Metadata: Main Archival Administration of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic; Kiev
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine
- Holding institution (official language):
- Центральний державний архів вищих органів влади і управління України
- Postal address:
- 24 Solomianska Str., 03110 Kyiv
- Phone number:
- 380 (044) 275-36-66
- Web address:
- tsdavo.gov.ua
- Email:
- tsdavo@archives.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 14
- Title:
- Main Archival Administration of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic; Kiev
- Title (official language):
- Главное архивное управление при Совете министров УССР, г. Киев
- Creator/accumulator:
- Main Archival Administration of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic; Kiev
- Date(s):
- 1918/1998
- Language:
- Ukrainian
- Russian
- Extent:
- 8,981 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Included are materials on work performed at archival institutions of Ukraine in 1928-32 to find, collect, preserve, and order documents on Jewish history and culture; this work was carried out under the guidance of the Ukrainian SSR Central Archival Administration and with the participation of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences’ Department (later, Institute) of Jewish Culture. Documents housed include a letter (8 June 1928) of I. I. Liberberg, head of the Department of Jewish Culture, to the Ukrainian SSR Central Archival Administration, proposing that Jewish archival fonds in archives of Ukraine be collected and registered, and that Jewish sections be set up at the archives of Khar’kov and Kiev. Also included are minutes of a session of the Ukrainian SSR Central Archival Administration collegium (13 June 1928) at which the Department of Jewish Culture’s proposal “to take more effective measures to preserve documents pertaining to Jewish history” was taken up (the Department of Jewish Culture also proposed that, starting June 1929, the post of head of the Jewish section be added to the staff of the Kiev Central Historical Archive [KTsIA]); reports of this section head I. M. Khinchin on work performed to find and describe documents, prepare publications based thereon, etc.; a circular of the Ukrainian SSR Central Archival Administration (17 June 1929) on finding and registering Jewish archival fonds in all archives of the Ukrainian SSR, to be subsequently concentrated in the Kiev Central Historical Archive’s Jewish section; a resolution of the Ukrainian SSR Central Archival Administration that a month-long expedition should be undertaken to find archival materials on Jewish history in particular population centres of Right-Bank Ukraine (1929); a report of I. M. Khinchin, head of the Kiev Central Historical Archive’s Jewish section, on a trip to Berdichev and Zhitomir, and on work performed there to find Jewish archival materials; a letter from the Ukrainian SSR Central Archival Administration to the RSFSR Central Archival Administration requesting data on fonds of Jewish organisations active in Ukrainian territory in 1918-24 held at archives of the RSFSR (1930); information of the Kiev Central Historical Archive (dated 4 October 1930) to the effect that the archive of the All-Ukrainian Jewish Public Committee to Aid Victims of Pogroms (Evobshchestkom) had been received from the RSFSR Central Archival Administration; a letter (5 May 1930) of I. I. Liberberg, head of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Jewish Culture, to M. A. Rubach, head of the Ukrainian SSR Central Archival Administration, containing a proposal on improving the organisation of “Jewish archival work” in Odessa; and a resolution of the Ukrainian SSR Central Archival Administration of 4 June 1930 that another Jewish archival section should be established at the Odessa Territorial Historical Archive; letters of the head of the Odessa Territorial Historical Archive and I. M. Khinchin, head of the Kiev Central Historical Archive’s Jewish section, to the Ukrainian SSR Central Archival Administration on organising the Kiev Jewish section’s district-level work to concentrate materials for both Jewish sections (November-December 1930); a Kiev Central Historical Archive production plan for 1931, with a separate section devoted to the work of its Jewish section and remarks on this by Prof. V. I. Veretennikov, Ukrainian SSR Central Archival Administration archivist; a draft of the Jewish section’s annual archeographic publication Archeographic Notes in Yiddish, and a listing of publications planned for its first issue (March 1930); a petition of the Kiev Regional Historical Archive (KOIA) to the Ukrainian SSR Central Archival Administration on the need to take urgent measures to preserve documents of the Society for Land Settlement of Jewish Toilers (OZET) and other Jewish public organisations, which materials were said to be in a “precarious condition” (November 1932); and a Ukrainian SSR Central Archival Administration circular (21 May 1932) on performing preparatory work toward reorganising the Jewish department of the Kiev Regional Historical Archive (KOIA) as the All-Union Jewish Historical Archive in Kiev, and a draft statute on same (1932). There are also letters, applications, and questionnaire forms of individuals expressing the desire to work with Ukrainian archival documents on Jewish subjects; “reference and orientation” materials on Jewish “nationalist” parties and organisations compiled in 1947-53 by the personnel of Ukrainian regional archives, and reference materials on secret fonds in Ukrainian archives that contained, among other things, documents on Jewish history; information on the existence of fonds and materials of “petty-bourgeois” parties, including Jewish ones, in archives (1973); materials for an unpublished document collection “exposing the activities of Zionist parties and organisations in Ukraine during the struggle for socialist revolution and establishment of Soviet power, and the subversive and anti-Soviet activities of international Zionism in Ukraine (1980-82); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- In January 1919, the Ukrainian SSR People’s Commissariat of Education established the All-Ukrainian Committee for the Preservation of Monuments of Art and Antiquity (VUKOPIS). In February 1919, an archival-library section thereof was organised, charged with administering the archives of Ukraine. On 18 July 1919, the collegium of the Ukrainian SSR People’s Commissariat of Education adopted a resolution reorganising this section as the Main Archival Administration, at the time an entity of the Education Commissariat’s department of extracurricular affairs. The Ukrainian SSR People’s Commissariat of Education’s Main Archival Administration was formed by order of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee (VUTsIK) on 3 September 1921; and on 3 January 1923, pursuant to a VUTsIK statute, the Central Archival Administration of the Ukrainian SSR (TsAU USSR; Ukrtsentrarkhiv) was established. By an April 1938 edict of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR, the Central Archival Administration of the Soviet Union and all of its local entities were transferred to the jurisdiction of the NKVD, upon which the Ukrainian SSR Central Archival Administration was reorganised as the Ukrainian SSR NKVD Archival Administration. By order of the Ukrainian SSR NKVD, this was reorganised 16 March 1940 as the Ukrainian SSR NKVD Archival Department. In June 1941, the title was changed back to Archival Administration, and in October 1941, this body was reorganised as the Ukrainian SSR NKVD Administration of State Archives. In March 1946, in connection with a reform of the system of entities of power and administration, it was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Ukrainian SSR Ministry of Internal Affairs; and in April 1960, to the Ukrainian SSR Council of Ministers’ system. In 1974 it received the status of Ukrainian SSR Council of Ministers’ Main Archival Administration. From 1992 on, it was called the Main Archival Administration of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine; and from March-December 1999, the Main Archival Administration of Ukraine. It is currently called the State Committee on Archives of Ukraine.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Khinchin, I. M.
- Liberberg, I. I.
- Rubach, M. A.
- Veretennikov, V. I.
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes seven inventories systematised according to the structural-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary