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Title: Russia. Voennyĭ agent (Japan) records,
Date (inclusive): 1906-1921
Collection number: 28013
Creator:
Russia. Voennyi agent (Japan)
Collection Size:
16 manuscript boxes
(6.4 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Letters, telegrams, contracts, minutes, receipts, memoranda, reports, accounts, declarations, requests, orders, instructions,
packing and shipping specifications, invoices, insurance policies, bills of lading, blueprints, tables, diagrams, certificates,
and lists, relating to the Japanese Army, political movements in Japan, and the purchase by the Russian Army of military supplies
from Japanese firms. Also available on microfilm (34 reels).
Language:
Russian.
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], Russia. Voennyi agent (Japan) records, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives.
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1928.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the online catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Alternative Forms of Material Available
Also available on microfilm (34 reels).
This record group was previously accessioned at the Hoover Institution as the M. P. Podtiagin collection. It consists of the
records of the Russian Military Attaché in Japan from 1906 to 1921, plus the files of a number of military offices and organizations
subordinate to the Military Attaché. The latter include the Supervisor for the Inspection of Quartermaster Stores in Japan,
the Senior Tester and Technical Consultant of the Artillery Committee of the Chief Ordnance Administration, the Chairman of
the Commission for the Inspection of Artillery Supplies Ordered in Japan, the Far Eastern Military Supply Commission, and
the Director of Artillery Inspection. These agencies were created to facilitate the purchase and shipment of military supplies
from Japan during the period 1914-1921. Upon their dissolution, the records and funds of these agencies were turned over to
the Military Attaché.
The office of the Military Attaché in Japan served essentially two purposes. From 1906 to 1914, the Military Attaché sent
regular reports to the General Staff Headquarters of the Imperial Russian Army on various characteristics of the Japanese
Army (size, organization, troop dispositions, weapons, the military budget, etc.) and on the political situation in Japan.
After the outbreak of World War I, the chief duty of the Military Attaché appears to have been the negotiation of contracts
with various Japanese firms for the purchase of military supplies (clothing, medical supplies, weapons, raw materials, foodstuffs,
etc.), as well as overall direction of inspection and shipment procedures for these goods. The office remained intact after
the Russian Revolution in 1917 and continued to serve as a conduit for supplies, first for the Provisional Government, and
latter--from 1918 to 1921--for the All-Russian Government at Omsk.
The office of the Military Attaché in Japan was occupied by Major-General V. K. Samoiloff from 1906 to 1915, Colonel N. Morel
from 1915 to 1916, Colonel V. Iakhontoff from 1916 to 1918, and Major-General M. P. Podtiagin, the former Senior Tester and
Technical Consultant of the Artillery Committee, from 1919 to 1921.
Letters, telegrams, contracts, minutes, receipts, memoranda, reports, accounts, declarations, requests, orders, instructions,
packing and shipping specifications, invoices, insurance policies, bills of lading, blueprints, tables, diagrams, certificates,
and lists, relating to the Japanese Army, political movements in Japan, and the purchase by the Russian Army of military supplies
from Japanese firms.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the repository's online public access catalog.
Russia. Armiia--Procurement.
World War, 1914-1918.
World War, 1914-1918--Japan.
World War, 1914-1918--Russia.
Japan.
Japan--Politics and government--20th century.
Japan--Military relations--Russia.
Russia.
Soviet Union.
Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921.
Russia--Military relations--Japan.
Military attachés.