Russian local government during the war and the Union of Zemstvos

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Identifikator:: 1794855874

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-179223

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Polner, Tichon I. http://d-nb.info/gnd/172311195

Title:: Russian local government during the war and the Union of Zemstvos

Place of publication:: New Haven

Publisher:: Yale Univ. Press

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: XXV, 317 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter XI. Work in the army

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WORK IN THE ARMY 221 each visitor was only 201% copecks, and this included the cost of administration, amortization of property, and transport. On the northern front, which after 1915 was made independent of the western front, bathing facilities for the troops were provided on practically the same basis. Toward the close of 1916, fifty-seven bathhouses and fifteen laundries were in operation on this front. The number of men who used them in the course of a period of twelve months was almost 2,500,000. On the western front the Zemstvo Union began the organization of bathing facilities by opening several large laundries and bath- houses at important points of military concentration, such as Brody, Lvov, and Brest-Litovsk; as early as February, 1915, it was found necessary to supply each army corps with a detachment capable of providing fourteen bathhouses. The estimate allowed for the con- struction, as a beginning, of sixty bathing stations which would re- juire an initial expenditure of 60,000 rubles and a monthly cost of maintenance of 30,000 rubles. These plans, however, were not car- ried out immediately, for a considerable number of bathhouses be- longing to the Unions of Towns and to the Red Cross Society were available on the southwestern front. Unwilling to create needless competition, the Zemstvo Union came to an understanding with the Union of Towns by which the former was to deal with requirements behind the lines, whilst the Union of Towns was to attend to the needs of the troops at the front. By July, 1916, there were already twenty zemstvo detachments functioning outside the military zone. The staffs received a preliminary training in a training camp in Kiev before joining their units. The necessary equipment and articles of underwear were supplied to the detachments after their arrival at their destination by the nearest depot of the Zemstvo Union. The detachments operating outside the military zone opened from one to nine bathhouses each. They were not attached to a definite army unit; most of them re- mained in one place and they had little opportunity to show initia- tive. On the other hand, the Union of Towns did not succeed in meeting fully the requirements of the army and the Union of Zem- stvos received numerous applications for the establishment of bath- ng stations. This is why, in spite of its agreement with the Union 2% Ibid., Nos. 64-66, pp. 8-15. * Ibid., No. 49, p. 144.

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