State Archival Service of Ukraine

The State Archival Service of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Державна архівна служба України, romanized: Derzhavna arkhivna sluzhba Ukraini) or Ukrderzharkhiv (Ukrainian: Укрдержархів) is a Ukrainian government agency that implements state policy regarding the keeping of archives and record, function of state system of documentation security fund as well as an inter-trade coordination on matters within its competence.

Waiting time to access documents in reading room could reach several weeks and occasionally months.

In 2014, Ukraine lost the Crimea, Donestk and Luhansk archives to the Russian invasion; however the latter two archives had a small amount of their materials rescued by fleeing archivists, who put some of the most important materials in the trunks of their cars as they evacuated west.

His new chief of Ukrderzharkhiv and a member of the Communist Party of Ukraine, Olha Hinzburh, proclaimed that "Ukrainian archives are to open for everyone".

[1] However, under President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his government, FamilySearch was again given permission to start scanning projects throughout the country, working in a handful of archives branches circa 2021.