Аctivities of Tomsk istpart for the preservation of the documentary heritage

The author appeals to the unstudied history on formation and activities of Tomsk department of the Commission for the study of October revolution history and Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) (RCP(b)), known as Tomsk Istpart. Documents preserved in the Center for Documentation on Contemporary History of Tomsk Region allow her to find out that the Tomsk Istpart was created in March 1922, and worked for six years. Now it is known that Istpart was part of the agitation-propaganda department in Tomsk province / district Committee of RCP(b). It had a certain autonomy as a subsection. During 1920-s leaders of Tomsk Istpart were Martsinkovsky, Volfovitch, Oletsky, Dzhuravskhy, and others. N.N. Bakai, head of Tomsk Provincial Archives, took place in work of Istpart as well. The staff of Tomsk Istpart collected the memories of Revolution 1917 and Civil War participants. Employees of district and county Communist Party committees helped them to identify the documents, attracted the veterans of the revolution to collecting of photos and other memorials of the revolutionary years. Tomsk Istpart contacted the active participants in the revolutionary struggle by itself. Participants of Tomsk underground in Civil War period collaborated with Tomsk Istpart, they were P.K. Golikov, A.A. Ivanova, F.A. Krylov, V.S. Mitryayev, F.E. Orlov and others. Tomsk Istpart received invaluable assistance of the Siberian Section of Old Bolsheviks, organized in Moscow. Prominent veterans of the Revolution and the Civil War - A.I. Belenets, V.M. Bronner, I.N. Smirnov, V.D. Vegman - supported Tomsk Istpart. Their support and assistance provided formation of written documents fund, collection of photographs, leaflets, banknotes of the revolutionary years. All the collected materials were stored in Tomsk in a temporary file. Later they were transferred to the Istpart of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Central Committee, to the Museum of the Revolution in the USSR, and to Sibistpart in Novosibirsk. In 1920-s materials of Tomsk Istpart were published in the newspaper "Krasnoe Znamya", in the magazine "The Past of Siberia" and in the book "The way of Struggle". In 1923 Istpart organized an exhibition of its collections in the hall of Tomsk regional museum. There were exhibited newspaper, posters, portraits of revolutionary leaders, pictures of the victims of Kolchak's terror, photo of Military Socialist Union members. Dismantling a network of local istparts was began in 1928 by a decision of the Central Committee of Communist Party, and the Tomsk Istpart was closed too. Still the documents were not lost, much of them has been preserved in Tomsk. They have of great cultural value, and must be studied and published.

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