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Tsentral'nyi derzhavnyi kinofotofonoarkhiv Ukrainy im. H. S. Pshenychnoho (TsDKFFA)

Tsentral'nyi gosudarstvennyi kinofotofonoarkhiv Ukrainy im. G. S. Pshenichnogo
(TsGKFFA Ukrainy)
[H. S. Pshenychnyi Central State Motion Picture, Photograph, and Sound Archive of Ukraine]

Agency: Derzhkomarkhiv
Address: 03110, Kyiv-110, vul. Solom’ians'ka, 24, korp. 2
Telephone: (38-044) 275-37-77;  Fax: 275-37-37
E-mail: tsdkffa@archives.gov.ua
Website: http://www.archives.gov.ua/Archives/index.php?ca05
Hours: M-F 8:30-17:00
Director: Nina Oleksandrivna Topishko (tel. 275-37-77)
Deputy Director: Nataliia Vasylivna Shcherbakova
Previous names:
1992-1998:
Tsentral'nyi derzhavnyi kinofotofonoarkhiv Ukrainy (TsDAKFFA)
    Tsentral'nyi gosudarstvennyi kinofotofonoarkhiv Ukrainy (TsGAKFFA Ukrainy)
    [Central State Motion Picture, Photograph, and Sound Archive of Ukraine]
 
1943-1992:
Tsentral'nyi derzhavnyi arkhiv kinofotofonodokumentiv URSR (TsDAKFFD URSR)
    Tsentral'nyi gosudarstvennyi arkhiv kinofotofonodokumentov UkrSSR (TsGAKFFD UkrSSR)
    [Central State Archive of Documentary Films, Photographs, and Sound Recordings of the UkrSSR]
1932-1943:
Vseukrains'kyi tsentral'nyi fotokinoarkhiv
    Vseukrainskii tsentral'nyi  fotokinoarkhiv
    [All-Ukrainian Central Photograph and Film Archive]

Originally founded in Kyiv in 1932 as the All-Ukrainian Central Photograph and Film Archive, the special state archive for audiovisual documentation was given its present designation under the archival reorganization in 1992.

The archive serves as a centralized repository for the retention of documentary films, photographs, and sound recordings for Ukraine. A few of the earliest holdings date from the late nineteenth century, but by far the bulk of materials date from the postrevolutionary period, and especially from the post-World War II period. In 1997 the archive received a major collection of copies of photographic materials from the Bundesarchiv in Koblenz, including some Nazi pictures and others that were seized in Ukraine by the Nazis during World War II.

Access: All of the holdings in the archive are open to researchers. Researchers should present an official letter from their sponsoring institution.

General Descriptions: See PKG Archives: Ukraine (1988), pp. 272-78
                                            Arkhivni ustanovy Ukrainy
(2000), pp. 38-40.

Tsentral'nyi gosudarstvennyi arkhiv kinofotofonodokumentov Ukrainskoi SSR. Kyiv, 1988. 12 p.

Specialized Finding Aids:

Kinolitopys: Anotovanyi katalog kinozhurnaliv, dokumental'nykh filmiv i kinosiuzhetiv (cherven' 1945-1955). Compiled by O. I. Selifonov, N. M. Slonchak, N. O. Topishko. Kyiv, 2002. 486 p. [Derzhavnyi komitet arkhiviv Ukrainy; Tsentralnyi derzhavnyi kinofotofonoarkhiv Ukrainy im. H. S. Pshenychnoho] Seriia "Arkhivni zibrannia Ukrainy: Spetsialni dovidnyky."
   
Electronic version: http://www.archives.gov.ua/Publicat/References/Putivnyk-Kinofoto.php.

Kinolitopys: Anotovanyi katalog kinozhurnaliv, dokumental'nykh filmiv i kino- i telesiuzhetiv (cherven' 1956-1965). Compiled by L. B. Pil'kebych, O. I. Selifonov, N. M. Slonchak, N. O. Topishko. Kyiv, 2002. 624 p. [Derzhavnyi komitet arkhiviv Ukrainy; Tsentralnyi derzhavnyi kinofotofonoarkhiv Ukrainy im. H. S. Pshenychnoho] Seriia "Arkhivni zibrannia Ukrainy: Spetsialni dovidnyky."
   
Electronic version: http://www.archives.gov.ua/Publicat/References/Putivnyk-Kinofoto_2.php.

Record last updated: November, 2004



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