Metadata: Kiev Social Relief Office
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Kyiv Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Київської області
- Postal address:
- 04119, м.Київ, вул.Мельникова, 38, 40.
- Phone number:
- 380 (44)206-74-99
- Web address:
- http://dako.gov.ua/
- Email:
- dako@archives.kiev.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 226
- Title:
- Kiev Social Relief Office
- Title (official language):
- Киевский приказ общественного призрения
- Creator/accumulator:
- Kiev Social Relief Office
- Date(s):
- 1782/1910
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 3,358 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Materials housed include a report by the office’s permanent member regarding a request by Jewish prisoners at a Kiev workhouse to be excused from labour on the Sabbath, and a list of Jews incarcerated there (1848); financial documents on the office’s receipt of funds (proceeds from an increase in the price of kosher beef) to build a Jewish hospital in Berdichev, and a Berdichev Jewish community agent’s petition to Tsar Nicholas I requesting permission to deposit these funds in a commercial bank in order to earn additional funds (1846); reports on funds donated or willed by Jewish philanthropists to Jewish hospitals and almshouses, in particular, a report of the Kanev mayor on the merchant I. M. Zaitsev’s offer to fund the establishment of a four-bed Jewish hospital in Kanev, and a reply describing the reasons for which this proposal could not be accepted (1893); correspondence (1897-99) regarding the merchant L. Ia.-I. Abramov’s donation of two buildings in Berdichev to house a Jewish almshouse to commemorate the coronation of Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Aleksandra Fedorovna; the community ruling of authorised persons on the election of almshouse trustees, and the charters of almshouses in Berdichev and Ovruch (a manuscript draft and a printed text); materials on Jewish entrepreneurs involved in the commercial operations of the Kiev Social Relief Office, including an inquiry of the Kiev Provincial Administration (1854) as to the monetary value of contracts (agreements for services farmed out; work contracts; deliveries) concluded with Jews for the previous three years.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Kiev Social Relief Office was established in 1782 pursuant to the Regulation on the Provinces edict of 1775; it was to care for the indigent, disabled, and socially vulnerable. Toward this end, endowed with capital and real estate, and raising material aid from private and public benefactors, it established a network of medical institutions, almshouses, invalids’ homes, orphanages and foster homes, and public schools in the province, and provided for their operations. The Social Relief Office also maintained self-financing penitentiary institutions: workhouses and houses of detention [smiritel’nye doma]. Headed by the governor, its makeup also included the provincial marshal of the nobility [predvoditel’ dvorianstva], the provincial medical inspector, a permanent member, and associate judges from the city and nobility. The office was liquidated in 1911, whereupon its subordinate agencies were transferred to the jurisdiction of the relevant provincial, municipal, and zemstvo structures of the Kiev province.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Abramov, L. Ia.-I.
- Aleksandra Fedorovna
- Nicholas I
- Nicholas II
- Zaitsev, I. M.
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes three inventories; the main one, op. 1, is systematised according to the structural-chronological principle; op. 2 and 3 are supplemental.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary