Metadata: The City Council (Gorodskaia uprava) of Tbilisi
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. 192
- Title:
- The City Council (Gorodskaia uprava) of Tbilisi
- Title (official language):
- თბილისის ქალაქის გამგეობა
- Creator/accumulator:
- Municipal Executive Board of Tbilisi
- Date(s):
- 1840/1921
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 21,238(?) files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- The collection reflects the various activities of the Municipal Executive Board of Tbilisi, as well as different events in Tbilisi and its vicinity: administrative and organisational activities; construction and planning of railroads, power plants, factories, mines and so on; trading regulation and data on the local businesses; statistical reports on various issues; educational, sanitary and cultural institutions and activities. The Jewish-related materials of the collection, which are mostly found in inventories 5a, 6 and 8a, can be divided into the following categories: 1. Personal files of Jewish employees of the Municipal Executive Board and related organisations (mostly from the 1900s and the 1910s; inventory 5a). 2. Papers on communal and religious issues (inventory 6): on the election approval of the members of local Jewish Religious Boards (Духовные правления; 1870s to the 1890s), regulations on the handling of Jewish vital records (1911), requests by Jewish locals to register births, marriages and deaths (1917). Files mentioning the licensing of Jewish traders (1870s to the 1890s), discussing the rights of Jewish artisans to serve as shopkeepers outside of the Pale of Settlement (1891), and mentioning the regulations on Jewish – Georgian and Ashkenazic – ritual slaughtering (1912) are also found in this inventory. The same inventory includes several dozens of files documenting requests of Jewish individuals to obtain Georgian citizenship after the collapse of the Tsarist Empire (the files are from 1920 and 1921). 3. Inventories 8 and 8a include material related to issues of construction and city planning. A file from 1877 (inventory 8) mentions a plan to move the city's cemeteries to a suburban area. Files from the late 19th and the early 20th centuries in inventory 8a include administrative papers, architectural drawings and other materials on Jewish-owned private houses and factories, as well as on prayer houses (1886-1887) and communal buildings (1912).
- Archival history:
- In the 1920s the materials of the Russian administration in Tbilisi were transferred to the newly established Central Scientific Archive of Georgia. In 1939 this archive became part of the State Historical Archive of Georgia, the predecessor of the contemporary Central Historical Archive.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Municipal Executive Board in Tbilisi was established according to the Municipal Statute of 1870 and served as the executive arms of the city self-governments. It functioned until after the revolutions of 1917 (no data on 1840-1870 and 1917-1921).
- Access points: locations:
- Tbilisi
- System of arrangement:
- The collection includes 12 inventories. Some are arranged in chronological order, others in alphabetical and thematic order.
- 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
