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Державний архів Волинської області

State Archive of Volhynian Oblast
Derzhavnyi arkhiv Volyns'koi oblasti

Address

vul. Veteraniv 21 (korp. 1); vul. Hlushets 37a (korp. 2)
Lutsk
Volyn oblast
43024
Ukraine

Phone

38 (0332) 715 376

Fax

38 (0332) 715 376

Email

info@davo.voladm.gov.ua

Web

http://volyn.archives.gov.ua/

History

The archives was founded in December, 1939 under the name of Volyn Oblast Historical Archive, subordinated to the Volyn Oblast Archive Department of the Ukrainian People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs. In 1941 it was given a new name - State Archives of Volyn Oblast. During the years of Nazi occupation from June, 1941 it stops its work and resumes operation after liberation of the region in March, 1944. During this period archived collections diminished, lossing 1163947 units. In 1958 the Archives gets the name of the Volyn Oblast State Archives and (since 1960) submits to the Executive Committee of Volyn Oblast Soviet of Working People's Deputies; from 1980 - the Volyn Oblast State Archives. From October, 5, 1988 because of the liquidation of archives department of the Volyn Oblast Executive Committee, it carries out management of archives in the Oblast and is a scientific and methodical centre. From 1997 it is a structural subdivision of the Oblast State Administration.

Geographical and Cultural Context

Archive holds records from the Volhynia Region from XVI century until 2009.

Administrative Structure

Archive is divided into 8 departments:

Preservation of the Ukrainian National Fond
Information and usage of the documents
Information technologies
Registration and Reference System
Menagement and Human Resources
Formation of the Ukrainian National Fond and Archival actities
Finance
Technology and Maintenance

Building(s)

Archive operates in two separate buildings in Lutsk, at Veteraniv street 21 and Hlushets street 37a

Archival and Other Holdings

In the archives some documents from the XVI century are preserved: royal donatives' charters and privileges, church metrical and marriage books and some documents from collection gathered by Volyn Union of the Friends of Science.

The collections of Russian Empire period (1796-1919) comprise documents of the local state government bodies, city and district self-government (city councils and justices, land tenure commissions, area, district justices), judicial and police bodies (Lutsk area court, area courts).

The state of education is partly described in documents of Lutsk high schools, Lutsk pro-gymnasium. History of religion and church establishments is characterized by the funds of the Lutsk Uniate General Theological Consistory, Volodymyr-Volynskyi, Kovel, Lutsk ecclesiastic rules and dean's offices.

For period of Volyn possession by Poland (1921-1939) the collections of Volyn Voivodship are preserved: local state administration bodies, village councils, Lutsk city government.

Development of industry, agriculture and forestry is described in the documents of Volyn regional land tenure and land tenures collections, Directorate of the state forests in the town of Lutsk.

The financial state of Volyn Region is characterized by the documents of area treasuries, Volyn financial chamber, department of Polish state bank in Lutsk.

Activity of police bodies, court and offices of public prosecutor are represented in the collections of Volyn state police as well as Lutsk regional court, and Office of Public Prosecutor, prisons of Kovel and Lutsk.

Functioning of educational, cultural and training establishments and bodies is highlighted by the documents of curatorium of Volyn school district, Rivne, Kovel and Lutsk school inspectorates, Lutsk high schools among them - Lutsk Ukrainian high school named after Lesya Ukrainka. Documents from the collections of Volyn society of theatrical culture distribution, department of "Prosvita" society, Volyn Ukrainian association, Ukrainian parliamentary representation in Volyn Region, Lutsk Union of Orthodox faith adherents named after Petro Mohyla, represented struggle of Volyn people the maintenance of Ukrainian language, culture, faith, traditions etc.

Informative base of Nazi occupation period of Volyn region (1941-1944) is insignificant. Among the collections of this period there is the collection of the Volyn Ukrainian Nationalists Organization, the documents of which concern the activity of the Ukrainian Nationalists Organization - Ukrainian Insurgent Army in Volyn Region.

The most complete in the Archives are the documents of Soviet institutions, organizations, industrial enterprises, finаnсіal bodies, educational establishments that resumed operation or were created in the post-war period.

Important documents are in the collections of leading bodies in religious affairs. They contain information about temples, priests, important events in history of the Region.

The Archives preserves collections of personal origin, concerning life, activity, works of the prominent people of Volyn Region - scientists, teachers, writers, journalists, artists, industrial and agriculture workers. Here there are the evidences of Holodomor in Ukraine (1932-1933), prisoners of the Stalin camps narratives, information about persecuted priests, recollections of Volodymyr-Volynsky district habitants about Ukrainian and Polish relations in 1939-1952.

Collections of the former Communist Party of Ukraine, the Volyn Oblast Committee Komsomol (1939-1991), town and rayon committees of Party and Komsomol (1944-1991), as well as so-called filter affairs from the collection of the Security Department of Ukraine in Volyn Region, concerning the citizens, taken out for the forced labour by Nazi occupiers (1942-1944), criminal cases of out-of-court bodies, rehabilitated citizens (1939-1992) have been transferred to the regional archives in 1991.

Cine-documents of the Archives comprise the films about opening of the Memorial complex in the burned by Nazi village of Kortelisy, Ratno district, historical events in Volyn region, as well as items about Ukrainian-Polish conflict in the late 40th of the XXth century, celebration of 1000th anniversary of Volodymyr-Volynsky and others.

Total Volume of Collections

4778 collections, 1149003 units from the XVI century till 2009;

690 units of scientific and technical documents for the period of 1945-1984;

3 units of film documents for the period of 1981-1982;

31681 units of documentary photographs for the period of 1917-2010;

373 units items of phono-documents for the period of 1945-2005;

8 units of video-documents for 1992, 1994, 1998, 2004, 2010.

Finding Aids, Guides, and Publication

Державний архів Волинської області: Путівник.-Луцьк, 2011/Derzhavniy archiv Volynskoy Oblasti: Putivnik- Luck, 2011/State Archive of the Volhyn Oblast: Guide, Luck 2011

pdf version online: volyn.archives.gov.ua/Publicat/arkhiv_Volyn.pdf

Opening Times

Archival reading room is opened Monday to Thursday between 8:00am - 5:15pm, and Friday 8:00am - 4:00pm, with the lunch break between 1:00-2:00 pm .

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Lutsk city administration
- Луцька міська управа
- Lutska miska uprava
- Державний архів Волинської області
- P-1
- English, Russian, Ukrainian
- 1941-1944
- 2289 files
- Updated 6 years ago
Collection includes: Order by the Lutsk city administration for the Jews of Lutsk to wear identification marks (inventory 1, files 114, 256). Correspondence between Lutsk city administration and Lutsk Judenrat regarding organization of the hospital in the ghetto, typhus and quarantine in the ghetto (inventory 1, file 117, pp. 9, 46, 59, 78, 95) Lists of the Jewish property left after the liquidation of the ghetto and transferred to the city administration; register of the formerly Jewish goods sold to the citizens (inventory 1, file 117, pp. 10, 77) Statistics of population on the city of L...
Administration of Holoby district
- Районна управа с. Голоби
- Raionna uprava sela Holoby
- Державний архів Волинської області
- P-149
- English, Ukrainian
- 1941-1943
- 4 files
- Updated 6 years ago
Collection includes: information from Holoby district administration to Kovel city administration from 13 August 1941 containing statistics of the population in Holoby district, particularly Jewish population of Holoby district (file 1, p. 3); order from Lutsk oblast (region) administration to the heads of district administrations translating the order issued by the German military authorities prohibiting the Jews to run religious activities and requiring from them to submit all the liturgical things made of precious materials to the local Ortskommandanturen (file 1, p. 8); order by Holoby ...
Volyn regional comission for calculation of damage caused by the German-Fascist invaders
- Волинська обласна комісія по обліку збитків, заподіяних німецько-фашистськими загарбниками
- Volynska oblasna komissiia po obliku zbytkiv, zapodiianyh nimetsko-fashistskymy zaharbnykamy
- Державний архів Волинської області
- P-164
- English, Russian, Ukrainian
- 1944-1945
- 403 files
- Updated 6 years ago
Registers of documents, statements of material damage caused to individuals, collective farms, state enterprises, institutions. Summaries of information on losses incurred by occupants in the cities and districts of the region. Acts, registers, questionnaires containing information about the executed, tortured communists, Soviet activists, prisoners of war, civilians, Jews. Lists of individuals deported to forced labor in Germany. Questionnaires, testimonies, memories of persons who returned from German captivity. Report on the results of calculation of losses and the investigation of crime...
Lutsk Gebietskommissariat
- Луцький окружний комісаріат
- Lutskyi okruzhnyi komisariat
- Державний архів Волинської області
- P-2
- English, Russian, Ukrainian
- 1941-1944
- 922 files
- Updated 6 years ago
Collection includes: Circulars and correspondence between Lutsk Gebietskommissariat to heads of Lutsk district administrations from February 1942 discussing rules of using of the Jewish labourers. Lists of the Jewish workers (inventory 1, file 33). Correspondence between Lutsk Judenrat and Lutsk city administration regarding assignment Jewish skilled workers to various labor objects (inventory 1, file 40, pp. 1-3, 150). Report to the Generalkommissar Wolhynien u. Podolien on gasoline supplies for the “special treatment” of Jews in the Gebiet Luzk from August 27, 1942 (inventory 1, file 196,...
Volyn regional statistic office
- Волинське обласне управління статистики
- Державний архів Волинської області
- P-295
- English
- 1940-1994
- 26944 files
- Updated 6 years ago
Collection contains, particularly, statistics about the population of the region (1940, 1944) with the specification of ethnic background, as well as reports on the number of urban and rural population by age and sex, natural and mechanical population movements, lists of settlements with population information, results of population censuses. Collection includes tables containing ethnic composition of the population of various districts and locations of Volyn oblast (region) as of September 1, 1944 (inventory 2, file 424, p. 3).
Lutsk district administration
- Луцька районна управа
- Lutska raionna uprava
- Державний архів Волинської області
- P-74
- English
- 1941-1944
- 33 files
- Updated 6 years ago
Collection contains circulars, orders of the head of the administration; correspondence with village administrations of the district, budget, balance, regulations on youth courses, reports on budget expenses, economic plan, work of district hospital, registration of school-age children, school premises, lists of institutions and enterprises of the district, lists of district residents, employees of the district administration and village administrations, teachers; lists of the residents deported to Germany, personal statements, certificates issued to individuals, orders of receipts and expe...
Volyn regional administration
- Волинська обласна управа
- Volynska oblasna uprava
- Державний архів Волинської області
- P-87
- English
- 1941-1943
- 52 files
- Updated 6 years ago
Collection contains order of the Gebietskommissar on the organization of the work of the district administration, the structure of the administrative department, the departments of education and health care; instructions, reports of departments of the regional administration and rayon departments, reports of the congress of teachers; lists of hospitals of the region, heads of district administrations, teachers, medical staff, intellectuals; lists of individuals repressed by the Soviet authorities, prisoners; questionnaires of employees of enterprises and institutions of Lutsk, teachers, inf...
Collection of testimonies, documents and other materials about revolution struggle, participation of Volyn working-people in Civil War and Great Patriotic War, and in Sociaist organization
- Колекція спогадів, документів та інших матеріалів про революційну боротьбу, участь трудящих Волині у громадянській та Великій Вітчизняній війнах, соціалістичному будівництві
- Kolektsiia spohadiv, dokumentiv ta inshykh materialiv pro revoliutsiinu borotbu, uchast trudiashchykh Volyni u hromadianskii ta Velykii Vitchyznianii viinakh, sotsialistychnomu budivnytstvi
- Державний архів Волинської області
- П-597
- English
- 1945-1991
- 620 files in 2 inventories
- Updated 6 years ago
Collection contains, particularly, memoirs of partisans, underground members, Red Army soldiers who fought for the region. Essays on the Heroes of the Soviet Union. Lists of the members of the partisan movement and Soviet underground in Volhynia. Lists of individuals shot by Nazi occupants. Documents about settlements destroyed by German invaders. Reports on the combat activity of the underground Volyn Regional Committee of the KP(b)U, the Komsomol organizations, anti-Nazi groups and guerrilla members during the Second World War. Chronicle of guerrilla movement in Volyn. The materials of me...