Metadata: Plenipotentiary of the All-Russian Union of Cities for Galicia
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Kyiv
- Holding institution (official language):
- Центральний державний історичний архів України, м. Київ
- Postal address:
- 03110, м. Київ-110, вул. Солом'янська, 24
- Phone number:
- 380 (044) 275-30-02
- Web address:
- cdiak.archives.gov.ua
- Email:
- mail.cdiak@arch.gov.ua
- Reference number:
- F. 895
- Title:
- Plenipotentiary of the All-Russian Union of Cities for Galicia
- Title (official language):
- Уполномоченный Всероссийского союза городов в Галиции
- Creator/accumulator:
- Plenipotentiary of the All-Russian Union of Cities for Galicia
- Date(s):
- 1915/1916
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 16 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Scope and content:
- Among the fond’s documents are licences of Jewish employees of the All-Russian Union of Cities’ Committee on Galicia to move freely in frontline cities; information on Jewish students working in structures of the All-Russian Union of Cities; information on All-Russian Union of Cities institutions providing aid to elements of the population that had suffered in the course of the war (refugees and evacuees from war zones); data on locations in Galicia with a significant Jewish population; etc.
- Administrative/biographical history:
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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.
- Access points: locations:
- Galicia
- Subject terms:
- Aid and relief
- Education
- Education--Students
- Military
- Refugees
- Statistics
- System of arrangement:
- The fond includes a single inventory systematised chronologically. Some of the materials are unsystematised.
- Finding aids:
- An inventory is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary