Metadata: Police Board of Tartu
Collection
- Country:
- Estonia
- Holding institution:
- Historical Archives of Estonia
- Holding institution (official language):
- Eesti Ajalooarhiiv
- Postal address:
- Tartu, J. Liivi 4, 50409
- Phone number:
- (+372) 738 7500
- Web address:
- https://www.ra.ee/et/kes-me-oleme-2/
- Email:
- rahvusarhiiv@ra.ee
- Reference number:
- f. 325
- Title:
- Police Board of Tartu
- Title (official language):
- Tartu Linna Politseivalitsus
- Creator/accumulator:
- Police Board of Tartu
- Date(s):
- 1888/1917
- Language:
- German
- Russian
- Extent:
- 1,991 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The archive of the Police Board of Tartu includes various administrative documents, statistical data, records of surveillance of suspected individuals (including alleged political activists, held by the "secret department"), and records of inspection of local businesses and places of entertainment. The papers include data on inspection of sanitary issues, censorship and migration. Certain files include data on the registration of prostitutes, including personal files.
The Jewish-related materials in this archive include correspondence on appeals for residence permits and permits to engage in commerce and crafts in Tartu. The files also include data on Jewish vital statistics and lists of the Jewish residents of Tartu from the period between 1889 and 1900. About 20 surveillance files on Jewish students and activists suspected of illegal political activities can be found in the collection, as well as several files mentioning Jews involved in criminal activities.
- Archival history:
- In 1917 the records of the abolished Police Board were transferred to the Central State Archive of Estonia. Since 1945 the records have been kept at the Historical Archives of Estonia, Tartu.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Police Board of Tartu was established in 1888 as part of a general reorganisation of the police in the Baltic governorates of the Russian Empire. It functioned until its liquidation after the second Russian Revolution in February 1917.
- Access points: locations:
- Tartu
- System of arrangement:
- The collection consists of two inventories, arranged in thematic-chronological order.
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is open for reference at the Historical Arсhives of Estonia, Tartu.
- Finding aids:
-
Finding aids in Russian and Estonian are available at the Historical Arсhives of Estonia.
For further reference see: Центральный государственный исторический архив Эстонской ССР. Путеводитель, Москва, Тарту 1969, 36-37; Arhiivijuht, I. Tartu 2003, 100-101.
Basic data on the collection is available at the web portal of the National Archives of Estonia: http://ais.ra.ee, Detailotsing – Leidandmed – EAA.325.
- Links to finding aids:
- http://ais.ra.ee
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Tatjana Schor, Historical Archives of Estonia, and Alex Valdman, Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, 2015
