Metadata: Supreme Council of Ukraine; Khar’kov, Kiev
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine
- Holding institution (official language):
- Центральний державний архів вищих органів влади і управління України
- Postal address:
- 24 Solomianska Str., 03110 Kyiv
- Phone number:
- 380 (044) 275-36-66
- Web address:
- tsdavo.gov.ua
- Email:
- tsdavo@archives.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 1
- Title:
- Supreme Council of Ukraine; Khar’kov, Kiev
- Title (official language):
- Верховная Рада Украины, г. г. Харьков — Киев
- Creator/accumulator:
- Supreme Council of Ukraine; Khar’kov, Kiev
- Date(s):
- 1917/1994
- Language:
- Ukrainian
- Yiddish
- Russian
- Extent:
- 49,218 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Materials housed in the fond include information on the status of national minorities, including Jews, in the Ukrainian SSR: materials pertaining to a pamphlet titled “Soviet Construction and National Minorities,” with information on a network of Jewish schools of various types prior to the revolution, and the number of Yiddish-language schools in the Ukrainian SSR as of 1925; a synopsis of a report of the fourth session of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee (VUTsIK) (tenth convocation) with quantitative data on the republic’s Jewish population, Yiddish-language periodicals, and the historical peculiarities of the Jewish population vis-à-vis economic life; a draft decree of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine on improving political work among national minorities, with information on Jewish cultural institutions (libraries, clubs, and reading rooms); statistical data on the publication of Yiddish-language books; information on plans for Yiddish-language radio broadcasting, and on organising Yiddish-language court chambers; and on registering the charters of local branches of the All-Ukrainian Association of National Societies. Materials on the resettlement movement among Jews include excerpts from VUTsIK proceedings and a report and draft resolution on the course of the resettlement movement among Jews; an article titled “Why It Is Necessary to Support Land Settlement of the Jewish Poor”; excerpts from proceedings on establishing the Novozlatopol’ Jewish National District centering on the colony of Novozlatopol’, and correspondence on the conclusion of an agreement between the Agro-Joint and the Ukrainian Committee on Land Settlement of Jewish Toilers (KOMZET); and materials on the state of Jewish resettlers in the Krivoi Rog area, on organizing the Commission to Register the Poorest of the Jewish Population, and credentials and identification documents of KOMZET workers. There are also materials on Jewish religious communities and organizations (Ukrainian SSR NKVD circulars on halting the operation of Jewish burial societies; correspondence between the authorities and religious communities on returning funds seized from the latter; Jewish religious communities’ protests regarding the seizure therefrom of synagogues and houses of worship; and materials on the repurposing of synagogue buildings as cultural-educational institutions); correspondence on the liquidation of the Jewish cemetery in Berdichev, and on ending religious communities’ authority over Jewish cemeteries; lists of religious communities of Ukraine, and materials on their refusal to rent houses of worship due to high taxation thereupon; and on the closing of mikves [ritual baths] and the ban on the ritual ablution of the deceased at Jewish cemeteries. There is also data on the deportation of Jewish WWI refugees back to Ukraine, information on the activities of the Joint Distribution Committee in Ukraine, etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Central Executive Committee of Councils of Workers’, Soldiers’, and Peasants’ Deputies of Ukraine (TsIKSU) was elected 25 December 1917 at the First All-Union Congress of Councils in Khar’kov; in February and March 1918 the committee repeatedly changed locations (Kiev, Poltava, Ekaterinoslav, Taganrog), subsequently ceasing operations in connection with the occupation of Ukraine by German forces. In March 1919, newly elected by the Third Congress of Councils, it recommenced activities, first in Khar’kov, then in Kiev and Chernigov, as the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee of Councils (VTsIKS). In December 1919, power in the republic was temporarily transferred to the All-Ukrainian Revolutionary Committee established that month. Beginning 20 May 1920, the collection creator renewed operations in Khar’kov as the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee (VUTsIK). From March 1934 on, it was based in Kiev (the new capital of the Ukrainian SSR). Beginning in March 1935, it was called the Central Executive Committee of Councils of Workers’, Peasants’, and Red Army Deputies (TsIK) of the Ukrainian SSR, and it continued operations under this title until 1938 (that is, until elections per the Constitution of 1937), after which it was called the Supreme Rada (Supreme Council) of the Ukrainian SSR. On 16 July 1990, this body adopted the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine, and on 24 August 1991, the Ukrainian Independence Declaration Act (ratified in the All-Ukrainian Referendum of 1 December 1991), pursuant to which it became the legislative branch of an independent state, the Supreme Rada of Ukraine.
- Access points: locations:
- Berdichev
- Khar’kov
- Kiev
- Krivoi Rog
- Novozlatopol’
- Subject terms:
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
- Cemeteries
- Communism
- Communism--Communist parties and organisations
- Correspondence
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Expulsion
- Financial matters
- Hevrah kadisha
- Jewish colonies
- Jewish daily life and religious practices
- Jewish languages
- Jewish languages--Yiddish
- Libraries
- Mikveh
- Publishing
- Refugees
- Resettlement of Jews
- Statistics
- Synagogues
- Yiddish periodicals
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes twenty-nine inventories; files are systematised according to the structural-chronological principle, by year and structural unit, and within structural units, depending on the collection creator’s record-keeping principle.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
