Archive Media Project

Archive Media Project (AMP) is a joint venture of Abamedia and Film and Computer World (KIKOM), a Russian Regional Non-Commercial Organization, in cooperation with the Russian State Film and Photo Archive at Krasnogorsk (RGAKFD).

AMP is the international trade representative for the Krasnogorsk Archive's media assets. AMP is implementing a plan for these archival treasures that combines public support with private investment strategies to hasten the introduction of modern cataloguing and preservation technologies, present the holdings of the archive to a great variety of client bases, and produce revenues to be invested in further preservation and marketing. Original program funding for the project was received from Internews Network's Media Development Program in Russia (USAID-funded).

AMP has been hard at work in Moscow creating a digital catalogue of the Archive's holdings and exploring restoration techniques. AMP is well into the process of cataloguing the Archive's film collection in Russian and English, with over 30,000 of the archive's 38,000 films included in the online database. The Central European University Archives, an affiliate of Open Society Archives, is providing funding for the completion of this task. The Russian Archive Ministry evaluated the cataloguing work positively in 1998.

The Russian State Film and Photo Archive at Krasnogorsk (RGAKFD) is the premier archive of film and photo documents on the history of Russia and the former USSR. Media assets at the Archive include over 38,000 film titles, comprising over 200,000 cans of film, and over 1 million photo documents on the history of Russia. The earliest motion picture in the Archive is the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II in 1896.

AMP Russian partners from Film and Computer World "KIKOM" are accomplished Russian media professionals. Igor Grigoriev, who received the highest Russian national award in 1980 for his participation in the Soviet-American 20-hour film series "The Unknown War," is a superb documentary producer and director -- a recent credit: two programs for the acclaimed PBS series "Russia's War: Blood Upon the Snow" -- and a former officer of the Russian Filmmakers' Union. Dr. Yuri Bukhshtab, a computer expert whose work includes designing automated information support for "Pravda," is the director of a laboratory at the Russian Academy of Sciences and a professor at Moscow University.

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