Metadata: Kiev Polytechnic Institute
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the City of Kyiv
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів міста Киева
- Postal address:
- вул. Олени Телiги, 23, м. Київ, 04060
- Phone number:
- 380 (44) 440 6350
- Web address:
- http://kiev-arhiv.gov.ua/en/
- Email:
- info@kiev-arhiv.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 18
- Title:
- Kiev Polytechnic Institute
- Title (official language):
- Киевский политехнический институт
- Creator/accumulator:
- Kiev Polytechnic Institute
- Date(s):
- 1897/1921
- Language:
- Russian
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 9,074 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Included are files on students, including Jewish ones (especially for the period of 1917-21), with extracts from vital records and information on students' parents, previous education, etc.; statistical data on the ethnic makeup of the student body (as a whole, and also separately for each faculty and year); information on procedures by which Jews were admitted to the Kiev Polytechnic Institute and other educational institutions of the Russian Empire, and on the meaning of the “percentage norm” (quota); data on gendarmes' surveillance of students, including Jewish ones, involved in revolutionary organisations; an appeal by and correspondence of the commission (organised by Kiev Polytechnic Institute students) to collect funds to benefit Jewish pogrom victims (1905); materials on an incident in 1907 pertaining to the admission of Jews in excess of the “percentage norm” on an “extra-departmental basis” [vne otdelenii], and their subsequent dismissal; correspondence on establishing a stipend at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute named after the sugar industrialist A. L. Horowitz; etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Opened in 1898, this was intended first and foremost to train specialists necessary for the numerous sugar factories of the Kiev region, towards which end considerable financial assistance in establishing the institute had been provided by sugar manufacturers, including L. I. Brodskii. It consisted of faculties (departments) of mechanics, engineering, chemistry, and agriculture. It was originally under the jurisdiction of the Finance Ministry, and from 1905 on, that of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Some Kiev Polytechnic Institute students were Jewish, their numbers regulated by the “percentage norm” (quota); all such restrictions were lifted in February 1917, upon which the number of Jewish students increased significantly. After the Kiev pogrom of 1905, the Committee to Aid Persons of the Laboring Class from the Jewish Population Victimized by the Pogrom was formed, chaired by Prof. D. P. Ruzskii of the Kiev Polytechnic Institute; and a commission to collect donations operated right on Institute premises. The Institute was reorganised by the People's Commissariat of Education of Ukraine in 1919-21. It is currently the Kiev Polytechnic Institute National Technical University of Ukraine.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Brodskii, L. I.
- Horowitz, A. L.
- Ruzskii, D. P.
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes six inventories. Op. 1 and 5 are systematised chronologically; while op. 1L and 2-4 are alphabetical.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary