3-005-566 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Irkutsk Voluntary Fire Society. Zeichmester of the society A.I. Andreev, member of the council P.N. Verkhovinsky, head of the Society’s hunters D.A. Benkogenov, chairman of the society I.F. Istsenov, doctor of the society L.S. Zisman, Irkutsk fire chief P.M. Myakinin, 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.