THE MIRIAM WEINER ARCHIVAL COLLECTION NIKOLAYEV, UKRAINE – Collection Descriptions (current town name is: Mykolaiv) Collection No. 1 / Jewish Vital Records The Surname Database includes an index to Jewish vital records for the city of Nikolayev for the time period of 1860-1920 and the total entries exceed 50,000 names! Birth entries include: Surname, given name, father's name; year of birth, document/record number and archive file numbers (fond/opis/delo numbers) Death entries include: Surname, given name, father's name, year of death, gender, age at death, document (or record) number; and archive file numbers Marriage entries include: Surname, given name, father's name (sometimes), year of marriage, document (or record) number; and archive file numbers If a researcher locates a specific entry of interest and would like to request a full scan of the document, they will need to contact the archive directly to request the scan. Contact information for the Mykolaiv Oblast Archives: [email protected] This collection includes the use of patronymic names. See below for information. Patronymic Names In modern "Russia" (includes now independent countries of Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, etc.) names consist of a GIVEN NAME (imia), a PATRONYMIC (otchestvo), and a SURNAME (familiia). It is customary in Russia to use patronymics as middle names. Patronymics are derived from the father's given name and end with -ovich or -evich or -ov. The female patronymics end in -ovna or -evna. For example, for a male birth, if the father's name was Abram, then the patronymic version would be: Abramovich or Abramov For example, for a female birth, if the father's name was Abram, then the patronymic version would be: Abramovna or Abramevna For more information about this subject, click here. Nikolayev / Page 2 Death Records The death records in this collection include a column for the age at death. It was not feasible to translate the abbreviations (with OCR) in this column for each death entry and therefore, they are shown here so that you can better understand that column. Age at Death дня = days нед = weeks мес. = months 1 и 5 мес. = 1 year & 5 months 1 г.4 мес = 1 year & 4 months меньше дня = less than 1 day 1 день = 1 day 0,2 суток = .2 days 3 недели = weeks Kherson Street in Nikolayev, Russia, c. 1920 Source: Central State CinePhotoPhono Archives of Ukraine Nikolayev / Page 3 Nikolayev, Ukraine, general view Rue Sobornaia, c. 1920 Source: Central State CinePhotoPhono Archives of Ukraine Nikolayev, Ukraine, Sobornaia Street, c. 1920 Source: Central State CinePhotoPhono Archives of Ukraine Nikolayev / Page 4 Collection No. 2 / Communist Party Membership This collection includes the following two record types: 1. Personal files for admission to party members 2. Personal files of party members Each record includes the following information: Surname, given name, father's given name, document type, year of record, number of pages in file Source: Nikolayev Oblast Archives Fond numbers 92, 96 P-135; P-60, P-92 Years of records: 1948/1980 Note: This is a large collection and data entry is continuing. Nikolayev Oblast Archives Source: https://old.archives.gov.ua/Eng/Archives/ra14.php Nikolayev / Page 5 Nikolayev, Ukraine, general view Rue Sobornaia, c. 1920 Source: Central State CinePhotoPhono Archives of Ukraine Nikolayev, Ukraine, Sobornaia Street, C. 1920 Source: Central State CinePhotoPhono Archives of Ukraine Nikolayev / Page 6 According to Wikipedia: "Mykolaiv was major Jewish centre of Russian Empire in the 19th century.[citation needed] In the 19th century, the Czarist governments had largely banned Russian Empire Jews from living East of the Dnieper River. Mykolaiv is in the area west of the Dnieper, which was where Jews were legally allowed to reside (the legal area of Jewish residence was known as the Pale of Settlement). The Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson (the seventh leader in the Chabad- Lubavitch dynasty) was born in Mykolaiv on 18 April 1902." Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykolaiv The Synagogue in Nikolayev Courtesy of Anna Abakunova via www.yadvashem.org See also: https://www.yadvashem.org/untoldstories/database/index.asp?cid=601 .