Metadata: Ministry of Statistics and Analysis (Minstat) of the Republic of Belarus
Collection
- Country:
- Belarus
- Holding institution:
- National Archives of the Republic of Belarus
- Holding institution (official language):
- Национальный архив Республики Беларусь
- Postal address:
- Nezavisimosti Ave. 116, Minsk, 220114, Belarus
- Phone number:
- (017) 272-67-78
- Web address:
- http://narb.by/eng
- Email:
- narb@narb.by
- Reference number:
- F. 30
- Title:
- Ministry of Statistics and Analysis (Minstat) of the Republic of Belarus
- Title (official language):
- МИНИСТЕРСТВО СТАТИСТИКИ И АНАЛИЗА (МИНСТАТ) РЕСПУБЛИКИ БЕЛАРУСЬ
- Creator/accumulator:
- Ministry of Statistics and Analysis (Minstat) of the Republic of Belarus
- Date(s):
- 1918/1941; 1943/2000
- Language:
- Belarusian
- Russian
- Extent:
- 34,690 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Materials housed in the fond that pertain to Jewish history are concentrated mainly in ops. 1–4, and may be provisionally divided into the following thematic groups: 1) Reports of the Jewish Bureau of the People’s Commissariat of Nationalities of the BSSR on pogroms against Jews in Belarus in the spring and summer of 1921, including information on 217 pogroms in 169 population centers that affected over 3,000 families; there are also lists of people interested in emigrating to the United States (1921/1922). 2) Statistical information on the Jewish population of the BSSR, based on materials from censuses taken in Belarus in 1897, 1920, 1923, 1926, 1939, 1959, and 1970, and including general statistical tables; records of births, marriages, and deaths among Jews; tally cards; registrars’ reporting sheets; personal questionnaires from the population; lists of householders, by village; etc. These materials contain data on the makeup of Jewish families, on Jewish respondents’ education level, native language, main occupation, and marital status, and on the living and material conditions of the Jewish population of Belarus; etc. (1920s-70s). 3) Materials pertaining to a survey of Jewish economic activity in cities and towns of Belarus, including lists of private Jewish industrial enterprises, craft workshops, and retail shops; information on Jews’ industrial activities, locations where Jews sold products and obtained raw materials; statistical forms for surveys of the handicraft industry and factories, in particular, materials on M. B. Kirzon’s handicraft workshop “for the manufacture of objects for Jewish pilgrimages” (1918) and the “Dnieper Manufactory” plant of the Jewish Colonization Society (EKO) in Dubrovno (1920s); statistical information on the status of Jewish-owned printing presses, including that of the Der Shtern newspaper of the Central Bureau of Evsektsii (Jewish Sections of the Communist Party) and the newspaper of the Jewish Section of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in Vitebsk (1919); data on state, cooperative, and private trade; cards and reports from private Jewish retailers (1919/1920); Jews’ unemployment forms, with information on the duration of unemployment, previous occupations, family makeup, sources of income, etc. (1920s); budgets of families of Jewish craftsmen, artisans, and shopkeepers, and nutritional survey materials and economic descriptions of households (1919/1920); lists of workers, payroll sheets, and personnel records of Jewish workers from the All-Russian Industrial and Professional Census of 1918; etc. 4) Documents on Jewish general and vocational education; on Jewish cultural and educational institutions of the BSSR, including lists of educational institutions, technical schools, libraries, museums, theaters, including Minsk’s Yiddish Theater (1928), theater clubs, reading rooms, kindergartens, playgrounds, and daycare facilities, and anti-illiteracy courses and groups (1920s); charts and descriptions of the premises of educational institutions (four-year and seven-year Jewish schools) of the BSSR, their libraries, equipment, and furnishings (1925/1928), including information on the “Metalworking and Lathe-Operation Institute of the Mogilev Jewish Crafts School” (1918); personnel records of teachers, indicating education level, length of service, marital status, and age; lists of teachers, information on their salaries, and statistics on Jewish teaching staff turnover (1925/1926); statistical data on the number of students, by year; reports on particular Jewish schools; materials of the All-Union School Census of 1927; statistical information on Jewish teachers and Jewish students in multiethnic schools (1920s); etc. 5) Materials on the effort to “involve the Jewish population in agricultural work,” including lists of Jewish collective and state farms (kolkhozes, sovkhozes); inspection documents; lists of farms, by rural area; registration cards and descriptions of Jewish-owned farmsteads; etc. (1925/1933). 6) Statistical data on disenfranchised persons among the Jewish population (i.e., those officially barred from voting, the lishentsy); records of persons convicted of anti-Semitic acts; murder, rape, or assault of Jews; looting of Jewish property, etc. (1918/1930). 7) Statistical data on the breakdown of memberships of various associations and unions by ethnicity, gender, age, occupation, party status, and professional qualifications and work experience (1920s-30s).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- In December 1918, the executive committee of the Minsk Provincial Council established the Minsk Provincial Statistics Bureau, reorganized in February 1919 as the Central Statistics Department. In connection with the formation of the Lithuanian-Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (LitBel SSR) in March 1919, the Central Statistics Department was liquidated and replaced by the Central Statistics Bureau of the LitBel SSR; this latter entity ceased operations during the Polish occupation of Belarus. The Central Statistics Bureau of the BSSR was formed in October 1920, and in 1924 was reorganized as the Central Statistics Administration of the BSSR, which held the status of a people’s commissariat and was directly subordinate to the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People’s Commissars of the BSSR. The keeping of state statistics in areas and districts was entrusted to area statistics bureaus and district statisticians. On 23rd January 1930, the Central Statistics Administration of the BSSR was liquidated by order of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People’s Commissars of the BSSR, and its functions and apparatus were transferred to the economic accounting sector of the Gosplan of the BSSR. On 21st March 1941, the Central Economic Accounting Administration was reorganized as the Central Statistics Administration of the Gosplan of the BSSR, with local statistics administrations placed under the jurisdiction of this body. In 1960, the Central Statistics Administration of the Gosplan of the BSSR was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Council of Ministers of the BSSR. On 11th August 1978, the presidium of the Supreme Council of the BSSR decreed that the Central Statistics Administration of the Council of Ministers of the BSSR be renamed the Central Statistics Administration of the BSSR. By decree (12th August 1987) of the presidium of the Supreme Council of the BSSR, the Central Statistics Administration of the BSSR was reorganized as a union-republic level committee: the BSSR State Committee on Statistics (Goskomstat of the BSSR). In accordance with a law of the BSSR of 16th July 1990, the republic’s Goskomstat was renamed the BSSR State Committee on Statistics and Analysis. In September 1991, it became known as the State Committee for Statistics and Analysis of the Republic of Belarus and was subsequently reorganized as the country’s Ministry of Statistics and Analysis (MINSTAT).
- Subject terms:
- Agriculture
- Antisemitism
- Census
- Communism
- Communism--Communist parties and organisations
- Crime
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Education--Students
- Education--Teachers and professors
- Education--Vocational training
- Financial records
- Jewish community
- Jewish kolkhoz
- Jewish languages
- Jewish languages--Yiddish
- Libraries
- Manufacturing
- Migration
- Migration--Emigration
- Museums
- Personal records
- Plunder
- Pogroms
- Printing
- Professions
- Professions--Crafts
- Statistics
- Theatre
- Trade and commerce
- Vital records
- Vital records--Birth records
- Vital records--Death records
- Vital records--Marriage records
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes fourteen inventories (op. 5 in 4 vols., op. 9 in 5 vols., op. 13 in 5 vols.) systematized mainly chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary