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Ukrainian Research Institute
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Ukrainian Research Institute
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Archives in Ukraine
prepared by Patricia Kennedy Grimsted
last edited version (October 2004)
Following is a brief extract of the ArcheoBiblioBase information
system for archival repositories in Ukraine with a bibliography of their general published
guides. Since the State Committee on Archives of Ukraine (Derzhkomarkhiv) launched its own
website at the end of 2000, these files have been updated to coordinate with that
coverage, which was based on listings in the short directory of Ukrainian archives (Kyiv,
2000).
The present edition of the English-language files draws on the data in
that Ukrainian-language directory, the Derzhkomarkhiv website, and related sources.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
The brief coverage below, provides an abbreviated listing of the seven national-level state archives under the State Committee on Archives of Ukraine. Secondly, it covers oblast- and municipal-level archives in Kyiv and Lviv. Third, it lists state oblast archives in other oblasts (which now include the holdings of the earlier oblast-level Communist Party archives) together with a bibliography of their published guides, most of which are now available in microfiche editions. Finally it lists manuscript repositories in the two major libraries and one institute under the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
The present coverage was updated for the Ukrainian Research Insearch Institute of Harvard University by Dr. Grimsted (with the assistance of Natasha Maslova in Moscow) on the basis of the earlier ArcheoBiblioBase files in Kyiv in consultation with colleagues at Derzhkomarkhiv and data at the current website "Arkhivy Ukrainy."
The last two previous names and acronyms of the repositories listed are given in both Ukrainian and Russian, since researchers are likely to find citations in both languages. For major archives a brief paragraph explains the nature of holdings and, where appropriate, the historical basis and major reorganization of each repository since Ukrainian independence in 1991. Included here in terms of bibliography are only the major repository-level guides available.
Since independence, many of the vast holdings in Ukrainian archives have been declassified and opened for public research. The extensive archives of the Communist Party of Ukraine under Soviet rule have been incorporated into the state archival system, and most of their holdings are now also open for research. Even many formerly top-secret files held by the security services in Ukraine have been made available to families of the repressed, and some categories of records have been opened to the research public. However, at the same time a severe economic crisis has produced shortages of staff, lack of technical facilities, storage space limitations, and deteriorating physical condition of many archival repositories. Worries abound regarding the adequate preservation of the Ukrainian archival heritage for future generations. The relative decrease in government funding for archives, libraries, and academic institutions, has also meant the curtailment of many vital processing and public reference services that would normally be found in open public archives in other parts of the world.
Despite economic hardship, Ukrainian archives have nonetheless kept their doors open for public research and are ready to welcome scholars and other researchers from throughout the world. Now that Ukraine has been independent for twelve years, and now that Ukrainian historical research and publishing facilities have been freed from centuries of ideological straightjackets, it is possible to conduct open research on Ukrainian history and culture. The present English-language electronic information from ArcheoBiblioBase, supplementing the Derzharkhiv website, should help alert researchers to the wealth of holdings and research opportunities in Ukrainian repositories.
The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) welcomes comments and suggestions regarding this coverage. However, HURI regrets that staff limitations make it impossible to answer reference inquiries. Inquires should be addressed directly to Derzhkomarkhiv or individual Ukrainian archives as indicated at their website.
All of the repositories listed below are described in more detail in Ukrainian at the Derzhkomarkhiv website, which is considerably updated and expanded from the latest printed (2000) directory:
Arkhivni
ustanovy Ukrainy: Dovidnyk.
Edited by Ruslan Pyrih, Liubov Dubrovina,
Hennadii Boriak, et al.
Kyiv, 2000. 260 p.
Electronic version: http://www.archives.gov.ua/Publicat/References/arh_ust_references.php
Holdings in all of these repositories as organized before 1990 are described in much more extensive detail in English, together with a comprehensive annotated bibliography of their finding aids and other general archival reference literature, in the 1988 directory by Patricia Kennedy Grimsted:
Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the USSR: Ukraine and Moldavia:
Book 1: General Bibliography and Institutional Directory
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988. liii, 1107 p.
(available on microfiche: IDC-R-18,866 and reprint edition)
The electronic files from which that volume was prepared were incorporated in the ArcheoBiblioBase information system for updating and expansion.
Comprehensive, annotated listings of earlier guides and more specialized finding aids, including articles (through 1986 imprints) can be found in the 1988 Grimsted directory, and in Ukrainian in the 2000 Derzhkomarkhiv directory and subsequent website. Accordingly, page references to those directories (PKG Archives: Ukraine [1988]; and Arkhivni ustanovy Ukrainy [2000]) are provided in each case, along with links to the website coverage. In many cases, unfortunately, no new guides have been prepared since 1991, and the earlier published guides are inadequate in covering the holdings now open for research. Nevertheless, they provide a general orientation, and describe many of the holdings. While earlier guides are now all out of print, microfiche editions are available through IDC Publishers (formerly Inter Documentation Company) in Leiden, the Netherlands (http://www.idc.nl) and in a few cases through East View Publications (http://www.eastview.com); appropriate notations in the bibliographic data identify those reprint sources.
In fact almost all of the bibliographic entries in Dr. Grimsted's 1988 directory were issued in microfiche editions, and a special IDC catalogue of these Ukrainian finding aids was issued simultaneously with the publication of that directory. The IDC order numbers for all items filmed are listed as part of the bibliographic entry in the Grimsted directory. The separate IDC catalogue, as well as a microfiche edition of the Grimsted directory, are now available directly from IDC (at the web address mentioned above).
Genealogical Research/Family History
Family history and/or genealogical inquiries should not be addressed to HURI nor to Dr. Grimsted, but can be addressed directly to several more specialized sources, as explained at the Derzhkomarkhiv website: http://www.genealogicaltree.org.ua/. For those interested in family history research in Ukraine, the handbook prepared by Miriam Weiner is particularly recommended:
Weiner, Miriam, Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories. Secaucus, NJ/New York, 1999.
Although emphasis is on Jewish-related sources, the volume will be helpful for others interested in family history. Further notes regarding genealogical research and associated website of the firm Routes to Roots, Inc.: http://www.rtrfoundation.org.
That website provides town-by-town inventory of archival documents in a searchable database (at no cost to inquirer), as well as several chapters written by Ukrainian archivists, maps and map resources for Ukraine and other valuable information. Additional sources of information are listed and described in the Resource Guide at the website of the Federation of East European Family History Societies: http://www.feefhs.org .
Archival Legislation of Ukraine
Archival Legislation of Ukraine: 1991-2003.
2d ed. Kyiv, 2004. 152 p.
[State Committee on Archives of Ukraine]. Kyiv, 2003. CD-ROM. [Derzhkomarkhiv]
Electronic version:
http://www.archives.gov.ua/Eng/Access/index.php.
Arkhivy Ukrainy: Arkhivni
ustanovy Ukrainy. Zakonodavcha ta normatyvna baza.
Kyiv, 2003. CD-ROM. [Derzhkomarkhiv]
Electronic version (contents):
http://www.archives.gov.ua/Publicat/Archives_CD.php.
National-Level Central State
Archives
under the State Committee on Archives of Ukraine (Derzhkomarkhiv)
K-0. Derzhavnyi komitet arkhiviv Ukrainy (Derzhkomarkhiv)
Gosudarstvennyi komitet arkhivov Ukrainy (Goskomarkhiv)
[State Committee on Archives of Ukraine]
K-1. 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]
K-2. 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]
K-3. Tsentral'nyi derzhavnyi istorychnyi arkhiv Ukrainy, Kyiv
(TsDIAK)
Tsentral'nyi gosudarstvennyi istoricheskii arkhiv Ukrainy, Kiev (TsGIAK Ukrainy)
[Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine, Kyiv]
L-1. Tsentral'nyi derzhavnyi istorychnyi arkhiv Ukrainy, L'viv
(TsDIAL)
Tsentral'nyi gosudarstvennyi istoricheskii arkhiv Ukrainy, L'vov (TsGIAL Ukrainy)
[Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine, Lviv]
K-5. 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]
Kh-6. Tsentral'nyi derzhavnyi naukovo-tekhnichnyi arkhiv Ukrainy
(TsDNTA)
Tsentral'nyi gosudarstvennyi nauchno-tekhnicheskii arkhiv Ukrainy (TsGNTA Ukrainy)
[Central State Scientific and Technical Archive of Ukraine]
K-7. Tsentral'nyi derzhavnyi arkhiv-muzei literatury i mystetstva
Ukrainy (TsDAMLM)
Tsentral'nyi gosudarstvennyi arkhiv-muzei literatury i iskusstva Ukrainy (TsGAMLI Ukrainy)
[Central State Archive-Museum of Literature and Art of Ukraine]
Archives of Autonomous
Republic of Crimea
under the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea
O-1. Derzhavnyi arkhiv v Avtonomnii Respublitsi Krym
Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv v Avtonomnoi Respublike Krym
[State Archive in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea]
O-2. Derzhavnyi arkhiv m. Sevastopolia
Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv g. Sevastopolia
[State Archive of the city of Sevastopol]
Oblast and Municipal-Level State
Archives
under the State Committee on Archives of Ukraine (Derzhkomarkhiv)
K-15. Derzhavnyi arkhiv Kyivs'koi oblasti (DAKO)
Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Kievskoi oblasti (GAKO)
[State Archive of Kyiv Oblast]
K-16. Derzhavnyi arkhiv m. Kyieva
Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv g. Kieva
[State Archive of the city of Kyiv]
L-2. Derzhavnyi arkhiv L'vivs'koi oblasti (DALO)
Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv L'vovskoi oblasti (GALO)
[State Archive of Lviv Oblast]
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O-3. Derzhavnyi arkhiv Cherkas'koi oblasti
Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Cherkasskoi oblasti
[State Archive of Cherkasy Oblast]
O-4. Derzhavnyi arkhiv Chernihivs'koi oblasti
Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Chernigovskoi oblasti
[State Archive of Chernihiv Oblast]
O-5 Derzhavnyi arkhiv Chernivets'koi oblasti
Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Chernovitskoi oblasti
[State Archive of Chernivtsi Oblast]
O-6. Derzhavnyi arkhiv Dnipropetrovs'koi oblasti
Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Dnepropetrovskoi oblasti
[State Archive of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast]
O-7. Derzhavnyi arkhiv Donets'koi oblasti
Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Donetskoi oblasti
[State Archive of Donetsk Oblast]
O-8. Derzhavnyi arkhiv Ivano-Frankivs'koi oblasti
Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Ivano-Frankovskoi oblasti
[State Archive of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast]
O-9. Derzhavnyi arkhiv Kharkivs'koi oblasti
Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Khar'kovskoi oblasti
[State Archive of Kharkiv Oblast]
O-10. Derzhavnyi arkhiv Khersons'koi oblasti
Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Khersonskoi oblasti
[State Archive of Kherson Oblast]
O-11. Derzhavnyi arkhiv Khmel'nyts'koi oblasti
Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Khmel'nitskoi oblasti
[State Archive of Khmelnytskyi Oblast]
Fonds from former Kam’ianets'-Podil's'kyi mis'kyi derzhavnyi arkhiv
(K-P MDA)
Kamenets-Podol'skii gorodskoi gosudarstvennyi arkhiv
[Kamianets-Podilskyi City State Archive]
O-12. Derzhavnyi arkhiv Kirovohrads'koi oblasti
Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Kirovogradskoi oblasti
[State Archive of Kirovohrad Oblast]
O-13. Derzhavnyi arkhiv Luhans'koi oblasti
Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Luganskoi oblasti
[State Archive of Luhansk Oblast]
O-14. Derzhavnyi arkhiv Mykolaivs'koi oblasti
Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Nikolaevskoi oblasti
[State Archive of Mykolaiv Oblast]
O-15. Derzhavnyi arkhiv Odes'koi oblasti (DAOO)
Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Odesskoi oblasti (GAOO)
[State Archive of Odesa Oblast]
O-16. Derzhavnyi arkhiv Poltavs'koi oblasti (DAOO)
Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Poltavskoi oblasti (GAOO)
[State Archive of Poltava Oblast]
O-17. Derzhavnyi arkhiv Rivnens'koi oblasti (DARO)
Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Rovenskoi oblasti (GARO)
[State Archive of Rivne Oblast]
O-18. Derzhavnyi arkhiv Sums'koi oblasti
Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Sumskoi oblasti
[State Archive of Sumy Oblast]
O-19. Derzhavnyi arkhiv Ternopil's'koi oblasti
Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Ternopol'skoi oblasti
[State Archive of Ternopil Oblast]
O-20. Derzhavnyi arkhiv Zakarpats'koi oblasti
Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Zakarpatskoi oblasti
[State Archive of Transcarpathian Oblast]
O-21. Derzhavnyi arkhiv Vinnyts'koi oblasti
Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Vinnitskoi oblasti
[State Archive of Vinnytsia Oblast]
O-22. Derzhavnyi arkhiv Volyns'koi oblasti
Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Volynskoi oblasti
[State Archive of Volhynian Oblast]
O-23. Derzhavnyi arkhiv Zaporiz'koi oblasti
Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Zaporozhskoi oblasti
[State Archive of Zaporizhian Oblast]
O-24. Derzhavnyi arkhiv Zhytomyrs'koi oblasti
Gosudarstvennyi arkhiv Zhitomirskoi oblasti
[State Archive of Zhytomyr Oblast]
Major Manuscript Repositories
under the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
K-17. Natsional'na biblioteka Ukrainy im. V. I. Vernads'koho (NBU)
Natsional'naia biblioteka Ukrainy im. V. I. Vernadskogo (NBU)
[V. I. Vernads'kyi National Library of Ukraine]
K-18. Institut literatury im. T. H. Shevchenka
Institut literatury im. T. G. Shevchenko
[T. H. Shevchenko Institute of Literature]
L-3. L'vivs'ka naukova biblioteka im. V. Stefanyka NAN Ukrainy
L'vovskaia nauchnaia biblioteka im. V. Stefanika NAN Ukrainy
[V. Stefanyk Lviv Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine]
Record last updated: November, 2004