Reviews of the archival collections of the Russian State Historical Archive of the Far East
Documents about immigrants in the funds of the Russian State Historical Archive of the Far East (RGIA FE, Vladivostok)
As we begin our search for information about our migrant ancestors of pre-revolutionary times, we must ask ourselves how and when could they have moved? In what documents should these seemingly private facts be reflected? Our ancestors lived in a clearly structured society, where everyone was tied to a certain territory and class group. Therefore, the process of moving both vertically and horizontally was strictly “documented.” It is these documents deposited in the funds governing bodies, and have now become, given the almost universal absence of home archives, the main source of information for everyone who wants to restore their connection with the past.
Before 1917, the Far East was settled by Russians in several ways:
1. as a result of independent resettlement by land and sea;
2.as a result of resettlement at the state expense by sea or by rail;
3. as a result of a voluntary decision to stay after hard labor (exiled settlers);
4.as a result of completion of urgent military service or retirement from civilian service.
In each case, a separate set of documents was created:
For peasants - a dismissal sentence from their previous place of residence, permission from the volost chief for relocation, a travel and passage certificate, a ticket, a permit or a passport.
Discharge sentence was necessary because
confirmed the consent of the previous society to the migrant’s departure from the community and the absence of any outstanding obligations to this society. – Passage resettlement certificate office work and, above all, by the fact that he was not simply discharged and remained in the office, but by the fact that he traveled with the immigrant and retained traces of this journey. The archive collections contain certificates of passage, frayed at the folds, torn, and stained with something along the way. They are handwritten, on simple forms from the end of the 19th century or complex tablets from the time of the Stolypin railway resettlement. However, despite the change in form, the essence of the document remained the same. The certificate stated who, where, where he was moving to, the composition of the family, indicating gender and age, information about changes in it (birth, death).
Often the travel route was determined: “Family N will have to travel from the Nezhin station along the railways through the cities ... to the station. Flour Ussuri Railway". The document was the basis for issuing a certificate for travel by rail at the resettlement tariff and for receiving assistance. It had to be “provided to the resettlement official at the Syzran and Chelyabinsk points” (a registration stamp was placed), and then, upon arrival at the place, to the peasant chief for enrollment in the vacant plots. On the reverse side of the certificate, notes were made about registration, delays in travel, assistance provided, and the issuance of a certificate for settlement at a new place of residence. For example, about issuing a certificate for receiving free portions of food on the road: “2 dairy each in Kyiv, Kursk, Voronezh, Kozlov” - to a peasant traveling from the Podolsk province, etc. Before settling in the chosen place, it was necessary to apply petition for inclusion into the society of peasants and get admission sentence
. At the village meeting, community members voted to determine whether they agreed to the reception, whether there were free lands in the allotment and which ones. Practically the final document - about inclusion. It was a standard document consisting of 3 parts: a) “listened” - the presentation of the head of the settlement of peasants in a certain locality, b) a reference to the law and c) “ordered” - the peasants should be included in the free plots of state-owned land, and the volost boards should be informed at the previous place of residence and the peasant chief of the corresponding section of the Primorsky region. Then the case is closed and archived. An obligatory element in completing the case was a protocol on the placement of the peasant, drawn up by the same head of the placement of peasants. Despite its small volume, it contains information about the migrant’s previous place of residence and the composition of his family, indicating his age.
In addition, during the mass resettlement, lists were compiled at the place of departure (Odessa), lists of settlers by ship, lists at the place of arrival, information documents about death, about delays in travel due to illness, etc.
For exiles - a petition for a desire to be included in society, an admission sentence, an article list, an extract from the magazine of the Primorsky regional government, there are even decrees of the sovereign allowing former convicts to settle in coastal villages.
Article list– an accounting document containing, in addition to the surname and name of the exile, information about his origin, article, term, judicial body that passed the sentence, and progress through the stage.
For those who have completed their service - a petition (statement, memorandum), an extract from the alphabets, a dismissal card, an extract from the journal of the Primorsky Regional Administration, a certificate of registration. The presence of duplicate names in the petition indicates more high level literacy of reserve ranks or their assistants - clerks, the essence of the document remains the same - a request for permission to settle in a chosen locality instead of returning to their homeland.
Excellent source of biographical information: extracts from alphabets- accounting documents of personnel of military units in the pre-revolutionary period. Despite the small standard volume, they contain important reliable information about the person called up for service and its completion. For us, the document is valuable because it informs about the place of conscription, age, class, and marital status of the lower rank.
Those wishing to settle in the cities submitted petitions to the society of burghers. A certificate of acceptance into society was issued by the bourgeois headman of the selected urban settlement.
For settlements From time to time, family lists were compiled indicating the number of male and female souls in the family, buildings, working and cattle, and the occupation of the head of the family.
All these documents provide the necessary information about the place of exit, age, first name and patronymic, and family composition. If your grandfather and great-grandfather were literate, then, like a letter from the past, you will be lucky enough to read what they wrote in your own hand. However, more often we come across the formula - “due to N’s illiteracy and at his personal request, he signed.” Reading handwritten documents requires a lot of additional work from the reader: you need to decipher the handwriting, understand the meaning of the text written by an illiterate person, figure out which geographical locations he mentions, and most importantly, recognize your last name in the writing.
Recorded aurally from live speech, it changes over time. For this reason, we have the opportunity to conduct a fascinating study to trace the entire chain of changes. It should be borne in mind that the for a long time
Outside the region, the archive does not yet have sufficient scientific reference apparatus to quickly search for the desired surname. In addition, the completeness of the surviving sets of documents is also not absolute. All these documents were concentrated in the fund of the management structure, which took upon itself the burden of accommodating the displaced and solving all their problems. It was called Primorsky regional government(1867-1917). It was difficult for the military governor of the Primorsky region, created in 1856 and covering a vast territory from Kamchatka to Primorye, to resolve all issues of civil life. The board, which began its work on January 1, 1867, was called upon to help him in this. The board structure initially had 2 departments, and then, to end of the 19th century century, there were 4 of them, and independent construction, veterinary and medical departments were added. Dealt with resettlement issues
second department , headed by an advisor. Inside the department there were departments - tables that dealt with individual issues. Officials serving in the Primorsky regional government held greatest work on the arrangement of normal civil life. Every year, several tens of thousands of papers (incoming and outgoing) passed through their hands, many of which had specific human destinies behind them. It has its own, and not very simple, destiny. Fund 1 “Primorsk Regional Board”, which presents resettlement cases. You can navigate it yourself by dates and names of cases, or you can ask for advice from an employee of the archive reading room. But the main work - the search, which requires a lot of patience and time - is performed by the user himself. His reward for his efforts will be a meeting with a document written by an ancestor. The broken connection between times and generations will be restored.
Russian State Historical Archive of the Far East, Vladivostok
Archive editions ()
Last page revision date - 06.26.2019
List of those stored in the RGIA DV metric books of Orthodox and heterodox churches, operating on the territory of the Primorsky Territory 1865-1930. Attention: V reading room are not issued.
Extracts from inventories of the funds of the Russian State Historical Archive of the Far East, lists of cases :
Fund No. - Fund name
1 - Primorsky regional administration. 1818 - 1919. Inventory 4: , , . .
2 - Primorsky regional presence for peasant affairs. 1900 - 1922. . . .
19 - Head of resettlement affairs in the Primorsky region. 1884 - 1923. . Inventory 3 - personal files.
87 - Office of the Military Governor of the Primorsky Region. 1843 - 1917. Inventory 1. Lists of exiled convicts and orders for personnel.
- D. 1802 - family list of peasants in the village of Dubovsky, Spasskaya volost, 1899.
98 - South Ussuri Resettlement Administration. 1882 - 1906. .
103 - Head of resettlement of settlers and acting head of the peasants of the 7th section. 1884 - 1921. . (p. Olga)
110 - Head of resettlement of migrants and acting head of the peasants of the 4th section. 1912 - 1917. Inventory 1. (Novokievskoe village)
111 - Head of resettlement of settlers and acting peasant chief 5. 1912 - 1917. Inventory 1. (S. Shkotovo)
113 - Head of resettlement of migrants and acting head of the peasants of the 6th section. 1909 - 1917. Inventory 1.
- D. 6. Family lists of peasants of the 6th section. Petitions from peasants for allotment of their land and correspondence on this issue.
- Part 1. L. 89. The petition of the peasant woman of the village of Domashlino, Novolitovskaya volost, Olginsky district, Marfa Fedorova Morozova, for permission to leave Primorye with her son, asks for another son, asks for permission to travel on the railway.
181 - Novolitovsky volost court. 1910 - 1914. Inventory 1.
- D. 1. 1910 Book of decisions of the Novolitovsky Volost Court for 1910 01/31/1910-12/05/1910
- D. 2. 1911. Also for 1911. 03/5/1911-12/28/1911.
- D. 3. 1912. Also for 1912. 03/18/1912-12/23/1912.
- D. 4. 1913. Also for 1913. 01/20/1913-12/24/1913.
- D. 5. 1914. Also for 1914. 02/16/1914-12/14/1914.
414 - Olga district presence for military service. 1915 - 1921. Inventory 1.
- D. 7. Conscription lists of recruits in the volosts of the Olginsky district for 1910.
415 - South Ussuriysk district congress of peasant leaders of the Primorsky region. Nikolsk-Ussuriysky. 1904-1917. Inventory 1.
- D. 12. Lists of persons who have houses and buildings, and information about public buildings in the villages of Nikolsk-Ussuri district. 02/21/1912
- D. 14. The same for the Iman district. 1912. - NOT ISSUED. UNDER RESTORATION.
- D. 15. The same for Nikolsk-Ussuriysk district. 1912.
- D. 21. Handout sheets for receiving food benefits to families of the lower military ranks in the Tsemukhinsky volost of the Olginsky district. 01/06/1916-12/19/1916
- D. 73. List of lower ranks who deserted from the army, whose families were deprived of the right to receive government rations. 1916.
D. 13. The same for Olginsky district. 03/12/1912-04/27/1912. Alphabetical list householders of Olginsky district according to information for January 1912: - - - - -
434 - Bailiff of the Olginsky camp of the South Ussuri district police department. 1860 - 1905. Inventory 1.
- D. 158. Family lists of peasants in the area for 1898.
521 - South Ussuriysk District Police Department of the Police Department. 1868 - 1917.
702 - Office of the Amur Governor-General. 1861 - 1920. .
Archive editions ( I have them in my hands and can tell you about their contents)
"From the history of settlement and development of the Olginsky region". Documents and materials / Vladivostok: Russian State Historical Archive of the Far East, 2011.
"From the history of settlement and development of the Mikhailovsky district". Documents and materials / Vladivostok: Russian State Historical Archive of the Far East, 2013.
" From the history of settlement and development of the Shkotovsky district". Documents and materials / Vladivostok: Russian State Historical Archive of the Far East, 2017.
Far East of Russia in legislative materials.
1) 1856-1861 - Vladivostok, 2002. ( Page 202-207.
II. T. 36. No. 36928.)
2) 1862-1870 - Vladivostok, 2004.
3) 1871-1880 - Vladivostok, 2004. 4) 1881-1889 - Vladivostok, 2005. ( .Page 27-28.
III. T. 2. No. 633.) 5) 1890-1895 - Vladivostok, 2006. ( Page 119-121.
III. T. 12. No. 8755.)
6) 1896-1899 - Vladivostok, 2007.
7) 1900-1902 - Vladivostok, 2009.
8) 1903-1904 - Vladivostok, 2012.
9) 1905 - Vladivostok, 2009.
10) 1906 - Vladivostok, 2014.
11) 1907-1908 - Vladivostok, 2010.
13) 1910-1911 - Vladivostok, 2011.
14) 1912-1913 - Vladivostok, 2013
The Russian Far East on the eve of the First World War: reference materials from the Siberian Yearbook. Vladivostok, 2018
- Nikolsk-Ussuriysk district.
(RGIA DV)
Vladivostok
History of creation.
RGIA DV received its modern name in 1992. Until this time, from the moment of its foundation, the archive was called the Central state archive RSFSR Far East.
The archive was formed on August 2, 1943 in Tomsk on the basis of documents previously stored in the regional and regional archives of the Far East.
In accordance with the resolution of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR dated February 13, 1991 No. 96, the archive was transferred to Vladivostok. The archive transfer continues to this day.
Composition of funds.
The archive stores documents on the history of the Khabarovsk and Primorsky territories, Amur, Kamchatka, Sakhalin, Chita regions of the Far East, mainly for the period from mid-19th century centuries until 1940
As part of the documentary complex of the period of the Russian Empire, the funds of the Main Directorate of Eastern Siberia, regional boards, funds of civil and military governors, administrative and police institutions, departments railways and waterways, mining departments, trading companies; documents of the Soviet period include the funds of the Administration of Government and Ministries of the Far Eastern Republic, the Far Eastern Revolutionary Committee and the Regional Executive Committee, revolutionary committees and executive committees of all levels, the Far Eastern Regional Administration of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture of the USSR, the regional land administration, the resettlement administration, the Far Eastern Economic Conference, planning commissions, and statistical bureaus.
Total: 4,130 funds, 500,635 units. Chronicle, 1722 – 1953, 1990 – 1998
Institutional funds – 4,122 funds, 499,996 units. hr.
Personal funds – 8 funds, 404 units. hr.
Photographic documents – 235 units. hr.
RUSSIAN STATE ARCHIVE
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION
(RGA NTD)
G. Samara
History of creation.
In 1967, the Central State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documentation of the USSR was formed.
In 1992 it was transformed into the Russian State Scientific and Technical Archive.
Since 1999, it has been called the Russian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documentation.
Composition of funds.
The archive stores scientific and technical (design, engineering, technological, scientific research), patent, management documentation generated in the process of activities of research, design, engineering, technological organizations, scientific and production associations of union subordination located on the territory of the RSFSR ( except St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region), also design documentation of the pre-Soviet period.
Total: 193 funds, 240,609 cases,
316 storage units photographic documents
Documents for the period 1861 – 1991.
RUSSIAN STATE
ARCHIVE OF PHONODOCUMENTS
(RGAFD)
Moscow
History of creation.
In 1932, the Central Archive of Sound Recordings was created, which in 1941 became part of the Central Photo and Film Archive of the USSR (later the Central State Archive of Film, Photo and Sound Documents of the USSR) as a sound department.
In 1967, on the basis of the department of the Central State Archive of Film, Photo and Sound Documents of the USSR, the Central State Archive of Sound Recordings of the USSR (TSGAZ USSR) was formed.
In 1992 it was transformed into the Russian State Archive of Phonological Documents.
Composition of funds.
The archive contains chronicle-documentary and artistic sound recordings reflecting the events of state, socio-political, economic and cultural life. Records of speeches of political, government, public figures, representatives of science, technology, literature and art, received from the State Television and Radio of the USSR and the All-Union record company "Melody" and their predecessors, the Central Studio documentaries, public and creative organizations, museums, libraries, from collectors and owners of personal archives.
Total: 184,256 units. chronicle, for 1898 – 1993.
RUSSIAN STATE ARCHIVE OF FILM AND PHOTO DOCUMENTS
(RGAKFD)
Krasnogorsk, Moscow region.
History of creation.
In 1926, the Central Film and Photo Archive of the Central Archive of the RSFSR was created, which in 1934 was merged with the Central Archive of Sound Recordings into the Central Phono-Photo-Film Archive of the USSR (later the Central State Archive of Film-Photo-Phono Documents of the USSR).
In 1967, in connection with the transfer of sound documents to the newly created Central State Archive of Sound Recordings of the USSR, the archive was renamed the Central State Archive of Film and Photo Documents of the USSR (TsGA KFD USSR).
In 1992 it was transformed into the Russian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents.
Composition of funds.
The archive stores newsreels and documentaries, film magazines, special issues, individual film stories, film magazines, special issues, individual film stories, photographic documents in the form of negatives and photo albums, reflecting the events of socio-political, economic and cultural life in the territory pre-revolutionary Russia and the USSR from the second half of the 19th century V. until now.
Total: 176,266 storage units. film documents,
687,292 units hr. photographic documents, 1855 – 1989