МОБИЛИЗАЦИЯ ЛЮДСКИХ И МАТЕРИАЛЬНЫХ РЕСУРСОВ КАЗАХСТАНА НА ОБОРОНУ СССР

Abstract

The article deals with the issues of mobilization of human and material resources of Kazakhstan in wartime conditions. According to the revealed data, during the war years of 1941-1945, 24% of the population of the republic was mobilized for the defense of the USSR and the Labor Army. As the analysis of documents shows, the restructuring of the national economy forwar conditionswas carried out from July 1941 to July 1942. During this time, more than 1600 evacuated enterprises were located in the republic, 142 of them began to produce military products. The work of all people's commissariats, as well as the transport system, was rebuilt. Light industry provided the army with uniforms and warm clothing. 12 new mines were built and the subsoil of the Zhezkazgan region was developed. Kazakhstan during the war years gave the country more than 70% of polymetallic ores, 90% of lead and other strategic products.The article also discusses the mobilization of agricultural resources. In 1941-1942 the area under crops in the republic was expanded. In addition, the article shows the activities of public bodies to provide voluntary assistance to the front, to raise funds for the construction of tank columns, air squadrons and other equipment. In the course of the study, the authors came to the conclusion that during the war years all the resources of Kazakhstan were mobilized for the defense of the USSR. Out of 1 million 367 thousand, every second Kazakhstani who fought on the fronts of the war remained on the battlefields. 700 thousand Kazakhstanis worked in the labor army (200 thousand of them were Kazakhs). Most of them worked outside the republic.