Metadata: Berelovich Viktor Borisovich, participant of Great Patriotic War, veteran of Special Line Battalion of Communications
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. П-137
- Title:
- Berelovich Viktor Borisovich, participant of Great Patriotic War, veteran of Special Line Battalion of Communications
- Title (official language):
- Берелович Виктор Борисович, участник Великой отечественной войны, ветеран Особого линейного батальона связи
- Creator/accumulator:
- Party archive of the Omsk regional committee of Communist Party of Soviet Union
- Date(s):
- 1923/1968
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 125 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains biographical documents including a list of accounting personnel, a certificate of military service and promotions, World War II-era documents (orders from Stalin and members of the Military Council about treatment of soldiers and commanders about the capture of Germans, records of receipt of prisoners, messages of gratitude, the promotion of Berelovich to Major by order of the supreme commander, sections from the army newspaper "On the enemy defeat" and "Suvorov"), recollections ( "Glorious path of signallers"), newspaper articles, correspondence and collections of maps and charts. Especially valuable are photographs reflecting Berelovich’s Komsomol work in Belarus, which show members of the Gorvalskaya Komsomol cell, graduates of Rechitsa Party School, delegates of the 7th county Congress of the Komsomol, listeners of Yurovicheskaya Jewish Party School of Wanderers, the first graduates of the Rechitsa evening school and others. Individual photographs show: 1) Members of Gorvalskaya Komsomol cell. Berelovitch, cell secretary, is in the centre of the picture. From left to right are: Efim Stelnikov Yoseph Dworkin, Moisey Sapozhnikov, Boris Elenitsky. Lay: Haim Kaganovich, Isaac Donin (1923); 2) Delegates of the 7th Congress of the county Komsomol. Left to right: Moisey Hantovich, Chaim Kaganovich, Isaac Dvin', Victor Berelovich (24 April 1924). Many photographs relate to the period of Berelovich's study at the Communist University of Minsk. Also present are photographs reflecting party activities in the Omsk region, military photographs and many pictures of Omsk Pedagogical Institute graduates of prewar and postwar years.
- Archival history:
- The personal collection of V.B. Berelovich is based on documents extracted from collection number 411 (F.411) of the Omsk party archive of Omsk regional committee of the Communist party: inventory number 8, "Personal files of 712 separate line battalion" and inventory number 19, "Documentary photographs on the history of the Great Patriotic War".
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Viktor Borisovich Berelovitch was born on 11 August 1904 in the Gorval shtetl of Rechitsa district, Gomel province, to the family of a working-class carpenter. In 1917 he became an apprentice carpenter in a factory and in 1918 joined the Russian Communist Youth Union. He was a member of the leadership of Komsomol from the beginning of 1923 until the end of 1927 and took an active part in the organisation of sowing and harvesting crops for the poor, fuel procurement for schools and village reading rooms, the organisation of various forms of agricultural cooperation and collectivisation and the fight against kulaks. In 1925 he joined the AUCP (B). From 1927-31 he studied at the Communist University in Minsk and was a student of the Institute of Red Professors in Moscow, after which he was assigned to the Omsk region. He worked in managerial positions: head of the political department of Nazyvaevskaya MTS, first secretary of the district committee of Bolsherechensky AUCP (B) and head of the sector of culture of the Regional Planning Committee. From 1938-41 he headed the department of history at the Omsk Pedagogical Institute and was dean of the Faculty of History. During the war he served as party secretary of Responsibility of the Office of 712 Division line communications battalion, military commissioner and deputy commander for political affairs. After demobilisation he returned to work in Omsk Pedagogical Institute. He died in 1971.
- Access points: locations:
- Omsk
- System of arrangement:
- The collection is made up of a single series.
- Access, restrictions:
- No restrictions.
- Finding aids:
- There is an inventory, including historical background.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Omsk State University
