Key points
- The State Archive of Kharkiv region has opened online access to archival documents about the ‘Slovo’ house.
- New digital copies of documents will be published on the archive’s website every week.
- Already available are the case of the construction of the house and the contract between the ‘Slovo’ society and the Communal Economy from September 10, 1927.
- Later, archival and investigative cases of repressed writers and cultural figures will be made available online.
- Separately, the archive will publish protocols of party and literary ‘purges’.
The State Archive of Kharkiv region has opened online access to archival documents about the ‘Slovo’ house, launching the project ‘Opening the Archives. The Immortality of ‘Slovo”.
The ‘Slovo’ house is one of the symbols of Ukrainian cultural revival in the 1920s-1930s. Writers, artists, and scientists lived and worked here, many of whom later became victims of political repression, including Mykola Khvylovy, Ostap Vyshnya, Les Kurbas, Pavlo Tychyna, Volodymyr Sosiura, and Ivan Bahrianyi.
New digital copies of documents will appear on the archive’s website every week.
Among the already published materials is the case of the construction of the house, in which researchers found a contract between the ‘Slovo’ housing cooperative society and the Communal Economy from September 10, 1927. Technical conditions, drawings, estimates for materials, and correspondence related to the construction have also been preserved.
Later, archival and investigative cases of writers and cultural figures who became victims of Soviet repression will be made available online, including Mykhailo Yalovy, Vasyl Mysyk, Ivan Bahmut, Volodymyr Hzytsky, and representatives of the Krushelnytsky family.
The digitization and opening of archival documents contributes to the preservation of national memory, expands access to historical sources, and helps to restore the truth about the crimes of the totalitarian regime.
– Ministry of Justice of Ukraine.
Separately, the archive will publish protocols of party and literary ‘purges’, which reflect the mechanisms of persecution of the Ukrainian intelligentsia during the Soviet period.
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