Metadata: General Administration of Western Siberia
Collection
- Country:
- Russia
- Holding institution:
- Historical Archive of the Omsk Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Казенное учреждение "Исторический архив Омской области"
- Postal address:
- 644033, Omsk, Krasny Put', 153/4
- Phone number:
- +7 (3812) 25 14 17
- Email:
- gugaoo@mail.ru
- Reference number:
- F. 3
- Title:
- General Administration of Western Siberia
- Title (official language):
- Главное управление Западной Сибири
- Creator/accumulator:
- General Administration of Western Siberia
- Date(s):
- 1822/1882
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 18857 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This is the largest and the richest collection of the Historical Archive of the Omsk Region. It contains Senate decrees, orders and circulars of ministries, correspondence on economic and administrative matters, reports of governors, statements about the state of industry, documents about the settlement of Siberia.
The collection contains 135 cases concerning Jewish life and activity in Siberia, including the Senate decrees, banning Jews from abroad to settle in Russia permanently (1824), concerning a conscription of Jews, not allowing Jews to follow their wives to Siberia (1827), banning the Jews from the kingdom of Poland to settle in Russia (1829), regarding the Regulations on Jews (1835), on the suspension of the resettlement of Jews to Siberia (1837), some of the colonists management rules in the Kherson province (1838), on the form of the administration of the Jews (1839), the regulations on a box tax of Jews (1840), on the rules for Jews converting to the Orthodox faith (1842), on the Jews excommunicated abroad without permission (1844), the destruction of the Jewish kagals (1845) provision, the regulations on Jewish farmers (1845), the rules of collection of candle tax from Jews, the rules regarding whether Jews can testify at the court of cases involving Jews accepted the Christian faith (1846), the withdrawal of arrears from the Jews accepted the Christian faith (1849), on the testaments written in Hebrew (1850), on banning for Jews to shave heads (1851), on the question concerning the residence of the Jews in the villages and rural areas in the Pale of Settlement (1856), the kingdom of the Jews of Polish migration rules in the empire (1857), on the trade and industrial rights of the Jews (1858), on the prohibiting Jews to engage in public service (1828). Imperial decree and Senate provisions, including whether Christians can be in the service of Jews (1828), on prohibiting Jews from employment in the civil service (1828), the rules of the Ministry of Justice of weaning Jews on payment of arrears in the military service. Circulars of the Ministry of Interior, including the right to the issuance of passports to Jews (1825-1826), on Jews wandering in Russia (1830), with respect to the Jews staying in the capital cities (1832-1833), on the transfer of Jews to the Siberian provinces (1833-1834), regarding the stay of Jews outside the Pale of Settlement (1838), on the expulsion of the Jews to those places where they were assigned (1827), on the permission for exiled Jewish women to marry their coreligionists (1837).
Also included are individual cases of regulation of the life and activity of the Jews in Siberia, including moving Jews from one area to another, to grant relief and favours for individual Jews in Siberia, to expel "wandered" Jews (Jews who were not assigned to any class/social stratum) Jews from the city, on the regulation of recruitment and work of Jewish cantonists (a copy of the Board of the journal of the Jewish conscription, list of Jews who were due conscription, the charter of the Jews’ military obligations 1827), complaints of Jewish communities of Kainskaya volost' (1828), petitions of Jews to the authorities requesting to be classified as peasants, merchants, tradesmen etc. (1833) , on presentation of Tomsk civil governor of the opening by the Jewish settler Goldenberg two salt lakes in the province of Tobolsk (1833), for clarification of the rules to reduce the number of Jews in Siberia, about Jewish rights to trading activity in Siberia, benefits for Jews moving to Siberia, on counterfeiting, about Jewish provisions supply, on the insults of Orthodox priests by Jews, on whether the Jews can have Christian servants, on the number of Jews living in Siberia in 1874, claims on money, on the liquor trade of Jews, for pardon of the Jews, about the harmful and wrong living of Jews, various petitions of Jews to the authorities, on the Jews who were exiled to Siberia, on the appeals to resume the Temple in Jerusalem, on the prohibition to work in the gold mines of Austrian Jews in Siberia, on the monitoring of correspondence of the Jews with the Orthodox, on the conversions from the Orthodox faith to Judaism, about Subbotniks (sectarians).
- Archival history:
- Materials were added to the archive as part of the standard local process.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Established in 1822 on the basis of "Institution for the administration of the Siberian provinces" by the Senate in 1822, in connection with the separation of Siberia to the West and the East Siberian Governor-General. The General Administration of Western Siberia was headed by the Governor-General, with a council and 4 offices. His activity extended to Omsk, Tobolsk, Tomsk and the Semipalatinsk region. The Administration was abolished by a Senate decree in 1882.
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Antisemitism--Antisemitic legislation
- Conversion to Christianity
- Conversion to Judaism
- Correspondence
- Crime
- Expulsion
- Jewish-Christian relations
- Judaising
- Legal matters
- Military
- Mining
- Orthodoxy (Christian)
- Passports and visas
- Resettlement of Jews
- Residency issues of Jews
- Statistics
- Taxation
- Taxation--Candle tax
- Taxation--Korobka
- Trade and commerce
- Trade and commerce--Alcohol trade
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is made up of 16 series arranged in chronological order.
- Access, restrictions:
- No restrictions. Access is granted according to the general rules of the Archive.
- Finding aids:
- There are 16 inventories, which include historical background.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Omsk State University
