The Center receives and considers inquiries from journalists, sent according to established regulations. From the beginning its purpose has been to organize and implement the rehabilitation of repressed individuals, and to furnish information about victims of repression to institutions, organizations, and individuals.
Related centers are operative on lower administrative levels throughout the Russian Federation.
These include general institutional records, statistical materials, dossiers on former officials who served in central and subordinate divisions of the Ministry, criminal files, and records of operational activities of the MVD RF and its predecessors. Access The archive has no reading room and does not communicate documents to researchers, and none of the card files or other reference facilities are open for outside research purposes. The MVD is prepared to answer limited inquiries, depending on the level of secrecy of the documents or files involved, according to internal MVD regulations. Inquiries or requests for specific information or documents should be addressed in writing to the Main Information Center indicating the purpose and concrete subject of research and the specific documents desired. Inquiries regarding rehabilitation from repressed individuals and their relatives should be addressed to the Center for Archival Information and Rehabilitation of Victims of Political Repression.