Social assistance to the Jewish evicted to Siberia during World War I

The article reveals regional peculiarities of government and public support of the Jewish evicted by an administrative procedure from front-line areas of the West of the Russian Empire to Siberia during World War I. It draws attention to the particularities of terms "refugee" and "evacuee". It is noted that with minor exceptions, evacuees did not arouse compassion in local people, but at the same time they contributed to activation of Jewish communities. The article is based on relatively unknown published written documents and papers as well as on archival records which are mostly introduced into scientific circulation for the first time.