Register of the Sonia Melnikova-Raich papers
Finding aid prepared by Lyalya Kharitonova
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Title: Sonia Melnikova-Raich papers
Date (inclusive): 1920-2011
Collection Number: 2021C13
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In Russian and English
Physical Description:
10 manuscript boxes, digital media
(4.17 Linear Feet)
Abstract: The collection comprises thousands of copies of documents from Russian state archives, related to the history of Soviet foreign
concessions of the 1920s to the early 1930s.
Creator:
Melnikova-Raich, Sonia
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Access
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
Use
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2022.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Sonia Melnikova-Raich papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical Note
Sonia Melnikova-Raich was born in Moscow. She immigrated to the USA in 1987 and lives in San Francisco, where she works as
a translator and independent researcher. She is an acknowledged expert on the subject of American roots of accelerated Soviet
industrialization during the First Five-Year Plan. and an author of
The Soviet Problem with Two "Unknowns": How an American Architect and a Soviet Negotiator Jump-Started the Industrialization
of Russia
, which can be found in two issues of
The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology included in her papers.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection comprises thousands of copies of documents from Russian state archives, relating to the history of Soviet foreign
concessions of the 1920s to the early 1930s. The collection was amassed in the course of 25 years when Sonia Melnikova-Raich
acted as a consultant, translator and assistant researcher for renowned British jurist and legal scholar, leading arbitrator
Van Vechten Veeder QC (1948-2020).
In addition, this collection includes copies of material from the NKVD records relating to the prosecution, arrest, and rehabilitation
of Stefan Sebők, an architect who had disappeared in the Soviet Union during the Second World War. These materials were collected
by his niece Lilly Dubowitz (née Sebők) and published in her book
In Search of a Forgotten Architect. The documents are in Russian and most of them are accompanied by an English translation.
Lilly Dubowitz shared these papers with Sonia Melnikova-Raich in anticipation of future collaboration on the project shortly
before she died in 2016.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Archives
Russia
Russia (Federation) -- Foreign economic relations
Russia -- Economic conditions
Facsimiles
Foreign Concessions in the USSR
1920-2002
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically.
Scope and Contents
V.V. Veeder research project files. Original order was maintained. Titles in Scope and Contents taken directly from files.
General
1920-1963
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, requests, reports, agreements, protocols, press reviews, and other material relating to establishment
and regulations of the foreign concessions in the USSR.
box 7, folder 3-6
1921-1923
Scope and Contents
"Black Binder BB RGASPI Urquhart"
box 7, folder 7
1921-1963
Scope and Contents
"V.V. Veeder QC/Sonia Melnikova-Raich Binders". Index of archival material collected from Russian archives.
box 8, folder 1-3
1920-1923
Scope and Contents
"Blue Binder BB9 11(RGASPI)"
Far-East Gold Mining Concession
1921-1929
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, statements, and reports.
box 7, folder 1
1921-1932
Scope and Contents
"Joseph Vint. Far -East Gold Mining Concession"
box 7, folder 2
1922-1932
Scope and Contents
"Urquhart/Krasin"
Georgian Manganese Co. Ltd.
1923-1993
Scope and Contents
Includes concession agreements, correspondence, transcripts, drafts, minutes, reports, and other materials relating to a concession
agreement between the Government of the U.S.S.R. and the Georgian Manganese Company.
box 1, folder 1-3
1923-1924
Scope and Contents
"Blue Binder BB10 (RGASPI). Krasin, Harriman, Chiatura"
box 1, folder 4-6
1925-1993
Scope and Contents
"Blue Binder 6 (BB6)) Chiatura/Harriman"
box 1, folder 7-9
1926-1928
Scope and Contents
"Harriman/Chiatura"
box 2, folder 1-5
1927-1928
Scope and Contents
"Blue Binder 2 (BB2)(RGAE), Harriman, Chiatura, Imperial and Foreign Corporations"
Junkers concession
1921-1928
Scope and Contents
Includes a concession agreements, correspondence, statements, reports, and minutes.
box 6, folder 6-8
1921-1928
Scope and Contents
"Binder (JB) Junkers, Bersol, GEFU, Metakhim"
box 9, folder 1
1925-1927
Scope and Contents
"Junkers, Bersol, Fili"
"Konzession "Mologaless"
1922-1929
Scope and Contents
Includes a concession agreement and bylaws, correspondence, statements, reports, and minutes, as well as speeches and writings
by S. B. Chlenov.
box 5, folder 7-9
1922-1927
Scope and Contents
"Binder 2 (M3).Mologoles Concession. RGAE"
box 5, folder 10-11
1923-1927
Scope and Contents
"M Binder. Mologoles, S.B. Chernov"
box 6, folder 2-5
1925-1927
Scope and Contents
"Binder 1MX File. Mologoles-Wirth, Hemmer, Himmelbach, Ksandrov, Trotsky"
box 6, folder 1
1927-1929
Scope and Contents
"Mologoles. Armand Hammer"
"The Lena Goldfields Limited"
1922-1991
Scope and Contents
Includes "Documents concerning the competence of the arbitration court set up in connection with questions outstanding between
the Lena Goldfields Company Limited and the U.S.S.R." and other material regarding concession agreement.
box 5, folder 4-6
1922-1927
Scope and Contents
"Blue Binder 9 (BB9) GARF (not indexed)"
box 3, folder 7-9
1923-1930
Scope and Contents
"Blue Binder BB9 (RGASPI) Lena Goldfields"
box 4, folder 1-3
1923-1931
Scope and Contents
"Grey Binder GBL. Urquhart, Lena, Chiatura, Ekibastus, Westinghouse"
box 3, folder 4-6
1924-1991
Scope and Contents
"Lena Goldfields"
box 4, folder 4-5
1924-1991
Scope and Contents
"Lena Goldfields trial (with translations)"
box 4, folder 6-10
1929-1930
Scope and Contents
"Blue Binder 7 (BB7) (GARF) Lena Goldfields"
box 8, folder 4-6
Sinclair Exploration Company
1926-1929
Scope and Contents
"Blue Binder 12. BB12. Sinclair"
Tetiuhe Mining Corporation Limited
1921-2002
Scope and Contents
Includes contract agreements between Bryner & Company and the Tetiuhe Mining Corporation, correspondence, reports, memorandum,
minutes, and statemants, as well as materials relating to the Bryner family.
box 2, folder 6-9
1921-1927
Scope and Contents
"Blue Binder BB1. RGAE, RGASPI. Tetiuhe"
box 9, folder 5
1925-1931
Scope and Contents
"Grey Binder (small) (GBS). Tetiuhe"
box 5, folder 1-3
1925-1936
Scope and Contents
"Z File-GARF Tetiuhe, Lena Goldfields, Angloles, SIMP, Urquhart"
box 3, folder 1-3
1926-2002
Scope and Contents
"Tetiuhe/Bryner"
box 9, folder 2-4
"Иностранные концессии в СССР: 1920-1930 гг. : документы и материалы", под редакцией проф. М. М. Загорулько
2005
Scope and Contents
"M.M. Zagorulko"
box 9, folder 6
"The Soviet Problem with Two "Unknowns": How an American Architect and a Soviet Negotiator Jump-Started the Industrialization
of Russia, Part I: Albert Kahn," by Sonia Melnikova-Raich
2010
box 9, folder 7
"The Soviet Problem with Two "Unknowns": How an American Architect and a Soviet Negotiator Jump-Started the Industrialization
of Russia, Part II: Saul Bron," by Sonia Melnikova-Raich
2011
box HD21, envelope 1
Digital Materials
circa 2000
Physical Description: 0.89 Gigabytes323 digital files
Physical Description: 1 USB flash drive
Conditions Governing Access
Digital materials are not available
until processed. If interested in
accessing these materials, please
contact us for more information.
Scope and Contents
English translation of research documents and indexes in electronic format
box 10, folder 1-7
Lilly Dubowitz Papers
1941-2007
Scope and Contents
"Lilly Dubowitz Papers/Stefan Sebök." Includes correspondence, copy of interrogation protocols, questionnaires, petitions,
statements, indictment, conclusion, and Sebök's rehabilitation certificate.
