofond collection
In 1997 Gosfilmofond of Russia was entered in the Guinness Book of Records as one of the three largest film archives in the world.
- In permanent storage film reels as of 01.01.2025
- 1,134,310
- Domestic film collection Film reels
- 660,515
- Foreign film collection Film reels
- 473,795
- Paper document archive Storage units
- 535,915
- 35 mm film materials in storage
- 1,125,335
- 70 mm film materials in storage
- 6,538
- 16 mm film materials in storage
- 2,437
- Digital and analogue media carriers
- 70,694
The collection holds more than 70,000 film titles — from the silent pictures of the Lumière brothers, filmed in France in 1895, to contemporary Russian and foreign works of cinema.
History of the fund
Key milestones in the development of Gosfilmofond of Russia
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The beginning of the collection
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Establishment of the All-Union Film Archive
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The negative collection and Belye Stolby
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Construction of the film vault
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Evacuation
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Reorganization and transformation
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International activities
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FIAF membership
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Opening of the Illusion cinema
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Renaming
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Register of especially valuable objects
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Member of the Association of European Cinematheques
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Archive Film Festival
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