Metadata: Nikolaev Municipal Duma; Nikolaev
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Nikolaev Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Миколаївської області; Государственный архив Николаевской области
- Postal address:
- 54001, Украина, г. Николаев ул. Московская, 1, тел./факс: +380 (512) 37-0065 e-mail: mail@mk.archives.gov.ua http://mk.archives.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 222
- Title:
- Nikolaev Municipal Duma; Nikolaev
- Title (official language):
- Николаевская городская дума, г. Николаев; Миколаївська міська дума, м. Миколаїв
- Creator/accumulator:
- Nikolaev Municipal Duma; Nikolaev
- Date(s):
- 1797/1920
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- (1,895 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
Materials housed in the fonds include (op. 1-2) a copy of the Senate edict (24 July 1859) “On Permitting Jewish Merchants of the Three Guilds to Settle and Engage in Commerce in the Cities of Nikolaev and Sevastopol’,” and a memorandum (29 August 1861) of acting Nikolaev Military Governor G. I. Rogulia to the effect that it was necessary for the duma to adopt orders in connection with the imperially-granted permission to Jews to reside and engage in commerce in the city of Nikolaev; correspondence with the Nikolaev military governor and the Kherson Revenue Chamber on assigning Jews to Nikolaev’s merchant and townsperson societies (1859-78), and lists of Jewish merchants and craftsmen of the city of Nikolaev (1860, 1864-67); announcements by Nikolaev Rabbi A. Lavut on procedures for the issuance of marriage certificates (1862); reports to the military governor and statements by local merchants on rabbinical elections (1865), and correspondence with this official on the Nikolaev Jewish community’s conclusion of an agreement with M. O. Kogon on the latter’s assumption of the office of rabbi (1871).
There is also a significant quantity of documents pertaining to the korobka [kosher meat tax] and candle tax, including a statement by Jewish merchants to the Nikolaev Duma on establishing the korobka for local Jews (1859); conditions and a budget for the korobka for 1860-64; remarks by the Novorossiia governor-general regarding the budget (in connection with the fact that expenses toward “paying community debts … [and funding] communal relief and charitable entities” were not provided for), and a reworked variant of the budget (1860); merchants’ announcements regarding their participation in auctions for korobka leases (1867); correspondence and decrees on earmarking korobka funds for the salary of the communal rabbi and the rabbi subordinate to him (1861-62), on providing funds to the Jewish community to improve houses of worship and organise a Jewish hospital, and for the newly-opened literacy school “for poor Jewish young ladies” (1868-71); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Municipal dumas were established as administrative bodies of city self-government (the Nikolaev Municipal Duma, in 1796, pursuant to the Charter on the Rights and Benefits of Cities of the Russian Empire of 1785). They were under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. They consisted of councillors, and were headed by mayors. They were in charge of construction, trade, financial, and economic affairs of the city administration. The Nikolaev Duma originally elected a standing apparatus from its membership, one representative from each of six categories of city inhabitants, but upon the adoption of the City Statute, when the estates-based principle of representation was replaced with a property qualification, the municipal administration became its executive body. Dumas monitored the activities of various associations and communities, including Jewish ones; set the amounts of local excises and taxes (including the particular Jewish ones, the korobka [kosher meat tax] and candle tax); etc. They were liquidated by Soviet power in 1920.
- Access points: locations:
- Nikolaev
- Sevastopol’
- Ukraine
- Access points: persons/families:
- Kogon, M. O.
- Lavut, A.
- Rogulia, G. I.
- Subject terms:
- Aid and relief
- Correspondence
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Financial records
- Health and medical matters
- Health and medical matters--Hospitals
- Legal matters
- Military
- Professions
- Professions--Crafts
- Rabbis
- Residency issues of Jews
- Synagogues
- Taxation
- Taxation--Candle tax
- Taxation--Korobka
- Trade and commerce
- Vital records
- Vital records--Marriage records
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes three inventories systematised according to the structural-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary