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Title: V. G. Ulitin papers
Date (inclusive): 1916-2008
Collection Number: 2009C14
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
61 manuscript boxes, 2 card file box, 7 oversize boxes, oversize memorabilia
(36.0 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, printed matter, photographs, and memorabilia relating to Russian émigré affairs, Russian culture,
Cossack history and Cossacks in emigration, and post-World War II resettlement of Russian displaced persons.
Creator:
Ulitin, V. G. (Vladimir Grigorʹevich), 1905-
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2009.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], V. G. Ulitin papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical Note
Vladimir Grigor'evich Ulitin was a Russian-American educator and relief administration worker in displaced persons (DP) camps
in Japan and America. He was born in 1905 to a Don Cossack family. Vladimir was enrolled in a cadet corp. After forced evacuation
in 1920, he continued his engineering studies at Robert College in Constantinople and at the University of Belgrade. Upon
graduation, he worked as an engineer, but also participated in many émigré organizations, including Cossack associations and
Narodno-Trudovoi Soiuz (NTS). Vladimir Ulitin became involved in Quaker relief to displaced persons in Germany and Austria
after the war. He was responsible for promoting émigré resettlement in the United States. Ulitin brought over a group of some
120 Cossacks to work in citrus groves in Southern California and established a Cossack settlement in Glendora. Ulitin returned
to his studies at California State University in Los Angeles, and in 1960 became an associate professor of Russian Social
and Historical Studies at Pomona College, where he worked until his retirement in 1975. Thereafter he devoted himself to social,
historical and charitable work, writing on Cossack history for émigré periodicals, organizing meetings and so forth. With
the collapse of the USSR he became involved in efforts to re-establish the Cossack Host in Russia in the 1990s. He died in
Claremont on 21 December 2004
Scope and Content of Collection
Collection consists primarily of materials collected by Vladimir Grigor'evich Ulitin and includes correspondence, writings,
printed matter, photographs, and memorabilia, relating to Russian émigré affairs, Russian culture, Cossack history, and Cossacks
in emigration, and post-World War II resettlement of Russian displaced persons. The V. G. Ulitin papers also document his
long career as an educator and language expert at Pomona College. Some of the material in the collection reflects the interwar
period, but in the most part concerns the post-World War II period, in particular resettlement of Russian displaced persons
in California. Many documents in the collection refers to the establishment of a Cossack settlement in Glendora in the 1950s-1970s.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Russians -- United States
World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees
Russia -- Civilization
International relief
Cossacks