How to hide an archive in WordPress?

Question

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Hello.
On my site, like on all WordPress sites, there are the following pages:
my-site.ru/date/2015/page/5
my-site.ru/date/2015/page/21
my-site.ru/date/2014/ page/7
my-site.ru/date/2013/page/18
How to get rid of these pages?
How can I prevent these pages from opening at all?
Or when accessing them, there was a redirect to the main one.
There is an "Archive" in the sidebar. I removed it. Appearance -> Widgets.
But these pages naturally remained.
Found wp_get_archives function. I tried to comment it out.
But it affects something global.

Answer 1

/* Register template redirect action callback */
add_action('template_redirect', 'meks_remove_wp_archives');
 
/* Remove archives */
function meks_remove_wp_archives(){
  //If we are on category or tag or date or author archive
  if( is_category() || is_tag() || is_date() || is_author() ) {
    global $wp_query;
    $wp_query->set_404(); //set to 404 not found page
  }
}

Or there is another plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/smart-archive-page-r...