Institute of National Memory: Archives contain 2 mln cases from 1917 to 1991

Almost two million cases filed by repressive law-enforcement agencies from 1917 to 1991 are stored in central archives, state regional archives and archives departments of district administrations, according to a press release of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory on the first results of the audit records, published on Thursday.

According to the document, the total amount of reserve collections, which contain nothing but archive information media of cases by law-enforcement agencies from 1917 to 1991. The reserve collections comprise 3,236 media. They are the records of 1.999 million cases handled by repressive law-enforcement agencies from 1917 to 991.

"Currently, the work is underway to generalize information on the number of archived cases from 1917 to 1991 in ministerial archives, law-enforcement agencies, courts, prosecutors' offices and other departments," head of the Department for Institutional Development of National Memory Policy of Ukrainian Institute of National Memory Ihor Kulyk said.

The press release notes that on May 21, 2015 the Law 'On Access to the archives of the repressive law-enforcement agencies of the Communist totalitarian regime, 1917 to 1991' came into effect. The measure planned one year for determining the number of archive information media about cases handled by law-enforcement agencies from 1917 to 1991 at state institutions, authorities of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, local governments, enterprises, institutions and companies that are in their administration or belong to the scope of their management.