State Archives of Dnipropetrovsk Region

State Archives of Dnipropetrovsk Region

Address: 89, K.Liebknecht St., (building 1), 10, Leningradska St., (building 2), Dnipropetrovsk, 49069 Tel.: (056) 749-68-90, 749-60-46 Fax: (056) 749-60-46 E-mail: dado_info@ukrpost.ua Web: www.dado.dp.ua/ Transport: tram № 4 (terminal stop) (building 1) tram № 1 (stop "Opera and Balley Theatre") (building 2) Reading room hours of operation: M - F 9:00am - 5:00pm
Director: Kystruska Nina
Deputy Director: Legostaeva Olena

Historical Background
Total Volume of Funds
Description of Archives Holdings
Scientific and Reference Apparatus

Historical Background

Katerynoslav provincial archive (1922-1923)
Katerynoslav provincial historical archive (1923-1926)
Katerynoslav regional historic archive (1926-1932)
Dnipropetrovsk regional historic archive (1932-1941)
The state archive of Dnipropetrovsk region (1941-1958)
Dnipropetrovsk regional state archive (1958-1980)
The state archive of Dnipropetrovsk region (from 1980)

Total Volume of Funds

6280 funds, 1697739 collection items (1722-2008)
12592 collection items of scientific and technical documentation (1932-1987)
39 collection items of film documents (1961-1992)
52795 collection items of photo documents (1890-2008)
439 collection items of sound recordings ( 1900-1992)

Description of Archives Holdings

A considerable part of the funds of the end of ХVІІІ – beginning of ХХ century period is represented by documents of the state authorities – administrative office of Katerynoslav Governor, Katerynoslav provincial government, district and village governments, Katerynoslav municipal Duma and administrative board; judicial authorities – Katerynoslav county court, the Prosecutor of Katerynoslav county court, Notaries of Katerynoslav and Kryvyi Rig cities; the industry is represented with the funds of Katerynoslav railway administration, the office of Katerynoslav district factory council; Dnieper plant of the South Russian metallurgy society, Katerynoslav cloth factory. The activity of religious establishments is documented in the funds of Katerynoslav ecclesiastical consistory, Katerynoslav clerical administration, Katerynoslav Preobrazhensky Cathedral.

The documents reflecting the social economic and political development of Dnipropetrovsk region are contained in the funds of:

State authorities;
Military administrative agencies;
Provincial, county, district, military commissariats, district military councils;
Judicial authorities;
National economy administration authorities;
Agricultural, forestry, water industry organizations;
Educational establishments;
Scientific research and design institutes;
Culture and educational organizations;
Health care and physical education authorities;
Social welfare offices;
The Party and Komsomol authorities.

The archive stores collections of documents: on economic, cultural and civil and political life of Dnipropetrovsk region (1923-1994); reminiscences of the citizens of Dnipropetrovsk region on the Holodomor (Famine) in Ukraine in 1932-1933; documents about the veterans of the war of 1941-1945; on countrymen-owners and their family members who were exiled from Dniptopetrovsk region; reminiscences of the participants of war in Afghanistan (1979-1989) etc.

Funds of special origin are represented with documents of the participants of the Revolution events in Katerynoslav region in 1905-1907 and 1917 – V.K. Averin, K.D. Kudryavtsev, M.S. Miller, Y.S. Miller; scientists: O.I. Druzhinina, I.I. Kryzhanovska, V.I. Mosakovsky, L.V. Pisarzhevsky, M.A. Rozenberg; culture figures: G.V. Marinich, V.I. Ovcharenko, V.S. Prokudo, A.Ye. Sonts, N.A. Surzhina, I.M. Shapoval, M.A. Shatrov (Shtein).

The scientific reference apparatus

Inventories

14,336

Catalogues

Classified;
Name;
Geographical;
Classified catalogue of cinema, photo- and phonodocuments;
873 funds, 139,959 cases were thematically processed, 242,175 theme cards were drawn

Card indices

Documents of V.I. Lenin archive - thematic;
Industrialization of the region economy (1923-1930) - thematic;
Liquidated organizations - alphabetical;
Persons who were repressed in 1930s – beginning 1950s - name;
Persons who lived in the occupied territory of Dnipropetrovsk city in 1941-1943 - name;
Repatriated citizens - name;
Participants of underground partisan movement in the territory of Dnipropetrovsk region during the Second World War - name;
Comb-out of the Party members in 1921, 1924, 1929, 1934 рр. - name

Indices

Interfund:

Registers of Katerynoslav province churches - f. 104 Katerynoslav clerical administration; f. 134 Katerynoslav office of foreign settlers in the South region Russia; f. 193 Registersof Katerynoslav province churches; f. 282 Pavlograd town synagogue;
Documents of Revolution committees - f. Р-159 The Executive Committee of Katerynoslav district Soviet of working, village and Red Army deputies; f. Р-5016 Administration department of Nikopol Municipal Soviet of working, village and Red Army deputies;
Committees of needy countrymen - 38 f. of committees of needy countrymen Fund:
f. 11 Administrative office of Katerynoslav Governor – subject-topical, geographical;
f. Р-43 Executive Committee of Chumaki Soviet of working, village and Red Army deputies – subject-topical;
f. Р-268 Archive Department of the Executive Committee of Dnipropetrovsk regional council of People deputies - subject;
f. Р-319 Dnipropetrovsk Mining Institute named after Artem – subject-topical;
f. Р-1278 Executive Committee of Dniprodzerzhinsk Municipal Council of People Deputies – subject-topical, geographical;
f. Р-1860 Dnipropetrovsk regional Council of trade unions - subject;
f. Р-1873 Executive Committee of Krynychky Settlement Council of Working Deputies - subject;
f. Р-2143 Dnipropetrovsk Tube Rolling Plant named after V.I. Lenin - subject-topical;
f. Р-2145 Nyzhnyodniprovsk Tube Rolling Plant named after K. Liebknecht - subject-topical;
f. Р-2146 Dnipropetrovsk metallurgical plant named after G.I. Petrovsky - subject-topical;
f. Р-2151 Prydniprovska railway administration - subject-topical;
f. Р-2240 Health Care department of the Executive Committee of Dnipropetrovsk regional Council of people deputies - subject-topical;
f. Р-2270 Nyzhnyodniprovsk Tractor Repairing Plant named after Krasin - geographical;
f. Р-2307 Dnipropetrovsk state university - subject-topical, name;
f. Р-2431 Cards and letters sent by Soviet citizens from German forced-labor camps to Dnipropetrovsk region - geographical;
f. Р-2493 Statistical administration of Dnipropetrovsk region - subject;
f. Р-2951 Dnipropetrovsk plant of metallurgical equipment - subject;
f. Р-3101 Board of Education of Dnipropetrovsk regional Council of people deputies - subject-topical, geographical;
f. Р-3383 Executive Committee of Dnipropetrovsk Council of people deputies - geographical;
f. Р-3709 Dnipropetrovsk Trust of breadmaking industry - subject;
f. Р-3973 Financial Department of the Executive Committee of Dnipropetrovsk regional Council of people deputies - subject-topical, geographical;
f. Р-4243 The Ministry of Iron and Steel Industry of URSR - subject-topical;
f. P-4357 Regional Sanitary Epidemiological Station - subject-topical;
f. Р-4359 Culture Administration of the Executive Committee of Dnipropetrovsk Council of people deputies - subject-topical, geographical;
f. Р-4419 Dnipropetrovsk Agricultural Institute - geographical
f. Р-4464 Planning Commission of the Executive Committee of Dnipropetrovsk regional Council of people deputies - geographical;
f. Р-4474 Dnipropetrovsk regional production-and-technical administration of communication - subject;
f. Р-4492 Dnipropetrovsk regional administration of agriculture - subject-topical, name, geographical;
f. Р-4493 Building administration of Dnipropetrovsk Council of Economy - subject-topical;
f. Р-4497 Administration of machine-building industry of Dnipropetrovsk Council of Economy - subject-topical;
f. Р-4512 Administration of mining industry of Dnipropetrovsk Council of Economy - subject;
f. Р-4521 Council of Economy of Dnipropetrovsk economic administrative district - subject-topical, name;
f. Р-4526 Prydniprovsky inter-regional administration of municipal power stations and electric power networks - subject-topical;
f. Р-4530 Council of Economy of Prydniprovsky economic district - subject-topical;
f. Р-4539 Main territorial building administration of Prydniprovsky economic district - subject-topical;
f. Р-4540 Dnipropetrovsk regional editorial board “History of cities and villages of Ukrainian SSR” - geographical;
f. Р-4555 Administration of construction materials industry of Dnipropetrovsk Council of Economy - subject-topical;
f. Р-4556 Administration of working supply of Dnipropetrovsk Council of Economy - subject;
f. Р-4560 Administration of consumer goods and food industry of Dnipropetrovsk Council of Economy - subject;
f. Р-4561 Committee of Party and State control of Dnipropetrovsk regional committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine and the Regional Executive Committee - subject-topical, geographical;
f. Р-4562 Dnipropetrovsk regional committee of people’s control - subject, geographical;
f. Р-4800 Dnipropetrovsk Institute of Workers’ Technical Education - subject-topical, geographical

Overviews

Topical:

documental sources on development of metallurgical industry in Dnipropetrovsk region after the War;*
documents of the State archive of Dnipropetrovsk region as a source on history of the South of Ukraine (1914-1928);
documents on the history of mining industry in Katerynoslav province in the end of ХІХ – beginning of ХХ century;*
documents of re-election campaigns to the municipal councils (1921-1925);*
scientific and technical societies in the USSR (1945-1973)

Fund:

f.134 Katerynoslav office for foreign settlers in the South region of Russia (1781-1857);
f. Р-4521 The Council of Economy of Dnipropetrovsk economic administrative district (1957-1962);
f. Р-4530 The Council of Economy of Prydnistrovsky economic district (1963-1965);
f. П-7 Katerynoslav - Dnipropetrovsk district council of the Communist Party of Ukraine (Bolshevik) (1923-1930)

Automated databases

Fund sheets – 5,343 entries;
Data on dispossessed and exiled citizens - 157 entries, 52 cases;
Account of funds and cases of the state archive - 157 entries, 157 funds;
Funds card index – 5,111 entries;
Card index of repressed citizens - 814 entries

Scientific and reference library

17,535 books and brochures of 1848-1997 years.

The library funds contain literature on regional natural history and archivistics; cards, central and local periodicals

Reference apparatus for the library fund is represented with a classified and alphabetical catalogues.

Literature

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