The Ukrainian Archives, War, and Preservation of National Identity

The purpose of this article is to show the history Ukrainian archives development in 20th and 21st centuries context national statehood processes struggle for Ukraine’s independence; determine challenges that threatened during First Second world wars, related destruction, seizure, transferring document collections. author pays special attention analysis archivists’ role preserving historical cultural heritage Russia-Ukraine war 2014–2022. based on implementing approaches historicism objectivity general scientifi c methods – logical with intrinsic analysis, synthesis, systemic approach. used historical-genetical, comparative historical, retrospective methods. novelty lies analyzing importance archival resources identity period. Conclusions. transformed into open institutions process building independent state; they demonstrate leading tendencies societal their activity, actively participating democratization decommunization processes, as well providing source base studies. Archives have particularly acute period both full-scale military aggression hybrid information confrontation. During war, achieved signifi cance due informational, administrative, operational, cultural, value. Russian against territorial integrity sovereignty created threat and, also, heritage. Nowadays, important tasks front archivists include documents National Archival Fond creating new collections would accumulate documentary evidence nation’s heroic aggressor, thus, establishing research events contributing preservation collective memory identity. References: Anatolii Khromov: na Chernihivschyni znyscheno arkhiv SBU z dokumentamy, yaki stosuvalysia represii radianskoho rezhymu proty ukraintsiv [Anatolii Chernihiv regions repressions Soviet regime Ukrainians was destroyed]. Ministerstvo yustytsii Ukrainy. 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