Reviews of archival collections of RGIA DV
Documents about settlers in the funds of the Russian State Historical Archive Far East(RGIA DV, Vladivostok)
Starting the search for information about our ancestors-migrants of the pre-revolutionary period, we must ask ourselves how and when they could move? 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, with the almost universal absence of home archives, become the main source of information for everyone who wants to restore their connection with the past.
The Far East until 1917 was settled by Russians in several ways:
1. as a result of independent resettlement by land and sea;
2. as a result of resettlement to the state account by sea or by rail;
3. as a result of a voluntary decision to stay on residence after hard labor (exiled settlers);
4.As a result of the completion of an urgent military service or retirement from civil service.
In each case, a set of documents was created:
For peasants - a dismissal sentence from the former place of residence, permission from the volost chief to relocate, a travel and passing certificate, a ticket, a view or a passport.
dismissal sentence was necessary, because confirmed the consent of the former society to the departure of the migrant from the community and the absence of any unfulfilled obligations to this society.
Passing migration certificate – amazing document office work and, above all, the fact that he was not just discharged and remained in the office, but that he traveled with the migrant and retained the traces of this journey. The archive collections contain passage evidence, worn on the folds, torn, filled with something on the way. They are handwritten, on simple forms of the end of the 19th century or complex tabular times of the Stolypin railway resettlement. However, despite the change in form, the essence of the document remained the same. The certificate reported who, where, where he was moving, the composition of the family, indicating gender and age, information about changes in it (birth, death). Often, the route of movement was determined: “Family N will have to go from the Nizhyn station by rail through the cities ... to the station. Flour Ussuri Railway. The document was the basis for issuing a certificate for travel by rail at a resettlement tariff, to receive assistance. It had to be “provided to the resettlement official at the Syzran and Chelyabinsk points” (a registration stamp was put), and then, upon arrival at the place, to the peasant chief for enrollment in free plots. On the reverse side of the certificate, notes were made about registration, about delays on the way, about the assistance provided and about the issuance of a certificate for settling in 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 a chosen place, it was necessary to file application for admission into a society of peasants and get acceptance sentence. At the village meeting, the community members voted to determine whether they agreed to the reception, whether there were free lands in the allotment and which of them.
Practical final document - extract from the journal of the Primorsky Regional Board about reckoning. It was a standard document consisting of 3 parts: a) “listened” - the presentation of the head of the settlement of peasants in a certain settlement, b) a reference to the law and c) “ordered” - to classify the peasants on free land plots of state land, to inform the volost boards at the former place of residence and the peasant chief of the corresponding section of the Primorsky region. Then close the case and hand it over to the archive. An obligatory element in the completion of the case was the protocol on the placement of the peasant, drawn up by the same head of the placement of the peasants. Despite the small volume, it contains information about the former place of residence of the migrant and the composition of his family, indicating the age.
In addition, during mass resettlement, lists were compiled at the place of departure (Odessa), lists of migrants by steamboats, lists at the place of arrival, information documents about death, delays in travel due to illness, etc.
For the exiles - a petition for a desire to join the society, a acceptance verdict, an article list, an extract from the journal of the Primorsky regional government, there are even decrees of the sovereign to allow former convicts to settle in coastal villages.
Article list- an accounting document containing, in addition to the last name and first name of the exile, information about his origin, article, term, judicial body that passed the sentence, about the movement through the stage.
For those who completed the service - a petition (application, memorandum), an extract from the alphabets, a leave card, an extract from the journal of the Primorsky Regional Board, a certificate of registration. The presence of duplicate names in the petition indicates more high level literacy of reserve officials or their assistants - clerks, the essence of the document remains the same - a request for permission, instead of returning to their homeland, to settle in a chosen locality.
An excellent source of biographical information: extracts from alphabets- accounting documents of personnel 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 passage. For us, the document is valuable in that it informs about the place of conscription, age, class, marital status of the lower rank.
Those wishing to settle in the cities submitted petitions to the society of the townspeople. The certificate of acceptance into the society was issued by the petty-bourgeois headman of the elected urban settlement.
For settlements From time to time, family lists were compiled indicating the number of male and female souls in the family, buildings, workers and cattle, and the occupation of the head of the family.
All these documents provide the necessary information about the place of exit, age, name and patronymic, family composition. If the grandfather and great-grandfather were literate, then, like a letter from the past, one will be lucky enough to read what they wrote with their own hands. However, more often we meet with the formula - "because of N's illiteracy and at his personal request, I signed." Reading handwritten documents requires a great deal of additional work: handwriting needs to be disassembled, to understand the meaning of the text written by an illiterate person, to figure out which geographical points he mentions, and most importantly, to recognize his last name in what he wrote. Recorded by ear from live speech, it changes over time. For this reason, we have the opportunity to conduct an exciting study of tracing the entire chain of change.
It should be borne in mind that the archive, which was outside the territory of the region for a long time, does not yet have sufficient scientific and reference apparatus for a quick search for the desired surname. In addition, the completeness of the surviving complexes 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 settlers and solving all their problems. It was called Primorsky Regional Board(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 civilian life. The Board, which began its work on January 1, 1867, was called upon to help him in this. In the structure of the board, there were originally 2 departments, and then, to late XIX century, there were 4 of them, and independent construction, veterinary and medical departments were added. Dealt with immigration issues second branch led by an advisor. Inside the department there were departments - tables that dealt with individual issues.
The officials who served in the Primorsky Regional Administration did the greatest work in organizing a normal civil life. Every year, several tens of thousands of papers (incoming and outgoing) passed through their hands, many of which stood for specific human destinies. It has its own, and not very simple, fate Fund 1 "Primorsky Regional Administration", which has come down to our days in the amount of more than 25 thousand cases. For those who study their pedigree, it is of particular importance inventory 4, which presents cases of resettlement. You can navigate it yourself by the dates and names of cases, you can ask for advice from an employee of the reading room of the archive. But the main work - the search, which requires a lot of patience and time, is performed by the user himself. The reward for his labors will be a meeting with a document written by an ancestor. The broken link between times and generations will be restored.
Russian State Historical Archive of the Far East, Vladivostok
Archive editions ()
Date of the last revision of the page - 26.06.2019
List of items stored in RGIA DV metric books of Orthodox and non-Orthodox churches operating on the territory of Primorsky Krai in 1865-1930. Attention: are not issued to the reading room.
Extracts from inventories to the funds of the RGIA Far East, lists of cases :
Fund # - Fund name
1 - Primorsky regional government. 1818 - 1919. Inventory 4: , , . .
2 - Seaside Regional Presence for Peasant Affairs. 1900 - 1922. . . .
19 - Head of resettlement affairs in the Primorsky region. 1884 - 1923. . Description 3 - personal affairs.
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 of the village of Dubovsky, Spassky volost, 1899.
98 - South Ussuri Migration Administration. 1882 - 1906. .
103 - Head of the settlement of settlers and acting peasant chief of the 7th section. 1884 - 1921. . (p. Olga)
110 - Head of the settlement of settlers and acting peasant chief of the 4th section. 1912 - 1917. Inventory 1. (village Novokievskoe)
111 - Head of the settlement of settlers and acting peasant chief 5. 1912 - 1917. Inventory 1. (S. Shkotovo)
113 - Head of the settlement of settlers and acting peasant chief of the 6th section. 1909 - 1917. Inventory 1.
- D. 6. Family lists of peasants of the 6th district. Petitions of the peasants for allotment of their land and correspondence on this issue.
- Part 1. L. 89. The petition of a peasant woman from the village of Domashlino, Novolitovskaya volost, Olginsky district, Marfa Fedorova Morozova, for permission to leave Primorye with her son, asks for another son, asks to be given to travel by railway.
181 - Novolitovsky volost court. 1910 - 1914. Inventory 1.
- D. 1. 1910. The book of decisions of the Novolitovsky Volost Court for 1910 01/31/1910-12/05/1910
- D. 2. 1911. Also for 1911. 03/05/1911-12/28/1911.
- 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 - Olginsky county conscription presence. 1915 - 1921. Inventory 1.
- D. 7. Conscription lists of recruits for the volosts of the Olginsky district for 1910
415 - South Ussuri district congress of peasant chiefs of the Primorsky region. Nikolsk-Ussuriysky. 1904-1917. Description 1.
- D. 12. Lists of persons with houses and buildings, and information about public buildings in the villages of Nikolsk-Ussuriysky district. 02/21/1912
- D. 14. The same for the Iman district. 1912. - NOT ISSUED. ON RESTORATION.
- D. 15. The same for Nikolsk-Ussuriysk district. 1912.
- D. 21. Distribution lists for receiving food allowances for families of lower military ranks in the Tsemukhinskaya volost of the Olginsky district. 01/06/1916-12/19/1916
- D. 73. List of lower ranks who deserted from the army, whose families lost their rights to receive state rations. 1916.
D. 13. The same for Olginsky district. 03/12/1912-04/27/1912. Alphabetical list of householders in the Olginsky district as of January 1912: - - - - -
434 - Bailiff of the Olginsky camp of the South Ussuriysk district police department. 1860 - 1905. Inventory 1.
- D. 158. Family lists of peasants of the plot for 1898.
521 - South Ussuriysk district police department of the Police Department. 1868 - 1917.
702 - Office of the Amur Governor-General. 1861 - 1920. .
Archive publications ( I have on hand and can tell about their content)
"From the history of settlement and development of the Olginsky district". 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.
The Far East of Russia in the materials of legislation.
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. Vol. 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.
12) 1909 - Vladivostok, 2015.
13) 1910-1911 - Vladivostok, 2011.
14) 1912-1913 - Vladivostok, 2013
Far East of Russia on the eve of the First World War: reference materials from the Siberian Yearbook. Vladivostok, 2018
- Nikolsk-Ussuri district.
(RGIA DV)
Vladivostok
History of creation.
RGIA DV received its modern name in 1992. Until that time, starting 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 that were previously stored in the regional and regional archives of the Far East.
In accordance with the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR No. 96 dated February 13, 1991, the archive was transferred to the city of Vladivostok. The archive move is ongoing.
The composition of the 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 the middle of the 19th century to 1940.
As part of the documentary complex of the period of the Russian Empire, the funds of the Main Directorate Eastern Siberia, regional governments, funds of civil and military governors, administrative and police institutions, departments railways and waterways, mining departments, trading companies; as part of the documents of the Soviet period, the funds of the Administration of the 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 Directorate of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture of the USSR, the regional land administration, the resettlement administration, the Far Eastern Economic Conference, planning commissions, statistical offices.
Total: 4,130 funds, 500,635 units. chr., 1722 - 1953, 1990 - 1998
Funds of institutions - 4,122 funds, 499,996 units. ridge
Funds of personal origin - 8 funds, 404 units. ridge
Photo documents - 235 units. ridge
RUSSIAN STATE ARCHIVE
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION
(RGA NTD)
City of 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.
The composition of the funds.
The archive stores scientific and technical (design, design, technological, research), patent, management documentation, formed in the course of the activities of research, design, design, technological organizations, research and production associations of union subordination located on the territory of the RSFSR ( except St. Petersburg and Leningrad region), also design documentation of the pre-Soviet period.
Total: 193 foundations, 240,609 cases,
316 items 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 and Photo Documents of the USSR) as a sound department.
In 1967, on the basis of the department of the Central State Archive of Film and Photo 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 Audio Documents.
The composition of the funds.
The archive contains chronicle-documentary and artistic sound recordings reflecting the events of the state, socio-political, economic and cultural life. Records of speeches of political, state, public figures, representatives of science, technology, literature and art, received from the USSR State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company 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 hr., for 1898 - 1993.
RUSSIAN STATE ARCHIVE OF FILM 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 Central Archive sound recordings to the Central phono-photo-cinema 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 audio 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.
The composition of the funds.
The archive stores newsreels, documentaries, newsreels, special issues, individual film plots, film magazines, special releases, individual film plots, photographic documents in the form of negatives and photo albums, reflecting the events of socio-political, economic and cultural life on the territory of pre-revolutionary Russia and the USSR from the second half of XIX V. until now.
Total: 176,266 items film documents,
687 292 units ridge photographic documents, 1855 - 1989
