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The formation of the archives in Podillya began in April, 1922 with thå creation of Kamyanets-Podilsky district archives administration.
In September, 1937 Kamyanets-Podilsky region was founded and the archives Kamyanets-Podilsky regional state historical archives began to function. In 1938 it was subordinated to the archives administration of the National Commisariat of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
In 1954 with the renaming of the region into Khmelnytsky, the archives was renamed into Khmelnytsky regional state archives in the town of Kamyanets-Podilsky and since 1980 it has been the state archives of Khmelnytsky region.
The archives preserve the funds of the local state authorities and the government of the pre-soviet period, which contain the decrees of the Senate, the circulars of the ministries, the circulars of Kyiv, Podillya, Volyn governor generals; the information about the quantity and the state of the industrial enterprises of the province, agricultural land tenure, the state of the construction, the development of the medicine, education, library science; the information about political exiles.
The institutions of the class, county and town self-government include: the decrees of the emperor and the Senate, the circulars of the ministries, the circulars of Kyiv, Podillya, Volyn governor generals; the decrees of Podillya province government about the holding elections to the authorities of the town self-government (1872 - 1875); the files about the preparation of the holding noble elections; the lists of the merchants of the province according to guilds (1832), the originals of the letters of Olexandr I, Kutuzov M. I., Bagration P. I.
The funds of religious institutions include: the decrees of the Senate and the Synod; the registers of the sessions of the diocese administration; the information about the state of the diocese, churches, church lands, the quantity of religious workers and parishioners in the districts of the diocese; the documents of the churches (metrical books, confessional notes, marriage descriptions, etc.) (1799 - 1916); the registers of the sessions of Podillya clerical roman-catholic diocese administration, metrical books of roman-catholic churches (1798 - 1920).
The documents of the funds of the local state authorities and the government of the soviet period reflect the formation of the soviet power on the territory of the region, the political state of the districts (1923 - 1925), the ukrainization of the soviet apparatus (1926 - 1927), the documents about the migration of the citizens of the region to the other regions of the USSR (1944, 1949 - 1957).
In the funds of court and national security authorities such documents are kept: the documents of Kamyanets-Podilsky and Shepetivka district courts; the criminal and civic cases, non-judicial cases of the rehabilitated citizens (1925 - 1975, 1998).
The funds of the government of national economy contain the documents about the development of the local industry; the condition of the housing fund of the towns of the region; the tests of the economic activity of the plants. The funds of the organizations of agricultural, wood and water economy elucidate the state of collectivization in the village.
The Fund of Khmelnytsky regional committee of the CPU include the documents about the industrial, agricultural and transport construction in the region, the mobilization of labour force for the building in the Urals, for the building of Donetsk mines, the selection and migration of specialists and collective farmers to the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1944), the repatriation of Polish, German and Czech national minorities (1938).
66 funds of personal origin of famous people and descendants from Khmelnytsky region are kept in the archives. In 1993 the funds of the institutions and organizations of the Soviet epoch before 1941 and the period of nazi occupation, the funds of the institutions up to 1965 were declassified.
In f fund of scientific-reference library there are 28799 sets of books and booklets, 92 sets of magazines, 1502 sets of year’s newspaper files of local newspapers since 1944.
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