Metadata: Omsk City Police Department
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. 14
- Title:
- Omsk City Police Department
- Title (official language):
- Омское городское полицейское управление
- Creator/accumulator:
- Omsk City Police Department
- Date(s):
- 1804/1917
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 1278 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This collection contains statistics for the population of the city of Omsk. It also contains a number of regulations, circulars "to guide and note the different places and persons" with respect to Jews. This includes the following: a statement on Jewish printing houses, permission for Jews to remain in houses where the wine is made for sale (1846), the enlisting of Jewish children in the Omsk half-battalion of military cantonments (mid-1850s), the prohibition for Jews to arrive in Siberia (1859), a circular on conscription of Jews (1876), circular on the issuance of passports and merchant certificates to Jews (1881).
There is also correspondence of the Tobolsk provincial government "on the accommodation of Jewish children to cantonists" (i.e. young Jewish men enlisted to the army) (1845-1846), on the issuance of passports to the Jews (1878), on conveyance of information by order of the military governor of the Jewish school at the synagogues for 1879, on the prohibition for Jews to live in the city of Omsk (1886), on monitoring the leaving Omsk by Jews who had no residence rights (1886-1890).
The collection also includes a list of Jewish children who were disciples "not to the right places" (i.e. who studied in the schools and gymnasiums where they were officially not allowed to), as well as a list of Jews who lived in the 1st part of the city of Omsk (1885) and cases of Jews who lived in Omsk in late 19th and early 20th century who petitioned for the abandonment of residence in the city. These individuals are named as A. Kovler, A.B. Meriin, I. Egerman, Vanshtein L., M. Voyshteyn, F. Garfinkel, S. Berkowitz, N. Gorodetsky, E. Berkowitz, M . Karukes, Pentman S., A. Pentman, M. Zaborowski, S. Levin, Ya Yalgin, T. Arenson, M. Lemkin, I. Mariupol, A. Arenson, Sh Gauberg, D. Gildfond , I.D. Orzhenik, I. Milkovskii, D.M. Shpikelman.
The collection also contains material of an armed attack for robbery (expropriation) in the office of James Spivak, who was killed, in 1907.
There is information about the deportation of Jews from the city, the correspondence of improper eviction of Jews from the city of Omsk (1903) and the eviction of Jews from Omsk who had no right of residence there (1908).
Also included is a case on "the adoption of the Orthodox Jewish woman in Orthodoxy Apolinaria whose godfather was Zholnitskiy without the consent of the parents" (1899).
Of great interest are the files on the activities of the Zionist circles and the supervision of the Zionists in Siberia (1903-1904), such as "On the Zionist movement" (1903).
- Archival history:
- Materials were added to the archive as part of the standard local process.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Omsk City Police Department was established in 1804 and abolished in 1917 after the February Revolution.
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is made up of two series.
- Access, restrictions:
- No restrictions. Access is granted according to the general rules of the Archive.
- Finding aids:
- There is an inventory.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Omsk State University
