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UNESCO Sponsors Online Access to Soviet Space Programme Photos

• Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 12:51:54 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
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• From: Russell A. Johnson <rjohnson@library.ucla.edu>
• Subject: UNESCO Sponsors Online Access to Soviet Space Programme Photos
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Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 13:53:09 +0200
From: "Plathe, Axel" <A.Plathe@UNESCO.ORG>
Subject: UNESCO Sponsors Online Access to Soviet Space Programme Photos
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August 09, 2001 - Parts of the famous photo collection of the Soviet Pace
Programme held by the Russian State Archive of Scientific and Technical
Documents are now on-line available. UNESCO sponsored the establishment of
the unique photobank containing more than 1700 photos with their
descriptions. The new service, which is accessible on the website of the
State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documents, provides free text
search possibilities and lists the digitized photos according to
pre-established categories.

"This is an excellent example of providing worldwide on-line access to
information that is in the public domain" says Victor Montviloff from
UNESCO's Communication and Information Sector which earlier this year signed
an agreement with the Federal Archival Service of Russia (Rosarhiv) and
Abamedia, a USA based media development and production company, to
co-operate in the Russian Archives Online (RAO) project. RAO, which includes
the Space Programme Photo Project, aims to provide an Internet-based medium
for the viewing, searching and licensing of audiovisual materials held by
State and other archives and museums in Russia.

The Russian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documents, located in
Moscow, holds scientific and technical documentation concerning industrial
development, patents, and personal papers of well-known scientists,
scholars, inventors, and engineers. But perhaps the most interesting
materials are those related to the Soviet space program, which includes not
only technical documentation, but films, photographs, and audio recordings
of the historic achievements made in rocket design and space travel.
Related Links 
 
· Russian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documents
http://rgantd.ru/
· Russian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documents - Online Photo
Bank http://rgantd.ru/elcatalog/photocat.htm
· Russian Archives Online (RAO) http://www.abamedia.com/rao/index.html
· Federal Archival Service of Russia (Rosarhiv) http://www.rusarchives.ru/
· Abamedia http://www.abamedia.com/aba/
· UNESCO Archives Portal
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_archives/index.html
· UNESCO and audiovisual archives
http://www.unesco.org/webworld/audiovis/avarch.htm

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Axel Plathe
Information Society Division
UNESCO 
1, rue Miollis
75015 Paris
t       33.1.45.68.44.67
f       33.1.45.68.55.83
w       http://www.unesco.org/webworld
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