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the UkrRSR , the fonds of the Central State Archives of the Revolution were conveyed to the TsDIA of the UkrRSR , and the fonds of the central archives of ancient acts of Kyiv , Lviv and Kharkiv were inserted in the fonds ’ composition of the TsDIA of the UkrRSR and its affiliates in Lviv and Kharkiv 64 . In January 1946 the archival division of the NKVS , the oblast state archives ( Uzhhorod ) and its affiliate in Mukachevo , 4 city archives , and 13 county archives were created on the territory of Zakarpattia oblast 65 . The oblast state archives renewed working and some of them acquired new buildings . Only 636 of the 828 city and district archives were able to begin working by the end of 1946 . The NKVS proposed the idea to liquidate the city and district archive network and establish a state inspector ’ s position to control record-keeping and archival affairs in organizations of cities and districts , but ultimmately this idea was not implemented . On July 5 , 1946 , the conjoint Ordinance to better the accommodation of state archives in the oblasts of the UkrRSR was issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the Council of Ministers of the UkrRSR 66 . It helped to save a great amount of documents and developing archival affairs on the level of cities and districts . In 1954 on the basis of the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR the Crimean oblast was transferred to Ukraine , and consequently , the State Archives of Crimean oblast appeared in the structure of the archival network of the UkrRSR . At the same time , the State Archives of the Cherkasy oblast was created on the basis of the affiliate of the State Archives of Kyiv oblast .
The 20 th Congress of the Communist Party of the USSR ( held in 1956 ) denounced the personality cult and dictatorship of J . Stalin . The same year the Council of Ministers of the USSR adopted the Ordinance ‘ On Measures to Improve the Regime of Storing and Using Archival Materials in Ministries and Departments ’. Subsequently , the same ordinance was passed by the Council of Ministers of the UkrRSR 67 . It was admitted that the archives in the Republic were in an unsatisfactory state and did not possess the facilities to store documents . Furthermore , access for researchers to documents was too difficult , archivists had no rights to the scientific investigation of archival documents , new technologies had been introduced in archives too slowly , and the authorities had not paid enough attention to archival problems . It was decided to make urgent efforts to improve the archival affairs in the Republic .
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О . Г . Мітюков , Радянське архівне будівництво на Україні ( 1917 – 1973 …, p . 147 .
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Ibidem , p . 154 .
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Науково-інформаційний бюлетень ФН УРСР , vol . 2 ( 32 ), 1958 , p . 6 – 7 .
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Збірник постанов і розпоряджень Уряду Української Радянської Республіки , vol . 7 – 8 , 1956 , Art . 73 , nr . 408 .