3-005-560 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Irkutsk police fire brigade. Exercise with tarpaulins, shields, crowbar and hooks, 1894. This collection of photographs and documents from the private archive of Sergei Mikhailovich Chashchin relates to the establishment of a firefighting service in eastern Siberia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It includes materials about early firefighting equipment, the organization of a Siberian firefighting team, and the leaders of Siberia's first firefighting service.