Administration of Omsk Post and Telegraph District

Collection

Holding institution (official language):: Казенное учреждение "Исторический архив Омской области"

Scope and content:: This collection contains orders and circular regulations of the Telegraph Department of the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs and the Main Department of Posts and Telegraphs; annual administrative reports of postal and telegraph offices on their activities; technical correspondence on the arrangement and operation of the equipment, on inventions and their application; correspondence about censorship in the post and telegraph office and a seizure of banned publications; correspondence regarding attacks and robbery of post offices; documents on the embezzlement of public money and loss of correspondence; audit of post and telegraph offices. It also includes a circular from the Head of Omsk post and telegraph district to directors of telegraph and post offices of the Omsk district to take measures to detain and confiscate a speech by the chairman of the Central American Jewish Committee in Washington, Zigel, about the future situation of the Jews as a result of the current war, in November 1913.

Archival history:: A joint collection included following collections: F. 120 Administration of Omsk Post and Telegraph District and small collections of post offices: Omsk Regional post office; Krutinskoe postal and telegraph unions; Elanskaya telegraph station; Lubinsky post office; Belostokskoe; Kalachinskoe; Bolshemogilnoe; Sargatskoe; Pavlogradskoe; Omsk-Kadyninskoe; Novo-Tsaritsynskoe; Panovskoe; Shepelevskoe town post office; Borisovskoe post office; Omsk telegraph station; Kulikovskoe post office.

Access, restrictions:: No restrictions. Access is granted according to the general rules of the Archive.