Metadata: Fergana 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:
- И19
- Title:
- Fergana Regional government
- Title (official language):
- Ферганское областное правление
- Creator/accumulator:
- Fergana Regional government
- Date(s):
- 1876/1917
- Language:
- Arabic
- Persian
- Russian
- Uzbek
- Extent:
- 36,590 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection includes the materials of Jewish residence in the Turkestan region: granting of Russian citizenship to Jews (1869-1917); residence permission in the province and issue of passports (1878, 1879, 1890, 1915); permission of Bukharan-national Jews to stay in the Fergana region, allowing them to travel to Turkestan Krai and issuing them with certificates of deportation (1900, 1903, 1906-09); verification of the rights of Jews to residence in Fergana region and establishment of a registration book for them (1911-16); recognition of rights of the local Jewish population and adding them to different estates (1876-1918); and Jewish movement, illegal residence, travel abroad and expulsion from Turkestan Territory (1872-1916). The collection also contains lists of Jews who applied for recognition of indigenous people's rights in the cities of Margilan, Skobelev, Andijan, Kokand, Namangan, Chust and Osh (1903-09). For Novy and Old Margilan cities and the villages of Margilan Uyezd, there are lists indicating the nature of their occupation (1901-02). From Namangan and Andijan there is data on Jews - foreign nationals (Bukharan, Afghan and Persian) and "chala" with details of their occupation (1902, 1904) indicated in family lists; from Kokand, there is a list of European-Jewish residents of the city (1902, 1904), and from the cities of Skobelev, Old Margilan, Andijan, Namangan, Osh and Kokand, there are lists of Jews owning real estate (1910, 1911). The collection provides documents on trade matters: petitions from Jews to trade in Turkestan (1891); acquisition of real estate (1878-90); Jewish homes legalisation (1914); property rights and alien Jews in Turkestan (1895); verification of trade rights in relation to European Jews (1895-1903); trade documents of Central Asian Jews (1914); granting of the right to distil and sell strong drink (1878, 1879); recovery of unpaid debts (1884, 1897); permission for Jews to travel on business to cities of European Russia (1879-1910); and the request of Bukharan-national Jews residing in the province to continue the terms of their arrival and trade in Russia (1905). Circulars and correspondence on Jewish religious and educational life are also collected: prayer houses and synagogues of native and European Jews in the cities of Tashkent, Skobelev, Old Margelan, Osh, Andijan, Namangan and Kokand (1877, 1914, 1916, 1917); correspondence about Jewish elementary schools in Kokand, Old Margelan and Andijan (1889, 1895, 1897, 1914); donations towards Jewish prayer houses (1912-16); a petition from Jews to invite a person from Bukhara to perform religious rituals (1910); a petition of Central Asian Jews (with signatures) of Kokand about the appointment of Shlomo Tazher, a state rabbi, as a temporary spiritual rabbi of the city until the formation of a Jewish community and elections (1911, 1914); minutes, acts, correspondence and other materials about the structure of the Jewish cemetery in Andijan (1879, 1904) and Osh (1912). There are also documents on the social and cultural life of Jews in the province: prohibition of benefit concerts in New Margelan for Jews affected by the devastation in Chisinau (1903); the charter of Kokand Women's Jewish Charitable Society (1911); permission for Rakhmin Davydbaev to publish the Jewish newspaper "Rakhamim" and relocate the printing house from Skobelev to Kokand (1909, 1913); and the incorrect opening of a printing house in Kokand by a Jew named Belsky (1911). Other documents include: the opening of a loan for rewards for capturing Jews evading military service for travel expenses (1891); negative activities of Jews (1899, 1914); wanted citizen Nicholas, of the Hovsei Kutov Jewry, who retreated from the Orthodox faith (1896); and a Jewish boy who converted to Islam (1903).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Fergana region was formed from the Khanate's lands after the conquest of Kokand Khanate, in accordance with a Turkestan Governor-General's order from 19 February 1876. The regional government was a collegial body and had the rights and duties of a provincial board. The Fergana regional government existed until 1918.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Belsky
- Davydbaev, Rakhmin
- Tazher, Shlomo
- System of arrangement:
- The collection includes 4 inventories, arranged in chronological order.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Bar-Ilan University
- Author of the description:
- David Kalantarov
