LOBOV Oleg Vladimirovich

As the head of the so-called ‘State Committee for Archives of the Republic of Crimea’, he takes measures aimed at legitimising the occupation of Ukrainian territories by the russian federation and subordinating Ukrainian archives from the temporarily occupied Crimea to the russian archival infrastructure.
In February 2025, Lobov took part in a radio broadcast of the occupation authorities' propaganda broadcaster Radio Crimea, where he spoke about events dedicated to the "80th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War". During the broadcast, he stated that the archives of Crimea ‘preserve memories, photographs and documents related to the Crimean Spring, which will eventually become important historical sources’, which is an attempt to distort history and spread false information.
In January 2025, Lobov took part in an event dedicated to the ‘Year of the Defender of the Fatherland’ in accordance with the presidential decree of 16.01.2025 No. 28. The event was held at the Mykola Sava Azov Gymnasium. During his speech, Lobov noted that he was cooperating with the so-called ‘Fatherland Defence Fund’ in ‘the direction of forming funds of personal origin of the participants of the AFO’.
In December 2024, he took part in a meeting of the public coordination council, where among the issues discussed was ‘the preparation of Russian citizens for military service’ and that it ‘remains a priority of state policy’ and ‘special attention was paid to the issues of military-patriotic education of young people’.
Under the leadership of Lobov, propaganda exhibitions ‘Crimea in the History of russia’ are regularly held in the territory of the temporarily occupied of the AR of Crimea. As stated on the website of the occupation authorities of Yevpatoria, the exhibition ‘tells about the common history of Crimea and russia, starting from the period of the Crimean Khanate and ending with the events of March 2014’.
Also, the official page of the so-called ‘State Committee for Archives of the Republic of Crimea’, headed by Lobov, on the Russian social network ‘Odnoklassniki’, regularly publishes posts about contract service in the ‘russian army’.
Since 2014, he has been a member of the so-called ‘Public Coordination Council for Patriotic Education under the Head of the Republic of Crimea’, which is engaged in the imposition of Russian propaganda on the territory of the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea.