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CHARTERS AND REPORTS OF CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS AND PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS AS A SOURCE OF INFORMATION ABOUT VOLUNTEER ACTIVITY IN RUSSIA IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE XIX CENTURY // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2018. Issue 3 (192). P. 198-205

The history of volunteer practices in prerevolutionary Russia is among the major problems that attract increasing attention of researchers. The need to study them is caused not only by scientific, but also by the practical need for a deeper consideration of volunteer activity in the system of charitable institutions and public organizations. The statutes and reports of these organizations are valuable sources, significantly broadening and refining our understanding of the history of volunteerism in Russia in the second half of the 19th century. Reflecting the nature of society itself, they contain information about their composition (quantitative and personal), organizational structure, subordinate organizations and activities, as well as practices of public volunteers. Thanks to the availability of such a document as the charter, members of the society first got an idea of the procedure for using the rights granted to them and the sphere of application of volunteer efforts and free labor. The article analyzes statutes and reports of the Tver Charitable Society for the Promotion of Women’s Labor, the Orenburg Slavic Charitable Society, the Arkhangelsk Sobriety Society, the Odessa Society for Combating Drunkenness, the Charitable Society for the Publication of Useful and Cheap Books, the Society for the Improvement of National Labor in Memory of the Tsar Liberator Alexander II, the Charitable Society for the Protection of Animals, the St. Petersburg Slavic Charitable Society, and others.

Keywords: charitable institutions, volunteers, volunteer activity, report, public organizations, charter, membercompetitors

HISTORY OF THE RISE AND DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENTS’ VOLUNTARY LABOR BANDS AS A FORM OF VOLUNTEER ACTIVITY OF THE YOUTH ON THE TERRITORY OF THE KURSK GUBERNIA DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2018. Issue 5 (194). P. 123-128

The history of volunteer activity of students in the years of the First World War is presented on the basis of office documents of educational institutions of the Kursk province, concentrated in the State Archives of the Kursk region. The need to study them is caused not only by the scientific, but also by the practical need for a deeper consideration of the volunteer activity of young people in pre-revolutionary Russia. Documentary materials are valuable sources, greatly expanding and refining our understanding of the formation of a volunteer movement of young people in a difficult time for the country. The article reflects the issues related to the examination of the essence, content and types of volunteer activity of the youth in the war years. Presents the data on the history of the formation of the first labor squads of pupils – in 1915–1916 on the territory of the Kursk province to help families of peasants drafted into the army, analyzes the features of the volunteer movement of the youth at the initial stages of formation of voluntary student groups, reveals the difficulties encountered by the organizers of the squads. It was the labor squads that became one of the most widespread forms of organizing amateur volunteer initiative youth associations that cared for distressed citizens, solving the problem of labor shortage in villages throughout the country, which increased after the recruitment of older men. The need to study them is caused not only by scientific, but also by the practical necessity for a deeper consideration of the volunteer movement of the youth in pre-revolutionary Russia.

Keywords: sources, youth volunteer movement, labor squads of students, labor aid, agricultural work, educational institutions, the First World War, Kursk province