Metadata: Chancellery of the Turkestan Governor-General
Collection
- Country:
- Uzbekistan
- Holding institution:
- Central State Archive of Republic Uzbekistan
- Holding institution (official language):
- Узбекистон Республакаси Марказий Давлат архиви
- Postal address:
- Chilonzor Street 2, 100043 Tashkent
- Phone number:
- (998)712770480
- Web address:
- www.mda.uz
- Email:
- info@mda.uz
- Reference number:
- И1
- Title:
- Chancellery of the Turkestan Governor-General
- Title (official language):
- КонцелярияТуркестанского генерал-губернатора
- Creator/accumulator:
- Chancellery of the Turkestan Governor-General
- Date(s):
- 1867/1918
- Language:
- Arabic
- Persian
- Russian
- Uzbek
- Extent:
- 31,655 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection includes reports about Jewish life and work in the Turkestan region. The materials are presented in separate cases and fragments. It is possible to divide them into the following two thematic sections:
1 - Jewish residence in Turkestan Territory: petitions to grant Central Asian “foreign” Jews Russian citizenship and permission to reside in the province and data about their origin and property status (1869-1917); lists of Jews with Russian citizenship (1902); permission for reserve ranks of Jews and registered families with local societies, until the publication of circular No. 2859, to stay in Turkestan Territory (1886-87); the right of Jews to reside in Turkestan Territory (1903-16); Central Asian “foreign” Jews, deportation of Bukharan Jewry and "chala" (Jewish converts to Islam), information and the list of "races" of local Bukharan Jews living in the regions of Turkestan and information about their property status (1909-11); suspension of mass expulsion of Bukharan Jewry and "chala" from Turkestan and their recognition as native Jews (1903, 1905, 1914); Jewish designation as part of the middle class of society (1888-1914); Jewish expulsion from Turkestan (1872-1916); lists of Bukharan Jewry from Tashkent and counties such as Shymkent, New Marghilana, Kazalinsk, Pirovsk and Aulie-Ata, with family members and occupations, subjected to eviction (1905-08); lists of Jewish families in Termez (1907-12); permission for Bukharan Jews to travel abroad (1890-98); deportation of all Caucasian urban Jews from Margilan district for exploitation of the Kyrgyz population and fishermen (1901-02). There is information about negative activities of Jews: how the nomadic population was exploited by Bukharan Jewry and Indians (1877); about predatory exploitation of the Kyrgyz population and the verdict of eviction of Kyrgyz societies by Central Asian and Bukharan Jewry; reports regarding investigation of Jewish activities; lists of Jews by province and application of Jewish laws to them (1909-13).
2 - Trade and industry: cases about the opening of a distillery in Tashkent by Pinhas Abdurakhmanov (1867-72); a report by Major-General Abramov, a chief of Zarafshan District, about gold being transferred to Bukhara in large quantities by Bukharan Jews and Kirghiz through Samarkand Post, sent from Russia, and its transfer to Afghanistan, and about other exchange of gold (1871); granting Jews the right of permanent residence and production of the drink trade in Turkestan (1872-96); petitions from Jews for permission to travel to European Russia on business without limitation on the period of stay (1879-1910); petitions from Jews for the right to trade in Turkestan (1891); permission for a gin distillery in Old Margelan (1892-93); permission for local Jews to distil and trade in strong drink (1893); a restriction on access of foreigners and Jews to industrial enterprises in Cossack possessions of Semirechensk region (1899); permission to build a winery in New Chardjou city (1900); prohibition of Muslims from selling meat slaughtered by Jews; requests from Jews to trade in various cities of Turkestan Krai; a petition from Tashkent Jewish Society's spiritual board to close a private Jewish shop in Tashkent that was hindering the trade of the public store (1906-07); an application from Jews to construct and operate a telephone exchange in Turkestan Territory (1908); registration of visits by Jews, merchants and their clerks from Jewish settlements for trading and Poteljahovsky and Vadyaevsky's regulations for trade and industry cooperation (1912); usury by Bukharan Jews (1913-15); and information about the "Kraft Brothers" merchant’s house (1916). There are also materials on taxation and debt collection and a plan of Samarkand with indication of land belonging to Jews (1871-1914).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Turkestan Governorate-General was established by the law of 11 July 1867 in Syr-Darya and Semirechye regions. The first governor-general was Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufman, who arrived in Turkestan in November 1867. His office consisted of four branches: the first dealt with administrative staff and investigation issues, the second with land issues and duties, the third with land tax system issues in cities and city budgets, as well as the development of legal provisions for region management issues, and the fourth , which existed only for a few years, with judiciary matters. In addition to these departments, the office had accounting, magazine and diplomatic divisions. A diplomatic office was in charge of diplomatic relations of Turkestan’s Governor-General with neighbouring khanates, as well as with Afghanistan, Kashgar and Kuldja until 1899. The office consisted of Turkestan Public Library and museum, the newspaper Turkestanskie Vedomosti and the printing house (1872-81). The chancellery of the Governor-General became the Turkestan Committee of Temporary Government office when Temporary Government came to Turkestan Territory in April 1917 and Kuropatkin resigned as Turkestan’s last Governor-General.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Abdurakhmanov, Pinhas
- System of arrangement:
- The collection includes 34 inventories, arranged in chronological order.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Bar-Ilan University
- Author of the description:
- David Kalantarov
