Metadata: The Governorate Office for City Affairs of Tbilisi (Gubernskoe po gorodskim delam prisutstvie)
Collection
- Country:
- Georgia
- Holding institution:
- The Central Historical Archive of Georgia
- Holding institution (official language):
- საისტორიო ცენტრალური არქივი
- Postal address:
- 1, Vazha-Pshavela, Tbilisi, Georgia
- Email:
- info@archives.gov.ge
- Reference number:
- f. 29
- Title:
- The Governorate Office for City Affairs of Tbilisi (Gubernskoe po gorodskim delam prisutstvie)
- Title (official language):
- საქალაქო საქმეთა თბილისის საგუბერნიო საკრებულო
- Creator/accumulator:
- Governorate Office for City Affairs of Tbilisi
- Date(s):
- 1874/1917
- Date note:
- end date approximate
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 1,778(?) files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
The collection of the Governorate Office for City Affairs of Tbilisi includes materials on various local affairs in Tbilisi: elections, planning and construction, trade and commerce, residence and travelling permits, health and education.
The Jewish-related materials of the collection include mentions of Jewish individuals in correspondence, lists and other papers related to elections to various representative bodies, as well as in correspondence and regulations related to local businesses. A 1906 file mentions relief money budgeted to Jewish community, while papers from 1914 mention the question of Jewish presence in the municipal governmental bodies.
- Archival history:
- In the 1920s the materials of the Russian administration in Tbilisi were transferred to the newly established Main Historical Archive of Georgia. In 1939 this archive became part of the Central State Historical Archive of Georgia, the predecessor of the current Central Historical Archive.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Governorate offices for city affairs were introduced by the Russian government as part of the city statute of 1870 and were designated to review complaints and disagreements, related to the actions of municipal administration. The Governorate Office for City Affairs in Tbilisi was established in 1874, when the city statute of 1870 was implemented in the trans-Caucasian region. It functioned until after the revolutionary events of 1917.
- Access points: locations:
- Tbilisi
- Subject terms:
- Aid and relief
- Jewish political activity
- Trade and commerce
- Welfare
- System of arrangement:
- The collection includes one inventory, divided into two books (sections).
- Access, restrictions:
- The collection is open for reference at the Central Historical Archive of Georgia.
- Finding aids:
- A list of files is available at the Central Historical Archive of Georgia. A list of Jewish-related files is available at the CAHJP in Jerusalem.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Alex Valdman (Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People), 2017
