Welcome to RAO's online RGAKFD Russian Language Film Catalogue.

This catalogue includes descriptions of films and film clips over a wide range of subjects, including history, politics, sports, cinema and more.
44,200 records are available for immediate searching, with production quality versions available.

Please fill out the licensing form or call 1-877-304-5495 for assistance with in-depth research of the Archive's film collection.

Top Row - Action Buttons

The "Action" buttons on the top row are the main navigation controls fof the Krasnogorsk catalogue database.

You can direct the catalogue to to search, view selected results and bring up a Russian language help window.

Search

To search, just fill out the search fields and hit return, or click the "Search" button in the Top Row.

 

Search is not case-sensitive. You can enter query words in upper-case, lower-case or a combination of the two.

The "Archive number" is the fastest way to find a specific image, if you have it.

Using "Keywords" you may specify the expressions consisting of one or more words.

Entering "Director" or "Camera" can be used as search terms, or to further filter the results.

In the field "Year of production " the year (or a range of years) should be given as four numerals.

Search Results

To view search results you can:

1. -- click the link to the document in the list of found entries

2. -- mark several documents by clicking the checkboxes
3. -- "Select the first 20" button - then press the "Browse" action button in the top row.
   -- Click the "Select the next 20" button to view the results 20 at a time.

Select and View the Search Results

After clicking the checkboxes next to the items which you wish to view more info, click the "Browse" button.

To return to Search Mode press the "Query" action button.

You can click on the print icon to open a popup window with a printer-friendly version, or copy/paste the document info into a separate file or the License Request form.

Advanced Search Rules

You can use the wild card operator "*" at the end of a query word.
Logical search operators "AND, OR, NOT" can be used in a field. If you enter a multiple-word value in a query field, operator AND is used by default.
Use "NOT" operator before the word which should not be in the text. "NOT" operator can't be used before the first word in a query field.
When you enter the value you can use more then one type of operators: words or phrases, containing operators "AND" or "NOT", could be combined by operator "OR".
Operator "AND" is used between fields in the query.

Tips and links

If you open the licensing form in a separate window, you can copy/paste your search results as you work - make sure to get the Archive Number, as well as any other information that would help us find what you need for your project.

In the future, we will introduce translation tools within RAO. Until we do, here are some links to free online translators you can use to translate search terms and results. Translation software is still in early stages, but very useful for short phrases and descriptions of archive results!

IM Translator ---- Systran ---- Promt Online Translator