Savran 1851 proposed-removal and nominal lists

These 45 photographs reproduce an 1851 Russian-language household/nominal record set compiled during an imperial plan to move part of Savran's Jewish population out of the Kyiv-Podolia military-settlement jurisdiction. The lists are valuable both as evidence of the proposed displacement and as a detailed mid-century record of Jewish residents and households. [R1851-1,R1851-2]

Historical context

Under an 1847 imperial order, officials considered transferring Jews out of military-settlement territory around Savran. By July 1851, the local proposal distinguished established residents with substantial houses, inns, shops, cellars, or other evidence of permanence from poorer residents whom officials proposed to reassign elsewhere. These images catalog the Jewish families targeted for removal.

An analysis of State Archive of Khmelnytskyi Oblast fond 227, opis 2, file 481 calculates 314 families / 1,076 people proposed for transfer. Destinations included towns in Podolia and Kyiv guberniyas, Odessa and Kherson in Kherson guberniya, and numerous places in Bessarabia including Bendery, Kishinev, Orhei, Rezina, Beltsy, Akkerman, Izmail, Vad-Rashkov, and Soroca.

Administrative difficulties stalled the project; after Nicholas I died in 1855, the plan faded and was abandoned. [R1851-1]

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Sources

  1. [R1851-1] Oksana Hryhorivna Hula, The Jewish Community of the Town of Savran in the Second Half of the 19th–Beginning of the 20th Century, master's thesis, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, 2023. For the 1851 reassignment project, Hula cites State Archive of Khmelnytskyi Oblast, fond 227, opis 2, file 481, On the proposal of the governor concerning Jews of the military settlement of Savran who were to be reassigned to places under civilian administration, 131 leaves, especially leaves 2–28 for criteria and destinations.
  2. [R1851-2] Savran-Lists-1851, 45-page photographic manuscript supplied in 2024 by Oksana Hula from archival photographs made during her research in Khmelnytskyi. File 481 is treated here as the likely underlying or parent archival case because Hula's description, totals, and destinations correspond closely to the photographed material; direct heading-to-file verification remains desirable.

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