State Archives in Autonomous Republic of Crimea
Address: 3 Kechkemetskaya Str. (building1)
1a Pavlenko Str. (building2)
Simferopol, 95050
Tel.: (0652) 22-84-05, 22-82-61
Fax: (0652) 22-84-05
E-mail: archive@home.cris.net
Web page at the portal of the State Archive of Ukraine:
www.archives.gov.ua/Archives/
Transport: trolleybus ¹ 5, 6, 7, 11, 14 (stop "Moskovska ploshcha")
trolleybus ¹ 2, 5, 6, 7, 11 (stop "Medinstitut")
Reading room hours of operation:
M - F 8:00am - 5:00pm
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Deputy Director: Kushnir Zoya
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The resolution, concerning establishment of the Crimean Central Archives, was passed by the Commissariat for popular schooling of the Crimean Soviet Socialist Republic on May 22, 1919.
On April 21, 1926, the Crimean archives were divided into historical archives and archives of the October revolution and in April 1941 were joined again into a single Central State Archives of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (the Crimean ASSR).
During the Nazi occupation (1941-1944), there were two archives in Simferopol: the Central archives and historical ones (in the capacity of a department) that were subordinate to a culture department of the local authority.
The Central State Archives in the Crimean ASSR of the state archives republican department of the People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs in the Crimean ASSR were reactivated in the territory of the Crimea in April 1944. In April 1945 in connection with the liquidation of the Crimean ASSR and the establishment of Crimean Region, the Central archives were renamed into the State Archives in Crimean Region of the People’s Commissariat Department of Internal Affairs of RSFSR in Crimean Region.
In February 1954, Crimean Region was included into the Ukrainian SSR. The archives were called the State Archives in Crimean Region of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Department of the USSR in Crimean Region.
In 1960, regional state archive institutions were subordinate to regional executive committees. During 1969-1980s, the archives were called the Crimean Regional State Archives, since 1980, they were called the State Archives of Crimean Region.
In connection with the reorganization of executive powers in 1988 and the liquidation of archive departments of regional executive committees, the function of managing matters concerning archives in territories of regions was passed to state archives. Since November 22, 1989, archives, directly subordinated to the Crimean regional executive committee, were called the state Archives of Crimean Region under the Executive committee of the Crimean regional Council of people’s deputies.
In February 1991, the Crimean ASSR was reestablished and the archives were renamed into the State Archives under the Council of Ministers of the Crimean ASSR and since August 20, 1991 - into the Central State Archives under the Council of Ministers of the Crimean ASSR. Beginning from January 24, 2002, the archives are called the State Archives in Autonomous Republic of the Crimea.
- 6970 funds, 1411910 collection items (XVIII – 2005)
- 18178 collection items of scientific and technical documentation (1932 – 1997)
- 588 collection items of film documents (1962 – 1991)
- 37671 collection items of photo documents (1900 – 2008)
- 325 collection items of sound recordings (1954 – 1998)
- 19 collection items of video documents (2001 – 2007)
In the archives documents from XVIII century up to the present time are kept. For an earlier period there are documents in a family fund of Popov (1653-1920) – edicts and decrees of Ekaterina II, correspondence concerning diplomatic relations with Turkey, reports on battles (1771 – 1773) and khan yarlyks (edicts) of XV-XVI centuries.
Documents that are dated to XVI century are kept in funds of a commission, which was set up for examination of land disputes and definition of duties in the Crimea, and in funds of a Tavria province deputy meeting. They are khan yarlyks (edicts) and Turkish fermans (imperial decrees). Among them, there are the oldest yarlyks of Sahib Girey (1547-1549), Mohammed Girey (1578) and fermans of sultan Murad III (1582) and Mehmed IV (1671).
There are documents concerning the 1st and the 2d Russian-Turkish Wars, the Russian-Swedish War, construction of the Black Sea Marine and its operations under the command of the famous Russian Admiral F. Ushakov, concerning relations between Russia and Turkey and other European countries, the Crimean War (1853-1856), an uprising on board of a battleship “Potyomkin” and particularly a little-known episode of this uprising – staying of the revolutionary battleship in Theodosia on June 22-23, 1905, which are kept in the archives.
Documents of the Tavria Province Building Commission and municipal building committees inform about urban development in the south of the Crimea, in cities of Simferopol and Sevastopol. Among these documents, there are construction projects and drawings of a theatre in Simferopol, cost estimations, drawings and projects of Count Quay (Grafskaya Wharf) in Sevastopol.
In funds of religious institutions documents about construction of churches, their repair and church registers are kept. In funds of Tavria Mahometan ecclesiastical governing (1807-1917) there are documents about mosques and Mahometan schools and decisions about waqf lands.
Revolutionary events in the Crimea (1917-1920) are reflected in documents of the Tavria Province commissar’s office, the Council of Ministers and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Crimean territory government, Tavria Province powers, Central executive committee and the Council of People’s Commissars of the Republic of Tavrida.
Reconstruction and development of the national economy, cultural and national building in the Crimea (1920-1941) is covered in documents of local authority, Verhovna Rada of deputies, elected by working population of the Crimean ASSR, Council of People’s Commissars of the Crimean ASSR, people’s commissariats, party bodies. Events of the Great Patriotic War are represented in documents of the Crimean partisan movement headquarters, the Crimean commission for studying history of the Great Patriotic War, the Crimean republican emergency commission for detection and investigation of Nazi occupants’ crimes. Information about the deportation of Crimean Tatars, Bulgarians, Armenians in 1944, which is represented in documents of the Council of People’s Commissars in the Crimean ASSR.
Documents, provided by the Main Directorate of the Security Service of Ukraine in the Crimea, tell about political repressions of 1930-1940s, hard life of citizens, which were deported to Germany during the World War II.
Documents of regional soviet and party bodies’ funds tell about reconstruction of cities and villages, plants and factories, collective farms during postwar years; about development of industry, agriculture, transport, communication, building and provision of public services and amenities in cities and settlements and economic state of the Crimea.
In the archival funds of a special origin documents, belonging to scientists, regional ethnographers, public men and politicians are kept: V. Ivanov – public man of a mayor in Simferopol (1909-1919); O. Golubev – Professor of Kazansk University and N. Suslova-Golubeva – the first Russian woman, who obtained a diploma of Doctor of Medicine; A. Bertie -Delagard – a Russian scientist-archeologist, whose documents contain, cost estimations, reports on construction of the water supply system in Sevastopol (1878-1896) in Yalta (1904-1905), construction of the Theodosia port (1892-1897); funds of the family of Vorontsov-Dashkov - (1896-1914); fund of Y. Krechetovich, rector of Ekaterinoslav and Vitebsk Seminaries; Y. Kozin – Doctor in Geology and other.
Scientific and technical, scientific-research documentation of the pre-revolutionary period is kept in funds of Salgir Experimental Fruit Station, Yalta Experimental Zemsk Station, the Tavria Province archival commission, the Tavria Province drawing office. The period after 1917 is represented in documents of funds, belonging to the Scientific-research Institute of wine-growing and winemaking “Magarach”; of Ukrainian State Institute of Garden Projecting "Ukrgiprosad" and other.
In the archives, there are image, phonographic and photographic documents, which reflect economic, public and politician, scientific and cultural life of the Crimea. The war period of 1941-1945 is represented by photographs of battle participants for the liberation of the Crimea, partisans and members of underground organizations (1941-1945). Phonographic documents record stories of revolutionary events participants, which took place at the beginning of the XX century and the World War II; staying of space pilots of the USSR in the Crimea: Y. Gagarin, G. Titov, A. Nikolayev (1961-1970). The archives keep records of all-USSR song contests and festivals, viewing of amateur art activities, musical compositions performed by soloists of the Crimean State Philharmonic Society.
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