Kiliia Police Administration; Kiliia, Izmail County

Collection

Postal address:: КУ «Ізмаїльський архів», м Ізмаїл, вул. Савицького, 67, Одеська область, Україна 68612

Title (official language):: Кілійське поліцейське управління, м. Кілія Ізмаїльського пов.

Scope and content:: Documents housed in the fonds include edicts of the Bessarabia Regional Administration (24 May and 23 June 1830) directing that “Jews reentering Russia at the border, as well as Jews returning from independent absences abroad, be denied same,” and that Jews unlawfully crossing the border be delivered to the police.” Data on the Jewish population includes family lists of residents of “the Jewish estate” of the city of Kiliia (1829). There are also annual reports of Kiliia Crown Rabbi A. Brodskii to the Kiliia police chief on the number of “members of the Jewish law,” of buildings belonging to the synagogue, of marriages and deaths among Jews of the city of Kiliia for 1841, 1843-44, 1846, etc.

Administrative/biographical history:: Police administrations began operations in 1812 as municipal police departments. They performed police functions in the territory under their jurisdiction. They were dissolved in 1856 when southern Bessarabia was transferred to Romania according to the Treaty of Paris upon the conclusion of the Crimean War of 1853-56. When this territory was returned to Russia under terms of the Treaty of Berlin in 1878, they resumed operations, now reorganised as municipal police administrations. They were liquidated in March 1917 along with other police entities of Russia.

Subject terms:: Antisemitism; Antisemitism--Antisemitic measures; Crown rabbis; Genealogy; Jewish community; Migration; Synagogues; Vital records; Vital records--Death records; Vital records--Marriage records

System of arrangement:: The fonds' inventories are systematised chronologically (and within years, by order of significance).