Romania

Message from Soviet People’s Commissar of Internal Affairs L. Beria to J. Stalin about German aerial bombardments of cities and military and civil targets on Polish territory

2 September 1939

Russian State Archive of Contemporary History

Coll. 3, ser. 50, fold. 410, ff. 5–8.

Original

Report from the Near Eastern and Legal Offices of the Soviet People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs on neutralizing the articles of the Convention Regarding the Regime of the Black Sea Straits of 20 July 1936 that were disadvantageous to the USSR

[September 1939]

Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation

Coll. 06, ser. 1, box 17, fold. 177, ff. 81–83.

Copy

Transcript of a conversation between J. Stalin, Soviet People’s Commissar of Foreign Affairs V. Molotov, and Turkish Foreign Minister S. Saracoglu about the draft Anglo-French-Turkish Mutual Assistance Treaty and the possibility of signing a Soviet-Turkish mutual assistance treaty

1 October 1939

Russian State Archive of Social and Political History

Coll. 558, ser. 11, fold. 388, ff. 14–32.

Original

Cipher telegram from Soviet Plenipotentiary Representative in Turkey A. Terentyev to Soviet People’s Commissar of Foreign Affairs V. Molotov about a conversation with Turkish Foreign Minister S. Saracoglu after the signature of the Anglo-French-Turkish Mutual Assistance Treaty

26 October 1939

Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation

Coll. 059, ser. 1, box 293, fold. 2028, ff. 256–260.

Certified copy

Information from the 2nd Bureau of the French Army General Staff on the mass delivery of Romanian visas to Polish officers on the eve of the German-Polish war and the flight of top Polish government officials to Romania in September 1939

8 November 1939

Russian State Military Archive

Coll. 198k, ser. 9а, fold. 13089, f. 604.

Copy. In French

Summary of the 5th Red Army Directorate № 15 about events in the West: construction of planes by Italian aircraft factories for Great Britain, plans of operations by Franco-British troops against Soviet Transcaucasia, the military and economic situation in Finland, etc.

2 February 1940

Russian State Military Archive

Coll. 33988, ser. 4а, fold. 35, ff. 65–70.

Original

Cipher telegram from Soviet Plenipotentiary Representative in Great Britain I. Maisky to the Soviet People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs about his conversation with British Minister of Economic Warfare H. Dalton regarding the organisation of Anglo-Soviet trade talks, the activities of the USSR in Eastern Europe and the possibility of France’s capitulation

18 June 1940

Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation

Coll. 059, ser. 1, box 325, fold. 2235, ff. 1–3.

Certified copy

Cipher telegram from Soviet People’s Commissar of Foreign Affairs V. Molotov to Soviet Plenipotentiary Representative in Romania A. Lavrentyev with the text of the declaration addressed by the Soviet government to the government of Romania about the transfer of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to the Soviet Union

27 June 1940

Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation

Coll. 059, ser. 1, box 319, fold. 2194, ff. 89–90.

Certified copy

Cipher telegram from Soviet Plenipotentiary Representative in Romania A. Lavrentyev to the Soviet People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs about the attitude of Romanian governmental circles and citizens to the transfer of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to the USSR

28 June 1940

Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation

Coll. 059, ser. 1, box 318, fold. 2191, f. 159.

Certified copy

Cipher telegram from TASS representative in Bucharest M. Sharov to TASS director Y. Khavinson about the decisions taken by the Romanian government in response to the transfer of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to the USSR

28 June 1940

Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation

Coll. 059, ser. 1, box 318, fold. 2191, ff. 165–166.

Certified copy