Metadata: Statistics Bureau of the Executive Committee of the Minsk Area Council of Workers’, Peasants’, and Red Army Deputies (OkrStatBiuro)
Collection
- Country:
- Belarus
- Holding institution:
- State Archives of Minsk Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Государственный архив Минской области
- Postal address:
- ul. Kozlova, 26, Minsk, 220037, Belarus
- Phone number:
- +375 (17) 358 55 64
- Web address:
- www.gamn.by
- Email:
- minoblarhiv@gmail.com
- Reference number:
- F. 718
- Title:
- Statistics Bureau of the Executive Committee of the Minsk Area Council of Workers’, Peasants’, and Red Army Deputies (OkrStatBiuro)
- Title (official language):
- СТАТИСТИЧЕСКОЕ БЮРО ИСПОЛНИТЕЛЬНОГО КОМИТЕТА МИНСКОГО ОКРУЖНОГО СОВЕТА РАБОЧИХ, КРЕСТЬЯНСКИХ И КРАСНОАРМЕЙСКИХ ДЕПУТАТОВ (ОКРСТАТБЮРО)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Statistics Bureau of the Executive Committee of the Minsk Area Council of Workers’, Peasants’, and Red Army Deputies (OkrStatBiuro)
- Date(s):
- 1924/1930
- Language:
- Belarusian
- Russian
- Extent:
- 167 storage units
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
-
The fond contains circulars of the BSSR Central Statistics Administration and People’s Commissariat of Finance; minutes of meetings of the statistical planning commission of the BSSR Central Statistics Administration, joint meetings of the statistical planning commission and the board of the Central Statistics Administration, and meetings of area and district statisticians; staff charts, work plans, reports, and correspondence of the Minsk Area Statistics Bureau with the BSSR Central Statistics Administration, district executive committees, and other institutions and organizations on issues pertaining to state statistics; and materials pertaining to the censuses of 1926-27 and 1930.
Materials housed in the fond that pertain to Jewish history include detailed statistical and demographic information on the Jewish population of the city of Minsk and the Minsk area according to the all-union census of 1926, including family lists, questionnaire forms, registration sheets, lists of population centers and households, and data on occupation, profession, native language, and marital status, and on unemployment and the gainfully employed and nonworking population; information on monetary accounting vis-à-vis the conduct of the census; etc. (1926-27); documents of the all-union census of small and handicraft industry of 1930, with data on Jews employed in small/handicraft production, on the operations of Jewish-run workshops, cooperatives, etc. (1930).
The fond also contains documents on Jewish employees of the Minsk Area Statistics Bureau, including payroll records, employee lists and personnel forms, and personal files of, among others, A. K. Barenbaum, I. Ia. Benenson, E. V. Vishnevskii, S. B. Goldberg, I. G. Livshits, and V. R. Press; these materials contain information on ethnic background, knowledge of Yiddish, Jewish education, and membership in Jewish political parties and public organizations (1924-26).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Per the Statute on State Statistics of the BSSR, ratified at the 3rd session (1924) of the BSSR Central Executive Committee, the BSSR Central Statistics Bureau was reorganized as the BSSR Central Statistics Administration, which functioned as a people’s commissariat and was directly subordinate to the Central Executive Committee and the BSSR Council of People’s Commissars. Area statistics bureaus were in charge of state statistics within particular areas; these bureaus were tasked with organizing and performing statistical research and other work of local significance, as instructed and funded by corresponding area executive committees. The Statistics Bureau of the Executive Committee of the Minsk Area Council (the Minsk Area Statistics Bureau) was established on 3 November 1924 as a regional body of the BSSR Central Statistics Administration. It was abolished on 27 February 1930, upon which its apparatus and functions were transferred to the planning commission of the Minsk Area Executive Committee.
- Access points: locations:
- Minsk
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes a single inventory systematized chronologically.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary