Service record of my great grandfather Shlyom Malinskiy.
This copy was issued in the 1950s in Sevastopol.
‘Service Record
Harbor admiralty squadron fi28, Private Shlyom Malinskiy as of 1855 Copy
Referencefi 557:
From the concise incoming log as of May 12, 1856 entry made by the head of Sevastoopol harbor squadron regarding the retirement pass of senior private Shlyom Berkovich Malinskiy, who serviced at the Black Sea Fleet Harbor admiralty squadron fi28, where it is indicated that he is conferred with a silver medal with the inscription:
For the Defense of Sevastopol in the period of 13 Sep 1854 - 28 Aug 1855
R Nikolayeva, March 10, 1909
The head of Chernomorsk archive, collegian council Ivanov.
Retired at the age of 45. Was drafted from Volyn province of Ostovsk town. A fair-haired Jew, with the height of 2 arshines (1 arshin is 2 feet, 4 inches) and 5 vershoks (1 vershok is 1, 75 inches) with hazel eyes.
On Nov 27, 1828 was recruited in 17 squadron as a worker of the 4th rank. On Jan 1, 1839 was upgraded to the workers of the 3rd rank and transferred to squadron 18 .
On Jan 1, 1842 was upgraded to the workman of the 2nd rank and later on this year he was upgraded to the workman of the first rank.
He was appointed a senior private of the 4th crew in Feb 24, 1852 . Was enrolled in Harbor admiralty squadron fi28 on June 10, 1852.
He did not keep company.
Participated in defense of Sevastopol in the period from 13 September 1854 to March 10, 1855 in the Anglo-Norman battle.
By the end of the military service Shlema was married to Shedva Leibova. They had a son Avrum-Itsek and a daughter Leya, the two-year old one.
In 1840 was on the leave for 6 months, came back on time.
The head of the squadron lieutenant colonel Goud
The head of Chernomorsk archive’
My ancestors settled in the Crimea long before I was born. My father's generation - Jacob Goldenberg's lived in Simferopol [about 1350 km to the south from Moscow].
My parental great grandfather Shlema Malinskiy settled in Simferopol in 1856 after his army service in Sevastopol was over [Sevastopol is about 1430 km to the south from Moscow].
He was in the Black Sea Fleet of the tsar's army during the Crimean war. By the tsar's decree Jews, who had defended Sevastopol were entitled to settle in that city.
[In Tsarist Russia Jews were allowed to settle only in the Jewish Pale of Settlement, apart from merchants and doctors, who were permitted to settle in larger cities too. This case an exception was made based on military merits.] That is why my ancestors settled in Crimea.
I kept the service record of Shlema Malinskiy [great grandfather] as of 1855 in our family archive, obtained by my mother from the Black Sea Fleet. From the archive data I found out that my great grandfather was born in 1811.
He was drafted from Volyn province of Ostrovtse town. The service record says that he was a fair-haired Jew, with the height of 2 arshines and 5 vershok [Russian length measures of the 19th century: 1 arshin = 71.1 cm, 1 vershok = 4.4 cm, so his height was 164.2 cm] with light complexion and hazel eyes.
He was a senior private, conferred with a silver medal with the inscription: For the Defense of Sevastopol in the period of 13 Sep 1854 - 28 Aug 1855.He did not know Russian grammar, but he was well-up in sailing, and was promoted a number of times.
As it is indicated in the service record , by the end of the military service Shlema was married to Shedva Leibova. They had a son Avrum-Itsek and a daughter Leya. [Dora, the grandmother is not mentioned in the records]
