Metadata: Nikolaev Municipal Police; Nikolaev, Kherson Province
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. 231
- Title:
- Nikolaev Municipal Police; Nikolaev, Kherson Province
- Title (official language):
- Николаевская городская полиция, г. Николаев Херсонской губ.; Миколаївська міська поліція, м. Миколаїв Херсонської губ.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Nikolaev Municipal Police; Nikolaev, Kherson Province
- Date(s):
- 1840/1916
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- (2,305 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
Included (op. 1) are instructions and circulars of the military governor and municipal police in connection with permitting Jews to reside in the city of Nikolaev, and in particular, a memorandum of the military governor (17 September 1859) to the Nikolaev Municipal Duma and police on the need to monitor the fulfilment of the conditions according to which Jews were permitted to settle in cities and engage in crafts therein (1859-63); a report of the Nikolaev police chief to the military governor (23 September 1881) on the number of Jews currently residing in the city of Nikolaev; statistical information on the number of residents by religious confession; records on Jewish residents by city section, with their occupations indicated, and a list of Jews living in the city’s Odessa section (1881).
Also included are documents pertaining to the verification of the Nikolaev residency rights of Jews for 1912-13, including instructions of the police chief stipulating that information be collected on this subject, and correspondence with police precincts, information provided by homeowners, receipts for hospital tax payments, and other certification attesting to the residence of particular individuals in Nikolaev prior to 1 August 1906 (in which case, per a Ministry of Internal Affairs circular of 22 May 1907, these persons were not subject to expulsion from the city); communiqués and reports of police officers on investigation results; a list of Jews living in Nikolaev’s Moscow section, and of Jews expelled from there during the period of 1 to 15 December 1912; etc.
Documents on Jewish educational institutions include the military governor’s instructions that information be provided on the activities of Jewish schools for 1868, that the activities of cheders be verified, and that provisional procedures be established to issue teaching certification to melameds; an order of the Nikolaev police chief to the Moscow precinct captain that information be provided on melameds residing in the territory under the latter official’s jurisdiction, and a list thereof (1875); a memorandum of the Nikolaev military governor to the municipal police on permitting I. Sirot to transfer a private Jewish school from Berislav to Nikolaev, and the school’s operational plan (1878); a copy of a letter of the Kherson province school inspector (5 April 1912) containing a list of seventeen melameds entitled to run cheders in Nikolaev, and a note added by the military governor stipulating that “any melameds operating cheders who are not on the list are to be prosecuted”; etc.
There is a separate set of documents pertaining to the pogrom against Jews that took place in Nikolaev in October 1905, including reports of police officers and the Nikolaev police chief on pogrom-related events of 19-21 October; an appeal by I. Kanegisser, director of the Nikolaev shipyard, calling upon foremen and workers to suppress looting and acts of violence; police officers’ reports on arrests of persons involved in pogroms; the police chief’s orders that a list of victims be compiled and that measures be taken to forestall any new outbreaks; statements by Jewish townspeople and merchants on property of theirs that had been looted; etc.
There are also materials on the opening of houses of worship (including at the Nikolaev Talmud-Torah) and on the construction of a choral synagogue in the city of Nikolaev (1879-84), and on a census of the Jewish population of the city of Nikolaev (in September 1881); correspondence on the korobka [kosher meat tax] for Nikolaev Jews, and on the leasing thereof (1876-77, 1880-83), on persons involved in the revolutionary movement (F. Moreinis, A. Iangenberg) being placed under police surveillance; etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- This agency was established in 1806 pursuant to a Senate edict of 6 May 1806. It was headed by a police chief and performed police functions in the territory of the city. It was under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs; originally it answered directly to the Nikolaev military governor, and from 1900 on, to the city prefect. It was liquidated in March 1917.
- Access points: locations:
- Berislav
- Kherson province
- Nikolaev
- Ukraine
- Access points: persons/families:
- Iangenberg, A.
- Kanegisser, I.
- Moreinis, F.
- Sirot, I.
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes three inventories systematised chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
