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Archival Administration and prepared a report for the Committee . After the announcement of this report , the Committee decided to liquidate the Archival Administration and to establish the Archives for keeping the records of liquidated state organs .
V . Modzalevskyi and his adherent V . Miyakovskyi were accused of Bolshevism . On this occasion , V . Modzalevskyi said to M . Dovnar-Zapolskyi that he had cooperated with the Bolsheviks himself and therefore he had no right ‘ to throw stones at us and sling mud at us ’. V . Modzalevskyi argued that as the head of the archival branch in Ukraine he had attempted to implement archival reforms , to save archives from the destruction , to look for sources of funding , and to increase the number of archival staff . The Committee created various barriers to this activity , so V . Modzalevskyi was forced to leave the organization . In fact , the Archival Administration ’ s activities were never widened to encompass the whole territory of Ukraine ; the climate for the stability-oriented archival reforms was not appropriate because of the political processes taking place in Ukraine , and the war .
Having based itself in Kyiv , the Directory created the Arts and National Culture Main Administration as a part of the Ministry of Education and Culture . The Kyiv archives of Ancient Acts at the University of St . Volodymyr , the Kyiv , Poltava , Chernihiv , and Katerynoslav scientific archival commissions were subordinated to this Administration . A Commission headed by Prof . Pylyp Klymenko ( 1887 – 1955 ) was founded with the aim of drafting a Statute on the future National Archives of Ukraine . Another Archival Commission personally headed by the Minister was also established with a special purpose in the Ministry of Education . Its tasks included the appraisal , collection , and preservation of historical documents on the struggle of the Ukrainian people for Independence . The storage for these materials was to be arranged in the Museum-Archives of Ukraine ’ s liberation . The Directory left Kyiv on February 2 , 1919 , and moved to Vinnytsia . The location of the Directory changed depending on the military situation : Proskuriv ( now Chmelnyckyj city ), then Rivne , and finally Kamianets-Podilskyi . In July 1919 the activity of the Directory in the archival field was based at the Kamianets-Podilskyi University , the rector of which was the Minister of Education Ivan Ohienko ( 1882 – 1972 ). The staff of the ‘ educational and research archives ’ at the University drafted law on archives , tried to establish a network of archival institutions , and a ‘ graduate archaeographic school ’ for archivists training . Along with the Decrees on the preservation of the archival documents , the Directory made a decision about transferring archival records for reprocessing at paper mills . In this regard on September 24 , 1919 , the Head of the Book Chamber Yuriy Ivanov-Mezhenko ( 1892 – 1969 ) demanded a stop to the destruction of archival records . After he left Kamianets-Podilskyi , the Preservation Antiquities and Arts Commission ( J . Pelenskyi , P . Klymenko , A . Sereda , M . Obidnyi and others ) provided care