The precursor of the Abkhaz State Archive was established in March 1929, when the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the Socialist Soviet Republic of Abkhazia adopted a resolution about the "Organization of archival Affairs". In October 1992, during the War in Abkhazia, fire destroyed the archive building; on both sides of the conflict many believe that the archive was burned down intentionally by the Georgian forces. About 95% of the archived documents was destroyed. On the Georgian side, many people refute the idea that the archive was deliberately burned down. The same day as the Abkhaz State Archive burned down, the Abkhazian Scientific-Research Institute of Language, Literature and History (ABNII, founded in 1922 as the Abkhazian Scientific Society, ABNO) burned down, too.