The role of the People's Commissariat of the Textile Industry of the USSR in the placement of Leningrad textile workers, re-evacuation of equipment and restoration of enterprises in 1942

Abstract

This article examines the activities of the People's Commissariat of the Textile Industry of the USSR for the placement of Leningrad textile workers, the re-evacuation of equipment, the restoration of destroyed enterprises and the construction of new facilities in 1942. Great attention is paid to solving organisational issues of increasing production capacity in order to produce finished products necessary for uninterrupted supply of the needs of the front and rear. The content of the article is mainly based on the materials of Moscow, Ivanovo and Yaroslavl regions, since it was their textile enterprises that bore the main burden of fulfilling defence orders during the period under review. To write it, the office materials of the People's Commissariat of the Textile Industry of the USSR, the State Planning Commission under the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR, the State Defence Committee and the Office of Alexei Kosygin were used. Most of such information obtained in the State Archive of the Russian Federation, the Russian State Archive of Economics, the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History and the State Archive of Ivanovo Region has been introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. The article is addressed to specialists in the field of the history of Russian textile industry, to graduate students, undergraduates and students of higher educational institutions.