Description
Diaries, correspondence, speeches and writings, printed matter, and photographs, relating to agriculture in Russia prior to
World War I, White Russian relations with the United States during the Russian Revolution and Civil War, and Russian émigré
affairs.
Background
I. K. Okulich was born on 13 November 1871 (O.S.). He received his degree in agricultural engineering from the Swiss Polytechnic
in Zürich in 1894. In 1896 he began government service in the Ministry of Agriculture, and was appointed the following year
as Government Agronomist of the Tomskaia guberniia. In 1905 he was appointed head of the Agricultural Section of the Department
of Agriculture in the same ministry, a post he had held as acting director since 1903. In 1906 he was appointed Acting Director
of State Property for the Eniseiskaia guberniia (confirmed in this post in 1909), simultaneously serving as Vice-Inspector
of the Forester's corps of the Irkutskaia guberniia. The years 1912-1913 he spent in the Balkans as a special agent of the
Ministry of Trade and Industry, returning to the Ministry of Agriculture in 1913 as Assistant Director of the Department of
Agriculture in charge of the Fishing and Game Hunting Section.
Extent
7 microfilm reels
(1.0 linear_foot)
Restrictions
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Availability
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.