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and third group okrarkhs was carried out by permanent expert-verification commissions of the okrarkhs of the first group 37 .
Because of the changes in the network of archival institutions , on November 4 , 1925 the VUTsVK and the Council of People ’ s Commissars of the UkrSSR approved new Regulations on the Central Archival Administration of the UkrSSR ( Ukrtsentrarkhiv ) and its local organs , according to which the Ukrtsentrarkhiv assumed the general management of archival affairs in the Republic , solved problems of record concentration in archival repositories , and organized the publication of archival documents . The Revolutionary Central Archives , Central Historical Archives and the Central Labor Archives ( in Kharkiv ); and the department of the Central Historical Archives – with two subdivisions ancient acts and historical ones ( in Kyiv ) were subordinated to the Ukrtsentrarkhiv directly . The new Regulations determined the relationships of the Ukrtsentrarkhiv with the ‘ Istpart ’ and the Commission for the Study of the Professional Movement History (‘ Istprof ’). The tasks of these bodies in the fields of identification , systematization and scientific processing of documents were carried out by the archival institutions operating under the Ukrtsentrarkhiv 38 .
On December 16 , 1925 , the VUTsVK and the Council of People ’ s Commissars of the UkrSRR adopted the Decree ‘ On the United State Archival Fonds of the Ukrainian SRR ’ and abolished the Decree ‘ On the Archives Protection ’. The United State Archival Fonds of the UkrSRR was an abstract concept which meant the completed files , documents and correspondence of all liquidated and existing state and public institutions , were kept in the archival repositories of the Central Archival Administration as well as outside them . Military archival documents were one of few exceptions 39 .
At the beginning of 1926 , the network of county archival administrations in the UkrSRR was finally completed and the following okrarkhs were created : Artemivsk , Berdychiv , Bila Tserkva , Vinnytsia , Hlukhiv , Zhytomyr , Zaporizhia , Zinovievsk , Izium , Kamianets-Podilskyi , Katerynoslav , Kyiv , Konotop , Korosten , Kremenchuk , Kryvyi Rih , Kupiansk , Lubensk , Luhansk , Mariupol , Melitopol , Mykolaiv , Mohyliv-Podilskyi , Nizhyn , Odesa , Pavlograd , Pervomaisk ( Pershotravensk ), Poltava , Pryluky , Proskuriv , Stalin , Starobilsk , Sumy , Tulchin , Uman , Kharkiv , Kherson , Chernihiv , Shepetovka , and the Holovarkhiv of Autonomous Moldavian SRR ( in Balta ).
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Загальна інструкція Окрархам , 25 липня 1925 , vol . 1 – 2 , Харків 1925 , p . 34 – 35 .
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Положення про Центральне Архівне Управління УСРР ( Укрцентрархів ) та його місцеві органи , 4 листопада 1925 , [ in :] ‘ Збірник узаконень , розпоряджень і інструкцій в архівній справі ’, vol . 1 , Iss . 2 , Харків 1927 , p . 8 – 15 .
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Постановление Всеукраинского Центрального Исполнительного Комитета и Совета Народных Комиссаров УССР ‘ О Едином Государственном Архивном Фонде УССР ’, [ in :] ‘ Бюлетень Укрцентрархіва ’, vol . 1 ( 3 ), Харків 1926 , p . 2 – 4 .