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into the Archival Department of the NKVS of the UkrRSR and the central archives were subordinated to the Archival Department of the NKVS directly . Respectively the oblast archives were under the control of the chiefs of the NKVS in the oblasts , city and district archives were subordinated to the chiefs of the city and district NKVS . One result of including archives in the NKVS system was strict centralization and secrecy . Moreover , the transferring of archives to the NKVS had a negative impact on the district archives and moreover caused their liquidation in some oblasts . The reason for this was the disinclination of the district authorities to fund those archives which were not subordinated to them . The financial conditions were improved by issuing the Council of People ’ s Commissars ‘ ordinance ‘ On the transferring state archives , oblast archival divisions , municipal and district archives from local budgets to Republican Budget ’ ( on January 10 , 1941 ) 53 . In 1939-1940 the management of archives in Western Ukraine , Bukovina and a part of Bessarabia was rebuilt upon the model of Soviet archival system 54 .
First of all , the Internal Regulations which characterized by increased control over employees was introduced in the archives . They had no rights to talk to each other during the working day , nor to leave working places without permission of the chiefs , etc . The main prohibition concerned the content of archival documents : ‘ All data on the number , content as well as places , methods , and conditions of maintaining archival materials which are kept in archival repositories are not subject to disclosure ’. Every month , the NKVS administration was provided with information on workers who had violated the requirements of the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR , dated June 26 , 1940 ‘ On the transition to an eight-hour day , a seven-day working week , and the prohibition to employees to leave the workplace at enterprises and in organizations without permission ’ 55 .
Secondly , the Rules for researchers attending the reading rooms of the state archives were issued and approved by the Chief of the Archival Department of the NKVS of the USSR major Nikitynskyi on September 19 , 1941 . According to the Rules , a researcher who had finished his work in the reading room was obliged to submit extracts copied out from archival documents during the day to the manager of the reading room . These materials were available to the researcher only after the director ’ s inspection 56 .
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О . Г . Мітюков , Радянське архівне будівництво на Україні ( 1917 – 1973 ….
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Зміцнення командно-адміністративної системи управління архівами та їх підпорядкування НКВС , [ in :] ‘ Архівознавство : Підручник для студентів вищих навчальних закладів ’ [ Під ред . Я . С . Калакура ], Київ 1998 , p . 50 .
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DAMO , F . R-1002 , Op . 1 , Spr . 14 , Ark . 9 .
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Правила для посетителей читальных залов государственных архивов СССР , 19 сентября 1945 г . DAMO , the scientific library , Nr . 902-P , 941 .