ua-003312
type: Institution
administrative structure: Archive is divided into 8 departments: - Security and Registration of the Documents - Forming of National Archival Found and Office - Reference system - Usage of the office documents - Information technologies - Finance - Organization work and Human Resources - Technical maintance of the Archive
general context: Archive contains visual and phonographic materials documenting newest history of the Ukraine from middle of XIX century until today.
sources: tsdkffa.archives.gov.ua
opening hours: Archive is opened from Monday till Friday between 9:00am and 5:00pm.
agent has or had location: 1
authorized by: 1
general description: The archives preserves 12 500 units of cine documents (1896-1999), among them: silent and sound documentaries, newsreels, cine and TV episodes. The earliest cine documents are presented by fragmentary episodes of Nicolas II coronation (1896),"The 200th Anniversary of Poltava Battl" (1900),"Flights of Aviator Utochkin in Kishine" (1911),"Funeral of A. Tereshchenk" (1912). Invaluable cine chronicles of Ukrainian life of 1920s-1930s are VUFKU and Ukrkinochronica newsreels, documentaries of Kyiv Feature Films Studio, some Romanian and Czech films and episodes on Transcarpathian Ukraine as a part of pre-war Czechoslovakia. WW II cine chronicles are presented, first and foremost, by the so-called"chronicles material", that is, shooting of Ukrainian cameramen;"Radianska Ukraiin" "The Soviet Ukrain") newsreels (1943 - May, 1945); a number of films and the so-called"war trophie" newsreels. The dominant subject of the first postwar decade was reconstruction and further development of the national economy, science and culture. The cine documents, such as numerous episodes and films, highlighted all stages of the Soviet society development, such as destalinization period, the so-called"tha", the mid-1980s"glasnost and perestroik" period,"blank spot" of the Soviet history. A number of Ukrainian documentaries are devoted to the memory of Stalin repressions victims, tragic fate of Ukrainian intelligentsia, 1986 Chornobyl disaster etc. The cine documents of independent Ukraine reflect the latest history of the state. The TsDKFFA funds also contain about 400 000 units of photo documents (1853-2004). The earliest of them are the copies of T. Shevchenko's photo portraits, the events of Sevastopol defense during 1853-1856 Crimean War, the photo album of Kyiv pictures (the 2nd half of XIX century), the 1896 original glass negative with the image of a blast furnace construction at"Unio" metallurgical plant in Makyivka. The photo documents reflect the 1917-1921 liberation movement in Ukra…
has or had agent name: Central State CinePhotoFono Archive of Ukraine
has or had agent name: Tsentralnyi derzhavnyi kinofotofonoarkhiv Ukrainy imeni H.S.Pshenychnoho
history: For the first time the issue of cine photo documents preservation was raised in Ukraine early in the 1930s. Inclusion of Ukrainian cine photo documents of history-making value into the National archival fond as well as creation of the All-Ukrainian Central Photo Archives in Kyiv was provided by the Regulation"On Unified State Archival Fond of Ukrainian SS" (1930) and the Regulation"On Central Department for Archives, Local Archival Bodies and Institutions under the Department for Archives and Local Bodie" (1932). Within the pre-war period the Archives was located on the territory of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (the Museum area, Building 26) occupying sew rooms, a photo documents depository and a photo laboratory. Originally the Archives was formed through acquisition of photo documents. The first cine documents were registered in 1940. By January 1, 1941 105 330 photo negatives, 9 655 photo positives and 50 430 metrs of film were reported to be put under archival control. When the war between Nazi Germany and the USSR broke out the archival records were not evacuated. The majority of the photo documents were transferred to the Propaganda Department (17 Prorizna st.) under the Headquarters of A. Rozenberg by the Main Working Group in Ukraine; some photo documents (241 units) were passed over to the Museum-Archives of Transition Period (Muzei-arkhiv perekhodovoi doby) at Kyiv City Administration (uprava). Later some amount of photo documents remaining at the archives depository was wrecked as a consequence of the explosions at the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. In September - October, 1943 the archival documents were removed out of Ukraine. After liberation of Kyiv, according to the Order of the People's Comissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVS) of Ukrainian SSR of December 1, 1943 №021 the Central State Archives of Photo Phono Cine Documents of Ukrainian SSR was reorganised. H. Pshenychnyi was appointed its Director, he had been at the head of the Archives for 35 years. In 1953-1992 it w…
name: Центральний державний кінофотофоноархів України iмені Г. С. Пшеничного