EAP900/2/4/5

Title: Протоколи засідань членів правління (1936 -1942).

Transliterated title: Protokoly zasidanʼ chleniv pravlinnia (1936-1942).

Translated title: Book of minutes of meetings of the Presidium (1936-1942).

Book of minutes of meetings of the Presidium of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in L'viv from 24.VI. 1936 to 20.VIII. 1942. There are numerous original signatures of members and leaders of the Society (I. Rakovsky, I. Krypiakevych, Ye.-Yu. Pelensky, R. Tsehelsky, Z. Khraplyvyi, R. Zalozetsky, V. Simovych, I. Bodnaruk).

Custodial history: In 1914 a handwritten department of ShSS was created. Until the year 1939 it numbered 2.5 thousand units of storage. Since September 1939 there was a consistent liquidation of ShSS. By the decision of the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR from January 2, 1940 the library of NTSh was transferred to the L'viv branch of the library of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, and the museum of the Society was disbanded. During the German occupation, the work of the ShSS was restored, as well as the active work of the handwriting department. At that time, many deposit holders took from the Library the collections left by them in 1939 and took them to the West. On the eve of the Second World War, ShSS was liquidated by the Soviet power. Museums and the library of ShSS, including the archive of the society, were disbanded. In autumn 1943, the German occupation administration carried out the export of cultural property from the Galicia district, part of the documents collected by the ShSS were transported to Silesia. Several batches of documentary materials from the ShSS archive were dispatched to Kyiv and Moscow in 1946-1950. The part was destroyed, only a small number returned to L'viv. The documents of the fund were deposited to the Central State Historical Archive in L'viv in 1951 from the Central State Historical Archive in Kyjiv. And in 1952, when differentiating the documents from the State archive of the L'viv region, most of the societie's manuscript collections were transferred to the L'viv Historical Archive in the form of placers. And the rest were divided between libraries, archives and museums. In 1954, the documents were passed scientific and technical processing under abridged procedure. Receipt of documents to this fund also took place in 1960 and 1983 years. The fund was kept under the stamp "secret". The complete declassification of the fund took place on 03.02. 1989. After working out of the fund in 1998 the fund of the ShSS archive contained 2 descriptions, 3141 storage units. There have been incomes of private individuals (the documents were transferred to the fund by Golovatsky Ya., Stefanovich family, Pulyuj I.) since 1998. In 2017, the total number of fund documents is 3,155 storage units. The documents in the fund are divided into various thematic groups and contain in particular сollection of the documents regarding scientific and organizational activities of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (ShSS) in L'viv (1873 – 1939).

Extent and format of original material: Case 36 containing 1 document. Format of the cover: 21 х 33,6 cm; format of folios: 20,5x 20,7 х 33 cm.

Physical characteristics: Hard cover, manuscript, different handwriting. Text written with black, blue and green ink, manuscript notes on margins. Yellow paper, book is threaded, some sheets are glued of stripes of transparent paper (fols. 79, 80), different saturation of ink, text readable, acceptable conservation. The paper condition is satisfactory for its age.

Volume and issue number: Case 36.

Owner(s) of original material: The Shevchenko Scientific Society in L'viv.

Publisher of original material: The Shevchenko Scientific Society in L'viv.

Arrangement: Archival documents that were selected for digitisation are a constituent part of the Shevchenko Scientific Societe's Fund, which are kept at Central State Historical Archive in L'viv (CSHA). - Department to ensure safety of documents. - Storage unit № 2. - Fund 309. There are two descriptions of the documents of this fund, the structure of funds is diverse. The classification of documents was carried out according to the thematic principle by the method of grouping. Archival documents copied by the project are listed here in a thematic celections according to archival descriptions of cases and are listed here in chronological order. The documents constitute the complete thematic integrity of the fund 309.

Original institution reference: Case 36.