Lithuanian Special Archives
Encyclopedia
Lithuanian Special Archives is an archive
in Lithuania
for the storage of documents from the period 1940-1991. Numerous KGB
and Lithuanian SSR
Ministry of Interior documents were left in Lithuania after it gained independence from the Soviet Union
in 1991, and are now held here. Around 18,000 linear metres of records are stored.
The Special Archives are maintained by the government Lithuanian Archives Department, and are collected and stored according to Lithuanian Archives law.
Access to the documents in the archive were the subject of a 2006 Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania
case.
Archive
An archive is a collection of historical records, or the physical place they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime, and are kept to show the function of an organization...
in Lithuania
Lithuania
Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...
for the storage of documents from the period 1940-1991. Numerous KGB
KGB
The KGB was the commonly used acronym for the . It was the national security agency of the Soviet Union from 1954 until 1991, and was the premier internal security, intelligence, and secret police organization during that time.The State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus currently uses the...
and Lithuanian SSR
Lithuanian SSR
The Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic , also known as the Lithuanian SSR, was one of the republics that made up the former Soviet Union...
Ministry of Interior documents were left in Lithuania after it gained independence from the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
in 1991, and are now held here. Around 18,000 linear metres of records are stored.
The Special Archives are maintained by the government Lithuanian Archives Department, and are collected and stored according to Lithuanian Archives law.
Access to the documents in the archive were the subject of a 2006 Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania
Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania
The Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania is a special court established by the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania of 1992; it began the activities after the adoption of the Law on Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania on February 3, 1993...
case.