A.S. ERMOLOV AS A REFORM FIGURE OF THE HEALTHRESORT BUSINESS IN THE LATE 19TH - EARLY 20TH CENTURIES
Keywords:
special facilities, visitors, city status, resort electrification, Mineralovodsk railway line, Technical Committee on Healthcare, mineral waters, springs, protection districts, S. N. Kulibin, V.V. Khvoshchinsky, V.A. Bashkirov, Directorate, Government Commissioner, A. S. Ermolov, Minister of Agriculture and State Properties, Mining Department, Caucasian Mineral WatersAbstract
The presented article is devoted to a little-studied period in the history of management of Caucasian Mineral Waters from 1894 to 1905. The article reveals topical issues of improving the regulatory framework in the management of health resorts under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Agriculture and State Properties and the supervision of Alexey Sergeyevich Ermolov. Within the framework of the conducted study, the goals and causes of changes in the forms of resort management, structure and functions, as well as its financing system, are identified. The article reviews the aspects of Mineral Waters management reform aimed at improving mining, sanitary, medical, and balneological aspects, and the capital and railway construction, which were completed following the need to modernize the resort business. Particular attention is paid to the system of the resort administration’s interaction with central and regional management bodies. The major economic component is identified as the organization of production and sales (export) of mineral water as a source of income and, therefore, the creation of a special fund for the development of the health-resort business. The article reviews the reasons and studies the problems of transferring state-owned health resorts from the formalized jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the Mining Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and State Properties.
