Medical sketches of post-revolutionary daily occurrences in Yaroslavl

The article analyses the book “Yaroslavl in the Circle of Epidemics: Revolutionary Daily Occurrences in the Province” (Yaroslavl, 2012) by N.A. Mironova, a historian from Yaroslavl, in the context of modern historiography, with a special attention being paid to 1918-1922 mass epidemics in Yaroslavl province as well as extremely unfavourable sanitation conditions in Yaroslavl mainly as a result of the destruction in the course of putting down the 1918 anti-Bolshevik revolt. The author argues that such a huge scale of city epidemics was facilitated by an acute sewage disposal problem which both the population and medics had to face, the other negative factors being the destroyed and dysfunctional municipal economy and lack of medical staff trained for mass epidemics conditions. It is concluded that N.A. Mironova's book is a valuable contribution to the research on the history of Yaroslavl, the everyday history in the post-revolutionary Russia, and the history of epidemics in Soviet Russia.