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Tsentral'nyi derzhavnyi arkhiv hromads'kykh ob’iednan' Ukrainy (TsDAHO)
Tsentral'nyi gosudarstvennyi arkhiv obshchestvennykh organizatsii Ukrainy (TsGAOO
Ukrainy)
[Central State Archive of Public Organizations of Ukraine]
Agency: Derzhkomarkhiv Address: 01011, Kyiv, vul. Kutuzova, 8 Telephone: (38-044) 285-55-16; Fax: 295-73-51;
RdngRm: 285-48-31E-mail: cdago@online.com.ua Website: http://www.archives.gov.ua/Archives/index.php?ca02 Hours: M-F 9:00-17:30 Director: Volodymyr Serhiiovych Lozyts'kyi (tel. 285-55-16) Deputy Director: Ol'ga Viktorivna Bazhan
Heir to the republic-level archival holdings of the Communist Party of the Ukrainian SSR, the Central State Archive of Public Organizations (TsDAHO Ukrainy) has its origin in the Central Archive of the Revolution (TsAR), which was established in 1921 in Kharkiv under the Central Archival Administration of the UkrSSR, and subsequently the Unified Party Archive (Iedynyi partiinyi arkhiv), which was established in 1929.
The republic-level Party archive was moved to Kyiv in 1936, but many post-1933 agency records had not been transferred to the archive before the Nazi invasion. Many of those agency records and over 90% of the holdings in the archive itself were intentionally destroyed by CP orders in the summer of 1941, when evacuation by Soviet authorities was impossible after the Nazi invasion. The archive was reorganized and expanded after World War II as the central hub of a network of CP archives in Ukraine.
TsDAHO now houses the records of the Ukrainian Communist Party Central Committee and of the Central Committee of the Komsomol, as well as records of various Party political departments, educational establishments, and Komsomol organizations, along with the personal papers of many prominent Ukrainian Party leaders.
There are fonds for documentation of partisan groups during World War II, materials of the Ukrainian nationalist movement in 1939-1947, and fonds of political revolutionary-democratic organizations in Ukraine (1918-1920). The collections from the Museum of the Struggle for Ukrainian Liberation (Muzei vyzvol'noi borot'by Ukrainy) in Prague and some related emigre fonds transferred from security service archives are particularly rich in personal papers and fonds of Ukrainian emigre organizations during the interwar period.
TsDAHO has acquired many important files from the former Ukrainian KGB archive, namely files on individuals who were repressed from the 1920s through the 1950s and who were subsequently rehabilitated.
Access: Most of fonds in the archive are now open to researchers. Researchers should present an official letter to the director from their sponsoring institution.
General Guides: See PKG Archives: Ukraine (1988), pp. 290-95
Arkhivni ustanovy Ukrainy (2000), pp. 25-28.
Tsentral'nyi derzhavnyi arkhiv hromads'kykh ob’iednan'
Ukrainy: Putivnyk-dovidnyk /Central State Archive of Public Organizations of Ukraine:
Guide. Compiled by B. Ivanenko, O. Bazhan, A. Kentii, N. Makovs'ka, A. Solov’iova.
Edited by R. Ia. Pyrih et al. Kyiv, 2001. 496 p.
Electronic version: http://www.archives.gov.ua/Publicat/Guidebooks/Putivnyk-CDAGO.php.
English summary: http://www.archives.gov.ua/Publicat/Guidebooks/Putivnyk-CDAGO.php#Summary
A comprehensive guide to the archive.
Record last updated: March, 2005