Russkii Arkhiv

253-261

Authors: Sergey I. Degtyarev

This paper presents a little-known and previously unpublished document, containing a list of land, that were owned by landlords and other residents of Okhtyrka in 1770–1776 years. This document a valuable source for the study of problems of genealogy, local history, social and economic history.

272-305

Authors: Nikolay F. Bugai

The offered publication of documents is dated to 150th anniversary voluntary resettlement of Koreans in the territory of the Russian Empire (1864). Documents are revealed in the State archive of the contemporary history. Earlier weren't published. The main attention is concentrated on a state in the Korean environment in Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic and Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic of educational work in the 1950th years and further, the organizations of work of mass media, creative collectives – the Korean musical theater, etc. Representatives of the Soviet Korean elite were direct participants of process of compulsory resettlements of an ethnic community to the called republics in the second half of the 1930th years. Koreans had to overcome difficulties of economic character, to pass not only adaptation and integration into local society, but also such more capacious factors of everyday life as spatiality and time. The second part of published documents opens features of process of an embodiment of idea about the Korean autonomous statehood. With this idea Koreans acted, since 1914. Evolution of this period is documentary reflected, conclusions are drawn on expediency of construction of not territorial autonomy with its institutionalizing, formation of institutes of civil society. In the 1990th years the idea received realization.

163-190

Authors: Evgeny F. Krinko, Tatiana P. Khlynina

The interview with Anatoly Konstantinovich Agarkov was dedicated to the history of his family, his military childhood, Nazi occupation, and his private life during World War II. Throughout the war, the respondent lived in Rostov-on-Don with his parents.

208-216

Authors: Irina G. Tazhidinova

The interview with World War II veteran, Colonel of the Guards (Retired) Mikhail Dmitrievich Shibanov is dedicated to everyday life at the front and his life in 1942-1945. Much attention is devoted to Shibanov’s relations with family and friends during the war.

85-92

Authors: Zoya A. Chumakova

In the recent years one of the most promising studying methods is a genre prosopography database, involving the study of mass sources to form based on a statistical analysis of their dynamic information «collective biography». At the present time, the technical and information resources make possible the formation of a database prosopography «Don in the First World War». It`s clear that in the first phase of the database`s creation it is necessary to identify the set of documents, which allow the mass or «salvo» static input of personal data. This project presents several groups of people: direct participants in hostilities; don officials and military administration of Cossack self-government and public figures of the First World War; temporarily residents on the Don territory. Direct participants in hostilities - the Cossack officers and enlisted men and officers and lower ranks of the non-Cossack origin, natives Don. On the first stage of formation of the database, it is necessary to identify the sources and methods of input static and dynamic data.

113-138

Authors: Igor A. Novikov

This is the first publication summarizing the documents, reflecting the contribution of the South Ural region on the events of the First World War. It is based on the documents stored in the united archive of the Chelyabinsk region and the archieve of Zlatoust district of Chelyabinsk region. The documents show the role of local authorities in carrying out the mobilization, the transference of economy on the increasing of the military production, the organization of resident`s lives, refugees and prisoners in war conditions.

10-50

Authors: Evgeny I. Sazonova, Yury M. Smirnov

In the diary of the Murom petty bourgeois Alexander Ivanovich Gladkov (1815–?) life of «the little person» from the province, the chosen occupation by trade by the vital path is reflected. It is history of the native of rather poor family who work and self-education achieved certain success, however I lost everything because of alcoholism. Notes fix many parties of a life and relationship of inhabitants of the ancient merchant city and bribe the frankness, addressing to those parties of private life about which then aloud didn't speak.

64-72

Authors: Maxim V. Medvedev

The publication provides documents of Documentation Centre of Recent History in Rostov Region. These materials characterize the role of party authorities in the construction of the Rostov defense area (1941–1942).