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of seven central Republican archives including the Central State Historical Archives , the Central Archives of the Revolution , the Central Archives of Labour , the Central Archives of Ancient Acts ( in Kharkiv ), the Central Archives of Ancient Acts , the Central photocinemaarchives ( in Kyiv ), and the Central Archives of Ancient Acts ( in Lviv ). The network of archives also included 23 oblast state archives , 2 military-historical archives , and 21 affiliates of oblast state archives . In districts and cities , there were 746 district archives and 65 city archives . The general length of archival shelves reached to 183831 running meters 61 .
The author of this article does not pay attention to the structure of the archival branch and the work of archives during the Nazi occupation , when the Ukrainian archives were operated under the occupational authorities , firstly because in this context we cannot discuss the subordination of archives to the Ukrainian government in general , and secondly , this topic , as well as the theme of archives work in the conditions of evacuation in the Urals , require special consideration . After the Nazi occupiers were expelled from Kyiv and from some oblasts , on April 23 , 1943 , the NKVS issued the Instruction to organize the work of organs of the NKVS ’ s Archival Department in the regions of Ukraine freed from Nazi occupation . It defined the main tasks for resuming the work of archives 62 . On August 12 , 1943 , the NKVS ordered to create the collection of documentary materials on the history of the Great Patriotic War ( the term of the Soviet times ), as well as the materials of Nazi occupational organs of power . Soon , the special workgroups which collected and examined the documents of the wartime period started activities in the archives of oblast centers and the capital of Ukraine . They helped the Republican Commission that investigated Nazi crimes on the territory of Ukraine 63 . After the Second World War considerable efforts were made to return archival documents removed by the Nazis from occupied regions of Ukraine .
The Archival Department of the NKVS started its operation in the second half of 1943 . On December 1 , 1943 , an order was issued to create the Central State Archives of the October Revolution and Socialistic Construction of the UkrRSR ( TsDAZhR of the UkrRSR ), and the Central State Historical Archives of the UkrRSR ( TsDIA of the UkrRSR ), the Central State Archives of cinemaphotophonodocuments of the UkrRSR ( in Kyiv ). Affiliates of the TsDAZhR of the UkrRSR and the TsDIA of the UkrRSR were established in Kharkiv , and an affiliate of the TsDIA of the UkrRSR was created in Lviv . The archival fonds of the Central State Historical Archives and the Central State Archives of Labour were transferred to the affiliate of the TsDAZhR of
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Ibidem , p . 133 .
62
TsDAVO of Ukraine , F . 14 , Op . 1 , Spr . 2335 , Ark . 2 – 6 .
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TsDAVO of Ukraine , F . 14 , Op . 2 , Spr . 6 , Ark . 12 .