Metadata: L. I. Bugova
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Odessa Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Одеської області
- 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-7972
- Title:
- L. I. Bugova
- Title (official language):
- Бугова Л. І.
- Creator/accumulator:
- L. I. Bugova
- Date(s):
- 1905/1985
- Language:
- Russian
- Belarusian
- Bulgarian
- Yiddish
- German
- Ukrainian
- Extent:
- 100 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Scope and content:
- [Other personal papers of L. I. Bugova’s were transferred in 1989 to the Odessa Museum of Local History by A. A. Reshetniak; see the description of her papers among that museum’s fonds.] The fonds contains the following groups of documents: 1) Materials pertaining to L. I. Bugova’s acting career and the theatres where she worked (1925-80): contracts, orders, and business correspondence shedding light on the reorganisation of Jewish theatrical collectives, and in particular, a memorandum and applications by L. T. Abeliov and the collective of the Royter fakl Theater to the All-Ukrainian Union of Arts Workers (RABIS) on organising the State Traveling Yiddish Theater of the Right-Bank Theater Trust (1931); information on performances; posters and programs from shows; lists of actors; manuscripts of plays and parts with notes by L. I. Bugova; newspaper and magazine clippings on her acting; reports of show and tour performances she was involved in; invitations to meet with labour collectives; etc. 2) Biographical materials, including an autobiography; documents of L. I. Bugova’s father I. Kh. Fel’dsher; reminiscences of her by her stepsister and pupil A. A. Reshetniak; her credentials as a participant in a conference of the Union of Arts Workers (RABIS); documents on her being awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR; identification papers related to her work; documentation on her evacuation; medical and retirement documents; commendations; etc. 3) Personal and businesses correspondence (1931-81) with theatrical, philharmonic, and museum institutions, movie studios, and publishing houses; congratulatory telegrams and postcards; etc. 4) A selection of individual and group photographs of L. I. Bugova (1935-77), including with family members and colleagues, and during performances and meetings related to her acting; etc. 5) Documents (1934-48) of L. I. Bugova’s second husband, the actor and director L. T. Abeliov: papers related to business travel; invitations to jubilee events; correspondence; photographs of Abeliov during performances; etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The theatre actress Liia Isaakovna Bugova (nee Fel’dsher) (1900-81) was born in the city of Nemirov (Podolia province; now Nemyriv/Nemirov, Vinnytsia/Vinnitsa region). She studied at women’s secondary schools [gimnazii] in Nemirov (until 1915) and Vinnitsa (1915-17). In 1918 she volunteered in the Red Army, and served as an instructor in a division’s political department; she took part in performances by the army’s agitation brigade, and was detailed to Moscow for a three-month acting course. Upon her demobilisation and return to Vinnitsa (1920), she was employed by the provincial department of education’s subsection on the arts, and as an actress at the Vinnitsa Russian Drama Theater. She later worked in Yiddish theatres: Kunst Vinkl (1922-29), Royter fakl [Red Torch] (1929-31), the traveling theatre of the Vinnitsa Theater Trust (1932-33), and the Odessa State Yiddish Theater (1934-39). In 1939 she was forced to leave the Odessa State Yiddish Theater and switch to Odessa’s A. V. Ivanov Russian Drama Theater, where she would continue her career (with some interruptions) until 1981. During the Second World War, she worked at Tashkent’s Kinoakter [Film Actor] All-Union Theater no. 1 (1941-42) and the Kiev Military District’s Red Army Drama Theater (in Chita and Odessa, 1941-44). She was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR in 1932 and People’s Artist of the Ukrainian SSR in 1946; and was awarded other orders and medals for her contribution to the theatre arts. She died in Odessa.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Abeliov, L. T.
- Bugova, Liia Isaakovna
- Fel’dsher, I. Kh.
- Reshetniak, A. A.
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes a single inventory systematised according to document type and chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary