Register of the Russkoe sel'sko-khoziaistvennoe obshchestvo records

Finding aid prepared by Anatol Shmelev
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Title: Russkoe sel'sko-khoziaistvennoe obshchestvo records
Date (inclusive): 1935-1948
Collection Number: 2000C15
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: Mainly in Russian
Physical Description: 4 microfilm reels (0.6 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, minutes, and reports, relating to Russian émigré participation in agriculture in the United States and Canada.
Creator: Russkoe sel'sko khozi͡aistvennoe obshchestvo

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Use

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Acquisition Information

Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2000.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Russkoe sel'sko-khoziaistvennoe obshchestvo Records, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Location of Originals

Originals in: Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco.

Administrative History

Association of émigré Russian agronomists in North America.

Scope and Content Note

This collection contains the correspondence and office file of the Russkoe sel'sko-khoziaistvennoe obshchestvo (Russian Agricultural Union of North America). Of particular interest are the issues of its bulletins, including the file of unpublished article drafts, which illustrate the breadth of its members' interests and activities. The correspondence is also a significant resource for the study of the contributions of Russian émigré agronomists and engineers to American and Canadian agricultural production and food processing (particularly grain, dairy products and spirits).
The correspondence is largely between the organization's founder, Petr Filaretovich Konstantinov, and its members, including V. M. Benzin, I. V. Emelianov, I. K. Okulich, M. T. Zarotschenzeff and others.
Detailed processing and preservation microfilming for these materials were made possible by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and by matching funds from the Hoover Institution and the Museum of Russian Culture. The grant also provides depositing a microfilm copy in the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. The original materials remain in the Museum of Russian Culture, San Francisco, as its property. A transfer table indicating corresponding box and reel numbers is available at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
The Hoover Institution assumes all responsibility for notifying users that they must comply with the copyright law of the United States (Title 17 United States Code) and Hoover Rules for the Use and Reproduction of Archival Materials.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Russians -- United States
Agriculture -- United States
Agriculture -- Canada
Russians -- Canada

 

CORRESPONDENCE 1937-1948

Scope and Contents

Incoming and outgoing correspondence relating to the formation and activities of the association, arranged chronologically
 

Incoming

box 1, folder 1

1937 December 8 - 1938 July

box 1, folder 2

1938 July - 1939 July 1

box 1, folder 3

1939 July 1 - 1940 January 1

box 1, folder 4

1940 January 1 - 1941 January 1

box 1, folder 5

1942-1943

box 2, folder 1

1944-1948

 

Outgoing

box 2, folder 2

1937 December - 1939 June

box 2, folder 3

1939-1947

 

OFFICE FILE 1935-1947

Scope and Contents

Consists mainly of organizational materials, minutes of meetings, annual statements, lists of members and miscellaneous correspondence, arranged alphabetically by physical form. Also includes issues of the organization's bulletin and unpublished articles written for it
box 3, folder 1

Activity reports 1938-1939

box 3, folder 2

Annual report 1939

box 3, folder 3

Founding documents.

Scope and Contents note

Includes drafts of charter, appeals for support to Russian agronomists abroad, 1935-1938
box 3, folder 4

Membership list 1940 February 10

box 3, folder 5

Minutes of meetings 1938-1945

 

Publications

 

Izvestiia Russkogo sel'sko-khoziaistvennogo obshchestva

box 3, folder 6

General.

Scope and Contents note

Drafts of articles submitted for publication and related materials
box 3, folder 7

Issues #1-7, . 1939-1941

Scope and Contents note

Printed copies
box 3, folder 8

Miscellany.

Scope and Contents note

Includes reviews
box 3, folder 9

Katalog russkikh knig biblioteki Russkogo sel'sko-khoziaistvennogo obshchestva v Sev. Amerike, . 1939

Scope and Contents note

Printed copy
box 3, folder 10

Obzor deiatel'nosti za 1938 g., . 1939

Scope and Contents note

Printed copy. Includes correspondence between V. A. fon Reimers and P. F. Konstantinov and I. K. Okulich, 1940, originally bound or placed into the volume
 

Scrapbooks

box 3, folder 11

"O sel'skom khoz-ve Ameriki."

Scope and Contents note

Includes clippings, mainly from Russian émigré newspapers, regarding the state of farming and agricultural production in the United States. Also includes many articles by P. F. Konstantinov
box 4, folder 1

"Russkoe sel'sko-khoziaistvennoe obshchestvo v Amerike."

Scope and Contents note

Includes clippings, photographs and the resumes or vitaes of members, as well as the charter, minutes of meetings, and annual reports of the organization
 

Subject file

box 4, folder 2

Agriculture

box 4, folder 3

Poultry.

Scope and Contents note

Includes notes and correspondence on poultry production
box 4, folder 4

Russian Center (Russkii tsentr), San Francisco

box 4, folder 5

Seeds--Soviet Union.

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, notes and writings relating to transportation of seeds to the Soviet Union during the Second World War
box 4, folder 6

Miscellany.

Scope and Contents note

Includes drafts of appeals, proposals, projects and speeches, memoranda, notes, and receipts