Before 2014 the Archive was operating on the basis of the Law of Ukraine"On Amendments to the Law of Ukrain"-"On National Archival Fund and Archival Institution" of December, 13, 2001 No 2888—III and the decision of the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea on May, 22, 2002 No 150"On measures to implement the resolutions of the Verkhovna Rada of Autonomous Republic of the Crime". These and other state and internal archival regulatory laws are accessible online at: http://www.daark.org.ua/2011-06-07-08-59-04.html Since the spring of 2014, when the Russian Federation lawlessly annexed the Crimean peninsula, and inspired and supported separatist movements in Ukraine’s Donetsk region and Luhansk regions, the State Archive in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea today is not anymore under Ukrainian administrative control and legislation. As the international community did not recognize these transformations, this repository is presented in the EHRI Database in the status it had before the events of 2014, i.e. under the Ukrainian archival system.