Viacheslav Bondarenko

Professional genealogist specializing in European countries, USA and Canada.
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I'm a professional genealogist, specializing on European countries, USA and Canada. I've worked on the most complicated projects, including cases when people lived in several countries during their lives, changed their names and dates of birth. Genealogy is my passion.

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Nearby Archives

Kyiv State Archives (Ukraine)

State archive of Kyiv oblast was founded on 29th of May in 1922 and as the Kyiv Central Historical Archives. In 1932, since Kyiv oblast was formed, Kyiv Central Historical Archives was transformed to Kyiv Oblast Historical Archives (the funds of Kyiv Central Historical Archives and Kyiv District Archive Administration were joined).

State Archives of Kiev Oblast (Ukraine)

The State archive of Kyiv oblast was founded on 29th of May in 1922 and as the Kyiv Central Historical Archives. In 1932, since Kyiv oblast was formed, Kyiv Central Historical Archives was transformed to Kyiv Oblast Historical Archives (the funds of Kyiv Central Historical Archives and Kyiv District Archive Administration were joined). Archives documents take the period of 1682 to 2010 reflect the political, economical and cultural life of Kyiv-city and Kyiv district.

Lviv State Archives (Ukraine)

The archives was created in November, 1939, as the Central Archives of Ancient Deeds in Lviv. It consolidated three major archives that existed in Lviv up until the Second World War,- the Archives of old deeds of the city of Lviv, the Zemsky archives, and the State archives, as well as a number of well-known corporate and private collections.

State Archive in Lviv (Ukraine)

Central State Historical Archive in Lviv (Tsentralnyi derzhavnyi istorychnyi arkhiv, m. Lviv, or TsDIAL). The central repository for historical documents dealing with pre-Soviet Western Ukraine, located in Lviv and overseen by the State Committee on Archives of Ukraine. It was established in 1944 as the Lviv Branch of the Central State Historical Archive of the Ukrainian SSR (see Central State Historical Archive in Kyiv) and incorporated the holdings of several exisiting Lviv archives. In 1958 it became a separate institution and in 1992 acquired its present name. In 2000 it had over 650 fonds with over 1,090,000 storage units.

Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine (Ukraine)

Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, VNLU is the main academic library and main scientific information centre in Ukraine, one of the largest national libraries in the world. Its main building is located in the capital of the country – Kyiv, Demiivka neighborhood. The library contains about 15 million items.

State Archives of Sumy Oblast (Ukraine)

All documents from Sumshchina’s history keep at the State archives of Sumy oblast (region). These are documents of institutions, organizations and factories, personal documents, films, photographs, records and videodocuments from XVIII century to present days.

State Archives of Odesa Oblast (Ukraine)

The earliest documents of the State Archives of Odesa Region are the unique orders of Polish origin for XVI- XVII ct., collected by the Professor of the Novorossijski University O.Markevych. First of them written in Latin and stamped with red sealing-wax is dated by 1572.

State Archives of Rivne Oblast (Ukraine)

The main part of the archives documents is comprised of documents pertaining to the period when the region was a part of Russian Empire (1796-1917). First of all, these are the documents of local self-governments: the city council of Dubno, town councils and boards, documents of povit courts and courts of the peace, police headquarters, Land Surveying Commissions, educational establishments, where is the information about social and economic situation of the regional population, development of handicraft and trade.

State Archives of Volyn Oblast (Ukraine)

In the archives the separate documents of the XVI century are preserved: royal donatives charters and privileges, church metrical and marriage books and some documents from collection gathered by Volyn Union of Sciences Friends.

State Archives of Kharkiv Oblast (Ukraine)

The Archives keeps criminal cases on repressed citizens of Kharkiv Region, which were given by the Administration of the Security Service of Ukraine in the 1990s. Also there are filtration cases of citizens of the Region, which stayed in Germany during 1941-1945.

State Archives of Poltava Oblast (Ukraine)

The State Archives of Poltava Region is the largest treasury of documents on the history of Poltava, which houses more than 6910 collections, 1,310,000 records. The oldest document dates of 1693. There are three unique documents (universals of Ukrainian hetmans Ivan Mazepa, Kyrylo Razumovskyi and Skoropadskyi).

State Archives of Cherkasy Oblast (Ukraine)

The first government archival institution, the Central National Archives, was founded in Cherkasy in April 1919. The Cherkasy District Archives were founded in 1925. With the abolition of districts in September 1930, the Cherkasy District Archives were reorganized into the Cherkasy District Archival Administration in October of 1930. In 1932, it was reorganized into the Cherkasy State Historical Archives, which became a branch of Kyiv Region State Archives in 1941. It incurred great losses during Nazi occupation of Cherkasy.

State Archives of Ternopil Oblast (Ukraine)

The collection of the Archive of the pre-1939 period consist of documents from the Sacred Cathedral of the Assumption Lavra at Pochayiv (1557-1939), copies of Russian, Austrian and Prussian official acts, which relate to the first division of Poland, copies of the decrees of Empress Katherine II, concerning joining of the regions to the Russian Empire as the result of the second and third divisions of Poland (1793-1795), the Manifesto of Austrian Empress Maria-Teresa, concerning joining of the part of Polish Kingdom to Austria, copies of credentials of Polish King August II, decrees and orders of the Volyn Sacred Consistory, copy Suvorov’s reports concerning victory over French troops (1799), orders of Warsaw-Kholm and Volyn Sacred Consistories (1834), a document giving permission to Taras Shevchenko to sketch the Lavra and local countrysides (1846), documents associated with thecollection funds to construct monuments to Khmelnytskyy and Kutuzov, protocols of meetings of the Sacted Sobor (1840-1925), documents concerning typography, statistical data about Lavra, its premises, enterprises and landholdings, revision registers of serfs (1833).

State Archives of Zhytomyr Oblast (Ukraine)

The State Archives of Zhytomyr Oblast contain documents from 1795 to 2011 which are preserved in the archives.

State Archives of Chernihiv Oblast (Ukraine)

The State Archives preserves the records of the Communist Party and Komsomol authorities with information on implementation of the decrees of the higher authorities, social and political situation in the oblast, personal records of Soviet, political and public figures, war and labor heroes.

State Archives of Mykolayiv Oblast (Ukraine)

The oldest records date back to 1787-1789. They are unique Records of Mykolaiv construction (1787-1798) about the foundation of Mykolaiv as a centre of shipbuilding in the south of Ukraine.

State Archives of Vinnytsia Oblast (Ukraine)

In the repositories of the Archives there are stocks of establishments, which have operated in the territory of Bratslavshchyna (Eastern Podillia) since the eighties of the XVIII century. Documents representing the era of Rzeczpospolita are contained in the funds of the Commission on collection of the tenth grosz donation for troop maintenance in Bratslav district, in the funds of the Bratslav Magistrate and Director of Schools in Podillia Gubernia.

State Archives of Chernivtsi Oblast (Ukraine)

The archives contain the documents of establishments, organizations and enterprises, which existed on the territory of the Northern Bukovyna and the former Khotyn district of Bessarabiyan region of Russia from 1775 till the period of the reunion with the UkSSR, and those of Chernivtsi region of Ukraine (1940- 1941, 1944- 2007).

Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine (Kiev / Kyiv) (Ukraine)

The Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Kiev is the oldest archival repositories of Ukraine. The history of Central State Historical Archives in Kiev dates back to 1852, the year on which the Central Archives of Ancient Acts was founded.

Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine (Lviv) (Ukraine)

The Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine was created in November 1939 under the name of the Central Archive of Old Acts in Lviv on the basis of the archives that existed before the Second World War - the Archive of Old Acts of Lviv, the Zemskyi Archive, as well as a number of departmental, corporate and private collections.

State Archives of Kirovohrad Oblast (Ukraine)

Documents of the archives from the end of 18th to the beginning of the 20th century illustrate the economic, political and cultural development of the Yelysavethrad, Oleksandriia and Bobrynets povits of the huberniia of Kherson, the history of Yelysavethrad, the settlementand development of the lands surrounding the fortress of Saint Yelyzaveta, the formation of military settlements, and the development of crafts and trade provide information about community life and the lifestyle of the population in the territory.

State Archives of Khmelnytskyi Oblast (Ukraine)

The formation of the archives in Podillya began in April, 1922 with thе creation of Kamyanets-Podilsky District Archives Administration. Since 1925 it was called the Kamyanets District Archival Administration, in 1930 after the liquidation of districts it was called the Kamyanets-Podilskyi Local Archival Administration. In 1932 at the Vinnytsya Regional Executive Committee the Regional Archival Administration was founded and the Vinnytsya Regional Historical Archives, the Kamyanets-Podilskyi, Proskuriv, Berdychiv, Uman Historical Archives were subordinated to it.

State Archives of Zaporizhzhya Oblast (Ukraine)

The archives store documents dating back to the period of the Russian Empire, reflecting the political and social-economic situation of the Alexandrovsk and a portion of the Mariupol povits (administrative districts) of the Yekaterinoslavsk guberniya as well as the Melitopol and Berdyansk povits of the Tavrichesk guberniya (present-day area of the Zaporozhye region).

State Archives of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (Ukraine)

The Archives holds collections of records concerning economic, cultural, social and political life of Dnipropetrovsk region (1923–1998), memories of the local residents regarding Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine, documents concerning wealthy peasants and their families facing deportations from Dnipropetrovsk Region, records about veterans of the Great Patriotic War and memories of those involved into Afghanistan War (1979-1989), etc.

State Archives of Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (Ukraine)

The archives preserve documents about the history of the Western Ukrainian People Republic (ZUNR, 1918 – 1919) and about western Ukrainian territories in the Polish Rzech Pospolita (1752 – 1772), in the Austrian Empire (after 1867- Austro-Hungarian Empire) from 1772 to 1918), in Poland (1919- 1939), from periods of its temporary occupation by Russia in the First World War and by Germany in the Second World War, also as part of the Stanislaviv (Ivano-Frankivsk) Oblast after the reunification of Western Ukraine with the USSR (1939 – 1991), as well as а part of independent Ukraine (1991- 2006).

State Archives of Transcarpathian Oblast (Ukraine)

The documents till 1946, which are kept in the town of Beregovo, reflect the historical past of the region at the times of its being a part of other states. The first original document is dated back to XIV century. Diplomas of European monarchs from the XV - XVI centuries have been preserved.

Central State Archive of Public Associations of Ukraine (Ukraine)

This Central State Archives of Public Organizations of Ukraine (TsDAGO) was founded in 1929 and was named as United Party archives of the Party History and October Revolution Institute in Ukraine attached to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine.

Historical Society of Germans from Poland and Volhynia (Canada)

HSGPV is a Canadian non-profit society, operated solely by volunteers, dedicated to preserving and promoting the historical and cultural heritage of Germans from Poland & Volhynia. We maintain a research library, open to the public, located in Edmonton, Alberta in Western Canada.

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