Oksana Sichova

Oksana Sichova

Institute of Archival Studies of the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine


  • Research topic:
    Archival Classification of Sources of the Russian-Ukrainian War Documented by Private and Public Initiatives
    Period:
    July-August 2025
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PhD in History, specializing in Documentation, Archival Studies (2021). The dissertation is devoted to the study of the processes of formation and development of the system of archival collections of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Since 2004, she has been working at the Institute of Archival Studies of the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, and since 2021 she has been the Head of the Research Department. She is involved in the formation of archival collections of academic institutions as a curator and is a member of the Expert Review Commission of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Her research interests include the classification and organization of archival documents, providing access to them, and the role of archivists in shaping collective memory. Her latest research is published in the monograph "Archival Fonds of Scientific Institutions of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Traditions and Modernity" (2020) and in a section of the collective monograph "Audiovisual Documents as a Component of the National Archival Fond: Concepts, Theoretical and Applied Aspects of Organization, Formation, Preservation, Access" (2024).

She participated in research projects on Holocaust memorialization as an author and compiler of the publications "Memory of the Holocaust: A Catalog of Monuments to the Victims of Genocide in Ukraine (2019) and Songs of the Holocaust: Based on the Documents of the Jewish Music Heritage Archive from the Collections of the Institute of Manuscripts of the National Library of Ukraine (2023). She documented war crimes in the project "Documenting Cases of Deportation of Ukrainian Citizens to Russia and Belarus" by the NGO ZMINA Human Rights Center (2023).

As a fellow of the LivArch War Documentation and Archiving project at the Center for Urban History, she will work on the project "Archival Classification of Sources of the Russian-Ukrainian War Documented by Private and Public Initiatives." This project will comprehensively analyze the type and composition of documents created in the process of documenting the war, and identify their main characteristics important for long-term storage, physical and intellectual access, and optimal archival organization.