Military operations in Belarusian lands

Life on the front line in the Russian army

Soldiers at the field kitchen. Western Front. [1915-1917]. Photo. (BGAKFFD, 0-99271)
Wartime food rationing for low rank soldiers at Brest-Litovsk Garrison (for 100 men). 10 January 1915. Certified copy. Hectograph. (NIAB in Grodno, f. 674, op. 2, d. 11, l. 27)
Officers of the 4th Siberian Cossack Regiment have dinner at the field. Western Front. 1916. Photocopy. Photo. Belarus: Narod. Gosudarstvo. Vremia. Minsk, 2009. P. 226. (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of the First World War)
Emperor Nicholas II tastes food at the 8th Moscow Grenadier Regiment. [1916]. Photocopy. Photo from the RIA Novosti news agency. http://ria.ru (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of the First World War)
Field sanitary train for first aid to the line troops. 1915. Photocopy. Photo. Belarus: Narod. Gosudarstvo. Vremia. Minsk, 2009. P. 225. (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of the First World War)
Soldiers pray in front of the Military church. Gomel. 1914. Photo. (BGAKFFD, 0-97334)
Notification of the issue of permit to a senior priest at the church of Volkovysk to receive tobacco at the tobacco factory at Volkovysk for the needs of the active army. 9 December 1914. Manuscript. (NIAB in Grodno, f. 30, op. 1, d. 778, l. 2)
Field church of the 112th Ural Infantry Regiment in the forest near the village of Mishuty, Vileika district. Vilna province. [1914-1915]. Photo. (BGAKFFD, 0-99243)
Archbishop Tikhon of Vilna and Lithuania visits the 277th Pereyaslavl Infantry Regiment. Ludvinovo, Vilna province. 1916. Photocopy. Photo. Belarus: Narod. Gosudarstvo. Vremia. Minsk, 2009. P. 226. (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of the First World War)
Fragments from the film "The birth of the army": Russian soldiers at rest and the drill of a female battalion. [1915-1918]. Belarusfilm cinema studio, director M. Israelian; cameramen V. Golikov, I. Shumeiko. Film record. 1987. Duration 16 secs. (BGAKFFD, № 2881)
Members of the Turkestan Division after drill. Western Front. 1916. Photocopy. Photo from the collection of M. Lukovnikova. (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of the First World War)
Officers of the Turkestan Division at their dugout. Western Front. 1916. Photocopy. Photo from the collection of M. Lukovnikova. (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of the First World War)
Officers of the Turkestan Division at the regiment’s headquarters. Western Front. 1916. Photocopy. Photo from the collection of M. Lukovnikova. (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of the First World War)
Soldiers of the Turkestan Division near a peasant’s hut. Western Front. Winter 1916. Photocopy. Photo from the collection of M. Lukovnikova. (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of the First World War)
Officers of the Turkestan Division catching fish. Western Front. 1916. Photocopy. Photo from the collection of M. Lukovnikova. (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of the First World War)
Members of the Turkestan Division listen to the gramophone. Western Front. 1916. Photocopy. Photo from the collection of M. Lukovnikova. (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of the First World War)
Officers of the Turkestan Division at rest. Western Front. 1916. Photocopy. Photo from the collection of M. Lukovnikova. (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of the First World War)
Members of the Turkestan Division at rest. Western Front. 1916. Photocopy. Photo from the collection of M. Lukovnikova. (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of the First World War)
Members of the Turkestan Division during an improvised concert. Western Front. 1916. Photocopy. Photo from the collection of M. Lukovnikova. (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of the First World War)
Officers of the 530th Vasil-Sursk Infantry Regiment rest at campfire. December 1916. Photo. (BGAKFFD, 0-99281)
Soldiers of the 530th Vasil-Sursk Infantry Regiment near the doctor’s dugout in the village of Zamostye. Vileika district, Vilna region. July 1917. Photo. (BGAKFFD, 0-99268)