Staff Composition of Experts and Jewelers of the Soviet State Repository of Valuables (Gokhran) in the 1920s

The article is devoted to the study of staff changes in State Repository Valuables (Gokhran) RSFSR 1920s. It reviews personal files employees who carried out examination, assessment, classification, and description valuables, also processes resulting emergence new activity areas Goskhran. expansion valuables composition coming Gokhran led positions. examines professional qualities competence working with national importance. details biography main expert N. A. Dmitriev. methodological basis work comparative-historical, systematic, descriptive methods, as well method archival heuristics. Scientific research history does not pay enough attention its jewelers training level, which was great importance involved sorting, evaluating, separating diamonds, precious metals, systematizing by kind quality; it a responsible job requiring special knowledge skills, especially 1920s, when directions Gokhran's activities were changing requirements personnel heightened. author has studied documents from Russian Archive Economics (fond 2324 “State Bank RSFSR,” fond 7632 People's Commissariat Finance USSR,” 7733 “Ministry USSR”), Central City Moscow R-1204 “Moscow Jewelry Partnership,” R-1906 Loan Treasury”). prove high level professionals Gokhran. A comprehensive on organizational administrative documentation permitted identify patterns formation, employees’ biographies. Masters large jewelry firms Lorie, Faberge, Khlebnikov worked They knowledgeable types metals processing familiar world market stones. Increased variety acquisition church Romanov treasures appearance narrow specialists contribution this historical science determined novelty. Involvement wide range that have been previously used scientific allows readers learn names people