Activities

Now, if you have forgotten the address of the site about Serhii Hamchenko or the site about Khvedir Vovk, you can find them through this Archive website with the simple address archive.iananu.com.

In addition to the English version, the website has a Spanish version!

It is made exclusively on a volunteer basis, for which we thank everyone involved:

Art illustration: Iryna Glik

Web development: Diego Thon

Web design: Oleksandra Buzko

The Scientific Archive sincerely congratulates the archaeological community with a professional holiday!

Taking this opportunity, we would like to express our great gratitude to all the people who have joined the process of digitizing archival collections during these hard months.

Employees of various departments of the Institute: Ph.D. Yaroslav Volodarets-Urbanovych, Ph.D. Oksana Votiakova, Andrii Havryliuk, Ph.D. Olena Dzneladze, Ivan Zotsenko, Ph.D. Vsevolod Ivakin, Andrii Ivchenko, Ph.D. Dmytro Karavayko, Vyacheslav Kryzhanovsky, Andrii Kushchev, Volodymyr Mysak, Ph.D. Roman Reida, Severyn Sahaidak, Andrii Sorokun, Yevhenii Khlystun, Maya Khoruzha, Dmytro Shakhrai.

Thanks to Larisa Bilynska, an employee of the Sumy Regional Museum of Local History.

Thanks to the chief specialist of the State Archive of the Kherson Region, Kateryna Gulyaeva, for her help in organizing the administrative archive.

Thanks to the group of students-historians of the 2nd year from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, who helped with organizing O.P. Zhuravlev’s personal fond, and Ph.D. Mykhailo Kublii for management of their work.

Thanks to our archivists Olga Kovalchuk, Daryna Romanenko, Galyna Stanytsina.

Also thanks for the assistance of Ph.D. Oleksii Komar, Ph.D. Oleg Petrauskas, patron Taras Khmelovskyi.

With faith in our fastest victory!  And with deep thanks to everyone who defends us in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine!

Sincerely yours,

Scientific Archive of the Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

 

We are watching how the russian federation is making an unprecedented attempt to physically destroy Ukraine, along with its culture and national identity. However, the memory of the peoples who lived on our land for centuries and thousands years before us, their cultures, cannot be erased. Centers of the national memory – archives, which store unique sources, authentic documents in a single copy, need special care and attention at this difficult time.

We are sincerely grateful to all those who actively help to create backup copies of documents on archaeological excavations and explorations in Ukraine. Work on the digitalization of archival fonds has been significantly accelerated and simplified thanks to a document scanner purchased for the Archive by Taras Khmelovsky – a man who has repeatedly supported the preservation of Ukrainian archaeological heritage.

The Archive is infinitely grateful to all those involved for helping and supporting an important cause!

The Scientific Archive of the Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Union of Archaeologists of Ukraine have prepared an “ethnographic” calendar for the 175th anniversary of the birth of Ukrainian archaeologist, anthropologist and ethnographer Khvedir Vovk (1847-1918).

The calendar was developed on a volunteer basis to promote Ukrainian cultural heritage and the archival collection of the Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Idea – Oleksandra Buzko
Design – Julia Khodukina
All rights to the illustrations belong to the Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

You can download the Calendar here

During the pandemic 2020-2021, the Archive continued repair work. New racks have been installed in the storage facility, the fire alarm system has been updated.
In separate rooms there is a working place, reading hall and the room where negatives are stored.

 

As a part of the “Days of Science 2019”on November 9-10, the Archive conducted a quest for children on the basis of the Archaeological Museum of the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. The quest was called “The Archival excavations: collect an archaeological report. ” Its target audience was children of pre-school and school age. About 50 people took part in the event. 

As part of the VI International Conference on the History of Archaeology in 2019, the Archive hosted an exhibition “Archaeological sensations of Kyiv Podil in the newspapers of the 1970-ies”:

“An article with the sensational title «Kyiv Pompeii» appeared in the pages of the newspaper «Sovetskaya Kultura» in October 1972. Perhaps someone might have thought that this was a common journalistic device designed to intrigue the public. However, the event to which the article was devoted was quite worthy of comparison with the excavations of the buried ancient city.

In Kyiv at Podil area began excavations of the ancient city that had laid underground for 1000 years. The significance of these discoveries is great because the city was wooden. One could expect the discovery of individual half-rotten logs, traces of buildings. However, what came before the eyes of researchers surpassed the boldest predictions. The ancient log house had survived to a height of nine log levels! Not just a log house has survived, but an entire city estate of pagan Kyiv. Even the archaeology of Novgorod, rich in wooden finds, did not have this.»
(Hupalo K.N. Podol v drevnem Kieve. – Kyiv, 1982, p. 15).

On June 17, 2019 in Korosten, in partnership with the Archive, the International Scientific Conference “Drevlian Cities: Early Cities of Eastern Europe” (dedicated to the outstanding archaeologist S.S. Hamchenko) was held as a part of the First International Historical and Cultural Festival “Dobrynia Fest 2019”.

In the block of reports directly related to Serhii Hamchenko, the guests from Kyiv turned to the scientific work of the scientist, mainly based on the documents of the personal fund stored in the Archive. Oleksandr Tarabukin from Zhytomyr, in turn, told about materials of Serhii Hamchenko from the funds of the Zhytomyr Regional Local History Museum.

Within the framework of the Seminar on the History of Archaeology and Art History on the basis of the Archive.

On February 15, 2019, as a part of the Seminar on the History of Archaeology and Art History, Iryna Hlick (Digital Archivist, University of Pennsylvania, the USA) in her report “Digitization of the Archive: planning and practical aspects” highlighted the difficult topic of high-quality digitization of archives.

Iryna shared her practical experience working in the digital laboratory of the main city library of Philadelphia (Free Library), as well as at the University of Pennsylvania.

Within the framework of the Seminar on the History of Archaeology and Art History on the basis of the Archive.

On February 8, 2019, as a part of the Seminar on the History of Archaeology and Art History, Fabian Baumann (graduate student of the Department of Eastern European History, University of Basel, Switzerland) made a report on “Kyiv Shulhin dynasty: nationalism and family life at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries.” Issues directly related to family history as a field of historiographical studies were suggested for discussion. Fabian shared a fascinating story of his study of the Shulhin family in Kyiv. Among the array of archival materials in his lens were the documents of our Archive: letters from O.I. Shulhin and Levko Chykalenko to Fedir Vovk.

Within the framework of the Seminar on the History of Archaeology and Art History on the basis of the Archive.

On January 11, 2019, Anna Yanenko (PhD., Kyiv) and Victoria Kolesnikova (PhD., Kyiv) made a report “Financial / Accounting Documentation: Informative Potential in the Context of Studies in the History of Archaeology and Museology in the 1920– 30-ies. ” Estimates, receipts, check books, tickets, lists of expedition items and products, etc. appeared in the «lens» of the speakers. Often such documents are undeservedly scrolled, often they have a lot of incomprehensible. However, the speakers tried to answer the question of what information can be obtained from such sources and how exactly to work with them.

Given that the Archive contains a large undisassembled array of financial documentation for a period less distant from us in time – 1990-ies, the participants of the seminar were invited to join in the future the analyzing process of these documents. The financial life (or survival) of the Institute in this difficult time is a field for perspective scientific research. The history of this period is still waiting for its chronicle.

At the end of 2018, the Reading room of the Archive underwent redecoration, as a result of which it became a cozy venue for exhibitions and professional meetings.