Metadata: Samarkand Regional government
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:
- И18
- Title:
- Samarkand Regional government
- Title (official language):
- Самаркандское областное правление
- Creator/accumulator:
- Samarkand Regional government
- Date(s):
- 1887/1917
- Language:
- Arabic
- Persian
- Russian
- Uzbek
- Extent:
- 14,953 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains documents regarding the residence of Jews in the Turkestan region: the granting of Russian citizenship to Jews (1869-1917); residence rights outside the Jewish settlement and issuing passports to Jews in Turkestan (1910, 1912-13); the recognition of the Jews' rights as a local population of Turkestan (1898-1918); the admission of native Jews to the society of Samarkand (1899-1903); and eviction, Jewish relocation from Turkestan, circulars of the Ministry of Internal Affairs regarding suspension of deportation to the pale of settlement, Jews' complaints to higher administrative institutions, and material about their expulsion from Samarkand region (1872-1916). The collection has documents on trade and economic matters: registration of Jewish property in the Samarkand region (1897); European and Bukharan Jews living in Samarkand and Khojent owning real estate (1896-99); permission for Jewish merchants to build a cotton gin in Samarkand (1907); and the opening of a pharmacy in Samarkand (1893). Documents on religious affairs include material on: construction of Jewish prayer houses; information about the number of divine services and prayer buildings in the Jewish community and the sects separated from non-orthodox communities (1870-1916); legal consequences of Jewish transition to sectarianism (1912); exclusion of baptised Jews from former societies; the order of Jews' conversion to Christianity; various old customs and sectarian and Jewish prayer houses and societies (1914-15); the selection of members for spiritual government and their rights in Samarkand (1910, 1913, 1915, 1916) and in Khodzhent, Katta-Kurgan and Paishanba village (1913). Documents regarding education and culture contain circulars of the Ministry of Interior Affairs in the restriction of reception of Jewish student dentists (1893); the case of seizing of a Muslim cemetery for the construction of a Russian-Jewish school in Samarkand (1902-03); the opening of an elementary school in Samarkand, in the mould of Russian-native schools in Turkestan (list and signatures in Hebrew) (1900); and the opening of printing houses in Samarkand (1908) and Khojent (1911). There are also cases of polygamy of native Jews, the imposition of certificates for metric testimonies of native Jews (1902-05) and circulars and explanations regarding giving names to Jewish children (1911).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Samarkand regional government was the central office for administrating the region, beginning its activity in 1887 and closing at the beginning of 1918.
- System of arrangement:
- The collection includes one inventory, arranged in chronological order.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Bar-Ilan University
- Author of the description:
- David Kalantarov