| Abstrakt: |
The purpose is to study the organization and functioning of the provincial and district surveyors in the late eighteenth century and until the 1830s to analyze their staff and powers, as well as the peculiarities of their activities in Volyn province. The research methodology is based on the combination of general Scientific (analysis, synthesis, generalization) and special historical (historicalgenetic, historical-systemic, historical-typological, prosopographic, institutional) methods with the principles of historicism, systematicity, and Scientificity, which allows to focus on the functioning of the institute of surveyors in the context of the imperial policy of finding a compromise with the local elite of the border region. The Scientific novelty lies in the study of the service of land surveyors of the Volyn province, which occupied a prominent place in the system of local government. The principles of formation, peculiarities of staffing, and main activities are determined as follows: streamlining state land records, delimitation of owners’ possessions, accumulation and constant updating of various kinds of information, drawing up maps and plans, participation in court hearings, etc. Conclusions. The service of surveyors went through a significant evolution and was finally formalized under the control of the governor and the provincial board. The activities of the Volyn province’s land surveyors were complicated by the diversity of land tenure forms, the presence of the Jewish ethnic group, the boundaries of church properties, and the need to participate in the redistribution of land property in favor of the Russian state. The personnel policy of appointments to positions was peculiar. The authorities launched the training of professional officials, and the Volyn School of Land Surveyors became the only boundary educational institution in the Ukrainian provinces of the Russian Empire, which was to meet the growing need for professional officials, especially in the territories of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, where the performance of duties required knowledge of the Polish language and local specifics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
