# Spetskhran

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{{Short description|Restricted library and archival materials in the USSR}}
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{{expand Ukrainian|date=May 2023}}
'''Spetskhran''' ({{langx|ru|Спецхран}} an abbreviation for "Special Storage Section", отдел специального хранения) were limited access collections and archival reserves in [libraries](/source/library) and [archive](/source/archive)s of the [Soviet Union](/source/Soviet_Union), as part of the system of [censorship in the Soviet Union](/source/censorship_in_the_Soviet_Union).

Access to materials from Special Storage was conditional on special permission: a person had to either have the corresponding level of security access or to have a written permission from the [First Department](/source/First_Department) from the person's job.

Special Storage was for two major types of publications: those deemed "ideologically dangerous" and classified information whose disclosure could threaten the economy and defense of the state. Examples:
*Early Soviet publications associated with the "banned" names ([Leon Trotsky](/source/Leon_Trotsky), [Nikolai Bukharin](/source/Nikolai_Bukharin), etc.)
*Early Russian non-communist publications
*Russian émigré publications
*Foreign language publications deemed threatening to the Soviet State.
*Foreign scientific and technical publications were normally available to general readership, with "threatening" pages cut out, and full versions available from ''spetskhran''.
*Various classified publications, such as Soviet classified dissertations  ("Диссертация для служебного пользования"), classified technical references, etc.

== See also ==
* [Index Librorum Prohibitorum](/source/Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum)

== References ==
*[http://www.bibalex.org/wsisalex/8.Censorship%20in%20the%20USSR%20and%20the%20Russian%20State%20Library.doc Censorship in the USSR and the Russian State Library]
*Stelmakh, V. D. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/libraries_and_culture/v036/36.1stelmakh.html "Reading in the Context of Censorship in the Soviet Union"], Libraries & Culture - Volume 36, Number 1, Winter 2001, pp. 143–151, [University of Texas Press](/source/University_of_Texas_Press)

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