World War I: Yekaterinburg committee of the Red Cross in the rear and at the front

On May 16, 2024, the Sverdlovsk regional branch of the Russian Red Cross turned 147 years old, whose main goal has always been to prevent and alleviate the suffering of people in various situations, both at the front and in the rear, selflessly and sparing no effort in responding to any challenges of the time. This publication presents materials revealing the activities of the Yekaterinburg Committee of the Russian Red Cross Society during the First World War (1914–1918). During the war, both at the front and in the rear, the Yekaterinburg Committee of the Red Cross held many events to assist various groups of the population affected by the hostilities: opening hospitals for the wounded, raising funds for their maintenance, providing humanitarian assistance to families of soldiers and forced refugees. One of the most important directions in the work of the Yekaterinburg Committee of the Red Cross was the mass training of nurses.Ural medical workers, who were members of the Russian Red Cross Society, went to the front, among whom were German Sokratovich Myshkin, Claudia Andreevna Myshkina-Beloborodova, Vasily Konstantinovich Shamarin, Valentina Nikolaevna Diomidovskaya, Dmitry Vasilyevich Hirin and others. Of particular interest is the work of the Ural doctor K. A. Beloborodova in the floating typhoid hospital of the Russian Red Cross "Petrograd".