DR. GAVRILA IUGA AND HIS SIBERIAN WAR JOURNAL
DR. GAVRILA IUGA AND HIS SIBERIAN WAR JOURNAL

Summary/Abstract: Dr. Gavrilă Iuga (1880-1940) was a Romanian lawyer from Maramures and an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army during the First World War. On July 31, 1916 he falls prisoner on the Russian front. Then the Kingdom of Romania was a military ally of the Tsarist Empire and, therefore, it was the question of organizing, on a voluntary basis, former Romanian-born soldiers from the Austro-Hungarian Army who had been killed prisoners in Russia and the establishment of regiments to be integrated into the Romanian Armed Forces. In this context, Dr. Gavrilă Iuga was given the mission to travel to Siberia to identify Romanian prisoners there and, with the consent of the Tsarist authorities, to team up with Romanian Army uniforms and to organize them in detachments to travel and to fight on the Marasesti front. To this end, Dr. Gavrilă Iuga conducted an intense campaign to convince these prisoners to join the Romanian Army, distributing even a propaganda newspaper edited for this purpose.

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