Metadata: Vcheraishe Village Council of Toilers’ Deputies; Vcheraishe, Ruzhin District, 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-5174
- Title:
- Vcheraishe Village Council of Toilers’ Deputies; Vcheraishe, Ruzhin District, Zhitomir Region
- Title (official language):
- Вчерайшенский сельский Совет депутатов трудящихся, с. Вчерайше Ружинского р-на Житомирской обл.; Вчорайшенська сільська Рада депутатів трудящих, с. Вчорайше Ружинського р-ну Житомирської обл.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Vcheraishe Village Council of Toilers’ Deputies
- Date(s):
- 1921/1970
- Language:
- Russian
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 204 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
Among documents housed in the fonds are minutes of a general assembly of the “New Life” Jewish resettlement society (in the town of Vcheraishe), and family lists of its members (1926); circulars containing orders of the district executive committee that information be submitted on the number of Jews transitioning to agriculture, and circulars containing orders of the district land settlement department (no later than 15 March 1926) that Jewish residents who had abandoned their places of resettlement without leave return to them; a circular of the NKVD permitting Societies for Land Settlement of Jewish Toilers (OZETs) to collect voluntary contributions, circulars about the registration of clergymen, communities, and houses of worship, including Jewish ones, and an order of the Volhynia Provincial Executive Committee requiring that houses of worship be insured (1923-25).
Also included is information on the construction of a Jewish labour school and a Jewish village council building in the town of Vcheraishe, and on the establishment there of a Jewish “reading hut” [khata-chital’nia] and library; on the decision to elect one representative from among Jewish deputies to the presidium of the Vcheraishe Village Council; on “serving” the population of Jews in their native language; and on a petition to create a Jewish village council in the town (1926-28). There are also minutes of a meeting of Jewish voters of the town of Vcheraishe, and lists of disenfranchised citizens, including Jews; etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- These councils were established pursuant to a decree of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR (8 February 1919) as village councils of workers’, peasants’, and Red Army deputies. Upon adoption of the Soviet Constitution of 1936 and the Ukrainian Constitution of 1937, they were renamed village councils of toilers’ deputies. They were elected at general assemblies of citizens, and were the executive and administrative bodies of state power in rural population centres. Until 1923, they were subordinate to rural executive committees, and subsequently to corresponding district executive committees (from 30 December 1962 on, the Vcheraishe and Staraia Kotel’nia councils were both part of the Popel’nia district [Zhitomir region]).
- Access points: locations:
- Ukraine
- Vcheraishe
- System of arrangement:
- Files are systematised mainly chronologically.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
