VOLUNTEER ACTIVITY EXPERIENCE OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN RUSSIA DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR (1914-1916)

The paper is based on the materials of the Central State Archive of Moscow and is devoted to the characteristics of funds and documents containing information about the work of voluntary labour associations of students during the First World War. The introduction of new documentary sources stored in archival institutions into scientific circulation fills the gaps in revealing the history of the formation of the volunteer movement of young people in 1914-1916 on the territory of various guberniyas (governorate) of the Russian Empire. They are a valuable source which allows determining the key principles of the organization and formation of voluntary student squads and identify the specifics and timing of the types of the field work performed.