Location

• Kyiv Mezhihirska 21, Ukraine 02000
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Languages

• Dutch
• English
• French
• German
• Russian
• Spanish
• Ukrainian

Website

• http://www.smoloskyp.org.ua/

Name of collection

• Museum-Archive and Documentation Centre of Ukrainian Samvydav

Provenance and cultural activities

• The collection was created by the Ukrainian émigré publishing house and human rights organization, Smoloskyp, and personally by its director Osyp Zinkevich. Smoloskyp Publishers was originally founded in Baltimore, US, in 1967 by a Ukrainian émigré activist and a member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), Osyp Zinkevich. The main scope of Smoloskyp's activities was the publishing and dissemination of Ukrainian dissident literature and documents. Smoloskyp organized a series of international campaigns against political repression in Soviet Ukraine and (co)founded several human rights organizations in support of freedom in Ukraine. Smoloskyp ran information services in the US, Canada, and Argentina, widely disseminating factual information on political repression and the dissident movement in Ukraine. It cooperated with Amnesty International and sent humanitarian aid to Ukrainian political prisoners. Material related to these activities constitute the collection. Smoloskyp volunteers smuggled Ukrainian samizdat materials and other illegal literature and documents abroad, and they translated and published them in the US and Canada. Its secret communication channels along with its own network of specially trained couriers allowed Smoloskyp to establish a two-way traffic of censored information and clandestine materials across the Iron curtain. Unlike some other emigre organizations that ran smuggling operations, information about the Smoloskyp couriers is declassified.

  In 1992, Smoloskyp Publishing House, along with its collection, moved to Kyiv, Ukraine. In 1998, the collection was institutionalized as the Museum-Archive and Documentation Centre of Ukrainian Samvydav in Kyiv. It is opened for researchers, journalists, and students. Smoloskyp promotes its collection by organizing exhibitions targeted to students and schoolchildren. The collection’s primary focus includes Ukrainian Shestidesiatniki writers, literary critics, and political journalists; the human rights movement in Ukraine (particularly the Ukrainian Helsinki Group); and the material pertaining the late-Soviet Rukh Oporu, the Ukrainian democratic and human rights movement of the 1960s - 1990s. In its émigré period, Smoloskyp published more than a hundred works of Ukrainian samizdat, the memoirs of former political prisoners, five volumes of the works of M. Khvylyovy, the works of L. Kostenko, O. Berdnyk, M. Rudenko, M. Osadchy, I. Kalynets, M. Kholodny, V. Stus, and others. Smoloskyp reprinted the samizdat periodical Ukrainsky visnyk (The Ukrainian Herald), and published the collections of documents and material of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group.

  In its Ukrainian period, Smoloskyp published the memoirs and writings of Petro Grigorenko and the writings of Vyacheslav Chornovil in ten volumes. Among the most significant publications, based on the collection, is a handbook, Rukh Oporu v Ukraini. 1960-1990 [Resistance Movement in Ukraine, 1960-1990. An Encyclopedia]. It contains extensive information on the Ukrainian political and cultural opposition movement in the 1960s – 1990s; biographical material of Ukrainian dissidents and political prisoners, information on Ukrainian human rights organizations, Ukrainian samizdat, diaspora periodicals and publications, and on émigré activists and couriers who smuggled samizdat material to the West.

Description of content

• The Museum-Archive and Documentation Centre of Ukrainian Samvydav in Kyiv holds a collection of Ukrainian samizdat (including samizdat periodicals and informal chronicles); Ukrainian diaspora periodicals; the collection of Ukrainian tamizdat (samizdat materials published abroad in Ukrainian, Russian, English, French, German and other languages); hundreds of photos of Soviet-era political prisoners and dissidents; the archives of several committees for human rights in Ukraine from US, Canada, Australia, Argentina, and other countries. The collection also holds Smoloskyp correspondence with international human rights organizations, including the Amnesty International. Smoloskyp’s financial documentation is available for readers, as well.

Content

• grey literature (regular archival documents such as brochures, bulletins, leaflets, reports, intelligence files, records, working papers, meeting minutes): 1000-
• legal and/or financial documentation
• manuscripts (ego-documents, diaries, notes, letters, drafts, etc.): 1000-
• photos: 1000-
• publications (books, newspapers, articles, press clippings): 100-499

Operator(s)

• Smoloskyp Publishing House
• Zinkevych, Osyp

Owner(s)

• Smoloskyp Publishing House
• Zinkevych, Osyp

Stakeholder(s) of the collection

• Obertas, Oles
• Semkiv, Rostyslav
• Zvarun, Andrii

Geographical scope of recent operation

• international
• national

Topics

• democratic opposition
• emigration/exile
• human rights movements
• literature and literary criticism
• samizdat and tamizdat
• survivors of persecutions under authoritarian/totalitarian regimes
• underground culture

Founder(s)

• Smoloskyp Publishing House
• Zinkevych, Osyp
• Zvarun, Andrii

Place of founding

• Baltimore, United States of America
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Creator(s) of content

• Braichevsky, Mykhailo
• Chornovil, Viacheslav
• Grigorenko, Petro
• Shukhevych, Yuriy
• Stus, Vasyl
• Sverstiuk, Yevhen
• Zinkevych, Osyp

Collector(s)

• Smoloskyp Publishing House
• Zinkevych, Osyp
• Zvarun, Andrii

Supporters

• International charitable foundation Smoloskyp

Important events in the history of the collection

• Foundation of the Smoloskyp human rights publishing house
• The collection moves from Baltimore, US to Kyiv, Ukraine
• The collection is institutionalized as the Museum-Archive and Documentation Centre of Ukrainian Samvydav in Kyiv
• The Museum-Archive joins the International Samizdat Research Association

Featured items

• A samizdat miniature of M.Yu. Braichevsky’s Priednannia chy voz’ednannia?
• Samizdat diary of Iuri Shukhevych written on cigarette paper, which he passed from labour camp
• The Ukrainian Herald: Underground Journal from Ukraine. Vol. І-ІІ
• Two dolls within which photo-films with the images of Opanas Zalivakha’s paintings was smuggled from Soviet Ukraine to the US

Access type

• visits by appointments

Publications

• Boomerang: The Works of Valentyn Moroz. Baltimore: Smoloskyp, 1974.

  The Ukrainian Herald, Issue 6, Dissent in Ukraine. Translated and edited by Lesya Jones and Bohdan Yasen. Baltimore-Paris–Toronto: Smoloskyp, 1977.

  The Ukrainian Herald, Issue 7-8 (Spring 1974), An Underground Journal from Soviet Ukraine: Ethnocide of Ukrainians in the U.S.S.R.. Compiled by Sahaydak Maksym . Introduction by Robert Conquest. Translated and edited by Olena Saciuk and Bohdan Yasen. Baltimore: Smoloskyp, 1976.

  The Human Rights Movement in Ukraine: Documents of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, 1976–1980. Edited by Lesya Verba, Bohdan Yasen, and Zinkewych Osyp . Introduction by Strokata Nina . Preface by Zwarun Andrew . Baltimore, Washington and Toronto: Smoloskyp, 1980. 

  Information Bulletin of Ukrainian Helsinki Group, Vol. 1. Baltimore: Smoloskyp, 1978.

  Information Bulletin of Ukrainian Helsinki Group, Vol. 2. Baltimore: Smoloskyp, 1981.

  The International Sakharov Hearing. Edited by Harasowska Marta and Olhovych Orest. Baltimore: Smoloskyp, 1977.

  An Interview with Political Prisoners in a Soviet Perm Camp (Documents of Ukrainian Samvydav). Edited by Taras Drozd, and Orest Olbovych. Baltimore:  Smoloskyp, 1978.

  Invincible Spirit : Art and Poetry of Ukrainian Women Political Prisoners in the U.S.S.R. Album design by Taras B. Horalewskyj ; color photography by Taras B. Horalewskyj ; poetry and text translated by Bohdan Yasen ; Ukrainian text by Bohdan Arey. Baltimore: Smoloskyp, 1977.

  The Popular Movement of Ukraine for Restructuring Rukh: Program and Charter. Baltimore: Smoloskyp, 1989.

  Soviet Olympic Death Rate: National Discrimination and the Ukrainian Issue. Smoloskyp at the Olympics. Contributor, Smoloskyp Organization for Defense of Human Rights in Ukraine. Baltimore: Smoloskyp , 1984.

  Ukrainian Women in the Soviet Union. Documented Persecution. Compiled by Nina Strokata. Translated and edited bу Myroslava Stefaniuk and Volodymyr Hruszkewych. Smoloskyp Samvydav Series. Baltimore – Toronto: Smoloskyp, 1980.

  The Ukrainian Helsinki Group: Five Years of Struggle in Defense of Rights. Baltimore: Smoloskyp, 1981.

  A Ukrainian Priest’s Appeals from a Soviet Labor Camp. Smoloskyp Samvydav Series. Baltimore: Smoloskyp, 1976.

  Victims of Soviet Psychiatry. Baltimore: Smoloskyp, 1977.

  Women Voices from Soviet Labor Camp. Edited by Bohdan Yasen . Translated by Lesya Jones. Baltimore: Smoloskyp, 1975.

  Zinkewych, Osyp. Svitlychny and Dziuba. Baltimore: Smoloskyp 1966.

  Мартирологія українських церков. Т. І: Українська Православна Церква: Документи, матеріяли, християнський самвидав України. Упоряд. Осип Зінкевич, Олександер Вороний, слово митр. Мстислава, передм. Аркадія Жуковського. Торонто - Балтимор: Смолоскип, 1987.

  Мартирологів українських церков. Т. II: Українська Католицька Церква. Упоряд. Осип Зінкевич, свящ. Тарас Лончина. Toronto - Baltimore: Smoloskyp, 1985.

  Українська Гельсінкська Група, 1978-1982: Документи і матеріяли.  Упоряд., передм. Осипа Зінкевича. Торонто - Балтимор: Смолоскип, 1983.

  Український вісник. - Випуск І-ІІ (Січень 1970 - травень 1970). Париж, Балтимор, Торонто: Смолоскип, 1971.

  Український вісник. -  Випуск III (Жовтень 1970). Париж, Балтимор, Торонто: Смолоскип, 1971.

  Український вісник. -  Випуск IV (Січень 1971). Париж, Балтимор, Торонто: Смолоскип, 1971.

  Український вісник. -   Випуск VI (Березень 1972). Париж, Балтимор, Торонто: Смолоскип, 1972.

  Український вісник. -  Випуск VII - VIII. Париж, Балтимор, Торонто: Смолоскип, 1975.

  Український Правозахисний Рух: Документи і матеріали київської Української Гельсінської Групи. Упоряд. Осип Зінкевич, передм. Андрія Зваруна. Торонто, Балтимор: Смолоскип, 1978.

  Українські політв'язні в СРСР: Адресний покажчик. Упоряд. Марта Гарасовська. Балтимор: Смолоскип, 1981.

  Українська Гельсінкська Група. До 30-річчя створення: історія, документи. Упоряд. О. Зінкевич, В. Овсієнко. Киів: Смолоскип, 2006.

  Чорновіл, Вячеслав. Твори: у 10-ти томах. Літературознавство. Критика. Журналістика. Упорядник Валентина Чорновіл. Передмова В. Яременка, М. Коцюбинської. Киів: Смолоскип 2002.

  Рух опору в україні: 1960–1990. Енциклопедичний довідник. Передм. О. Зінкевича, О. Обертаса. Киів: Смолоскип, 2010.

Part of network

• International Samizdat [Research] Association (IS[R]A), Budapest

Author(s) of this page

• Vagramenko, Tatiana

References

Mykolayenko, Alla. “Ukrains’ke vydavnytstvo ‘Smoloskyp’ u diaspori: orhanizatsiini zasady to struktura” [Ukrainian Publisher “Smoloskyp” in Diaspora: Organizational Structure and Framework]. Polihrafiya i vydavnycha sprava, 65–66, no. 1–2 (2014): 21-27.

Mykolayenko, Alla. “Ukrains’kyi period vydavnytstva ‘Smoloskyp’ (1992–2013): Transformatsii redaktsiino-vydavnychoho protsesu” [Ukrainian Period of the Publishing House “Smoloskyp”: Transformations of its Editorial and Publishing Processes]. Visnyk Kharkivs’koi derzhavnoi akademii kultury 43 (2014): 24-31.

Mykolayenko, Alla. “Pravozakhystna diyal’nist’ ukrains’koho vydavnytstva ‘Smoloskyp’ u SShA (1967—1990)” [Human Rights Work of the Ukrainian Publishing House “Smoloskyp” in the USA, 1967—1990]. Naukovi zapysky Instytutu zhurnalistyky 55 (2014): 215-220.

Obertas, Oles’. Ukrains’kyi Samvydav: Literaturna crytyka ta publitsystyka (1960 – pochatok 1970 rokiv) [The Ukrainian Samizdat: Literary Criticism and Journalism, 1960s – early 1970s]. Kyiv: Smoloskyp, 2010.

Omelkovets, Alexandr. “Rol’ intsidenta vokrug izdaniya vospominaniy D. Shumuka ‘Za Skhidnym Obriem’ v razryve ‘Smoloskypa’ i OUN (M)” [The Role of the Incident with the Publication of D. Shumuk’s Memoirs “Beyond the Eastern Horizon” in the Breakup between the “Smoloskyp” and the OUN (M)]. In Aktual’nyye voprosy obshchestvennykh nauk: sotsiologiya, politologiya, filosofiya, istoriya: Sbornik statei po materialam XXXIII mezhdunarodnoi nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii, vol. 1(33): 89-95. Novosibirsk: SibAK, 2014.

Petrenko, Olena. “Dekonstruktsii dekoratyvnoho. Pro provokatsiini spomyny Danyla Shumuka ta yoho zhinochi portrety” [Deconstructions of the Decorative: On the Provocative Memoirs of Danylo Shumuk and his female portraits]. Ukraina Moderna: Mizhnarodnyi intelektualnyi chasopys, 2013. Accessed August 18, 2017. http://www.uamoderna.com/blog/214-214.

Zinkevych, Osyp. “Batsyl’ svobody” [The Bacillus of Freedom]. Smoloskyp 2-3 (1968): 129-130.

Zinkevych, Osyp. “Yak distavavsia ‘samvydav’ na Zapad” [How samizdat arrived in the West]. Ukrains’kyi samvydav. Informatsiinyi byulleten’ Muzeyu-arkhyvu ukrains’koho samvydavu pry vydavnytstvi “Smoloskyp” 2-3, no. 6-7, 2003. Accessed June 17, 2017. http://www.smoloskyp.org.ua/-leftmenu-173/eftmenu-196/48-2003/320-s-2-36-7--2003.html?showall=1

Zinkevych, Osyp, ed. Rukh Oporu v Ukraini, 1960-1990. Entsyklopedychnyi Dovidnyk [Resistance Movement in Ukraine, 1960-1990. An Encyclopaedia]. Kyiv: Smoloskyp, 2010.

Zinkevych, Osyp. Shchodennyk 1948-1949, 1967-1968, 1971-1976 [Diary 1948-1949, 1967-1968, 1971-1976]. Kyiv: Smoloskyp, 2016.

Obertas, Oles, interview by Vagramenko, Tatiana, December 08, 2017. COURAGE Registry Oral History Collection

Semkiv, Rostyslav, interview by Vagramenko, Tatiana, January 24, 2018. COURAGE Registry Oral History Collection