The activities of A. A. Dunin-Gorkavich as vowel Tobolsk city council on the pages of "Siberian leaf"

A. A. Dunin-Gorkavich - known researcher of Tobolsk North, ethnographer, public figure. Despite this, lesser known side of his life is the work in the position of the vowel of the Tobolsk city Duma last convocation pre-revolution (1914-1917). He actively participated in the discussion of important issues related to land, rail, commercial, industrial, food, financial, educational, construction, sanitary and other problems. Among them were: the project of railway connection of Siberia with the Trans-Siberian railway, the construction of the backwater for the winter inter-navigational period, the supply of the population with food and essential goods in the period of the First world war, rationing of prices for the sale of bread, rent parts of the coast of the Irtysh river and the territory on Panina the hill, the placement of the arriving prisoners, a number of issues on the improvement of the settlement, firewood, etc. A. A. Dunin-Gorkavich was a part of the permanent (rail, landscaping, auditing, food, financial) and time (commissions, teaching, forestry, etc.) commissions. Work in each of them require serious effort, much time or stamina to effectively address issues. To examine important source is periodicals. In this case most fully and vividly reflected the activities of the municipal government body and its committees received in the pages of liberal Newspapers, «the Siberian paper». Many of the paper's staff personally knew the researcher, which fueled their interest in the personality of the scientist. The composition of the elected Duma in the most part consisted of merchants and officials, and one-third participated in the work of the previous convocation. Thus, internal rotation was low. A. A. Dunin-Gorkavich at the same time served as an officer on special assignments for the Superintendent of land tenure and farming of the Ministry of interior participated in the work of public organizations, trying to use the Duma rostrum to resolve the issues before these agencies of problems.