Plenipotentiary of the All-Russian Union of Cities for the 11th Army

Collection

Holding institution (official language):: Центральний державний історичний архів України, м. Київ

Title:: Plenipotentiary of the All-Russian Union of Cities for the 11th Army

Title (official language):: Уполномоченный Всероссийского союза городов при 11-й армии

Creator/accumulator:: Plenipotentiary of the All-Russian Union of Cities for the 11th Army

Scope and content:: The description below is based on a single catalogue entry that describes in general terms a group of institutionally related fonds, which are listed individually in the Yerusha database. The description covers material from the Plenipotentiary of the All-Russian Union of Cities for the 7th Army, the 11th Army and the Special Army. Information known to refer to the fond of the Plenipotentiary of the All-Russian Union of Cities for the 11th Army in particular is mentioned in the final paragraph.

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Included are materials of the All-Russian Union of Cities’ main committee; mentions of Jews attaining the rank of non-commissioned officer, and awarded the cross of St. George; information on activities of structures of the All-Russian Zemstvo Union in providing aid to the population of towns that had suffered in the course of the war; etc.

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Particular to the Plenipotentiary of the All-Russian Union of Cities for the 11th Army is information on the state of the Jewish hospital in the city of Starokonstantinov, and on the participation of Jews in the Starokonstantinov City Duma.

Administrative/biographical history:: The All-Russian Union of Cities to Aid Sick and Wounded Warriors was established in 1914 at a Moscow congress of mayors in connection with the outbreak of the First World War; its purpose was to provide medical, food, and other aid to the army in the field and to the population suffering due to the war. In certain locations, particularly in the Southwestern territory and Galicia (a part of Austro-Hungary that was occupied by Russian forces after the military operations of 1914-16), and also on particular fronts and with certain armies, plenipotentiaries of the All-Russian Union of Cities functioned to organize the army’s sanitary and medical services; set up advance detachments to provide food and epidemic control; evacuate refugees; allocate humanitarian aid to the population of cities and towns in the frontline zone; etc. In carrying out these tasks in areas where troops were stationed, they worked together with bodies of city self-government.

Structures of these plenipotentiaries’ administrations (ambulance detachments, dental offices, hospitals, etc.) included a considerable number of Jews, among them student volunteers. The All-Russian Union of Cities was disbanded by decree of the RSFSR Council of People’s Commissars in January 1918; operations of the All-Russian Union of Cities’ plenipotentiary in Galicia were curtailed even earlier, in 1916, due to the Russian Army’s loss of most of the territory it had occupied.

Subject terms:: Aid and relief; Genealogy; Health and medical matters; Health and medical matters--Hospitals; Military