Metadata: Maps and Drafts Collection
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. 1542
- Title:
- Maps and Drafts Collection
- Title (official language):
- Коллекция карт и чертежей
- Creator/accumulator:
- Municipal and county surveyors, provincial drawing offices, etc.
- Date(s):
- 1782/1919
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 3,179 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Graphic material
- Scope and content:
- Among the fond’s materials are maps of cities and towns of the Kiev province indicating the locations of Jewish communal entities: a map of Kiev and its outskirts (1914) indicating the old and new Jewish cemeteries, and the Kiev Jewish hospital; a map of Berdichev (1853) indicating the old Jewish cemetery, which was to be closed, the Staromestskaia synagogue, and a Jewish school; a partial map of the town of Vasil’kov (1833-36) with the synagogue indicated, and of the town of Chernobyl’ (late eighteenth century) indicating the synagogue and Jewish cemetery (and citing, in the legend, statistics on the town’s Jewish population). There are also materials pertaining to Jewish toponymy: charts of land plots on Evreisko-Kladbishchenskaia [Jewish Cemetery] Street in Kiev; on Staro-Iudeiskaia [Old Judean], Malo-Iudeiskaia [Little Judean], and Shkol’naia [Shul] Streets in Berdichev; and on Evreiskaia [Jewish] Street in Cherkassy. Also housed in the fond is a plan for a structure at the Karaite cemetery in Kiev; an album of photocopies of project drafts for a commercial apartment building in Kiev owned by the Jewish entrepreneur and philanthropist L. B. Ginzburg; and charts of Jewish-owned agricultural land plots in so-called “model colonies.”
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Materials in this collection pertain to the procedures adopted in the Russian Empire according to which real estate ownership was recorded using charts of corresponding land plots; and to the various approval stages for construction project documentation. Municipal and county surveyors, provincial drawing offices, and private surveyors, architects, and technicians were employed to execute plans and drafts.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Ginzburg, L. B.
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes two inventories; op. 1 is the main one and is systematised geographically (with the city of Kiev coming first and arranged by police precinct; and then the Kiev province, by county).
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary