Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Kiev (TsDIAK of Ukraine)
 
Fund 275 Kiev Security Department
3917 collection items, 1902-1917

   Kiev investigation department  was established on September 16, 1902. It was renamed as Security Department  on February 13, 1903. Since  1907 it existed in parallel to South-Western District Security Department. In March ,1914  this department became a part of Kiev provincial gendarme administration.  It went into liquidation March 10, 1917.
   Directives of Police Department about revolutionary movement; thorough review of the functioning of  Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP); reports of Police Department about members of the Central Committee of  RSDLP.
   Correspondence and reports on distribution of Bolshevik newspapers, brochures. Brochures and newspapers published by Kiev committee of Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.
Case about establishment of organisation "Red Cross" (1913).
Reports and correspondence on  meetings of labourers in Kiev (1903-1907); general political strike (1903).
   Directives, reports and correspondence  on revolutionary movement of labourers during the first Russian revolution (1905-1907); strikes against execution of labourers by shooting January 9, 1905; big strike of labourers in Kiev October, 1905; Kiev  Soviet of Workers' Deputies. 
Cases and reports on strike and demonstration of labourers in Kiev.  Report on celebrating international holidays of May 1 and March 8. Cases about Trade Unions (1906-1914). 
   Reports and correspondence on peasants' unrest in Kiev and Chernigov province (guberniya) (1905-1907); revolutionary movement  in army: unrest of soldiers (1905), armed uprising of soldiers in Kiev garrison (1905); distribution of  brochures of   Russian Social Democratic Labour Party among soldiers.
   Reports and correspondence on students of high and secondary school in Kiev;  "Central committee of South-Eastern group of secondary school student" (1903); social democratic students' organisations; unrest of students from Kiev University and Kiev Polytechnic Institute (1905-1907).
   Reports and correspondence on unrest of Kiev students due to 50-year anniversary of the death of T.G.Shevchenko (1911); demonstrations due to the death of L.N.Tolstoy (1910) and anniversary of his death (1911-1912);  Coalition Council of students from Kiev University; Sunday school for labourers in Kiev Polytechnic Institute; Students' Congress (1912-1913).