Ukrainian Institute of National Memory UINP Resources and Publications

About the Institution

The Ukrainian Institute of National Memory (UINP; Ukrainian: Український інститут національної пам'яті) is a central executive body with special status, established on 31 May 2006, operating under the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. Its mandate is to form and implement state policy on national remembrance. Following a brief dissolution in 2010 under President Yanukovych and subsequent reinstatement, the institute regained its role as a central executive body following the 2013-2014 Revolution of Dignity. New legislation in August 2025 further redefined its oversight structure.

Resources, Publications, and Collections

The UINP maintains a significant body of publicly accessible resources and publications on its official website (uinp.gov.ua), including:

• Online Archive of Oral History: A growing collection of first-person testimonies from participants in the Maidan Revolutions of 2013-2014 and from the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War, available as free downloadable ebooks in ePub and PDF formats, with some audio and video components.
• Virtual Necropolis: A digital resource memorializing individuals significant to Ukrainian history and national identity.
• Documentary Research Publications: Historical studies, commemorative books, and policy documents relating to the Holodomor genocide, decommunization, Soviet-era repression, and the history of Ukrainian statehood.
• Archive of National Remembrance: The branch state archive of the UINP, established to collect documents of repressive organs of communist and National Socialist regimes.

Notable Activities

The institute has led Ukraine's decommunization efforts, including the development of legislation prohibiting communist and Nazi symbols and the opening of archives related to Soviet-era repression. It coordinates the rehabilitation process for victims of Soviet repression.

Access

Resources and publications are available free of charge through the institute's official website. The oral history archives are openly downloadable. The institute's main office is in Kyiv.