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on Education 11 . Indeed , it is this fact that inspired V . Modzalevskyi to present his new project for archival reform to the Bolshevik government 12 . Firstly , he proposed entrusting the supervision of archival institutions to the VOKOPYS , to establish ‘ integrated archival fonds ’, and to create the Central All-Ukrainian Main Archives in Kyiv and provincial and county archives in provincial and county cities . Secondly , V . Modzalevskyi suggested establishing a Central Archival Administration under the People ’ s Commissariat on Education and founding provincial archival offices in provincial centers . These archival organs were to implement the archival reform in the country . It was a new idea , and one that the Bolsheviks warmed to . On July 18 , 1919 , the People ’ s Commissariat on Education issued the Decree on the reorganization of the Archival section of the VUKOPYS into the Main Archival Administration subordinated to the Out-of-school Division of this Commissariat 13 . In July 1919 , V . Modzalevskyi sent the Memorandum on the management of state archives in Ukraine to the People ’ s Commissariat on Education in which he explained how the management on archives should be organized 14 . According to the Memorandum , the People ’ s Commissariat on Education was supposed to determine the main directions of the archival policy and to control the archival institutions ’ activity in the country . The Director of the All-Ukrainian Archival Fonds was to be assigned to manage the archival branch directly . Simultaneously , the Director was to be the head of the Main Archival Council and to run the Main Archival Administration and the All-Ukrainian Main Archives . Directors of the Provincial Archival Fonds were to be entrusted with governing of the Provincial Archival Offices and the Provincial General Archives ; also they were to be heads of the Provincial Archival Councils . Furthemore , V . Modzalevskyi addressed a letter to the Out-of-school Division in which he highlighted the inconsistency of the directives of the People ’ s Commissariat on Education and expressed regret at their failures even in Kyiv , not to mention all of Ukraine .
On July 30 , 1919 , the staff of the Main Archival Administration started operating , and the employees even were going to receive mandates . V . Modzalevskyi was appointed as the Chief of the Main Archival Administration . However , a Decree on staff reduction was issued , a result of military events : the Bolshevik government prepared to evacuate and the VOKOPYS stopped
11
The State Archives of Mykolaiv region ( DAMO ), F . R-98 ‘ The Mykolaiv provincial division of people education , 1920 – 1923 ’, Op . 1 , Spr . 20 , Ark . 101 .
12
TsDAVO of Ukraine , F . 166 ‘ The Ministry of Education of Ukraine , 1917 – 2000 ’, Op . 1 , Spr . 680 , Ark . 6 – 7 ; TsDAVO of Ukraine , F . 166 , Op . 1 , Spr . 709 , Ark . 25 – 27 ; TsDAVO of Ukraine , F . 14 ‘ The Main Archival Administration under the Council of Ministers of Ukrainian RSR , 1918 – 1993 ’, Op . 1 , Spr . 6 , Ark . 11 – 12 .
13
TsDAVO of Ukraine , F . 166 , Op . 1 , Spr . 512 , Ark . 25 .
14
TsDAVO of Ukraine , F . 166 , Op . 1 , Spr . 709 , Ark . 22 – 24 .