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• Prenumeranten lists have been discovered which include the kolonyas.

  While the entire lists merit translation here are some highlights. The transliteration maintains the actual Hebrew spelling.

  • "Imrei Shmuel" by Shmuel Kalonymus Eizinbod (1911)
  • "Kohelet Yitskhak" by Yitskhak Tzvi Margolin, Rabbi of Sladkovodna(1911)
• Grafskoy revision list 1858.
• Mezherich revision list, 1858. Donated by Michoel Rotenfeld, New York
• Duma voters list from Melitopol uyezd contributed by Victor Kumok.
  Preface. Surnames:  Ab-Az     Bab- Bez    Big-Byk    Cha-Diu     Cha-Dov     Dra-Fot
  Fra-Gof    Gog-Gzh    Ide-Kat     Kau-Kof    Kog-Kra    Kre-Lek    Lem-Maj     Mak-Mol
  Mom-Oso    Ost-Pol    Pon-Rov     Roz-Sha    Shc-Sil    Sim-Suv    Sve-Tyu
  Udo-Yav    Yed-Zyu
• Surname lists
1. surnames from various sources
   1. "Hamaggid Hebrew newspaper" held by Chaim Freedman
   2. "Prenumeranten lists" held by Chaim Freedman
   3. The c.1850 list of colony founders' surnames listed in a RAGAS journal which
          describes the source as a researcher Feldman in Moscow
   4. 1858 Revision List from a selection of colonies, extracted by a research
          commission to the Zaparozhe Archives (via RAGAS)  for the Komisaruk and
          related families.
2. Prenumeranten list of 2000 names in colonies and towns of Yekaterinoslav and Kherson Guberniyas,  from 'Imrei Shmuel', Part three , 1912. Full text at http://www.hebrewbooks.org/31410.
   • Translation of names from Dobra colony
3. List of Jews of Vitebsk Governorate resettled in S. Novozlatopol in Russian Cyrillic and in English
4. Zatishye colony - donor list from Hamaggid Hebrew newspaper 1872
• Jews Registered in Ekaterinoslav in 1847 List of Jews who had moved to Ekaterinoslav Gub. at the expense of the state in 1847 and were registered in Elaterinoslav in 1848 (Fond 1-49, inventory 1, file 2779. pages 21-35).
•  Primary documents of Ekaterinoslav Revision Census 1858, Selected families:
• Grafskoy: Golesh,  Komisaruk (Russian) , Komisaruk (English translation),
• Nadezhnaya
• Trudoliubovka
• Krasnoselka
• Roshnoshnoye
• Zelenoe Pole (donated by Michoel Rotenfeld)
• Mezhirech (donated by Michoel Rotenfeld)
• Zelenoe Pole (Appendix M)
• Novozlatopol
•  Grafskoy Revison Census 1858 Russian original scanned; to be translated. Surnames list in english is also avaiable.
  
•  Svir Revision List 1858 (part): Contributed by Arnold Wolff (Svir Reseacher)
• 1850 Revision Lists
  From Myadel Belarus: Those who re-registered in Colonies
  Zelenopole revision lists donated by Michoel Rotenfeld
  • Zelenopole 1850 Revision List (Part 1)
  • Zelenopole 1850 Revision List (Part 2)
• "Novozlatopoler Rayon" Part 1 - (Novozlatopol Region) by G. Sandler, published by "Emes" Moscow 1935.
  A study of the Novozlatopol Jewish Autonomous Region in the Soviet Period. donated by Michoel Rotenfeld
• "Novozlatopoler Rayon" Part 2 - (Novozlatopol Region) by G. Sandler, published by "Emes" Moscow 1935.
  A study of the Novozlatopol Jewish Autonomous Region in the Soviet Period. donated by Michoel Rotenfeld
•  RAGAS REPORT - Archival Sources for Jewish Colonists in the 19th Century, includes list of original settlers for colonies in the Aleksandrovsk Uyezd, Ekaterinoslav Gubernia.
• A letter concerning the Romanovka Colony in 1843 
• A letter concerning the Nowyj Berislav Colony in 1843. Signatures translation.
  
• A letter concerning the Nowo Poltavka Colony in 1843. Signatures translation.
• Voters lists: Shultz and Beizitzer election for Ekaterinoslav Gub. colonies (1861-1869), including partially translation.
• Memoirs of Grafskoy 1907-1921, by Rabbi Yehudah Leib Chiel Shifrin, son of a rabbi of Grafskoy.
• Holocaust Victim Lists
  • List of Novozlatopol massacre Victims of the Holocaust in Russian Cyrillic and in English
• Holocaust: Interview of residents of former Jewish colony Novozlatopol by Father Patrick Desbois
• Colonists lists:
• People who moved from Kovno Gubernia to Grafskoy (1850-1852)
• Surnames list
• Transcribed
• All pages scanned
• People who moved from Vitebsk Gubernia to Novozlatopol (1850-1852).
• List 1 (selected families)
• List 2 (surnames list)
• All pages scanned. Transcribed in Russian Cyrillic
• and in English
  
• Mezhirech colonist list (1890)
• Surveys of colonies - Two books which contain extremely valuable information about the Ekaterinoslav colonies:
  • L. Uleinikov [Binshtok], Jewish Agricultural Colonies in Ekaterinoslav Province in 1890, St Petersburg, 1891; (210 pages)
  • I. Kankrin, Jewish Agricultural Colonies of Aleksandrov Uyezd Ekaterinoslav Province, Ekaterinoslav, 1893. (267 pages)
• "THE FINAL CHAPTER": AGRO-JOINT WORKERS - VICTIMS OF THE GREAT TERROR IN THE USSR, 1937-1940 by Mikhail Mitsel
• Were there eighteen or seventeen colonies?
  • Novozlatopol aerial photo
  • German 1941 map
• Komisaruk family