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State Archives had to concentrate and keep the records of supreme bodies of state power as well as the administrative and judicial agencies whose authorities had been extended to the whole territory of Ukraine . The regional central archives were to be founded in Kyiv , Kharkiv , and Odessa for storing historical documents and manuscripts for the period up to the end of the eighteenth century . In a well-structured archival network , the provincial concentrated archives would have been positioned at the third level , the county assembled archives – at the fourth . The provincial archives were aimed at keeping and maintaining the historical records of the nineteenth century . The county archives charged with collecting records of local institutions for 25 years and then to hand them over to the provincial archives . In turn , after 50 years of storing them , the provincial archives would to select historical records of national importance and transfer them to the regional archives . Scientific archival commissions , whose tasks included an appraisal of records in provincial , county and rural institutions for transferring them to the provincial and county archives , were to be created as elements of the archive system 7 . On September 18 , 1918 V . Modzalevskyi sent the Memorandum on archival reform to the Ministry of People Education ; the archival reform was based on the idea of extending public ownership ‘ represented on behalf of the Main Administration of Arts and National Culture , the National Archives of the Ukrainian State and provincial archives and commissions ’ of archival records of all departments 8 . Realizing the complexity of the potential reform , V . Modzalevskyi suggested establishing a ten-year transition period , during which the archival commissions were to appraise the records in various departments and identify complexes of valuable historical records that would either be deposited in the National Archives or stored in regional or provincial archives . As well as the archival system other changes were proposed and begun . One of the most important was the opening on November 3 , 1918 , of the Kyiv Archaeological Institute for training future librarians , archivists , and archeologists . The famous historian , Prof . Mytrofan Dovnar-Zapolskyi ( 1867 – 1934 ) became the director of the Institute . Unfortunately , the government of Hetman P . Skoropadskyi did not have the opportunity to implement the planned archival reforms before it ’ s time in power came to an end . Likewise , the Institute failed , with its students not even able to finish the first semester .
The period of the Hetmanate was also marked by events of extreme importance to the day . The Ukrainian delegation headed by Prof . Sergij Shelukhin ( 1864 – 1938 ), Petro Stebnytskyi ( 1862 – 1923 ), and the Archival Committee
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The Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine ( Kyiv ), F . 1235 ‘ Hrushevskies , 1830 – 1958 ’, Op . 1 , Spr . 1056 , Ark . 81 – 82 .
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TsDAVO of Ukraine , F . 2201 ‘ The Ministry of Education of Ukrainian State , Kyiv , 1918 – 1919 ’, Op . 4 , Spr . 2 , Ark . 4 .