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01.06.2023 – With Ukrainian Archival Company a Contract was concluded based on the results of a simplified procurement on the SmartTender e-platform, as with the winner, for services under CPV 021:2015 — 79990000-0 Miscellaneous business-related services (Archival services for scientific and technical arrangement of documents) (Prozorro number UA-2023-05-18-012002-a). Purpose of the service — scientific and technical arrangement (archiving) of documents and files of management reporting and HR (personnel) documentation totaling 380 files. Formation and formalization of files was carried out in accordance with the “Rules for organizing records management and archival storage of documents in state bodies, local self-government bodies, enterprises, institutions and organizations”, approved by Order of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine No. 1000/5 dated 18.06.2015; binding works were performed using: cardboard, thickness 1.2–1.8 mm, grade PKS-1, bumvinyl, dense nylon binding thread, thickness 0.7–1.3 mm. A copy of the file plan of records stored in the records management unit (indicating retention periods) was compiled.

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.