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Photos from the Family Archive of I.G. Novgorodtsev as a Source about the Perm Paramilitary Fire Department and the Steamship “Groza”
Authors: Nadezhda I. Demidova, Vladislav V. Zhdanov
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The article publishes photographs from the Novgorodtsev family archive, reflecting the service of the head of the family, Ivan Grigorievich Novgorodtsev, in the 19th paramilitary guard detachment of the Ministry of River Fleet from 1952 to 1960. All photographs are made in black and white, characteristic of that time, and are published for the first time. Their analysis was carried out, based on the available dating and images, it was revealed that, apparently, the paramilitary guards of the Kama River Shipping Company during this period experienced problems with uniforms. In particular, the people depicted in the photographs have numerous deviations from the latest instructions on clothing, issued long before by the ministry. Based on the paperwork documentation of the Kama River Shipping Company, a reconstruction was made of the biography of the fire vessel «Groza», depicted in photographs from the family archive. The ship, built in 1929, came to the Kama after the war as part of reparations and was a former tugboat “Frida”. In 1948 it was renamed “Kambala”, and in 1950 “Groza”. The fire vessel was listed on the balance sheet of the shipping company until its decommissioning in 1967. Thus, photographs of the family archives of shipping company employees have enormous potential for clarifying the facts of the history of the river fleet and its individual structures, which are not even mentioned in official documentation. This, in particular, is especially relevant, for example, for the paramilitary and fire protection – a rather closed structure, due to the limited source base, which has not been studied and has not been studied to date.