Volhynia Provincial Land Surveyor; Zhitomir, Volhynia Province

Collection

Holding institution (official language):: Державний архів Житомирської області

Title (official language):: Волынский губернский землемер, г. Житомир Волынской губ.; Волинський губернський землемір, м. Житомир Волинської губ.

Scope and content:: Included (op. 1, 1 supp.) are files on the allocation of lands for Jewish and Karaite cemeteries (in the city of Lutsk and the town of Shumsk [Kremenets county], 1854-58); on setting distances between synagogues and churches (in Zhitomir and Kovel’); on an extract from a map of the city of Zhitomir showing neighborhoods where Jews were forbidden to reside (1855); and on integrating plots of city lands in Kremenets containing synagogues into schematics (1857). There is also a registry of cities and towns of the Volhynia province, including separate registries by county, indicating the areas of Jewish communities, i.e., nearby settlements, villages, farmsteads, and taverns where the korobka [kosher meat tax] was in effect (1846); etc.

Administrative/biographical history:: The office of the Volhynia provincial land surveyor was introduced in 1796 in connection with the formation of the Volhynia province. This official was appointed by the Senate Surveying Department on the recommendation of the provincial administration, and was immediately subordinate to the administration as well as to the governor; and oversaw all forms of surveying, monitored the activities of county surveyors, approved schematics, drafts, and boundary-calculations of population centers, land plots, post roads, etc. The office of the provincial land surveyor was dissolved by Soviet power in 1919.

Access points: locations:: Kovel’; Kremenets; Kremenets county; Lutsk; Shumsk; Ukraine; Volhynia province; Zhitomir

Subject terms:: Agriculture; Cemeteries; Christianity; Christianity--Churches (building); Hospitality industry; Hospitality industry--Inns; Jewish community; Karaite Judaism; Land; Maps; Synagogues; Taxation; Taxation--Korobka

System of arrangement:: The fonds includes four inventories systematised chronologically.