L-2.
Derzhavnyi arkhiv L'vivs'koi oblasti (DALO)
Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv L'vovskoi oblasti (GALO)
[State Archive of Lviv Oblast]
Agency: Derzhkomarkhiv Address: 79000, Lviv, vul. Pidval'na, 13 Telephone: (38-0322) 72-00-30, 72-07-14 E-mail: dalo@mail.lviv.ua Website: http://www.archives.gov.ua/Archives/index.php?ra13; http://www.loda.gov.ua/oda/structure/archiv/ Hours: MWTh 12:00-20:00, TuFSa 9:00-18:00, F 9:00-16:45
RdngRm for special (R-designated) fonds: M-Th 9:00-17:00
F 14:00-16:45Director: Viacheslav Ivanovych Kutsynda (tel. 72-00-30) Deputy Director: Petro Ivanovych Kravchuk
The State Archive of Lviv Oblast (DALO) was formed in 1939 after the establishment of the Soviet rule in Western Ukraine on the basis of Lviv City Archive (Archiwum Miejskie) under Polish rule. From 1944 to 1956 it was known as the Lviv Oblast State Historical Archive (L'vivs'kyi oblasnyi derzhavnyi istorychnyi arkhiv), and between 1960 and 1982 it was named the Lviv Oblast State Archive (L'vivs'kyi oblasnyi derzhavnyi arkhiv). In 1977, the archive took jurisdiction of the holdings previously held by its branch archive in Sambir, after that branch was dissolved as a separate archive; earlier the Sambir branch had been the oblast archive for what had been the separate Drohobych Oblast; by 1984 all its earlier holdings were transferred to Lviv and integrated into DALO.
Since 1992, DALO includes, as a separate division, the holdings from the former local Party Archive of the Lviv Oblast Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. Initially established in 1939, most of the local Party archive holdings were destroyed in the summer of 1941, but the archive was reestablished and expanded after World War II to embrace all the local records of Party agencies and CP units within other agencies throughout Lviv Oblast.
DALO now serves as a centralized permanent repository for local records pertaining to the present territory of Lviv Oblast from the end of the eighteenth century, with groups of fonds covering the Austrian (1772-1918), Polish (1919-1939), and Soviet periods.
Access: Almost all previously classified materials have now been declassified. Researchers should present an official letter from their institution or sponsoring institution in Ukraine. All materials in DALO's special storage [for the "R" designated fondy] must be surrendered for re-storaging about 20 minutes before closing each day, but otherwise the facility is extremely helpful and flexible.
General Guides: See PKG Archives: Ukraine (1988), pp. 486-99
Arkhivni ustanovy Ukrainy (2000), pp. 92-94.
Derzhavnyi arkhiv L'vivs'koi oblasti: Putivnyk po fondakh L'vivs'koi ta
Drohobyts'koi oblasnykh, mis'kykh, raionnykh organizatsii Kommunistychnoi partii
Ukrainy. Compiled by I. L. Shtatman, V. I. Kutsynda, V. M. Kyslyi et al. Lviv,
2003. 135 p. [Derzhkomarkhiv; DALO] Seriia "Arkhivni zibrannia Ukrainy:
Putivnyky"
Electronic version:
http://www.archives.gov.ua/Publicat/References/Lviv_2003.php
An updated guide to the CP records from the former
separate Lviv CP archive.
L'vivs'kyi oblasnyi derzhavnyi arkhiv: Putivnyk. Compiled by V. I. Kotel'nikova et
al. Edited by B. K. Dudykevych et al. Lviv: Kameniar, 1965. 375 p. (Lib: MH)
[IDC-R-14,416]
Different sections describe holdings from the Austrian,
Polish, and Soviet periods, with brief characterizations of the most important fonds with
a list of additional fonds (pp. 300-32). Includes a brief description of the library. A
few fonds from the Polish period (1919-1939) have since been transferred to TsDIAL
(L-1).
Derzhavnyi arkhiv L'vivs'koi oblasti: Dodatok do putivnyka. Kyiv, 1988. 142 p.
Filial L'vivs'koho oblasnoho derzhavnoho arkhivu u Sambori: Putivnyk. Compiled
by E. A. Dubilevs'kyi et al. Edited by I. L. Butych . Lviv: Knyzhkovo-zhurnal'ne vyd-vo,
1962. 188 p. (Lib: MH) [IDC-R-14,419]
The guide covers the holdings from the former Drohovych
Oblast State Archive (1939-1941; 1944-1959) in Sambir, which, following the abolition of
Drohovych Oblast in 1959, became a branch of DALO. Since the fonds were incorporated in
DALO and transferred to Lviv, most of the fond numbers have been changed, but the earlier
guide still describes those records.
Record last updated: March, 2005