Державний архів Луганської області

Luhansk Regional Archive Board was founded in 1925. Since 1932 it was registered as Luhansk State History Archive. Luhansk was renamed Voroshilovgrad on November 5, 1935.Accordingly all state bodies and departments underwent renaming too. In spring of 1938 Voroshilovgrad State History Archive was turned into Voroshilovgrad Oblast History Archive. Since December 3, 1938 all state archive boards were subordinated to NKVD. Voroshilovgrad Oblast History Archive was renamed Voroshilovgrad Oblast State Archive in 1941. In the period of Nazi occupation (1942) all archive documents were evacuated. Voroshilovgrad State Archive resumed its activity in 1943 after the liberation of the town. After the next renaming of Voroshilovgrad into Luhansk in 1958 the archive was registered as Luhansk Oblast State Archive. It was subordinated to Luhansk Regional Executive Committee. Since 1990 it has been officially registered as the State Archive of Luhansk Oblast. According to the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of Ukraine from August 27, 1991, the Archive of the Luhansk Oblast Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine was liquidated and its holdings constituted a section of the State Archive.  

The archive possesses 4953 collections making 1 472 095 archival units, dating from the years 1763-2007. It has also 472 units of film documents, 19 346 photographs and 215 units of sound recordings. The earliest documents are in the collections of Luhansk foundry plant, Luhansk and Slovyanoserbsk land departments, boards of share-holding companies, plants, mining diggings and many other businesses and enterprises that used to work in the region. In the depository of Luhansk foundry plant one can find the registers about the foundation of Luhansk plant settlement which was the beginning of Luhansk town construction. The depository contains different revision inventories, houses projects for the plant workers and the foremen, the Senate order about the resettlement of the villagers from Novorossiya province and their registration at the plant. The depositories of Luhansk factories contain informative letters about its operation, lists about the revolutionary disturbances of 1905,workers strikes in 1912 and 1916. The collections of Luhansk and its region contain handwritten documents (registration books of births, marriages and deaths) of 1787–1927 years. The documents of the Soviet period include the listings of various events in the years of revolution in Ukraine (1917–1920), the losses caused by intervention, requisition of landowners estates, repressions against the landowners, setting up of agricultural cooperatives. The collections of district, village and settlement executive bodies include the evidences about surplus appropriation system and famine of 1930’s. The depository of the regional committee on the matters of identification and investigation into the crimes of the Nazi occupants holds the evidences about the losses caused to the citizens, villagers, social and public establishments, state industries in the years of World War II. The archive holds the documents of various public bodies, regional Communist party committees and Komsomol organization. They depict complicated processes of the Communist party system development, methods to resist the public opposition in villages, of famine and repressions in 1930’s, activity of the local Communist party and Komsomol underground and partisan movements in the years of World War II.