History of Russia: "The Urals’ Economics before and during the First World War" Exhibition in Yekaterinburg

"The Urals’ Economics before and during the First World War" exhibition opens on August 15, 2014, at the Documents Depository Center of Sverdlovsk Regional Scientific Library named after V. G. Belinsky.

The exhibition marks the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II - one of the utmost dramatic events in the history of XX century.

The exhibition offers the documents, including photographs and drawings from the Russian archives, illustrating how the Urals lived in the rear at the time of the First World War and how was its economic situation right before the great changes of the XX century.

The exhibition shows how the economy of the Urals was managed before the war and during it, what was the condition of all heavy industries, including defense, mining, metallurgical, machine-building, as well as those that are responsible for production of provisions and food supplies. Viewers will be able to get acquainted with the materials on agricultural production, to learn about the problems of the conscription of peasant population, and to read a report on grain procurement for army needs. Some documents will show a state of transport development, which was essential in wartime. Among them the material on the mining rail transport, the water-born cargo shipment, and so on. Other sections of the exhibition present financial and banking documents of 1914-1918 years, the papers that tell how labor was organized in the factories, including a use of army prisoners, and about charity and donations made during the First World War.