Metadata: Executive Committee of the Odessa Municipal Council of People’s Deputies; Odessa
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Odessa Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Одеської області; Государственный архив Одесской области
- Postal address:
- 18, Zhukovskogo str., Оdessa, 65026, Ukraine
- Phone number:
- 380 (48) 722-9365
- Web address:
- http://archive.odessa.gov.ua/en/
- Email:
- archive@odessa.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. R-1234
- Title:
- Executive Committee of the Odessa Municipal Council of People’s Deputies; Odessa
- Title (official language):
- Исполком Одесского городского Совета народных депутатов, г. Одесса Одесской обл.; Виконком Одеської міської Ради народних депутатів, м. Одеса Одеської обл.
- Creator/accumulator:
- Executive Committee of the Odessa Municipal Council of People’s Deputies; Odessa
- Date(s):
- 1922/1978
- Language:
- Russian
- Yiddish
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- (9,303 files)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
[Archival materials of the municipal executive committee for 1935-38 were lost during the Second World War; and most documents pertaining to the period after 1971 are currently held in the Odessa Municipal Council’s department of archival affairs and recordkeeping (f. 151, the Odessa Municipal Council and its Executive Committee.)]
Materials housed in the fonds include (op. 1, 5, 7) files on the liquidation and closure of Odessa synagogues and houses of worship, including the Main Synagogue; on believers’ attempts (to no avail) to overturn the decision to close this synagogue, and on repairs to the building’s façade (1930-33); believers’ petitions requesting accommodations for a synagogue (at 49 Pushkinskaia Street) for the Odessa Jewish community, and requesting that the building of the Main Synagogue be given back to the synagogue; and materials pertaining to the Jewish community’s contribution of 20,000 rubles to the defence fund (1945); correspondence on restoring and making improvements to Jewish cemetery no. 2, and the graves of Mendele Moykher-Sforim and Shimen Frug located thereat (undated); etc.
There are also materials (in minutes of sessions of the municipal executive committee’s national minorities’ section, op. 1) pertaining to a discussion as to the advisability of the inclusion in this entity of a separate Jewish section (1926); a memorandum of the Central National Minorities’ Commission containing a copy of a note published in the newspaper Der shtern to the effect that the Odessa Municipal Council had failed to implement the former’s ruling on “serving the Jewish population in its native language,” and a request for information as to what measures had been taken in this regard (op. 6, 1928); information of the area health inspectorate on transitioning one of the paediatric clinics in the city’s Moldavanka section to Yiddish-language operations, and information of the Odessa Circuit Court on the existence of six precincts of the People’s Court in which all cases were tried and recordkeeping conducted in Yiddish (op. 6, 1927); resolutions of the municipal executive committee (20 June 1944) restoring operations of the Odessa Regional NKVD Administration’s department of state archives, and assigning the building of the former Brody Synagogue at 20 Pushkinskaia Street to the regional state archive, and the building of the former Novobazarnyi [New Bazaar] Synagogue at 14 Ol’gievskaia Street to the Odessa Municipal Archive (op. 7), etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- This was established as the Executive Committee of the Odessa Municipal Council of Workers’, Peasants’, and Red Army Deputies pursuant to a decree of the Ukrainian SSR Council of People’s Commissars of 12 July 1922. It was the executive and administrative body of the Odessa Municipal Council, and aside from the latter, it answered to the Odessa Area Executive Committee; and after the dissolution of areas as administrative units (1930) and until the formation of the Odessa region (1932), to the presidium of the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee (VUTsIK) and the Ukrainian SSR Council of People’s Commissars. It did not operate during the German-Romanian occupation of Odessa in 1941-44. Upon the adoption of the USSR Constitution of 1936 and the Ukrainian SSR Constitution of 1937, it was renamed the Executive Committee of the Odessa Municipal Council of Toilers’ Deputies; and per the USSR Constitution of 1977 and the Ukrainian Constitution of 1978, of People’s Deputies. It is currently called the Executive Committee of the Odessa Municipal Council.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Mendele Moykher-Sforim
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes eleven inventories systematised according to the structural-chronological principle.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
