State Archives of Sevastopol City
The State Archives of the city of Sevastopol began its activity on July, 1921 as uyezd department of the Crimean Archives.
April 1, 1925 the Archives received the regional status. Since 1929 the "Sevastopol District Archives Bureau" manages the archive keeping in Sevastopol. In the year 1930 the Bureau received a legal status.
On the ground of Decree of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic dated January 27, 1935 the Sevastopol District Archives Bureau was reorganized in the Sevastopol Department of the Central Administrative Direction of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. According to the Decree of the Central Administrative Direction of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic the Sevastopol Department of the Central Administrative Direction was reformed into the Sevastopol State Archives since February 10, 1938.
By the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic dated October 4, 1958, according to new Regulations of state archives fund of the USSR the status of archives was increased up to the Sevastopol Municipal State Archives with the constant document composition. The Sevastopol Municipal State Archives became independent since May 11, 1962.
Since the year 1980 the Archives has the name of the State Archives of the city of Sevastopol.
The State Archives of the city of Sevastopol is a structural unit of Sevastopol Municipal State Administration, is under control and subordinated to the Sevastopol Mayor and concerning the questions of fulfilment of the state executive power it is subordinated to the State Archives Committee of Ukraine.
Since the year 2001 the Archives has its own web-site. The sections of the site allow to familiarize with the State Archives as the scientific institution.
More than once the work of the Archives staff was awarded by different awards: Honorary diploma of the Sevastopol Municipal Council and Sevastopol Municipal State Administration and "Commemorative Token of merit for the city" (2001), Honorary diploma of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (2006).
- 463funds,229314collection items (1794-2008)
- 10362 collection items of scientific and technical documentation (1946-2008)
- 16214 collection items of photo documents (1854-2008)
- 71 collection items (571 registration items) of sound recordings (1964-2008)
- 1 collection item of film documents (1983)
- 162 collection items (976 registration items) of video documents (1996-2008).
The earliest archival documents are contained in the fund of the Balaklava St. George monastery (1794-1920). The letters of admirals P. Belynsgauzena, M. Lazarev, P. Nakhimov, V. Kornylov, V. Istomin with their autographs are especially valuable also.
The documents of the Chersonese monastery are no less valuable, documents about the book-mark and building of temple of St. Vladimir, from history of Chersonese bell were saved.
Collection of metrical books of the Sevastopol orthodox churches (1822-1919) is being kept in an archive.
There are reviews which served as additions to the annual reports of the governor of a town (1886-1909) in the fund of Office of the Sevastopol governor. The city of Sevastopol layout (1886—1909) is considered to be of extreme value.
Major part of archives is formed by the funds of period after 1917: the funds of the Sevastopol city, Balaklava district, rural revolutionary committees (1919-1923), the orders and orders of Folk commissariats, and also departments of food, finances, education, justice, health, labour, public welfare, in matters of press, transport, mail, telephone, telegraph, landed department.
Life of pre-war Sevastopol is represented in reports, lectures, plans, acts of inspection of enterprises, village Soviets, establishments of health, education, science, auction and communal enterprises care, and also lectures about activity of Councils and economic development of the Sevastopol district on party conference, conventions of Advices, trade-union conferences.
Economic development of Sevastopol is characterized by the documents of funds of the planned commissions of Sevastopol and Balaklava Councils (1944-1985), control-revision, statistical and financial organs (1944-1991), city and district committees of folk control (1963-1991), state tax inspection (1990-1996).
From 1992 an archives are completed by the documents of city and district administrations. In the funds of administrations (1992-2003) there are the orders of the city Mayors and district state administrations on basic activity and personnel, correspondence on the problems of fight against criminality and corruption in a district, about work with minors, about the grant of humanitarian help to the habitants of district, about the state of shipping and equipment modern with amenities of city.
Documents of Sevastopol marine trade port (1921—2001) contain information about renewal of port buildings, about transformation of port in 1954 in the Black sea state marine steamship line, there are reports about production activity of port, about work with scientific and technical information.
The address sheets of habitants of city of Sevastopol made in the period of occupation of city Nazi (1942-1944) are declassified.
Films, photo documents, sound recordings, video documents represent different periods of history of the city of Sevastopol. Greater part of documentary photographs of pre-revolution period is reproductions of landscape of city and environs, public houses and buildings. Basic part is made by the documents of soviet period: pictures of the city blasted by war, and objects of industry and agriculture, portraits of Heroes of Soviet Union, Heroes of Socialistic Labour and honoured citizens of city.
Among sound recordings there are records of evidences of participants of Sevastopol defence (1941-1942), members of Committee of defence A. Saryna, admiral F. Octyabrskiy and other participants of Second World War. In sound recordings archives flashbacks of participants of renewal of Sevastopol are kept, appearance I. Papanyn, short biographic essays of writers, artists, honoured artists, appearance of members of city advice and chairmen of the city executive committee.
Video documents are represented by the issues of news, by the telecasts of employees of archive in headings "What documents says", "News of 100-years-old remoteness", "Extremely important" (2001-2003), "Archived certificate" (2006-2008) devoted to the important historical events in Sevastopol.
Historical films "Admiral M. Lazarev " and "Marine Minister I. Grygorovych" talk about people who have greatly contributed to the development of Sevastopol, and the film "Sevastopol cathedral mosque" was the winner of scientific-methodical and information activities of Archives Studies and documentation (2009).
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