Zemgor ( or Объединённый комитет Земского союза и Союза городов; literally ''United Committee of the Union of

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s and the Union of Towns'') was a Russian organization created in 1915 to help the government with their efforts in

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. The first Chairman of the Committee was Prince

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, a representative of the

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. The organization was disbanded by

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s in 1919. While disbanded in Russia, a number of emigrated former functionaries decided to reestablish the organization with the same abbreviated name, Zemgor, and in 1921 it was officially registered in

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as an organization helping Russian emigrants. Its official names were Российский Земско-городской комитет помощи российским гражданам за границей in Russian and ''Comite des Zemstvos et Municipalités Russes de Secours des Citoyens russes à l'étranger'' in French. The first chairman of the Paris organization was Georgy Lvov, then A. I. Konovalov and A. D. Avksentiev. In the beginning of 1920s Zemgor was recognized as the main welfare organization helping Russian emigrants but later went into obscurity.Zemgor article in Rubricon online encyclopedia

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{{reflist Paris in World War I White Russian emigration 1915 establishments in the Russian Empire 1919 disestablishments in France 1921 establishments in France Russian Empire in World War I Home front during World War I February Revolution France–Russia military relations