Charitable activities in the Perm province in the initial period of the First World War (1914–1915): the experience of spatial analysis (Based on the materials of the newspaper «Perm Zemskaya Nedelya»)

Abstract

The publications are analyzed, containing data on charitable activities in Russia in the First World War, in the issues of the magazine “Perm Zemskaya Week”. The information is entered into a relational database. Based on this information, a mathematical-cartographic model was created, that reflects the spatial distribution of militarized charitable actions in the Perm province during the campaigns of 1914 and 1915. The most active were the economically developed cities, the least active were the counties far from the center of the province, and the agricultural counties show an average involvement in charitable activities