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The State Archive Service of Ukraine or Ukrderzharkhiv is a Ukrainian government agency that implements state policy regarding the keeping of archives and record, function of state system of documentation security fund as well as an inter-trade coordination on matters within its competence. In 2010, the service was reorganized based on the State Committee of Archives (DerzhKomArchiv). The agency is part of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine since 1999. In 1947–60 it belonged to the NKVD.

Ukrderzharkhiv is a member of the International Council on Archives since 1956.

Ukrainian archives are among the least accessible in Europe, as archives do not publish their catalogs online, and there is no state program for this as of 2017. Archives are often overloaded with visitors. Waiting time to access documents in reading room could reach several weeks and occasionally months. Most of the staff speak Ukrainian or Russian only. Some of the western archives have personal that can speak Polish and occasionally Romanian, Moldavian and English. So far it seems that Odessa state oblast archive is the only one where personal can speak English.

Over the years there have been some international programs for scanning collections. US Holocaust Memorial Museum had some successful programs.

FamilySearch used to work in Ukraine from 1993 until 2011, however the contract was dropped by the Ukrainian government when president Yanukovych came to power. His new chief of Ukrderzharkhiv, a member of communist party Olha Hinzburh, proclaimed that "Ukrainian archives are to open for everyone". During 18 years of successful collaboration FamilySearch digitized many collections and made them available online https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list/?page=1&countryId=1927132 . Due to their agreement with the Ukrainian government, these records (unlike similar records from other areas) are only available in person at a Family History Center. FamilySearch has tried to get permission to make the records available online, but efforts have been refused by the Ukrderzharkhiv.

In general Ukrainian archives struggle of poor state support and strong corruption. Putting documents online will drop illegal income for many archives officials and so they block it.

In 2003 Ukraine had lost one of the most valuable collections of Ukrainian Podilia 1795-1900 during the fire in Kamenets-Podilsky archive. In 2014 Ukraine lost the Crimea, Donestk and Luhansk archives.

Most of the present archives stored in old buildings without fundamental storage facilities. Some of the buildings do not even have heating in winter.

There were a number of rumors about stealing precious documents from state archives. Some of them were available on international auctions like eBay. Most notable cases were in Lviv and Kharkiv archives. It's not clear of how many documents were stolen and absent at the moment.

History

  • 1921 - 1923 Main Archive Administration of the People's Commissariat of Education of the Ukrainian SSR
  • 1923 - 1938 Central Archive Administration (Central Executive Committee of Ukraine)
  • 1938 - 1939 under direct jurisdiction of the Main Archive Administration of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union
  • 1939 - 1941 Archive department of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR
  • 1941 - 1941 Archive Administration of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR
  • 1941 - 1947 Administration of State Archives of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR
    • 1941-1943 evacuation to the city of Zlatoust
  • 1947 - 1960 Administration of State Archives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR
  • 1960 - 1974 Archive Administration of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR
  • 1974 - 1992 Main Archive Administration of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR
  • 1992 - 1999 Main Archive Administration of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine
  • 1999 - 1999 Main Archive Administration of Ukraine
  • 1999 - 2010 State Committee of Archives of Ukraine
  • 2010–present State Archive Service of Ukraine

Leaders

  • 1948 - 1969 Semen Pilkevych
  • 1969 - 1988 Oleksandr Mityukov
  • 1988 - 1996 Borys Ivanenko
  • 1996 - 1998 N. Kystruska
  • 1998 - 2002 Ruslan Pyrih
  • 2002 - 2006 Hennadiy Boryak
  • 2006 - 2008 Olha Hinzburh
  • 2008 - 2009 Oleksandr Udod
  • 2009 - 2014 Olha Hinzburh
  • 2014 - 2019 Tetiana Baranova
  • 2019–present Anatoliy Khromov[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Government adopts personnel decisions and announces competitions for a number of positions". Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. 20 November 2019. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
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