ASSISTANCE TO REFUGEES IN UFA PROVINCE DURING THE WORLD WAR I

The problem of the organization of assistance to refugees during the World War I on the part of government institutions and public organizations, including national, Ufa province, occurred in the first months of the war is considered. Hostilities of the World War I had caused a mass displacement of civilians and gave rise to forced evictions of hundreds of thousands of people from the frontline area to the rear of the governorate of the Russian Empire. As in the early XX century in modern local military conflicts lead to mass displacement. Therefore the study of the experience of the organization of aid to refugees is relevant, because it can help in solving the problems to some extent similar to the modern. The involvement of previously unpublished sources, of records of charitable societies, periodicals, helped to show the main directions of assistance to refugees in one of the rear provinces of the country. The presented material allowed us to conclude that in the solution of problems related to ensuring the existence of the refugee population in the rear provinces, all local social forces were involved.

World War I, province, refugees, assistance, public organization