Metadata: Executive Committee of the Zhitomir Regional Council of People’s Deputies; Zhitomir, Zhitomir Region
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Zhitomir Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Житомирської області
- Postal address:
- 2/20 Ohrimova Hora Str.. Zhytomyr, 10003, Ukraine
- Phone number:
- 380 (0412) 42-48-00
- Web address:
- http://archive.zt.gov.ua/
- Email:
- archive_zt@arch.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. R-1150
- Title:
- Executive Committee of the Zhitomir Regional Council of People’s Deputies; Zhitomir, Zhitomir Region
- Title (official language):
- Исполнительный комитет Житомирского областного Совета народных депутатов, г. Житомир Житомирской обл.; Виконавчий комітет Житомирської обласної Ради народних депутатів, м. Житомир Житомирської обл.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Executive Committee of the Zhitomir Regional Council of People’s Deputies
- Date(s):
- 1938/1992
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 8,069 files (supplementation is ongoing)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Among documents housed in the fonds (op. 2) are fragmentary minutes of sessions of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Ukrainian SSR organizing committee on the Zhitomir region for 1938, which deal in particular with the closing of synagogues and houses of worship in a number of population centres of the Zhitomir region (Berdichev, Ruzhin, Raigorodok) and the transfer of their facilities toward “the cultural needs of toilers”; on naming the Zhitomir Regional Jewish Theater after Sholom Aleichem (in connection with the eightieth anniversary of his birth), and on the complaint of Sh. Kipnis, a resident of the town of Olevsk, regarding the requisition of his home to benefit a local Jewish school.
- Administrative/biographical history:
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The Zhitomir region was established in accordance with a decree of the USSR Central Executive Committee of 22 September 1937. To carry out all organisational work until the election of the regional council, an organisational committee of the Central Executive Committee of the Ukrainian SSR was formed (in accordance with a decree of the latter of 1 October 1937).
From 1938 on, the organising committee was under the jurisdiction of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Ukrainian SSR. First elections to the Zhitomir Regional Council took place 4 December 1939, and at its first session (9-10 January 1940), its administrative organ, the Executive Committee of the Zhitomir Regional Council of Toilers’ Deputies, was chosen from among its deputies. During the German occupation of the Zhitomir region (July 1941 – January 1944), the Zhitomir Regional Council temporally ceased activities.
In 1963-64, pursuant to an edict of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Ukrainian SSR (30 December 1962), the collection creator was divided into executive committees of separate regional councils of toilers’ deputies, agricultural and industrial (in accordance with an edict of the same body 10 December 1964, the industrial and agricultural regional executive committees were once again merged); and upon adoption of the Constitution of the USSR of 1977, it was renamed the Executive Committee of the Zhitomir Regional Council of People’s Deputies.
In connection with the implementation (20 March 1992) of the Ukrainian Law on the Representative of the President of Ukraine and a decision (23 April 1992) of the eleventh session of the Zhitomir Regional Council of People’s Deputies, activities of the executive committee were suspended, and it was replaced by the Zhitomir Regional State Administration, in accordance with the Statute on Local State Administration.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Kipnis, Sh.
- Sholem Aleichem
- Subject terms:
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Synagogues
- Theatre
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes twelve inventories systematised according to the structural-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
