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Central State Archives of Foreign Archival Ucrainica
(TsDAZU)

Address: 8 Kutuzova Str., Kyiv, 01011
Tel./Fax: (044) 285-81-71
E-mail: mail@tsdazu.archives.gov.ua,
mail@tsdazu.gov.ua
Web page at the portal of the State Commitee on Archives of Ukraine:
www.archives.gov.ua/Archives

Transport: "Pecherska" metro station
Open hours:
Mon - Thu 8:30am - 5:30pm, Fri 8:30am - 4:30pm




Director: dr. Vladyslav Berkovskyy

Deputy Director: Nadiia Lykholob





History

Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine took a decree ¹ 279 on May 12, 2007 "The creation of the Central State Electronic Archives of Ukraine and the Central State Archives of Foreign Archival Ucrainica".

Public Council

Public Council was created by the order ¹ 22 from December 11, 2008 of the Central State Archives of Foreign Ucrainica, according to the decision of Board of the State Committee on Archives of Ukraine on December 17, 2007 and by the order ¹ 241 from November 26, 2007 of the State Committee on Archives of Ukraine, established to coordinate activities associated with maintenance of public consultations on the formation and implementation of the state policy in the branch of archival affairs and paperwork.

Collections

The collections of TsDAZU present the documental evidence on the activities of the numerous Ukrainians abroad. The archives hold the documents of the famous Ukrainian political, military, cultural, scientific and religious leaders of the interwar and post-WWII era. Document sources reflect many aspects of life of Ukrainians in Czech-Slovakia, Poland, Romania, USA, Canada and other countries. The archival collections hold information about prominent Ukrainian Diaspora individuals, such as Olha Kobylianska, Kost’ Matsiievych, Dmytro Herodot, Kornii Nishchemenko, Ahenor Artymovych, Mykola Zakharchenko and others. TsDAZU also possess the valuable collection of books and periodicals printed by the Ukrainians abroad.

News

January 30, 2010

The staff of TsDAZU visited the exhibition of photographic documents devoted to the 20th anniversary of the Ukrainian Greek-Orthodox Church legalization. The exhibition shows the life of Ukrainian Greek-Orthodox clergy in the times of Soviet repressions, forced liquidation of Church and its underground life in 1939–1989. The exhibition is based on the Institute of Church History documents

November 27, 2009

Central State Archive of Foreign Archival Ucrainica received from the USA for storage a part of the family archives of VALENTINE KOKHNO - well-known community and religious leader of the Ukrainian Diaspora, head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Brotherhood named after Vasyl’ Lypkivskyi.

The transmitted part of the archives consists of the official documents, correspondence, memoirs, photos, books, etc. that reveal the spiritual life of the Ukrainian Diaspora, the history of the formation of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) and teachings of the first head of UAOC Metropolitan Vasyl’ Lypkivskyi, the activity of Ukrainian Vasyl’ Lypkivskyi Orthodox Brotherhood and such famous religious figures as Stepan Bilyak (archbishop of Borispil managing the Ukrainian Orthodox Vikariat UOC of Kyiv Patriarchate in the USA and Canada), well-known figure of UAOC Vasyl’ Potiienko and his son Yurii Potiienko and others.

October 15, 2009

The head of department of documentary information of TsDAZU A. H. Papakin participated in a meeting at the Embassy of Poland in Kyiv on the occasion of the Third Jerzy Giedroyc competition awards. There was a conversation with Alexandra Hnatiuk the First Counsellor of Ambassador, head of department of science and education of the Embassy.

October 14, 2009

The Director of TsDAZU Y. Y. Kulinich participated in the parliamentary hearings "Ucrainica Abroad: current status and prospects of cooperation", held in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

In the hearings participated people's deputies, representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Economics, the Presidential Secretariat of Ukraine, the Security Council, the Ukrainian World Congress, the Ukrainian World Coordinating Council, the "Ukraine-World" association, public organizations representing the interests of Foreign Ukrainians, and Ambassadors of Ukraine to the countries where most of the Ukrainian communities live - Russia, USA, Canada, Poland and others. Totally over 80 Foreign Ukrainians from 26 countries took part in the hearings.

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