Metadata: Kiev District Executive Committee of the Council of Workers’, Peasants’, and Red Army Deputies
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-126
- Title:
- Kiev District Executive Committee of the Council of Workers’, Peasants’, and Red Army Deputies
- Title (official language):
- Киевский районный исполнительный комитет советa рабочих, крестьянских и красноармейских депутатов
- Creator/accumulator:
- Kiev District Executive Committee of the Council of Workers’, Peasants’, and Red Army Deputies
- Date(s):
- 1923/1932
- Language:
- Ukrainian
- Yiddish
- Russian
- Extent:
- 87 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
The general description below relates to a series of fonds from District Executive Committees of the Council of Workers’, Peasants’, and Red Army Deputies from the Borodianka, Brovary, Dymer, Gostomel’, Ivankov, Kiev, Makarov, Pereiaslav and Chernobyl’ districts.
Documents housed include statistical data on the ethnic makeup of residents arranged by population centre; on the number of births, marriages, deaths, and divorces by village and town; on Jewish houses of worship and clergymen; and on the number of Jewish believers and their education level; information on Jewish educational institutions of the Kiev area, their teachers, students, acquisitions of their school libraries, etc.; People’s Commissariat of Education circulars and decrees on procedures for national minorities to enrol in schools; on the choice of the language of instruction for Jewish children, and on the transition of schools to the Yiddish language.
There are also circulars and instructions regarding the separation of church from state and school from church, with an enumeration of the orientations of religious communities functioning in the Kiev area (including Jews and communities of Jewish converts to Christianity); on allowing citizens to perform religious rites; on procedures for registering contracts for the rental of facilities for houses of worship (including Jewish ones); on registering and nationalising these facilities; and on bureaucratic excesses in the taxation of houses of worship and religious communities.
A separate set of files includes circulars and instructions on registering the Jewish population interested in taking up agriculture (1924), and on forming a commission on Jewish resettlement; lists of Jewish resettlers and their registration cards; minutes of general assemblies of Jewish families, including decisions to form unified cooperatives to collectively work the land; charters of such cooperatives, and minutes of their assemblies; family property lists and registration forms of Jewish resettlers.
Also housed in the fond are decrees on electing supplemental judges to people’s court chambers to conduct legal proceedings in Yiddish; stipulating that representatives from among Jewish merchants be included in district tax commissions; and that matzah-baking enterprises and individuals that employ hired labour should pay insurance premiums; a classified decree of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee (VUTsIK) on granting voting rights to certain categories of citizens from among the déclassé Jewish poor; instructions on procedures for selecting Jewish youth from towns for industrial manufacturing courses in Kiev; information on Jews engaged in commerce and trades, patents owned thereby, their income declarations and property inventories; lists of persons (including Jews) subject to the draft, retirees, artisans, taxpayers, voters, and disenfranchised persons; etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- District executive committees were established by a decree of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee (VUTsIK) and the Ukrainian SSR Council of People’s Commissars of 10 March 1923; they constituted the supreme administrative and executive authorities in the territory of their respective districts. From 1923-30, this district executive committee answered to the Kiev Area Executive Committee; from September 1930 through 1932, immediately to the VUTsIK; and thereafter to the Kiev Regional Executive Committee. In December 1939, these bodies were reorganised as executive committees of councils of toilers’ deputies.
- System of arrangement:
- Inventories are systematised mainly chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary