Metadata: Omsk City Council
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. 172
- Title:
- Omsk City Council
- Title (official language):
- Омская городская управа
- Creator/accumulator:
- Omsk City Council
- Date(s):
- 1875/1919
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 515 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection contains meeting journals and Council regulations on the review of the council reports; election of the standing committees on health and improvements; the documents on the work of the Omsk City Council; meeting logs; regulations, rulings, reports of councils; documents on the work of the executive and the preparatory commissions at Council; council correspondence; audit activities of merchants and officials for the period 1895-1917; correspondence about the structure of industrial establishments; correspondence about the opening of schools, high schools, colleges, libraries, hospitals, poorhouses; documents on the work of municipal enterprises and banks.
It also includes minutes of the general meetings of district committees, including a homeowners' petition for a Tomsk street against renaming it after Lermontov. Among the signatories the majority were Jews: N A Gutermaher, L Leifer, M Kupershtein, S A Marcus, A S Perakh, S I Ginsburg, S Kadish, A Sametnik, V Orzhelik et al. The collection also contains lists of persons in Omsk eligible to participate in the elections for the State Duma (1906), among which there were about 200 Jews.
Furthermore, it contains documents on the quartering of prisoners of World War I. Among the places of quartering were Jewish houses, their addresses are indicated. Inspections of Jewish cottages to accommodate prisoners of war are included with the plans.
It also includes documents on refugees during World War I, including lists of Jews wanted and those seeking refuge (with addresses of the place of stay); information on the Jewish Committee of assistance to refugees, with the indication of all the committee members and administration; materials on the active role of Jews in the City Committee on refugees as leaders (e.g. in the placement of children's home organisation) - this file includes lists of members of the Bureau and the Committee with addresses and phone numbers.
Separately, there are files on the financial activity of Omsk Jews, including the sponsorship of the 2nd guild merchant Semyon Moiseevich Kolpakov (1880).
- Archival history:
- Materials were added to the archive as part of the standard local process.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- In September 1870 Omsk homeowners turned to the Akmola regional administration with a request for the introduction of the new Omsk City Regulations. At the end of 1872, elections were held and on 4 March 1873 the City Council began to work. On 18 January 1918, by the decision of the Omsk Soviet of Workers', Soldiers' and Peasants' Deputies, the Council was abolished. It was restored as the executive body of the City Council in June 1918, after the arrival in town of the Whites. It ceased its activities with the departure of Kolchak in November 1919.
- Access points: locations:
- Omsk
- 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 are 2 inventories.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Omsk State University
