Day of Employees of Archival Institutions of Ukraine (24/12)

Every year on December 24, Ukraine celebrates the Day of Employees of Archival Institutions (Ukrainian). Day of practitioners of archival institutions).

This professional holiday was established by Decree of the President of the country №1200/98 of October 30, 1998, «taking into account the significant contribution of archival institutions of Ukraine to the development of domestic science and culture, other spheres of society, the need for subsequent improvement of archival affairs and in support of the initiative of employees of archival institutions».

The first state body for managing archival affairs in Ukraine was created in 1917 during the Central Council. It became the Library and Archives Department, headed by Professor O.S. from December 1917 to April 1918. Grushevsky.

The Main Archival Directorate under the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR worked from 1974 to 1991. With Ukraine gaining independence, the name of the Main Archive and its organizational and legal status changed. Since December 1999, — has been the State Committee of Archives of Ukraine. The legal successor of the State Committee of Archives of Ukraine was the State Archival Service of Ukraine (abbreviated — Ukrderzharkhiv), formed in accordance with the Decree of the President of Ukraine dated December 9, 2010 «On optimization of the system of central executive authorities».

The total number of employees of archival institutions — is over 3.5 thousand people.

Over 60 million items of various types of documents of the country's National Archive Fund are concentrated in the archival institutions of the Ukrderzharkhiv system.

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