This year’s second issue of the professional publication of Ukrainian archivists has been published on the website of the scientific and practical magazine “Archives of Ukraine”: https://au.archives.gov.ua/index.php/au/331

For the attention of the readers, the Head of the State Archival Service of Ukraine, Anatolii Khromov, together with the First Deputy, Tetiana Yemeliyanova, prepared an article about the archive of Ukrainian silent cinema, namely about the formation, storage and legal principles of access.

You can also read Liudmyla Prykhodko’s article about “Orphan Works” as an object of copyright. Taking into account the experience of the European Union, Great Britain, Canada and the USA, the scientist is trying to investigate the very concept and legal regime of using these works.

In the next column – War through the eyes of a contemporary historian, in the continuation of the second part of the article entitled: “Posts under the roar of sirens” by Heorhii Papakin, you will learn about the beginning of the path of shame and crimes of the russian army from the beginning of its creation, namely from the reign of Peter I.

In the “Reviews of sources and documentary essays” section, read about the Central State CinePhotoPhono Archives of Ukraine named after H. Pshenychnyi as a subject of professional and scientific communication, get acquainted with documents about the reform of Ukrainian spelling in the personal fond of Vasyl Nimchuk, and learn about the peculiarities of keeping record books of civil status in Ukraine in the 1920s (on the example of Kherson region).

Readers of our journal can also find scientific materials about digitization of archival field abroad. In particular, about archival information resources in France, their modern approaches in organization and use, as well as about the Ukrainian museum in Prague online.