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[Elena Ostrovskaya]

Right, that's a committee (?) for quartering of the military.
You can see it in Alexander Weltman's novel (1846), for example:

   - Поручик Дмитрицкий; вот не допрошусь, где квартирная комиссия:
заготовить надо квартиру его благородию.

http://az.lib.ru/w/welxtman_a_f/text_0220.shtml


You can check it for a wider context.



Elena Ostrovskaya



On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:08 AM, J F Levin <ameliede at earthlink.net> wrote:

> In the Pamyatnaya knizhka Kovenskago guberniya 1861, in the lists of
> offices of various towns, they each seem to have
> a "kvartirnaya komissiya".  Since I don't think this is just an "apartment
> commission", I wonder if it was something like
> a "quartering komission", perhaps making recommendations to the army
> regarding appropriate housing for military?
> Jules Levin
> Los Angeles
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