Tarasov M.O.

Regional support for servicemen — victims of Russo-Japanese campaign of 1904–1905 (materials from Kaluga Governorate). Pp.16-23.

UDC 94(470.318).083.4

DOI 10.37724/RSU.2025.87.2.002

 

Abstract. The article deals with practices of support for participants of the Russo-Japanese conflict of 1904–1905 in one region of Russia. It deals with the importance of the measures aimed at post-war rehabilitation of persons who suffered during the military conflict. Using the example of the Kaluga Governorate, we analyze the situation of the veterans who defended the Fatherland, as well as the implementation of social protection mechanisms that supplemented the existing system of pensions, developing as a consequence of the Russo-Japanese campaign.

The paper examines the activities of provincial and district military offices in the assignment of benefits to persons who had suffered during the Russo-Japanese War, assesses the amount of payments made and the procedure for considering petitions. The author pays special attention to the work of the Kaluga committee for finding positions for military men who had sustained injuries in the war with Japan, as a special mechanism of post-war rehabilitation of the defenders of the Fatherland.

In the course of the archival research the author noted actual manifestation of the authorities’ attention to the problem of post-war adaptation of the participants of the Russo-Japanese War in the region.

 

Keywords: Kaluga Governorate, Russo-Japanese war, military conscription, post-war adaptation, pension system.

 

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