Metadata: Administrative Department of the Boguslav County Executive Committee of the Council of Workers’, Peasants’, and Red Army Deputies; Boguslav, Kiev Province
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Cherkassy Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Черкаської області
- Postal address:
- 224 A Blahovisna Str., Cherkasy, 18015 Ukraine
- Phone number:
- 380 (472) 37-30-26
- Web address:
- ck.archives.gov.ua
- Email:
- archive_ck@arch.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. R-190
- Title:
- Administrative Department of the Boguslav County Executive Committee of the Council of Workers’, Peasants’, and Red Army Deputies; Boguslav, Kiev Province
- Title (official language):
- Отдел управления Богуславского уездного исполнительного комитета Совета рабочих, крестьянских и красноармейских депутатов, г. Богуслав Киевской губ.; Відділ управління Богуславського повітового виконавчого комітету Ради робітничих, селянських і червоноармійських депутатів, м. Богуслав Київскої губ.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Administrative Department of the Boguslav County Executive Committee of the Council of Workers’, Peasants’, and Red Army Deputies
- Date(s):
- 1920/1923
- Language:
- Ukrainian
- Russian
- Extent:
- 207 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
This general description relates to the fonds of the Administrative Department of the Boguslav County, the Cherkassy County and the Chigirin County Executive Committees of the Council of Workers’, Peasants’, and Red Army Deputies. Materials specific to the Administrative Department of the Boguslav County Executive Committee of the Council of Workers’, Peasants’, and Red Army Deputies fonds are listed separately at the end.
Materials housed in the fonds include a circular containing a letter of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee to provincial and county executive committees (23 July 1919) on “not obstructing” the work of a number of parties that supported Soviet power, including the Jewish Communist Union of Ukraine (Komfarband) and the communist faction of the Jewish Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Po’ale Tsiyon; a letter of the Central Liquidation Commission of the Administrative Department of the Ukrainian SSR NKVD to the effect that “bourgeois-Zionist and clerical” Jewish parties and political, economic, and cultural-educational associations and institutions were to be closed, and that the activities of local Jewish associations and institutions “that serve as policy guides for Zionists and clerical parties,” as well of the Tarbut society and Zionist publishing houses, were to be discontinued, and their archives and other documents sealed and shipped to Kiev (1919).
There is also a whole set of documents pertaining to the campaign to aid famine victims in 1922-23.
Materials specific to the Administrative Department of the Boguslav County Executive Committee of the Council of Workers’, Peasants’, and Red Army Deputies fonds include further documents pertaining to the campaign to aid famine victims in 1922-23, including a request for assistance (17 June 1922) by plenipotentiaries of a meeting of Jewish Boguslav citizens assembled to collect donations to benefit the starving; etc.
Also included are charters, minutes of founding sessions, property inventories, and other documents connected with the registration of Jewish religious communities of Boguslav (Kanev) county, the liquidation of the Jewish religious community of Boguslav, and the closing of the Shenderovka synagogue (1921-22); a registration log of religious associations of Boguslav county, with information on Jewish communities (1922); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- These were established by their respective county executive committees pursuant to the decree of the Ukrainian SSR Council of People’s Commissars (8 February 1919) “On organizing local bodies of Soviet power and administrative procedures.” They organised and monitored the conduct of elections to the councils; saw to the implementation of decrees, resolutions, and orders of central and local authorities; and performed administrative-managerial functions in counties. They were liquidated by decree of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee (VUTsIK) (7 March 1923) in the course of a reform of administrative-territorial divisions.
- Access points: locations:
- Boguslav
- Kiev
- Kiev province
- Ukraine
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds' inventory is systematised according to the structural-document type principle and chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary