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Archival documents concerning World War I prisoners of war in Pavlodar uyezd (Kazakhstan)
Abstract
More than a century separates us from the beginning of one of the most tragic pages in the history of the 20th century - the World War I - which, by its cruelty, shook the societies of many countries of the world at the time and influenced universal history. The conflict claimed the lives of many millions of people. The number of prisoners of war on both sides was also unprecedented compared to previous wars. By 1917, 2.2-2.4 million prisoners of war had been taken into Russian captivity from the armies of the Central Powers. They included Germans, Austrians, Hungarians, Romanians, Turks, Poles, Bulgarians, Slovaks and Czechs. In her source material, the author presented archival documents from the stocks of the Pavlodar Oblast State Archive and the Central State Archive of the Republic of Kazakhstan, many of which are published for the first time, as well as on periodical press materials of the period under study. The analysis of the identified sources makes it possible to reconstruct a more or less complete picture of the stay on the territory of the Pavlodar Oblast of a group of prisoners of war of the Austro-Hungarian army who were taken captive in 1914-1916. Archival documents as a source of historical knowledge contain inexhaustible information resources for research. With the independence of the Republic of Kazakhstan, previously unexplored topics of history became available for research, one of which is the subject of the presence of World War I prisoners of war in the Pavlodar region.
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prisoners of war, World War I, Kazakhstan, Pavlodar, tsarist RussiaDetails
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