Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine in Kyiv (CSHAK) is one of the oldest and biggest archives in

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. CSHAK contain documents on the history of Ukraine from the 19th century to the founding of the

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and the Commonwealth (from the 14th to the end of the 18th century), as well as the

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(from the first half of the 17th century to the

February Revolution of 1917 The February Revolution ( rus, Февра́льская револю́ция, r=Fevral'skaya revolyutsiya, p=fʲɪvˈralʲskəjə rʲɪvɐˈlʲutsɨjə), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and somet ...

in Russia). There are also documents on the history of the Hetmanate (the other half of the 17th century to the 18th century). The archive is located at the

University of Saint Vladimir Kyiv University or Shevchenko University or officially the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv ( uk, Київський національний університет імені Тараса Шевченка), colloquially known as KNU ...

. CSHAK contains 2245 funds. Some of the archival funds are presented online.

History

CSHAK store documents about history of Ukraine since 1369 will 1917. The oldest document is certificate of Russian praepostor Otto from Pilche dated 1369. Archive was founded in 1852 as Kyiv Central Archive in university of St. Volodymyr. Eventually it received funds from Central Revolution Archive from

Kharkiv Kharkiv ( uk, wikt:Харків, Ха́рків, ), also known as Kharkov (russian: Харькoв, ), is the second-largest List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine.Alex Krakovsky Alexander Krakovsky (born 28 February 1982) () is a Jewish-Ukrainian archivist, activist, and genealogist. He is a leader in the Jewish genealogical community in efforts to legalize the digitization of Jewish records from Ukrainian historical g ...

filed a lawsuit against the archive for refusing to provide paid services to him for copying 100 sheets of archival documents dated from 1767. By decision of the District Administrative Court of Kiev, the legal statutes used to deny services to private citizens was declared illegal under Ukrainian law.

References

{{Reflist Archives in Ukraine 1852 establishments in Europe 1850s establishments in Ukraine Organizations based in Kyiv