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 XIII. The Joint Committee of the unions of Zemstvos and of towns for the supply of military equipment and munitions

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THE ZEMSTVOS DURING THE WAR Evacuation of Industrial Establishments from Localities Threatened by the Enemy. The Zemgor proposed to introduce some order and regularity of industry into the process of the evacuation for it was being carried out without system and was causing untold harm to the evacuated works. Through its representatives in the government commission in charge of evacuation, the Zemgor proposed that a definite system of recording and unloading evacuated machinery and material should be set up. With the aid of a special staff, the Zemgor com- piled careful lists and took charge of the unloading of machinery and other equipment arriving in the interior of the country. For consignments of which it was impossible to ascertain the ownership, it erected a special assembling factory where such equipment was repaired and generally made serviceable. It would then hand over the equipment to the establishments working for national defense. Inquiries by the agents of the Zemgor established the fact that some of the most valuable consignments, including expensive ma- chinery which could not be bought in Russia at any price, would often be scattered over a number of railway stations, sometimes at the most remote places, where they would be unloaded and aban- doned, without care or supervision. This led the Zemgor to take a more active part in the evacuation of industrial plants. On the one hand it was necessary to persuade the Government to introduce some system and order into the process and to assist it in its efforts in this direction. On the other hand everything possible had to be done to enable evacuated establishments to resume their interrupted opera- tions without avoidable delay or friction in the interior of the country. With this object in view, the Zemgor, through its local agents collected information concerning factory premises, that could be bought or leased. It inspected these premises and went so far as to consider the possibility of either buying or leasing sites in different towns that might be suitable for the erection of factory buildings. It also collected information with regard to machinery and equipment that was offered for sale. All such information was concentrated at Moscow and placed at the disposal of the Zemgor’s contractors working for the national defense and of the owners or managers of evacuated establishments.

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