
RAILWAY TRANSPORT OF WESTERN SIBERIA IN PROVIDING FOOD FOR THE ARMED FORCES AND POPULATION IN LARGE CITIES OF EUROPEAN RUSSIA DURING WORLD WAR I
Author(s) -
I.A. Eryomin
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
vestnik altajskogo gosudarstvennogo pedagogičeskogo universiteta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2413-4481
DOI - 10.37386/2413-4481-2021-3-71-76
Subject(s) - population , world war ii , european population , business , food supply , transport system , economy , geography , engineering , transport engineering , agricultural economics , economics , environmental health , medicine , archaeology
The article deals with issues of the process of railway transport functioning in Western Siberia during World War I and its role in the transportation of food for the armed forces and the population of large industrial centers of European Russia. The potential of railway transport in the region in the period under review is characterized. The stages of using the regional railway transport for the delivery of goods for military needs are identified. The reasons for the crisis in railway transport and its consequences for the supply of food to the military and civilian population are analyzed.