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Tsentral'nyi derzhavnyi arkhiv vyshchykh orhaniv vlady ta upravlinnia Ukrainy (TsDAVO)
Tsentral'nyi gosudarstvennyi arkhiv vysshikh organov vlasti i upravleniia Ukrainy
(TsGAVO Ukrainy)
[Central State Archive of the Highest Organs of Government and Administration of Ukraine]
Agency: Derzhkomarkhiv Address: 03110, Kyiv-110, vul. Solom’ians'ka, 24 Telephone: (38-044) 275-36-66 E-mail: tsdavo@archives.gov.ua Website: http://www.archives.gov.ua/Archives/index.php?ca01 Hours: M-Tu 8:30-16:30; F 8:30-15:30 Director: Nataliia Vasylivna Makovs'ka (tel. 277-36-66) Deputy Director, Main Curator of Fonds: Alla Vasylivna Obzhelian
TsDAVO was founded in 1943 and until 1980 was officially named the Central State Archive of the October Revolution and Socialist Construction of the Ukrainian SSR (TsDAZhR URSR). Headquartered in Kharkiv from 1920 until 1970, TsDAZhR consolidated the postrevoltutionary holdings from three earlier central state archives in Kharkiv: the Central Archive of the Revolution (TsAR-Tsentral'nyi arkhiv revoliutsii), the Central State Historical Archive in Kharkiv (Tsentral'nyi derzhavnyi istorychnyi arkhiv v Kharkovi), and the Central Archive of Labor (Tsentral'nyi arkhiv pratsi). TsDAVO now serves as a consolidated repository for all records of national-level state institutions, organizations, and other agencies dating from the February Revolution of 1917 to the present, predominantly from the period of Soviet rule in Ukraine.
There is also considerable documentation of emigre origin, including most of the documentation collected in the Ukrainian Historical Office in Prague (Czech. Ukrajinsky historicny kabinet; Ukr. Ukrains'kyi istorychnyi kabinet) during the 1920s and 1930s, along with other emigre collections from Czechoslovakia and other European countries that were transferred to Kyiv in 1945. These formerly secret holdings are particularly rich in personal papers and related materials of the Ukrainian emigration.
Access: Most fonds in the archive are now open to researchers. Access is still limited to documents in some top-secret files. Access may also be limited to some fonds from the 1917-1921 period and the Ukrainian emigration, which have recently been declassified but not fully processed for research. Researchers should present an official letter from their sponsoring institution in Ukraine.
General Guides: See PKG Archives: Ukraine (1988), pp. 233-60
Arkhivni ustanovy Ukrainy (2000), pp. 14-24.
Tsentral'nyi gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Oktiabr'skoi revoliutsii, vysshikh organov
gosudarstvennoi vlasti i organov gosudarstvennogo upravleniia Ukrainskoi SSR: Kratkii
spravochnik. Compiled by R. I. Tkach, V. M. Brozhek, V. V. Prokopchuk, and O. L.
Rybalko. Kyiv: HAU, 1984. 420 p. [Eastview Publications mf# B0060533]
A basic, short Russian-language guide to TsDAZhR, much
more extensive than the 1960 guide. Initially issued for restricted use (DSP), it is now
openly available. Does not cover recently declassified fonds nor any of those from emigre
sources.
Tsentral'nyi derzhavnyi arkhiv Zhovtnevoi revoliutsii i sotsialistychnoho
budivnytstva URSR: Putivnyk. Edited by L. V. Husieva, M. K. Kolesnyk, S. I. Rozin, I.
K. Rybalka, V. I. Riabko, and P. V. Zamkovyi. Kharkiv: Kharkivs'ke knyzhkove vyd-vo, 1960.
675 p. (Lib: MH[film]) [IDC-R-14,348]
Covers 928 major fonds, predominantly from the period
1917-1933, but none of those recently declassified.
Record last updated: October, 2004