This article provides an overview of the handwritten and printed materials from the personal archive of conductor Yuri Mikhaylovich Ahronovitch (1933–2002). The archive is housed at Zurich Central Library, Switzerland. Ahronovitch’s artistic career is clearly divided into two periods. The first, Soviet, is linked to his work with orchestras in Petrozavodsk, Sara­tov, Yaroslavl, and Moscow. This period was over­shadowed by conflicts with the authorities, culminating in his dismissal and a campaign of persecution after he decided to emigrate. Most of the recordings made during these years were subsequently destroyed in a wanton manner. The second period started in 1972 with Aranovith’s emigration to Israel. He built a brilliant international career, leading major orchestras, including the Cologne Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. The Zurich archive contains materials that shed light on both stages of the conductor’s life and work. These materials include personal and official correspondence, working scores with Ahronovitch’s annotations and editorial revisions, autographs of renowned musicians such as A. Khacha­turian, D. Shostakovich, E. Gilels, M. Yudina, M. Rostro­po­vich, and V. Ashkenazy, concert posters and programmes, and audio recordings. These documents clarify biographical details, such as the true year of Ahronovitch’s birth (1933), and reconstruct many aspects of musical life in the USSR and Europe absent from printed sources.