Metadata: Executive Committee of the Solobkivtsi (Solobkovtsy) District Council for workers, peasants, and army deputies
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- State Archive of the Khmelnytsky Region
- Holding institution (official language):
- Державний Архів Хмелницької Області
- Reference number:
- Фонд Р84
- Title:
- Executive Committee of the Solobkivtsi (Solobkovtsy) District Council for workers, peasants, and army deputies
- Title (official language):
- Виконавчий комітет Солобковецької районнох Ради робітничих селянських і червоноармійських депутатів
- Creator/accumulator:
- Executive Committee of the Solobkovtsky District Council
- Date(s):
- 1924/1957
- Date note:
- Material dates from 1924-1930; 1944; 1946-1957
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 281 archival units
- Scope and content:
-
This collection comprises the records of the State Executive Committee of the Solobkivtsi (Solobkovtsy) District Council for workers, peasants, and army deputies. It includes documents from the various agencies of the Soviet bureaucracy and their branches at the local level. This collection also deals with the implementation of directives handed down by the Soviet central government, including the NKVD (the Secret Police later known as the KGB), the Council of People’s Commissars and the Central Committee of Ukraine. The collection contains meeting minutes, census data, committee records, and records on government and elected officials. Each of the documents mentioned in the following categories relate to Jewish history or Jewish individuals.
Implementation of Soviet directives at the local level: The following records include information on local Jewish residents: Resolution from the Council of People’s Commissars (РНК, УРСР) on the regulation of local financial institutions and assessments of local tax collection, including citizens declared exempt from paying taxes and citizens exempt from Soviet labour requirements and citizens, and lists of those accused of tax evasion. NKVD protocols on the implementation of land reform, procedures for archival preservation, and other oversight of local issues and officials, Regulation and the establishment of quotas for internal trade and production, Increasing the participation of ethnic Ukrainians and Jews in Soviet organisations, a 1925-1926 resolution from the Council of People’s Commissars (РНК, УРСР), Central Committee of Ukraine report on improving the representation of Jews as “workers” (1926), a 1925 report commissioned on the local Jewish religious community, and 1925 records from the Jewish representatives to national minority commissions.
Government and Elected Officials: The following records include information on local Jewish residents: List of Solobkovtsky candidates to the nationalities councils or the “Soviet of Nationalities,” List of members of The Executive Committee of the Solobkovtsky District Council (1924), List of local associations and organisations, including organisations with mostly Jewish members, List of candidates for various committees, minutes of various commissions (some directly relating to Jewish issues or Jewish individuals), Information from Cuban liaison (who is Jewish), records from the Cuban Leadership Committee (including information on Jewish committee records).
Regulation of local labour force and commerce: The following records include information on local Jewish residents: list of tobacco growers in the region, list of those eligible of labour, including a list of Jews, list of citizens who received compensation for firewood (all are Jews), Legal disputes on land use, court verdicts, petition for government assistance to local Jews (1924), List of Jews sentenced to forced labour, information on mills and other commercial properties rented to Jews, Local residents (including Jews) sent to factories in the Ural Mountains, and the regulation of local medical professionals.
Election Records: List of Solobkovtsky residents ineligible for election and voting (including local Jewish residents).
Census Data: The following records include information on local Jewish residents: List of Solobkovtsky residents (1923), List of local landowners (1923), Status of local residents serving prison sentences, demographic data for the purpose of tax collection, with breakdowns by nationality, income records of district residents, with specification of nationality, survey of the “social status” of the local population, including their nationality, by the commission for national minorities, a part of the Central Committee of Ukraine (1924).
Military Affairs: List of all local residents who received medals for their service in the “Great Patriotic War”, with designations of nationality (compiled in 1946-1948).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The District Councils for workers, peasants and army deputies were part of the larger network of “Selsoviets” (short for сельский совет), state administrative divisions for small rural areas in the Soviet Union. Solobkivtsi (Solobkovtsy) was located in the Khmelnytskyi (known as Proskurov until 1954) Region of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. After 1991, Khmelnytskyi became part of independent Ukraine.
- Access points: locations:
- Solobkivtsi
- Yerusha Network member:
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
