Metadata: Office of the Kherson Civil Governor; Kherson
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Kherson Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний архів Херсонської області
- Postal address:
- Ukraine, 73003, Kherson, 3 Yaroslav Mudryi Str.
- Phone number:
- 380 (0552) 22-5733
- Web address:
- http://kherson.archives.gov.ua/
- Email:
- daxo@ukrpost.net
- Reference number:
- F. 1
- Title:
- Office of the Kherson Civil Governor; Kherson
- Title (official language):
- Канцелярія Херсонського цивільного губернатора, м. Херсон
- Creator/accumulator:
- Office of the Kherson Civil Governor; Kherson
- Date(s):
- 1807/1916
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 115 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Documents housed in the fonds (op. 1-2) include instructions of the administration of the Novorossiia and Bessarabia governor-general to the Kherson military and civilian governor that Jewish children studying in private Jewish schools be turned over to cantonist detachments (1854); contracts of the War Ministry’s procurement department with Jewish merchants for deliveries of provisions and forage for the Danube (Moldavia) Army during the Russo-Turkish War of 1806-12; lists of Jewish donors of funds toward the purchase of warm clothing for sick and wounded Russian Army soldiers during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78 (in a file of Vol’f Bat’, a Jewish former student of Kiev’s St. Vladimir University who had been expelled to Kherson under open police surveillance [glasnyi nadzor]); service records and commendations of Jews of the Kherson region awarded for their aid to wounded and sick soldiers during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78 (1878-80), and a list of Jewish residents of the city of Kherson who donated to the Red Cross and toward wartime needs during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. There is also secret correspondence of the governor with the superintendent of the Odessa Educational District, the inspector of schools of Kherson province’s first district, and the Kherson police chief on plans to organise, at the Kherson Jewish vocational school, a so-called “mock company” in the form of “military education including training in military formations and shooting”; and a ruling that implementation of these plans was to be categorically forbidden, in light of the fact that during the revolutionary days of 1905, students of that school had formed “fighting squads,” and so, introducing “mock companies” in it, or any other Jewish educational institutions, including Talmud-Torahs, could enable such entities to become “particularly militarized revolutionary personnel” (1911) in the future; etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- This was established by Senate edict (15 May 1803) in 1803 simultaneously with the formation of the Kherson province. It was the governor’s executive-administrative entity and was tasked with monitoring the province’s political and economic life, as well as operations of provincial, county, and municipal institutions. It was liquidated in March 1917.
- Access points: locations:
- Kherson
- Kherson province
- Kiev
- Ukraine
- Access points: persons/families:
- Bat’, Vol’f
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes two inventories systematised chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
