Turkey

Report from the Near Eastern Office of the Soviet People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs to the Secretariat of the Soviet People’s Commissar of Foreign Affairs V. Molotov regarding the prospects of Soviet-Turkish talks about a mutual assistance treaty

[Before 27 September 1939]

Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation

Coll. 06, ser. 1, box 17, fold. 177, ff. 85–87.

Copy

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

Anglo-Turkish military talks in London

4 October 1939

Russian State Military Archive

Coll. 1511k, ser. 2, fold. 40, f. 10.

Photograph

Draft versions of the mutual assistance treaty between the USSR and the Republic of Turkey, the treaty signature protocol and the protocol on the Soviet-Turkish talks about the application of the Convention Regarding the Regime of the Black Sea Straits

15 October 1939

Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation

Coll. 06, ser. 1, box 17, fold. 177, ff. 44-48, 57, 65.

Drafts

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 Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs R. Butler on the re-establishment of peace in Europe, Polish borders after the war, British policy in the Far East, and Anglo-Soviet relations

17 October 1939

Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation

Coll. 059, ser. 1, box 300, fold. 2078, ff. 176–180.

Certified copy

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

Cipher telegram from Soviet People’s Commissar of Foreign Affairs V. Molotov to Soviet Plenipotentiary Representative in Turkey A. Terentyev on the refusal of the Soviet side to sign a mutual assistance treaty with Turkey

28 October 1939

Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation

Coll. 059, ser. 1, box 294, fold. 2029, f. 179.

Original. Autograph of V. Molotov

Internal report from Chief of the 5th Red Army Directorate I. Proskurov to Soviet People’s Commissar of Defence K. Voroshilov with attached materials about anti-Soviet activities in the Baltic countries and the recruitment of Estonian volunteers for fighting in Finland

27 January 1940

Russian State Military Archive

Coll. 33987, ser. 3а, fold. 1306, ff. 50–58.

Report – original, attachment – certified copy

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