Metadata: Lutsk Municipal Administration; Lutsk, Lutsk County, Volhynia Province
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Volhynia Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Волинської області
- Postal address:
- 21 Veteraniv St., Lutsk, 43024, Ukraine
- Phone number:
- 380 (0332) 715 376
- Web address:
- www.volyn.archives.gov.ua
- Email:
- info@davo.voladm.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 3
- Title:
- Lutsk Municipal Administration; Lutsk, Lutsk County, Volhynia Province
- Title (official language):
- Луцкая городская управа, г. Луцк, Луцкого у. Волынской губ.; Луцька міська управа, м. Луцьк Луцького пов. Волинської губ.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Lutsk Municipal Administration
- Date(s):
- 1848/1920
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 1,781 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
A significant number of documents housed in the fonds are either directly or indirectly related to various aspects of the life of the Jewish population of Lutsk and nearby population centres. These include statistical data on the population of Lutsk and its ethnic composition, lists of the Jewish population by family, and of synagogues and Jewish religious schools of the city of Lutsk (1881, 1913, 1918), and of particular Jewish communities, including of Ozdiutichi (1878) and Vladimirets (1886, 1894), and of the congregations of Lutsk county (1911); lists of Lutsk Jews who were lawful owners of real estate (1913-15), and of Jewish merchants of the first and second guilds (1892, 1914); instructions and circulars of the Volhynia governor and the Volhynia Provincial Administration on registering Jews living in the village of Vul’ka-Podlutskaia and on reviewing their right to reside there in accordance with the temporary rules of 3 May 1882 [on which see the description of f. 716 of the State Archive of the Zhitomir Region] (1893), and on rendering to the Lutsk Municipal Duma consideration of the issue of allocating land for a new Jewish cemetery (and a statement of the Municipal Administration apportioning a plot of land for this purpose, 1896).
Also included is a copy of the journal of the Volhynia Office for City Affairs, which on 18 July 1894 took up the question of setting the number of Jews electable as councillors of the Lutsk Municipal Duma; correspondence with the inspector of public schools of the Volhynia province and with the Lutsk townspeople’s [meshchanskii] starosta on opening a Jewish public school in Lutsk (1902); decrees and proceedings of the Lutsk Municipal Administration on “allowing the existence of” the Jewish shul Olyka bes-Hamidrash in Lutsk’s 2nd district (1915); correspondence with the Volhynia Provincial Administration confirming the appointment to three-year terms of the rabbis of the Kolki, Rozhishche, and Lutsk districts and of members of the boards of Jewish shuls and synagogues of the city of Lutsk (1900-1915).
Financial and economic materials include correspondence on the Lutsk Jewish community’s repayment of debts to the Roman Catholic Spiritual Collegium and private individuals; income statements and cashbooks of Jewish hospitals and almshouses; information on donations, including a report of the shamash [administrator] of the Old Lutsk Synagogue on contributions for 1913; and records of donations to synagogues and Jewish religious schools for 1913-16.
A whole range of documents is devoted to the taxation of the Jewish population. These include a list of receipts and expenditures vis-à-vis the general korobka [kosher meat tax] for Lutsk county (1906-10); contracts for farming out collection of the korobka for a number of towns of Lutsk county (Lishnevka, Torchin, Gorodok); circulars of the Volhynia governor apportioning the candle tax throughout the province (1913); records on the collection and allocation of the candle tax, and in particular, from members of the Rafalov Jewish community (1913) and from Jewish townspeople of the town of Torchin and city of Lutsk (1914-15).
There are also verification certificates of Jewish vital records for 1910-18; circulars of the General Secretariat of the Ukrainian People’s Republic and of the People’s Ministry of Jewish Affairs on the election of Jewish community councils, and charters of Jewish communities (1917); information on Jewish educational and preschool institutions functioning in Lutsk in 1918; etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- This was founded pursuant to the City Statute (1870) as the executive body of the Lutsk Municipal Duma and was in charge, for the most part, of issues pertaining to the management of the city’s economy. Persons making up the Lutsk Municipal Administration were chosen by duma councillors for a four-year term, and their appointment was ratified by the governor. It was abolished in 1919.
- Access points: locations:
- Gorodok
- Lishnevka
- Lutsk
- Rafalov
- Torchin
- Ukraine
- Vladimirets
- Volhynia province
- Subject terms:
- Aid and relief
- Aid and relief--Philanthropy and charity
- Cemeteries
- Correspondence
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Financial matters
- Financial matters--Debt
- Financial records
- Health and medical matters
- Health and medical matters--Hospitals
- Jewish community
- Land
- Legal matters
- Rabbis
- Real estate
- Residency issues of Jews
- Statistics
- Synagogues
- Taxation
- Taxation--Candle tax
- Taxation--Korobka
- Vital records
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes a single inventory systematised chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
