Yugoslav People’s Army and Territorial Defense of Social Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1945-



 A special group of the archival materials in the Military Archives consists of the documents on the development of the Armed Forces of the Social Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia, the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia) after 1945. These archival materials encompass the military provenance documents, which were made within the YPA units and institutions, territorial defense HQs and units, or within the Armed Forces of the Social Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This group of funds is still open for receiving the materials after the disintegration of the Social Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav People’s Army and reorganization of the Army into the Yugoslav Army (YA), the Serbian and Montenegrin Armed Forces (SMAF) and finally, after the independence of the Republic of Serbia, into the Serbian Armed Forces (SAF). This archival material is systematized by its creators. Overview of the archival materials arranged in groups, within the fund groups: NAME OF THE GROUP OF ARCHIVAL FUNDS ARCHIVAL FUNDS
IN GROUPS
Federal Secretariat for National Defense (MND + GS) 184
First Army Region 86
Second Army Region 82
Second Army Region
/Podgorica Corps/		 19
Third Army Region 130
Fifth Army Region 120
Seventh Army Region 89
Ninth Army Region 56
Military Navy and Army Region 148
Air Force Command/Yugoslav Air Force/ 129
National Defense Corps /National Defense Corps of Yugoslavia/ 118
Various units of the Yugoslav Army and Yugoslav People’s Army 181
Military Areas 34
Military Districts 23
Military Departments 18
Command Posts 20
Schools and Courses of the Yugoslav People’s Army (YPA) 59
YPA Examination Commissions 28
Engineer training areas 28
Territorial Defense HQ of Federal Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina 2
Territorial Defense HQ of Federal Republic of Montenegro 1
Territorial Defense HQ of Federal Republic of Macedonia 3
Territorial Defense HQ of Federal Republic of Serbia 157
Territorial Defense HQ of Federal Autonomous Province of Vojvodina 51
Territorial Defense HQ of Federal Autonomous Province of Kosovo 1
League of Communists of Yugoslavia funds group 32
Out of these groups, the group of the Federal Secretariat of National Defense funds (the certain parts) have been processed in archival manner:   NAME OF THE FUND CHRONOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK DESIGNATION OF FUND
Cabinet of the State Secretariat for National Defense /Ministry of National Defense/ 1945-1957 SS-1
Cabinet of the Chief of the General Staff of the Yugoslav People’s Army 1945,47,60,62-68* GS-1
1st YPA GS Department /Operations Section/ 1929;33,34;1945-68* GS-2
1st YPA GS Department 1966-1968*
2nd GS Section/Intelligence Section, 2nd Section/ 1945-1947; 1950-62 ? 1967* GS-3
3rd GS Department/ YA GS Section for organization and mobilization/ 1945-1969* GS-4
4th GS Department/YA GS Teaching and 8th Section/ 1945-1967* GS-5
Section for military education outside of the army /Department for military education outside of the army/ 1953-1959 GS-6
5th GS Department/6th, 1st, 2nd and 3rd Section of YA GS 5th Department, Material Planning Section/ 1945-1950;
1959-1969*		 GS-7
6th YPA GS Section/Navy Section and 6th YA GS Section/ 1945-1955;
1957-1962		 GS-8
6th YPA GS Department/Statistics and Administration Section/ 1960-1969* GS-9
7th GS Department /Encryption Section/ 1945-1966* GS-10
Administrative Section of the State Secretariat for National Defense 1959. GS-11
Section for GS Regulations 1960-1968* GS-12
Department for War Skills 1968* GS-13
Infantry Department 1945-65, 1969,1970* GS-14
GS Cavalry Section 1956-1960, and 1962 GS-15
Artillery Department 1945-1970* GS-16
Air Defense Department/apart from Air Force/ 1947;1949; 1956-59 GS-17
Armored Units Department/Command TMU/ 1948-1970* GS-18
YPA Signal Department 1945-1970* GS-19
CBRN Department/Chemical Units Command, Chemical Defense Command, Chemical Defense Inspection/ 1947-1950; 1955-66* GS-20
Engineer Department 1945-1970* GS-21
The authorization of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia for YPA 1949-1968.* CC-1
YPA Military Department of Yugoslav zone of the Free Territory Trieste-Koper 1945-1953. MD-1
YPA Military Department 1945-1954.
The Court of YA Military Department of the Free Territory Trieste-Koper 1947,1950-54. MD-2
YA Chief Inspection 1950-1951. DS-2
Defense Industry and Procurement Section 1945. DS-3
FPRY Coordination Committee handed the Office of the Assistant Federal Secretary of Civil Defense 1949-1951.
1954, ? 1972.*		 DS-4
YPA Detachment Command in UAR 1956-1959 1956-1967.* DE-1
YPA Detachment Command within IND forces in Yemen. 1963.* DE-2
HR Section of the Ministry of National Defense and the Federal Secretariat for National Defense in Democratic Federal Yugoslavia, the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia and the Social Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1945-1975.
1976-1987.*		 DS-5
This group of funds consists of 1394 boxes of the processed archival materials, out of which 409 boxes of materials were digitized. * The archival material whose expiration date of 50 years has not passed since the date of its creation, is closed for researchers. PERSONAL DATA FILES Personal data files of officers, NCOs, and military and reserve employees of active and reserve component of the Yugoslav People’s Army submitted from 1953 to 1966. The total number of files is 58,792, and the total number of boxes is 3,891.
Military archives 1 Ratka Resanovica St, Zarkovo 11133 Belgrade vojniarhiv@mod.gov.rs