ORGANIZING ARCHIVES ADMINISTRATION OF THE PRIDNESTROVIAN (TRANSNISTRIAN) MOLDAVIAN REPUBLIC AT THE PRESENT STAGE. ISSUES OF FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT

The article considers the history and organization of the State Archival Service of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (Transnistria) at the present stage, as well as reveals the main principles of the organization of archival affairs and the formation of the Archival Fund of the Republic. The main principle of organizing archival affairs in Transnistria is the principle of centralization. A distinctive feature is the combination of two functions – documentation management and archives administration – within the activities of the State Archival Service. The formation of the Archival Fund of the Republic is based on the national principles of provenance, historicism, comprehensiveness, complexity, and indivisibility of archival collections, while applying the modern principle of political neutrality. At the same time, the archives of Transnistria serve the State and the Fatherland, since the network of the state archival bodies has become part of the state civil service of Transnistria, and all personnel are classified as state civil servants. The article considers the stages directly related to the main milestones of the creation, formation and development of the statehood of Transnistria: from the foundation in the 1990s of the central body for managing archival affairs of the Republic – the Archival Department under the Government of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian SSR to the State Service for the Management of Documentation and Archives of the PMR.