State Archive of the Odessa Region

State Archive of the Odessa Region 

This archive was created by decree (10 November 1931) of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee (VUTsIK) as the Odessa State Historical Archive on the basis of the Odessa Territorial Historical Archive. In February 1932, with the formation of the Odessa region, it was renamed the Odessa Regional Historical Archive. During the German-Romanian occupation of Odessa, it functioned in the city of Ural’sk (Kazakhstan) (with a considerable portion of documents unable to be evacuated, and perishing). In April 1944 it took up work once again in Odessa as the State Archive of the Odessa Region. From 1958-80 it was the Odessa Regional State Archive, and since 1980, it has borne its current title. Prior to March 1939 it was subordinate to the Odessa Administration of the NKVD, and subsequently to the Archival Section of the Ukrainian NKVD (from 1946 on, the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs); from July 1960 on, to the Ukrainian SSR Council of Ministers Archival Administration (from 1974 on, the Ukrainian SSR Council of Ministers Main Archival Administration; from 1992-99, the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers Main Archival Administration; from March-December 1999, the Main Archival Administration of Ukraine, then the State Committee on Archives of Ukraine; and since 2011, the State Archival Service of Ukraine) and the Archival Section of the Odessa Regional Executive Committee; after the dissolution of the latter (1988), the State Archive of the Odessa Region took up the function of supervising archival institutions of the Odessa region 

State Archive of the Odessa Region