Metadata: Assistant Director of the Bessarabia Provincial Gendarmerie Administration at the Border Station in the City of Izmail
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Izmail Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- КУ "Ізмаїльський Архів"
- Postal address:
- КУ «Ізмаїльський архів», м Ізмаїл, вул. Савицького, 67, Одеська область, Україна 68612
- Phone number:
- 380 (04841) 2-10-27
- Web address:
- http://www.izmail-rada.gov.ua/-q-q
- Email:
- arhiv.izmail@odessa.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 1007
- Title:
- Assistant Director of the Bessarabia Provincial Gendarmerie Administration at the Border Station in the City of Izmail
- Title (official language):
- Помічник начальника Бессарабського губернського жандармського управління на прикордонному пункті в м. Ізмаїлі
- Creator/accumulator:
- Assistant Director of the Bessarabia Provincial Gendarmerie Administration at the Border Station in the City of Izmail
- Date(s):
- 1879/1917
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 76 files; the bulk of this fond is housed in the Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine (Kyiv) (f. 1152; 542 files for 1879-1916).
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Documents housed in the fonds include Department of the Police circulars on the activities of Zionists and the Bund, including a report on the Bund’s 8th conference, which was held in November 1910 in Lemberg (L’vov); and indications regarding the campaign planned at the Bund’s 9th conference for elections to the Fourth State Duma; instructions of the Bessarabia Provincial Gendarmerie Administration stipulating that “Jews acting under the auspices of consulates” were not to be issued passports for entry into Russia (1871); that Romanian Jewish deserters be returned to Romania (1889); and that Jews working as agents for an Odessa office engaged in producing false foreign-travel passports be detained (1895). There are also reports of a noncommissioned officer of the gendarmerie administration on the Jewish community of the city of Bolgrad’s opening of free cafeterias for the children of needy Jews (1900); and on the opening of a cafeteria for undernourished Jewish children, funded by the Moscow Legal Aid Office, in the town of Leovo (1900); a file on the case of S. Kh. Kogan, accused of helping Jews avoid military service by going abroad (1916); etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Separate Corps of Gendarmes was established by a statute of 22 April 1827, pursuant to which the entirety of the empire’s territory was divided into gendarmerie areas. In accordance with the statute “On the Corps of Gendarmes” (9 September 1867), most of these were liquidated and replaced with provincial gendarmerie administrations, which were in charge of political investigations and cases involving state crimes. The post of assistant director of provincial gendarmerie administration was introduced at the same time; these officials held jurisdiction over two or three counties and particular border posts. Thus the assistant director of the Bessarabia Provincial Gendarmerie Administration at the border station in the city of Izmail held jurisdiction (from August 1902) also over Izmail, Akkerman, and Bendery counties. Gendarmerie entities were liquidated in Russia by decree of the Provisional Government on 10 March 1917.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Kogan, S. Kh.
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes a single inventory systematised chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary