The oldest document is certificate of Russian praepostor Otto from Pilche dated 1369.
During the occupation of Ukraine by Nazi Germany, the KCADA lost two-thirds of its holdings.
Only what the Nazis had taken out of the city before the Soviet invasion of Kyiv survived.
[6] In 2018, archivist and genealogist Alex Krakovsky filed a lawsuit against the archive for refusing to provide paid services to him for copying 100 sheets of archival documents dated from 1767.
By the decision of the District Administrative Court of Kiev, the legal statutes used to deny services to private citizens was declared illegal under Ukrainian law.