Register of the Vladimir Vasil'evich Krat papers

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Title: Vladimir Vasil'evich Krat papers
Date (inclusive): 1889-2007
Collection Number: 2015C44
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: Russian
Physical Description: 5 manuscript boxes, 3 oversize boxes (5.2 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, personal documents, printed matter, and photographs relating to the petroleum industry and to Russian émigré affairs. Includes some papers of other family members.
Creator: Krat, Vladimir Vasil'evich, 1889-
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

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Use

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Acquisition Information

Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2015.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Vladimir Vasil'evich Krat papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical Note

Russian mining and petroleum engineer; subsequently émigré in the United States.

Scope and Content of Collection

The Biographical File contains birth certificates, baptismal certificates, educational records, employment records, and military service records pertaining to Krat and some of his family. The family file within this series contains correspondence between Krat and his family members, including correspondence received by his wife, Daria Ivanovna, and their daughter, Olga. There is also correspondence from Krat's brother, Agei Vasilevich.
The Writings series contains essays Krat wrote on various subjects, as well as associated correspondence.
The Correspondence series consists of letters received by Krat originating from émigré organizations and various prominent people in the Russian diaspora. Many contain information about life in the diaspora and also efforts to secure the immigration of Displaced Persons.
The Subject File contains many newspaper clippings about the Russian diaspora, as well as documents on mining and the oil industry. The subject file on the oil industry contains a number of large blueprints of oil wells, as well as geological charts.
The Photographs series in this collection contains images of mining operations and Krat's life in Los Angeles, as well as miscellaneous photographs from the nineteenth century.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Russians -- United States
Engineers
Petroleum industry and trade

 

Biographical file 1889-1974

Scope and Contents

Birth and baptismal certificates, correspondence from family members, educational records, employment records, genealogical documents, passports, and other materials arranged alphabetically by physical form.
box 1, folder 1

Baptismal certificate 1889

box 1, folder 2

Birth certificate 1889

 

Educational records 1911-1915

box 1, folder 3

Certificates 1911-1915

box 1, folder 4

Diploma 1915

box 1, folder 5

Transcripts 1907-1912

 

Employment records 1908-1924

box 1, folder 6

Certificates 1908-1924, undated

box 1, folder 7

Financial report 1918

box 1, folder 7

Geological map undated

Scope and Contents

See Oversize file.
box 1, folder 8

North Caucasian Oil-field Company 1918-1923

box 1, folder 9

Resumes 1918-1924, undated

box 1, folder 10

Technical report undated

 

Family file 1906-1974, undated

 

Krat, A. 1950

box 1, folder 11

Correspondence 1950

Scope and Contents

See also: Kamaikan, Rev. M.A.
 

Krat, Agei Vasilevich 1912-1937

box 1, folder 12

Certificate 1912

box 1, folder 13

Correspondence 1912-1937

box 1, folder 14

Wedding invitations 1914

box 1, folder 15

Writings undated

box 1, folder 16

Krat, Aleksandra 1929-1933

Scope and Contents

Correspondence
 

Krat, Daria Ivanovna 1928-1959

Scope and Contents

Correspondence
box 1, folder 17

Krat, Daria Ivanovna 1928-1959

Scope and Contents

Correspondence
box 1, folder 18

Unidentified 1941

box 1, folder 19

Holy Virgin Community of San Francisco 1958

box 1, folder 20

Karpenkova, M. 1929

box 1, folder 21

Krat, A. V. 1928

box 1, folder 22

Krat, E. 1932-1933

box 1, folder 23

Krat, Olga 1946

box 1, folder 24

Parfentieff, Z. 1955-1959

 

Krat, George 1913-1936

box 1, folder 25

Krat, George undated

box 1, folder 26

Birth certificate 1913

box 1, folder 27

Ephemera 1936

Scope and Contents

Brochure from George Krat's high school graduation.
box 1, folder 27

Krat, J. 1946

Scope and Contents

Correspondence
box 1, folder 28

Krat, M. 1938-1960

Scope and Contents

Correspondence
box 1, folder 29

Krat, Matvei 1907

box 1, folder 30

Krat, N. 1938-1939

Scope and Contents

Correspondence
box 1, folder 31

Krat, Nikolai 1930

Scope and Contents

Correspondence
box 1, folder 32

Krat, Nina 1946

Scope and Contents

Correspondence
 

Krat, Olga 1937-1974

box 1, folder 33

Krat, Olga 1937-1974

box 1, folder 34

Clippings 1942, undated

 

Correspondence 1937-1974

box 1, folder 35

Unidentified 1937-1974

box 1, folder 36

Barba, Cesar Alvarez 1962

box 1, folder 37

Best, Ervin S. 1949

box 1, folder 38

Braziller, George 1973

box 1, folder 39

Carvaello, Dida 1964

box 1, folder 40

Diaz, Emma 1973

box 1, folder 41

Dunning, Vera 1965, undated

box 1, folder 42

Faro, M. 1961

box 1, folder 43

Krat, V. V. 1932-1953

 

LeSeigneur, Sara 1972

box 1, folder 44

LeSeigneur, Sara 1972

box 1, folder 45

Noronha, Lucia 1965-1980

box 1, folder 46

Marzagao, Augusto 1972

box 1, folder 47

Sides, Calvin O. 1957-1973

box 1

Krat, Pavel 1929

Scope and Contents

Correspondence
box 1, folder 48

Krat, Varvara 1933

Scope and Contents

Correspondence
box 1, folder 49

Krat, Vasilii 1922-1924

Scope and Contents

Correspondence
 

Krat, Vasilii Ageevich 1906

box 1, folder 50

Krat, Vasilii Ageevich 1906

Scope and Contents

Correspondence
box 1, folder 50

Iznoskov, A.A. 1906

box 1, folder 51

Krat, Z. 1950

Scope and Contents

Correspondence
box 1, folder 52

Neidman 1955-1956

Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to genealogical research.
box 1, folder 53

Niedman, Bertha B. 1938-1948, undated

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, certificate of death, memorial pamphlet, and newspaper clipping.
box 1, folder 54

Niedman, Mary E. 1957

Scope and Contents

Certificate of death.
box 1, folder 55

Niedmann, F. 1928-1931

Scope and Contents

Correspondence
box 1, folder 56

Niedman, W. F. 1923-1938, undated

Scope and Contents

Correspondence
box 1, folder 57

Genealogical file undated

box 1, folder 58

Immigration documents 1920-1946, undated

box 1, folder 59

Marriage certificate 1911

box 1, folder 60

Medical records 1910-1946

box 1, folder 61

Military service records 1908-1923

Scope and Contents

Certificates of registry for conscription.
box 1, folder 62

Nobility certificates 1896-1909

box 1, folder 63

Passports 1911-1923

box 1, folder 64

Residency permits 1911

 

Speeches and writings 1922-1955, undated

Scope and Contents

Notes and essays written by Vladimir Vasilevich Krat on historical, political, geological, religious, and other subjects, arranged chronologically by creation date.
box 2, folder 1

Notes undated

box 2, folder 2

"War in Mesopotamia, 1914-1918" undated

box 2, folder 3

"Wars of liberation conducted by Russia: historical sketch" undated

Physical Description: Typescript
box 2, folder 4

"On the geographical disposition of the bitumen," 1922- 1924 undated

Physical Description: Typescript

Scope and Contents

Contains associated correspondence.
box 2, folder 5

"O budushchem Rossii" 1926

box 2, folder 6

"On experimental testing of building's constructions against the earthquakes" 1926

Scope and Contents

Contains associated correspondence.
box 2, folder 7

"O tsitrusovom dielie v Soedininykh Shtatakh" 1927

box 2, folder 8

Poems 1929-1932

box 2, folder 9

"Voina 1914-1918 g.g. na Vostochnom Fronte" 1930

box 2, folder 10

"On wheat trade with Russia" 1933

box 2, folder 11

"O malorusskom kazachestve" 1942

Scope and Contents

Contains associated correspondence.
box 2, folder 12

Editorial 1944

box 2, folder 13

"Vera, Nadezhda, Luibov" 1951

box 2, folder 14

"Faith, Hope, Charity" 1951-1959

Scope and Contents

Contains associated correspondence.
box 2, folder 15

"O knige zhandarmskago polkovnika A.P. Martinova: in the history of the 'possessed'" 1954

box 2, folder 16

Editorial 1955

 

Correspondence 1912-1973, undated

Scope and Contents

Correspondence sent to and received by Vladimir Vasilevich Krat relating to his efforts to locate displaced family members, his charity work, and other subjects, arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
box 2, folder 17

Unidentified 1912-1952

box 2, folder 18

Adams, Victor 1945

box 2, folder 19

Albrecht, J. W. Erwin 1950-1951

Scope and Contents

See also: Hennings, H.
box 2, folder 20

American Red Cross 1921

box 2, folder 21

Aristov, A. 1922

box 2, folder 22

Association of former Russian Naval Officers in America 1928

box 2, folder 23

Barker, Seth 1926

box 2, folder 24

Baskakov, Leon I. 1924

box 2, folder 25

Berzin, E. K. 1922-1931

Scope and Contents

See also: Wanty, H.
box 2, folder 26

Board of Education of the City of Los Angeles 1932

box 2, folder 27

Bogomolets, N. 1946-1948, undated

box 2, folder 28

Bryner, Boris J. 1934

box 2, folder 29

Bulavkin, V. 1922

box 2, folder 30

Bushueff, B. 1932-1934

box 2, folder 31

The Central European Mines, Ltd. 1922

box 2, folder 32

Chambers, W. Lee 1942

box 2, folder 33

Chorba, Antonina (Tchorba, A.) 1927-1959

box 2, folder 34

Chorba, L. 1927

box 2, folder 35

Churin, I. I. and Co. 1936

box 2, folder 36

City of Los Angeles 1973

box 2, folder 37

Comite International de la Croix-Rouge – Geneve 1945

box 2, folder 38

Crat, Rev. P.C. 1922-1941

box 2, folder 39

Croix Rouge Russe 1930

box 2, folder 40

Cuming, Zelie 1919

box 2, folder 41

Dobro (publisher and bookstore) 1939

box 2, folder 42

Dolgopolov, Aleksandr (Doll, Alexander) 1953

box 2, folder 43

Dove, William 1931-1934

box 2, folder 44

Edminster, M. 1957

box 2, folder 45

L'Eglise Orthodoxe Russe a L'Etranger 1957

box 2, folder 46

Fedoroff, Mr. 1959

box 3, folder 1

Galan, Volodimir 1946

box 3, folder 2

Glavnoe Pravlenie Zarubezhnago Soiuza Russkikh Voeniykh Invalidov 1936

box 3, folder 3

Glazunov, A. 1929

box 3, folder 4

Grad Kitezh 1929-1933

box 3, folder 5

Graham, Frank L. A. 1935

box 3, folder 6

Gussiev-Orenburgskii, S. 1950

box 3, folder 7

Harris, Peter C. 1922

Scope and Contents

See also: Niedman, F.
box 3, folder 8

Hennings, A. 1922-1938

box 3, folder 9

Hennings, L. 1941-1952

box 3, folder 10

Hinrichs, J. C. 1938-1939

box 3, folder 11

Holy Virgin Community of San Francisco 1947-1960

box 3, folder 12

Ivanitskaia, T. A. 1963

box 3, folder 13

John, Saint, Archbishop of San Francisco 1957

box 3, folder 14

Kamaikan, Rev. M. A. 1949

box 3, folder 15

Karpenko, Sevastian (Ieromonakh Sevastian) 1929-1932, undated

box 3, folder 16

Kazansko-Bogoroditskii Muzhskoi Monastyr' 1929-1931

box 3, folder 17

Khara-Davan, E. 1922

box 3, folder 18

Kimmel, N. 1933-1934

box 3, folder 19

Kolomeitzev, Colonel Vladimir A. 1957

box 3, folder 20

Komitet po sooruzheniiu Russkago Pravoslavnago Khrama v Briussele v pamiat Tsaria Muchenika Nikolaia II 1930-1931, undated

box 3, folder 21

Konshin, N. 1924-1929

box 3, folder 22

Korean National Association undated

box 3, folder 23

Krupenskii, A. 1937

box 3, folder 24

Kulbach, Ada 1947

box 3, folder 25

Lembich, M. S. 1929

box 3, folder 26

Lisovoi, Iakov M. (Lissovoy, Jacques M.) 1942

box 3, folder 27

Lorraine, F. 1928

box 3, folder 28

Martins, Wellington 1964

box 3, folder 29

Martynov, A. E. 1950

box 3, folder 30

Mayer, G. 1953

box 3, folder 31

Moore, W. H., Jr. 1932

box 3, folder 32

Nikitin, D. 1939

box 3, folder 33

Nikon Archbishop (Rklitskii, Nikolai P.) undated

box 3, folder 34

Novak, P. 1949

box 3, folder 35

Novinka 1929-1940

box 3, folder 36

Novoye Russkoye Slovo 1938

box 3, folder 37

Palijenko, A. 1947-1953

box 3, folder 38

Panchuk, B. 1947

box 3, folder 39

Parfentiev, A. A. 1925-1955

box 3, folder 40

Petrograd-Rigaer Commerzbank 1922

box 3, folder 41

Plakov, A. 1931-1935

box 3, folder 42

Ponamarev, Rev. N. 1955

box 3, folder 43

Popov, S. A. undated

box 3, folder 44

Prianishnikoff, E. 1922-1950

box 3, folder 45

Rex, Leonid 1930-1950

box 3, folder 46

Ribo, Nikander M. 1946

box 3, folder 47

Rogozhin, Anataloii Ivanovich 1949

box 3, folder 48

Romanovsky, B. 1927-1930

box 3, folder 49

Ross, Mary A. 1942-1947

box 3, folder 50

Rossos, Hieromonk Serafim 1947-1950

box 3, folder 51

Rossos, Hieromonk Valerian 1938

box 3, folder 52

Ruska Vojna Knjizara 1930

box 3, folder 53

Russian Refugee Relief Society of America, Inc. 1923-1927

box 3, folder 54

Sapejko, D. A. undated

box 3, folder 55

Schmaltz, Rev. Gerasim 1933

box 3, folder 56

Schultz, G. V. 1929-1936

box 3, folder 57

Sergievsky, B. 1953

box 3, folder 58

Shaposhnikov, Very Rev. V. G. 1929-1949, undated

box 3, folder 59

Shatilov, E. 1954-1959

box 3, folder 60

Shkurkin, P. V. 1921-1941, undated

box 3, folder 61

Souiz revnitelei pamiati Imperatora Nikolaia II 1937-1952, undated

box 3, folder 62

Sokolnikov, S.I. 1929

box 3, folder 63

Stahl, Francis S. 1924

box 3, folder 64

Stakhevich, M.S. 1940

box 3, folder 65

Staschuk, Pavel 1946-1947

box 3, folder 66

Strenopoulos, Archbishop Germanos 1946

box 4, folder 1

Tkachev, N. 1957

box 4, folder 2

United States. Consulate, Lyon, France 1924-1927

box 4, folder 3

United States. Department of Justice 1952

box 4, folder 4

University of Southern California 1935

box 4, folder 5

Van Liew, W. R. 1924

box 4, folder 6

Vernadskii, G. V. 1932

box 4, folder 7

Viktor, Bishop 1940

box 4, folder 8

Vozrozhdenie (La Renaissance) 1936

box 4, folder 9

Vysshii Monarkhicheskii Soviet 1930

box 4, folder 10

Wanty, H. 1921-1922

box 4, folder 11

Wells, Collin 1945

box 4, folder 12

Wood, Jennings 1950

Scope and Contents

See also: Niedmann, F.
box 4, folder 13

YMCA undated

box 4, folder 14

Zaitsev, K. 1922

box 4, folder 15

Zimmermann, J. H. 1927

Scope and Contents

See also: Schultz, G.V.
box 4, folder 16

Znamenskii, Rev. Leonid I. 1934

 

Maps undated

Scope and Contents

Maps of Eastern Europe, the Trans-Siberian Railroad, and other subjects, arranged by subject.
box 4, folder 17

Maps undated

 

Subject file 1906-1951, undated

Scope and Contents

Articles and documents pertaining to mining, the oil industry, current events, history, politics, and other topics, arranged alphabetically by subject.
box 4, folder 18

Gulag camps undated

box 4, folder 19

Koshevoi, Archbishop Apolinarii undated

box 4, folder 20

Kuznetsov, Konstantin undated

Scope and Contents

Art cards created by Kuznetsov.
box 4, folder 21

Military orders 1916-1917

box 4, folder 22

Mining 1906-1917, undated

box 4, folder 23

Obshchestvo rasprostraneniia russkoi natsionalnoi i patrioticheskoi literatury 1938-1940

Scope and Contents

Contains bulletins published by this organization.
box 4, folder 24

Oil industry undated

Scope and Contents

Contains charts and blueprints of oil wells.
box 4, folder 25

Persecutions of Christians in China 1951

box 4, folder 26

Polenov, V. D. 1942

Scope and Contents

A color print of "Moskovskii dvorik"
box 4, folder 27

Rublev, Andrei undated

Scope and Contents

A print of Rublev's "Holy Trinity"
box 4, folder 28

Russian Embassy, Constantinople 1923

Scope and Contents

Bulletin from the Embassy's church.
box 4, folder 29

Russian Imperial air force undated

box 4, folder 30

Russians in Hawaii undated

box 4, folder 31

Vasnetsov, Viktor undated

Scope and Contents

A color print of "Bogatyri"
 

Miscellany 1898-2007, undated

Scope and Contents

Artwork, ephemera, invoices, poetry, and other items, arranged chronologically.
box 4, folder 32

General 1898-2007, undated

 

Photographs 1912-1960, undated

Scope and Contents

Photographs of landscapes, Holy Transfiguration Parish in Los Angeles, Vladimir Vasilevich Krat, and other subjects, arranged alphabetically by subject.
box 5, folder 1

Caucasus undated

Scope and Contents

2 color prints of landscapes.
box 5, folder 2

Fedorov, E. V. undated

box 5, folder 3

Holy Transfiguration parish, Los Angeles undated

Scope and Contents

2 photographs, see also Znamenskii, Rev. Leonid I. and Krat, V.V.
box 5, folder 4

Iuri undated

Scope and Contents

A possible photo of George Krat
box 5, folder 5

Krat, V. V. 1960

Scope and Contents

A photograph of V. V. Krat taken in Santa Monica, California
box 5, folder 6

Kreshch, Valerii 1912

box 5, folder 7

Lippet, John undated

box 5, folder 8

Mausoleum of Lenin undated

Scope and Contents

A postcard of the mausoleum
box 5, folder 9

Nicholas II undated

Scope and Contents

2 photographs
box 5, folder 10

Orphanages in the Soviet Union undated

Scope and Contents

4 photographs and negatives
box 5, folder 11

Resurrection Cathedral, Kodiak, Alaska undated

box 5, folder 12

Saint Petersburg Mining Institute undated

box 5, folder 13

Zamiatin, Ivan Efimovich undated

Scope and Contents

6 group photos of engineers and officers outside of a mine 17 versts from Chita
box 5, folder 14

Znamenskii, Rev. Leonid I. 1942

box 5, folder 15

Unidentified 1950, undated

Scope and Contents

3 photographs
box 5, folder 16-36

Miscellany undated

Scope and Contents

See also: Oversize file
box 6, folder 1-10

Miscellany undated

 

Oversize 1893-1964, undated

Scope and Contents

Oversize subject files consisting of newspaper clippings about cultural, historical, political, religious, and other topics, arranged alphabetically by subject; oversize photographs, arranged alphabetically by subject; oversized miscellany items organized alphabetically by physical form.
 

Employment records undated

box 7, folder 1

Employment records undated

box 7, folder 1

Geological map undated

 

Subject file 1926-1964, undated

box 7, folder 2

Alaska 1940-1964

box 7, folder 3

Asia 1927-1954

box 7, folder 4

Carpatho-Rusyns 1929-1943, undated

box 7, folder 5

Church life 1927-1950, undated

box 7, folder 6

Dekhterev, Hieromonk Aleksei 1945-1946

box 7, folder 7

Displaced persons 1945-1952

box 7, folder 8

Gurski, P. 1946

box 7, folder 9

Moscow 1929-1949

box 7, folder 10

Oil industry undated

box 7, folder 11

Orthodox church 1926-1962

box 7, folder 12

Persia 1941

box 7, folder 13

Przhevalskii, N. M. undated

Physical Description: Oversize
box 7, folder 14

Rozhdestvenskii, Metropolitan Platon 1927-1934

box 7, folder 15

Russian diaspora 1947-1950

box 7, folder 16

Russian Imperial Family 1928-1943

box 7, folder 17

Russian inventions 1938-1955, undated

box 7, folder 18

Russians in Los Angeles 1927-1960, undated

box 7, folder 19

Russians in Yugoslavia 1939-1946

box 7, folder 20

Russo-Japanese War 1929-1950

box 7, folder 21

Second World War 1941-1946

box 7, folder 22

Shaliapin, F.I. 1929-1938, undated

box 7, folder 23

Shaposhnikov, Very Rev. V. G. 1940-1954

box 7, folder 24

Shkurkin, P.V. 1929-1940

box 7, folder 25

Soviet Union 1928-1950

box 8, folder 1-3

Miscellany 1893-1994, undated

Scope and Contents

Contains clippings and printed matter consisting of a calendar from 1893 and books on the Japanese language printed in Russian.
 

Photographs 1909-1956, undated

box 8, folder 4

Department of County Engineers, Los Angeles 1956

Scope and Contents

Group photo of Los Angeles County Engineers, including V. V. Krat.
box 8, folder 5

Group photo of engineers 1909

box 8, folder 6

Group photo of engineers undated

box 8, folder 7

Group photo of officers and their families undated

box 8, folder 8

Miscellany undated

Scope and Contents

3 photographs