Archival documents of the State Archive of the City of Kyiv included in the UNESCO Memory of the World International Register

Through the joint efforts of the State Archival Service of Ukraine and seven Ukrainian archives holding archival documents related to the tragic events in Babyn Yar (the repressions of the 1930s, executions of prisoners of war and civilians during World War II, and the Kurenivka disaster of 1961), the UNESCO International Advisory Committee included the “Babyn Yar Documentary Heritage” in the Memory of the World International Register.

On 7 September in Babyn Yar near the Symbolic Synagogue, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Chair of the National Commission of Ukraine for UNESCO Emine Dzhaparova presented a certificate to the Head of the State Archival Service of Ukraine Anatolii Khromov. Certificates were also presented to the heads of the state archives.
The following documents from the fonds of the State Archive of the City of Kyiv were included in the UNESCO Memory of the World International Register:
– decisions of the Kyiv City Duma on establishing and maintaining cemeteries in Babyn Yar and settling the adjacent area;
– minutes of meetings and decisions of the Kyiv City Council of People’s Deputies and its executive body, correspondence and findings of special commissions on memorialization and improvement of Babyn Yar, identification and reburial of executed prisoners of war and civilians, site survey reports, etc.;
– patient histories of the Kyiv Psychiatric Hospital;
– materials on the work and findings of the State Expert Commission establishing the causes of the 1961 tragedy, correspondence with the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Ukrainian SSR and state bodies, geological studies, etc.