Russian local government during the war and the Union of Zemstvos

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Identifikator:: 1794855874

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

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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 XII. The Central Committee of the union of Zemstvos in the third year of the war

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254 THE ZEMSTVOS DURING THE WAR the government stud farms, after inspecting the convoys of horses purchased by the Zemstvo Union, wrote letters praising their quality and expressing astonishment at the low prices. In June, 1917, the Ministry of War itself requested the Union to buy for the Ministry 80,000 horses for the artillery and transport services at the average cost of 285 rubles per head. This order was accepted for immediate execution and a special branch of the Union was opened for this purpose at Chelyabinsk, Siberia.* Automobile Service. The automobile service of the Zemstvo Union, which was inaugu- rated on a very modest scale, rapidly expanded into a vast and com- plex organization. The Zemstvo Union, at the outset, found it nec- essary to buy automobiles for service both at the front and in the interior. In May, 1915, a special automobile department was or- ganized, to systematize and cotrdinate the work of the automobile services. At first this department carried on its functions in three small rooms with only five men. A year and a half later, there were already over 2,000 employees at work, distributed over several sub- divisions, according to requirements. The automobile depots of the Union in Moscow usually had in stock a million rubles’ worth of spare parts and accessories, of about 10,000 different descriptions. The central depot at Moscow did all the buying that was required for the maintenance of the automobile service. At the front, special shops were established for the repair of these automobiles, but hun- dreds of machines proved incapable of local repair and had to be sent to Moscow for a general overhauling. In November, 1915, an automobile shop was opened at Moscow, and it soon expanded into a regular factory with three hundred workers, who were engaged not only in repair of machines, but also in the production of spare parts which it would have required a great deal of time and expense to obtain from abroad. Permanent schools for chauffeurs and merchants were established by the automobile department. At first they admitted only students of the higher technical schools. Hundreds of chauffeurs who had graduated in these courses were made available for work at the front in the automobile service of the Union, and proved very valu- ¢ Jzvestia (Bulletin), Nos. 37-88, pp. 69-76; No. 48, pp. 29-82; Nos. 64- 66, p. 77; Kratki Obzor Deyatelnosti (Outline), pp. 63-65.

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