main activity
The main activity of the Archives is protection of archive materials with the authors while created, sorting, processing, lending for use, and publishing of archive materials. The Archives perform this function for the territories of all the 17 municipalities of the City of Belgrade.

archive materials
Its business premises cover an area of about 4,450 m2 but, out of that, storage – depots occupy 2,400 m2. The Archives keep in the depots the holdings of 12,5 km of archive materials. The materials cover the period from the middle of the 18th to the end of the 20th century: bodies of the authorities, administration, judiciary, economy, educational, health care, and cultural institutions, societies, associations, personal and family holdings and collections.

staff and visitors
Annually, the Archives visits about 8,000 of those interested in the scientific research of archive materials and issuing of public documents needed for regulation of legal and for private legal requirements or visit to the Gallery. The Historical Archives of Belgrade employ a staff of 56 workers, out of which 2/3 are on professional, and the rest are on the administrative and technical assignments.