Metadata: Office of the Kiev Provincial Commissar of the Ukrainian People’s Republic (Central Rada)
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. R-2796
- Title:
- Office of the Kiev Provincial Commissar of the Ukrainian People’s Republic (Central Rada)
- Title (official language):
- Канцелярия Киевского губернского комиссара Украинской Народной Республики (Центральной Рады)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Office of the Kiev Provincial Commissar of the Ukrainian People’s Republic (Central Rada)
- Date(s):
- 1917/1918
- Language:
- Ukrainian
- Yiddish
- Russian
- Extent:
- 131 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Among documents housed in the fond are communiqués from county militia heads on pogromist agitation in the counties; a phoned telegram on a pogrom in the town of Makarov and a report by the head of the Kiev County Militia on a demarche by Red Guards (including Jews) in connection with the Makarov pogrom; letters from local entities (in particular, agents of the Boguslav Jewish community, 10 November 1917) requesting that troops be sent due to the threat of pogroms; a letter from the Secretariat of Jewish Affairs (17 November 1917) proposing that measures be taken to prevent a possible pogrom in the town of Vinograd (Zvenigorodka county); a letter from N. S. Syrkin addressed to UNR General Secretary V. K. Vynnychenko requesting that measures be taken to prevent a pogrom in the town of Tagancha (November 1917); logs of sessions of the Berdichev Municipal Duma (including an account of a speech on the state of the local Jewish population by one of this body’s Jewish councillors) and of the Uman’ Municipal Duma (including review of a petition by the Commission on Elections to the First Uman’ Jewish Communal Council requesting organisational aid, and that Jewish workers and employees be exempt from performance of their duties during voting); a copy of a ruling of a Rozhanovka (Zvenigorodka county) village meeting to the effect that attempts undertaken by Jews of the town of Rozhanovka to send flour to relatives in various cities were unacceptable; family lists of Jews; correspondence and clarifications; subpoenas of Jewish real estate owners; etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The institution of the provincial commissar in the Ukrainian People’s Republic (UNR) period (November 1917 – April 1918) was a form of regional administrative governance taking the place of the former institution of governor. This was an elective post introduced by the Provisional Government. In August 1917, the Provisional Government transferred the right to confirm the instatement of Kiev provincial commissars to the Ukrainian Central Rada; and these officials were subordinate to the General Secretariat (government) of Ukraine. Answering to provincial commissars were county commissars, institutions of municipal and zemstvo government, and the militia and other local law enforcement agencies. The provincial commissar’s office monitored public associations in the province, issuing permits to hold events and approving the publication of periodicals. Using the militia, the Kiev provincial commissar sought to maintain order at the local level, including as pertained to the antisemitic and pogromist agitation rampant at the time. In March-April 1918, when Ukraine was occupied by German forces, the provincial commissar exercised his powers in parallel with the provincial military commandant. When the Hetmanate regime was established and the Ukrainian State [Ukrains’ka derzhava] proclaimed in April 1918, provincial commissars were replaced by government-appointed provincial starostas.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Syrkin, N. S.
- Vynnychenko, V. K.
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes a single inventory systematised according to the structural-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
