Local history collection
Notes of the Bessarabian Statistical Committee: [in 3 volumes] / edited by A. N. Egunov. Regional Board, 1864-1868.
Volume 1. - 1864. - [6], 311, [3], 302 p. : tables.
‘Notes of the Bessarabian Statistical Committee’ is a collection of materials published from 1864 to 1868 on the initiative of the Bessarabian Regional Statistical Committee. It was edited by economist and statistician Oleksandr Yehunov (1824-1897). The ‘Notes’ are a valuable source of factual materials describing the state of industry and agriculture in Bessarabia in the post-reform period (60s-70s of the nineteenth century). They published statistical information about monastery, fief and peasant lands, Bulgarian and German colonies in Bessarabia, state peasants, etc.