Metadata: Administrative and Management Directorate of Leningrad institutions of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Holding institution (official language):
- Санкт-Петербургский филиал архива Российской академии наук
- Postal address:
- 199034, Russia, St. Petersburg, Universitetskaia naberezhnaia, d. 1
- Phone number:
- (812) 323-08-21
- Web address:
- http://isaran.ru
- Email:
- archive@spbrc.nw.ru
- Reference number:
- F. 4
- Title:
- Administrative and Management Directorate of Leningrad institutions of the USSR Academy of Sciences
- Title (official language):
- Административно-хозяйственное управление ленинградских учреждений Академии Наук СССР
- Creator/accumulator:
- Administrative and Management Directorate of Leningrad institutions of the USSR Academy of Sciences
- Date(s):
- 1804/1997
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 23,452 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Housed in the fonds are logs and minutes of sessions of the Committee of the Board, and Board, of the Academy of Sciences (1804-1926); recordkeeping, business, and financial documents (1804-1997); materials on personnel; service records and personal files of Academy of Sciences staff members (1740-1950); business correspondence (1852-1913); schematics and blueprints of Academy of Sciences buildings and premises, academic stations, bases, and the building of the former St. Petersburg Customs House (now the building of the Institute of Russian Literature [the Pushkin House] of the Russian Academy of Sciences), etc. (18th c.-1945). Materials pertaining to Jewish history, housed mainly in op. 4, include personal files of Academy of Sciences staff members, among them, the Hebraist Samuel Wiener, who inventoried and catalogued the collection of Hebrew books and manuscripts of the merchant and arts patron L. F. Friedland (the Bibliotheca Friedlandiana) that was transferred to the Asiatic Museum of the Academy of Sciences; Samuel Wiener’s file contains documents pertaining to his Petersburg residency rights; the conferral on him of the title of personal honorary citizen and his election to the position of adjunct junior research curator of the Asiatic Museum; his work on the catalogue of the Bibliotheca Friedlandiana; the acquisition of the library of Prof. D. A. Khvol’son; etc. (1887-1926). The fonds also contains a file with documents pertaining to L. Ia. Shternberg’s invitation to temporarily serve as junior ethnographer of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences; this file contains personal papers of L. Ia. Shternberg, and in particular, a certificate of the Zhitomir provincial rabbi from 1881 with an extract from the register of Jews born in Zhitomir on the date and location of his birth, and on that of his parents; this scholar’s service record; a signed statement dated 20 May 1903 attesting that he had never belonged to any Masonic lodges; originals of his son Arkadii Shternberg’s birth certificate and his marriage certificate with S. A. Ratner (issued by the Petersburg community rabbi); etc. (1902-27). The fonds also contains the personal file of V. V. Bartol’d, with a detailed extract from his work history, his service record, and documents on his business trips (1912-30); etc.
- Archival history:
- The Academy’s archive was established by decree of Emperor Peter I in 1728 to house documents of the Conference (supreme assembly) of the Academy of Sciences. At the same time, Academy of Sciences President L. L. Bliumentrost appointed Gerhard Friedrich Müller, a student of the Academy gymnasium (subsequently an academician, and the first historiographer to the Russian Empire), to organise the files of the Conference of the Academy of Sciences. During the 18th-20th c., separate archives of other subdivisions of the Academy of Sciences existed as well: the archives of the Chancellery of the Academy of Sciences (18th c.) and the Committee of the Board of the Academy of Sciences (the chancellery’s institutional successor; documents date from 1803); and archives of departments. In 1922, all Academy archives were merged into a single Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, renamed in 1930 the Archive of the USSR Academy of Sciences (and in 1991, once again the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences). In 1936, a Moscow branch of the archive was created in connection with the Academy’s relocation to that city. In 1963, the Archive of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Leningrad was reorganised as the Leningrad Branch of the Archive of the USSR Academy of Sciences, while the Archival Directorate was transferred to Moscow. In 1991, the Leningrad branch was renamed the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPF ARAN). The archive houses over 1,600 fonds containing approximately one million storage units.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Committee of the Board of the Academy of Sciences was established in 1803. Regulations of the Academy of Sciences of 1803 and its charter of 1836 stipulate that “the Committee is responsible for maintaining order in all departments of the Academy; preserving the integrity of all its property, monetary treasury, and educational collections; and providing for the security, maintenance, furnishing, and distribution of its buildings.” In 1894, the Committee of the Board of the Academy of Sciences was dissolved, its duties transferred to the Board of the Academy of Sciences. The executive body of the Committee of the Board and the Board of the Academy of Sciences was the Chancellery, headed by councillors, an administrator, and department heads. The charter of the Board of the Academy of Sciences was abrogated in 1927 and its functions were transferred to the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences, with an Administrative Department of the USSR Academy of Sciences established to implement the Presidium’s orders vis-à-vis administrative, economic, and financial matters; in 1934, the Administrative Department was renamed the Administrative and Management Directorate of Leningrad institutions of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
- Access points: locations:
- Russia
- St Petersburg
- Zhitomir
- Access points: persons/families:
- Bartol’d, V V
- Friedland, L F
- Khvol’son, D.
- Ratner, S A
- Shternberg, Arkadii
- Shternberg, L. Ia.
- Wiener, Samuel
- System of arrangement:
- The fonds includes thirty-one inventories (op. 2, in 76 vols.; op. 3, in 2 pts.; op. 4, in 3 vols.; op. 11, in 19 pts.; op. 12 in 2 pts; op. 22 in 2 pts.) systematised mainly chronologically and alphabetically.
- Finding aids:
- Inventories are available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
