Metadata : Ludza City Board (Ludza Region)
Collection
- Country:
- Latvia
- Holding institution:
- Latvian State Historical Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Latvijas Valsts vēstures arhīvs
- Postal address:
- Slokas iela 16, Rīga, LV-1048
- Phone number:
- +371 20 017 505
- Country:
- Latvia
- Holding institution:
- Latvian State Historical Archives
- Holding institution (official language):
- Latvijas Valsts vēstures arhīvs
- Postal address:
- Slokas iela 16, Rīga, LV-1048
- Phone number:
- +371 20 017 505
- Reference number:
- 6676
- Title:
- Ludza City Board (Ludza Region)
- Title (official language):
- Ludzas pilsētas valde (Ludzas apriņķis)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Ludza City Board
- Date(s):
- 1814/1944
- Date note:
- Predominantly 1887/1944
- Language:
- Russian
- Latvian
- German
- Extent:
- 178 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection includes records of the Ludza (Lucin) city board from the 19th century until 1944. The materials reflect the life of the city in different spheres and contain various data on its residents. The records include data on residents’ business activities, real estate ownership in Ludza, lists of the unemployed, lists of newborns, data on the health situation etc. These materials also shed light on social realities, statistics and demography in the city. Protocols of the city council and curricula vitae of the board members are also included in the collection.
Some of these documents include Jewish-related materials. For instance, resolutions of meetings of the city commissioners for 1916 shed light on the economic activities of Jewish entrepreneurs in the city in such areas as the rent of a city slaughterhouse, trade, supply of firewood to a military field hospital, maintenance of taverns and more (inventory 1, file 1). Valuable information on the activities of the city’s Jewish entrepreneurs can also be obtained from the book of issued commercial certificates for 1917. This book contains the names of entrepreneurs, the date of issue of the certificates, type of certificate, data on the payment of taxes, and indicates the enterprises that they owned (inventory 1, file 21).
Some of the records in the collection can be used for genealogical research including several lists of the Jewish population in Lucin and their personal documents. For example, the collection contains a list of the Jewish population of the city from the early 19th to early 20th centuries (inventory 1, file 40), as well as a list of Jewish families and of merchants from 1874 (inventory 1, file 42). A list of Jewish real-estate owners in the Lucin region (1889) can also be found in the collection (inventory 1, file 39) as well as records with personal data of the Jewish personnel in the Ludza City Board from the period of independent Latvia (inventory 3, files 6, 11, 18).
- Archival history:
- After World War I and the establishment of an independent Latvia the archival materials from the Tsarist period were consolidated into the newly organised Latvian State Archive which existed throughout the interwar period. In particular, the archive consolidated many of the records from Latgalia, the Latvian territories of the Vitebsk governorate, including documents from Lucyn (Ludza) region.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- From 1870 executive bodies of municipal self-government system in the Russian Empire were city boards that were headed by mayors (gorodskoi golova). The members of the city boards were elected by municipal councils (dumas). The city boards were responsible for supervising finance, business, infrastructure, health, education and other issues in the cities. The Ludza city board continued to operate during the interwar period and the German occupation during World War II.
- Access points: locations:
- Ludza
- System of arrangement:
- The collection consists of 4 inventories: the first inventory contains the documents of the Tsarist period (1814-1918); the second inventory contains materials from the period of independent Latvia (1920-1941); the third inventory contains records from the period of the Nazi occupation (1941-1944).
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Ilya Vovshin, Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, 2018
- Reference number:
- 6676
- Title:
- Ludza City Board (Ludza Region)
- Title (official language):
- Ludzas pilsētas valde (Ludzas apriņķis)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Ludza City Board
- Date(s):
- 1814/1944
- Date note:
- Predominantly 1887/1944
- Language:
- Russian
- Latvian
- German
- Extent:
- 178 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection includes records of the Ludza (Lucin) city board from the 19th century until 1944. The materials reflect the life of the city in different spheres and contain various data on its residents. The records include data on residents’ business activities, real estate ownership in Ludza, lists of the unemployed, lists of newborns, data on the health situation etc. These materials also shed light on social realities, statistics and demography in the city. Protocols of the city council and curricula vitae of the board members are also included in the collection.
Some of these documents include Jewish-related materials. For instance, resolutions of meetings of the city commissioners for 1916 shed light on the economic activities of Jewish entrepreneurs in the city in such areas as the rent of a city slaughterhouse, trade, supply of firewood to a military field hospital, maintenance of taverns and more (inventory 1, file 1). Valuable information on the activities of the city’s Jewish entrepreneurs can also be obtained from the book of issued commercial certificates for 1917. This book contains the names of entrepreneurs, the date of issue of the certificates, type of certificate, data on the payment of taxes, and indicates the enterprises that they owned (inventory 1, file 21).
Some of the records in the collection can be used for genealogical research including several lists of the Jewish population in Lucin and their personal documents. For example, the collection contains a list of the Jewish population of the city from the early 19th to early 20th centuries (inventory 1, file 40), as well as a list of Jewish families and of merchants from 1874 (inventory 1, file 42). A list of Jewish real-estate owners in the Lucin region (1889) can also be found in the collection (inventory 1, file 39) as well as records with personal data of the Jewish personnel in the Ludza City Board from the period of independent Latvia (inventory 3, files 6, 11, 18).
- Archival history:
- After World War I and the establishment of an independent Latvia the archival materials from the Tsarist period were consolidated into the newly organised Latvian State Archive which existed throughout the interwar period. In particular, the archive consolidated many of the records from Latgalia, the Latvian territories of the Vitebsk governorate, including documents from Lucyn (Ludza) region.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- From 1870 executive bodies of municipal self-government system in the Russian Empire were city boards that were headed by mayors (gorodskoi golova). The members of the city boards were elected by municipal councils (dumas). The city boards were responsible for supervising finance, business, infrastructure, health, education and other issues in the cities. The Ludza city board continued to operate during the interwar period and the German occupation during World War II.
- Access points: locations:
- Ludza
- System of arrangement:
- The collection consists of 4 inventories: the first inventory contains the documents of the Tsarist period (1814-1918); the second inventory contains materials from the period of independent Latvia (1920-1941); the third inventory contains records from the period of the Nazi occupation (1941-1944).
- Yerusha Network member:
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
- Author of the description:
- Ilya Vovshin, Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, 2018
