On January 16, 2025, Albert Venger, a member of the working group of the Ukrainian Oral History Association, officially transferred video recordings of oral testimonies to the Central State Audiovisual and Electronic Archive. These testimonies were collected as part of the project “Oral History of De-Sovietization in Ukraine in the 1990s,” launched in 2022 by the Institute of Modern History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with UOHA and researchers and students from Oles Honchar Dnipro National University.
The transferred collection includes 51 interviews with respondents from various regions of Ukraine, including Volyn, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Lviv, Mykolaiv, Rivne, Kharkiv, and Cherkasy. These interviews provide valuable insights into the experiences of de-Sovietization among Ukraine’s population during the 1990s and early 2000s.
This milestone marks the beginning of organized efforts to archive oral history testimonies in Ukraine, including those documenting the Russo-Ukrainian war.