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Appendix A: Partial List of Districts and Towns Served by the A.R.A.
Appendix B: Partial List of American Personnel Pictured in Personnel Photographs
Appendix C: Partial List of Russian Officials and Citizens Who Worked fro the A.R.A., Pictured in Personnel and Other Photographs
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Title: American Relief Administration Russian operational records
Date (inclusive): 1919-1925
Collection Number: 23003
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
557 manuscript boxes, 2 cubic foot boxes, 13 oversize boxes, 1 oversize folder
(251.56 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, telegrams, memoranda, reports, agreements, minutes, histories, financial records, lists, press summaries,
and photographs relating to American relief in the Soviet Union following the Russian Civil War, and food and public health
problems, agriculture, economic conditions, transportation and communications, and political and social developments, in the
Soviet Union.
Creator:
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
Creator:
United States. Navy
Creator:
American Relief Administration
Creator:
American National Red Cross
Creator:
American Friends Service Committee
Creator:
Near East Relief (Organization)
Creator:
United States Grain Corporation
Creator:
Litvinov, M. M. (Maksim Maksimovich), 1876-1951
Creator:
Nansen, Fridtjof, 1861-1930
Creator:
Gorky, Maksim, 1868-1936
Creator:
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Creator:
American Mennonite Central Committee
Creator:
National Lutheran Council
Creator:
Save the Children Fund (Great Britain)
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1923.
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[Identification of item], American Relief Administration. Russian operational records, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover
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Appendix A: Partial List of Districts and Towns Served by the A.R.A.
Crimean District - Feodosia
- Atouzi
- Einlage
- Erapokino
- Feodosia
- Sevastopol
- Simferopol
- Zinevko
Kazan District - Tartar Republic
- Kazan
Minsk District
- Minsk
Moscow District
- Moscow
Petrograd District
- Petrograd
Samara District - Bugurus Uzed
- Buzuluk
- Orenburg
- Samara
- Stavropol
Saratov District
- Saratov
Simbirsk District
- Simbirsk
Tsaritsyn District - The Don Cossacks
- Spaask
- Tsaritsyn
Ufa District - The Bashkir Republic
- Chelyabinsk
- Chouganack
- Ekaterinburg
- Miass, Siberia
- Ufa
- Sterlitimak
- Zlaroust
Ukraine District - Odessa
- Alexandrovsk
- Belgorod
- Choutitsa
- Ekaterinoslav
- Kharkov
- Kiev
- Mariupol
- Melitopol
- Nikolaev
- Odessa
- Poltava
Appendix B: Partial List of American Personnel Pictured in Personnel Photographs
These individuals are listed by the districts with which they were associated when they served in Russia with the A.R.A.
The Crimea
- Brown, J. M.
- Kohl, Tracy
- Morehead, Dr.
Kazan
- Boyd, J. H.
- Cox, J. E., Dr.
- Turner
- Venear, S.
Petrograd, Moscow, and Minsk
- Beeuwkes, Henry, Dr.
- Blattman, B.
- Brown, Walter Lyman
- Burland, Elmer
- Carroll, Philip J.
- Davenport, Walter P., Dr.
- Dawson, J. H.
- Gilchrist, Harry L.
- Golder, Frank A.
- Goodrich, Governor
- Grove, C. W., Lt.
- Haskell, Billy (son of William N. Haskell)
- Haskell, Henry, Dr.
- Haskell, William N., Col.
- Hutchinson, Lincoln
- Johnson, Charles H.
- Kellogg, Vernon
- Mangan, J. J.
- Mitchel, M. M.
- Nickelson, Dr.
- Pate, Maurice
- Quinn, C. J.
- Rickard, Edgar
- Ringland, Arthur
- Robbins, Caroline
- Shafroth, William C.
- Walker, Herschel C.
Samara
- Foucar, F., Dr.
- Wolfe, Henry
Saratov
- Cobb, Russel
- Hand
- Kinne, David
- Stack, J., Dr.
Simbirsk
- Coleman
- Dawson, J. H.
- Fox, Edward
- Godfrey, M., Dr.
- Levit, Dr.
- Rein, Richard
- Renshaw, Evan
- Sheild, Philip B.
Tsaritsyn
- Bowden, Carlton
- Cormick, George, Dr.
- Morris, C. S.
- Stephens, Dorsey
Ufa
- Beard, Bernard
- Bell, William, Col.
- Blandy, Harold
- Dickinson, Dr.
- Garner, W. C.
- Hofstra, Piet Hein
- Kelly, W. F.
- Krueger, J. W., Col.
- Lykes, Gibbes
- Rollins, Dr.
- Sloan, Dr.
The Ukraine
- Harrington, George
- Hynes, J. H.
- Lyman, Frank, Dr.
- Meyer, Rev.
- Morehead, Dr.
- Parker, Leonidas
- Spratt, J. W.
Miscellaneous
- Baird, S. P.
- Daley
- Dickinson, T. H.
- Dodge, Earl
- Flesh, E. M.
- Gardner, Nellie E.
- Janicki, J. M.
- Lonergan, J. M.
- Pearson, R. A.
- Rapp, George
- Renshaw, Donald
- Smith, C. C.
- Telford, Major
- Traynham, Floyd
- Wood, Lt.
Appendix C: Partial List of Russian Officials and Citizens Who Worked fro the A.R.A., Pictured in Personnel and Other Photographs
- Ablitsov (Ablitzoff)
- Akmidulin, Fachii (Fachy Acmidoulin)
- Alekseev (Alexef)
- Babin, Aleksei (Alexis Babine)
- Borodin, B. G.
- Butkovskii (Butkowski)
- Chakuntkhakova, Mrs. (Mrs. Tchakounthakoff)
- Chernik (Tchernik)
- Chicherin (Tchtcherin)
- Eiduk, Aleksandr (Alexander Eiduk)
- Elmanov (Elmanoff)
- Gerstnovich, Lev (Leon Gerstnovich)
- Iakunchipov, Olga (Olga Yacountchipoff)
- Kamenev, Lev (Leon Kamenev)
- Kameneva, Mrs.
- Krasin (Krassin)
- Kubalerova, Mariia
- Lander
- Litvinov, Maksim (Maxime Litvinoff)
- Nikolaev, Dr. (Dr. Nickelaev)
- Popov, Iurii (Georges Poppoff)
- Radek
- Sabin, Kyra (Kyra Sabine)
- Savalev (Savalieff)
- Semiashko
- Shukov, Z. Z. (Z. Z. Shukoff)
- Simonov, Dr. (Dr. Simonoff)
- Tregubov, S., Dr. (Dr. S. Tregubow)
- Trotsky, Leon
- Trotsky, Natalia Sedova (Mrs. Leon Trotsky)
- Volodin, A. S. (A. S. Volodjin)
- Zhukov (Zhukoff)
- Zinovyev, Grigory Yevseyevich (Tovarisch, Zenovieff)
- Zubarev (Zoubareff)
Historical Note
The American Relief Administration was established in February 1919 as the agency designated by President Woodrow Wilson to
administer the relief measures authorized by the Congressional appropriation of $100,000,000 approved February 25, 1919. During
the period of its activity, 1919-1923, offices of the A.R.A. were established in New York, Washington, and major cities of
Europe, the Near East, and Soviet Russia. Russian relief was initiated in August 1921 under an agreement with the Soviet government,
and by 1923 district missions were established in the capitals of most of the provinces of the Russian Socialist Federated
Soviet Republic, the Ukraine, the Crimea, and the North Caucasus.
In total, the A.R.A. furnished over 90 percent of all relief that went into Russian between 1921 and 1923. Soviet authorities
provided all transportation, warehousing, buildings, and currency required for payment of Russian staff. Funds equalling some
$60,000,000 were made available by Congressional appropriation, public charity, and Soviet government gold reserves. Administrative
personnel numbered 200 Americans with about 80,000 Russians under their direction. Between 1921 and 1923, a little under a
million tons of food, seed, clothing, and medical supplies were distributed in Russia through an organization of 35,000 different
stations. During the worst period nearly 11,000,000 men, women, and children were fed. Medical supplies were furnished to
15,000 hospitals and institutions, and over 7,000,000 individuals received inoculations and vaccinations. From seed imported,
about 8,000,000 acres of land were sown.
During the Russian operations principal officers of the A.R.A. included Herbert Hoover, Chairman; William N. Haskell, Director
for Russia; Cyril J. C. Quinn, Assistant Director for Russia; Henry Beeuwkes, Medical Director for Russia; Vernon Kellogg,
Lincoln Hutchinson, and James P. Goodrich, Special Investigators for Russia; Frank A. Golder, Special Representative, Russia;Edmund
L. Daley and Philip Mathews, Executive Assistants for Russia; Walter Lyman Brown, Director for Europe; Christian A. Herter,
Assistant Director,Washington Office; James A. Logan, Jr., Continental Representative, Paris Office; Philip S. Baldwin, Chief,
Poland and Danzig Office; Randolph C. Wilson,Chief, Hamburg Office; and Arthur C. Ringland, Chief, Constantinople Office.
A.R.A. operations terminated in Russia on June 15, 1923.
Scope and Content of Collection
Correspondence, telegrams, memoranda, reports, agreements, minutes, histories, financial records, lists, press summaries,
and photographs relating to American relief in the Soviet Union following the Russian Civil War, and food and public health
problems, agriculture, economic conditions, transportation and communications, and political and social developments, in the
Soviet Union.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Soviet Union -- Economic conditions -- 1917-1945
Prisoners of war
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Civilian relief
Refugees
International relief
Young Men's Christian associations
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Refugees
Transportation -- Soviet Union
Reconstruction (1914-1939) -- Soviet Union
Child welfare -- Soviet Union
Young Women's Christian associations