Virtual Exhibition “Science in the USSR During the Great Patriotic War” as an Element of the Common Digital Space of Scientific Knowledge

Libraries are actively involved in the processes of achieving the goals of state cultural policy, especially their role increases in the period of information confrontation, distortion of historical truth in modern political conditions, in countering the rehabilitation of Nazism. The year 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941—1945. The Russian State Library carefully preserves the memory of the heroes’ brave deeds, reveals the pages of military history, makes available objective sources about the Great Patriotic War, promotes the historical truth about the tragic events of wartime. The purpose of the article is to highlight the activities of the Russian State Library in this direction. Various projects of the Russian State Library are aimed at the formation of patriotism, a sense of pride in the history of Russia and understanding of the processes that are currently taking place during the special military operation.Events timed to the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War are presented. On April 22—24, 2025 the International Research and Practical Conference “Rumyantsev Readings — 2025” was held, one of its key topics was “Libraries and Preservation of Historical Memory. To the 80th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War”. Within the framework of the conference a special session of libraries of the CIS countries “Pages of the Feat of Peoples” was organized. On May 14—15, 2025, the All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference “Preserving Historical Memory of the Great Patriotic War: The Role of Libraries” was held. Other scientific events are also held: lectures, film screenings, etc.The following exhibition projects of the Russian State Library are presented in the form of an overview: “History of the Great Patriotic War in the Book Memory of Russia: To the 80th Anniversary of Victory”, “Territory of Memory and Glory of Women’s Feat”, “On the Way to the Great Victory: Legislation of the Great Patriotic War Period”, “Maps of Victory”, “Symbols of War and Victory: Visual Art Publications of the Great Patriotic War”, “Living Memory of Generations” and others.For the anniversary of the Great Victory the publishing house of the Russian State Library “Pashkov Dom” prepared and published the books: “Pages of Victory: Leninka in 1941—1945: Chronicle. Documents. Memories”, “Saur-Mogila: From Legend to Feat”, “The Songs Brought About by War and Victory: From the Collections of the Russian State Library”, the second edition of L.I. Fursenko’s index of literature “Publishing, Librarianship and Bibliography During the Great Patriotic War (1941—1945)” and others. A special section “Library of Victory” has been opened in the National Electronic Library, which contains collections of books, periodicals and documents about the Great Patriotic War.The various projects of the Russian State Library reveal rare archival and printed materials, give an opportunity to better understand and evaluate the contribution of our country’s citizens to the Victory, the scale and consequences of the war that changed the course of world history.

Basing on the study of the Internet publications of archival documents, the article considers the issues of publishing digitized copies of archival documents in the electronic environment on the website of the Federal Archive Agency and the “Archives of Russia” portal. The publications were prepared within the framework of the state programs “Patriotic education of the citizens of the Russian Federation” in 2006–2020, approved by the government of the Russian Federation. The present research is the analysis of the virtual exhibition “Stalin-Churchill-Roosevelt. A joint fight against Nazism”; the publications “How and for what we are fighting with the Poles. The anti-Polish program of the OUN in archival documents”; “Ukrainian nationalist organizations during World War II”; “How the Polish underground ‘helped’ the Red Army to defeat Nazi Germany. 1944–1945. Marking the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw uprising of 1944”; “General Vlasov. The story of betrayal”; “Victory. 1941–1945”; “Stalingrad. Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the defeat by the Soviet troops of the German-fascist troops in the battle of Stalingrad”; “Before and after Munich. Archival documents tell the story. Marking the 80th anniversary of the ‘Munich agreement’ ”; “1939: from ‘appeasement’ to war”; “Nuremberg trial documents from Russian archives”; “Documents of the Soviet era”; “Tempered in the Great Patriotic War...”; “Voices of the outstanding Soviet commanders of the Great Patriotic War”; “Officers of the First World War – generals of the Great Patriotic War”. The main attention is paid to the investigation of the composition and the content of publications, their reference-search engine and finding aids, the advantages and disadvantages of that method of publication. The scientific novelty of the article consists in the study of the Internet publications about the Great Patriotic War, in the development of a new research direction – Archeography in the electronic environment (Digital Archeography).

The purpose of the article is to analyze the role of the Museum of History of Tomsk State University in preserving and popularizing materials about the participation of employees and students in the Great Patriotic War; about the activities of the university during the war period. The museum’s first step towards preserving the memory of the Great Patriotic War was the exhibition “Relics of the Great Victory”, which brought together letters, documents, photographs collected by front-line soldiers - university employees (1965). On May 3, 1995, the exhibition “Tomsk University during the Great Patriotic War” opened, which presented photographs, documents, and objects from the collections of the TSU History Museum. In 2005, a book of memoirs of home front workers, “With Faith in Victory! Tomsk University during the Great Patriotic War”. In 2015, the exhibition of the TSU History Museum “Tomsk University - Contribution to the Victory” opened. In the 2010s, the TSU History Museum continued to work to identify the names of those killed in the Great Patriotic War; Cooperation was established with the TSU Information Policy Department, joint materials were prepared for the Alma Mater newspaper, and a calendar of memorable dates was maintained. The museum staff prepared two thematic digital exhibitions: “Tomsk - the city of labor valor: Tomsk State University during the Great Patriotic War” (2020) and “Not a step back: TSU students and employees in the Battle of Stalingrad” (2023). Currently, the museum stores awards, photographs, documents, personal items from the personal collections of I.P. Laptev, V.N. Kessenikh, Yu.V. Chistyakov, M.A. Krivov, V.V. Pottosin, B.M. Tyulupo, V.S. Flerov and other TSU employees. Museum of the History of TSU, starting from the period of its activity as a room-museum of V.V. Kuibyshev, was engaged in collecting and preserving sources about the Great Patriotic War, personal collections of its participants, studying and popularizing them - holding exhibitions and excursions; work to identify the names of those killed in the war. Work in this direction continues to this day. The authors declare no conflicts of interests.

History has not known such examples of heroic deeds, courage, boldness, and military skill, which the soldiers of the Red Army demonstrated during the Great Patriotic War against the German fascist invaders. The Soviet soldier sacrificed his life in the name of victory, boldly faced off with an enemy tank, covered the embrasure of an enemy bunker or earth and timber bunker with his body without hesitation, rammed an enemy plane, etc. Tens of thousands of people from the Checheno-Ingush ASSR, along with all Soviet soldiers, wrote many heroic pages of the antifascist victory and increased the valiant glory of our country. According to the recent studies, the number of Chechens who fought against the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War was more than 40 thousand people. The historical literature reflects the contribution of the Chechen people to the antifascist victory. The paper investigates modern regional historiography in terms of the military and labor feat of the Chechen people during the Great Patriotic War. The main attention is paid to new trends and approaches to understanding the military theme, its key and debatable issues. The authors tried to impartially, based on extensive documentary materials, carry out an objective study on the participation of the Chechen people in the Great Patriotic War. A tremendous amount of work has been done to find and investigate secret documents and materials about the participation of the Chechen people in the Great Patriotic War and their deportation in 1944.

Introduction. During the Great Patriotic War, in the general context of a significant mass volunteer movement of Soviet people, the volunteer movement of the Don Cossacks arose and developed quite actively. It manifested itself in various organizational and structural forms as common, in the form of the voluntary entry of the Don Cossack men and women into fighter battalions, regular and irregular military units, partisan detachments, and special in the form of separate volunteer Cossack cavalry divisions.Materials and Methods. Documents and materials containing information on various aspects of the volunteer movement during the Great Patriotic War in the Rostov Region were identified, analyzed and used. Various research tools are used: complex and multifactorial approaches, descriptive, comparative-historical and historical-systemic methods.Results. The participation of the Don Cossacks in the volunteer movement during the Great Patriotic War was very significant. The Cossack volunteer movement began almost immediately after the outbreak of war. In the Don villages, at numerous rallies of local residents, resolutions were adopted calling on the Cossacks to enlist in the ranks of volunteers of the people’s militia. Two Cossack cavalry divisions were formed from the Don Cossack volunteers. During the war, fighters of Don volunteer Cossack units and formations demonstrated personal courage and bravery, high morale and level of combat training, sustained power and response to orders, were awarded a great number of military orders and medals.Discussion and Conclusion. The volunteer movement of the Don Cossacks was considered in a number of monographic studies and scientific articles devoted, in general, to the study of events during the Great Patriotic War on the Don and the participation of its inhabitants in the war. In historiography, there are also some works in which some aspects of the formation of Cossack regular and volunteer military units were studied. In this study, on the basis of a complex and multifactorial approach, a comprehensive analysis of the participation of the Don Cossacks in the volunteer movement during the Great Patriotic War as part of special Cossack cavalry formations was carried out.

This article, using open historical data, attempts to analyze the participation of Soviet border troops in the Great Patriotic War. Using actor-based and managerial approaches, we identify the specifics of border guard combat training, which allowed them to become one of the elite branches of the USSR Armed Forces. Limited information complicates a sociological analysis of this professional group, as much data on the activities of border guards during this period remains unavailable. Our analysis draws on research by historians and military scholars, as well as memoirs by prominent military personnel, publications by amateur historians, and specialized websites devoted to the Great Patriotic War in general and the contribution of border troops in particular. These factors may have contributed to the limited coverage in the academic literature of border guards' activities during the Great War, their heroism, dedication, and professionalism, which was honed even in peacetime. The analysis revealed factors confirming that Soviet border guards were not only representatives of the government but also actively participated in shaping the sociocultural environment in their areas of service. Moreover, the linear border protection system that existed during the Soviet era and the first decade of the post-Soviet era entailed a unified structure of border districts and their subdivisions. However, the regional diversity of our country (socioeconomic, cultural, ethnic, and geographic) necessitated diversifying the approaches used by border guards, both in the performance of their professional duties and in their interactions with the local population. With proper outreach, the local population was actively engaged in cooperation during peacetime, and during the Great Patriotic War, they participated alongside border guards in partisan and sabotage and reconnaissance operations.

The purpose of this article is to study the processes that took place in the rear of the Red (Soviet) Army (1941–1945) and the invaders in the temporarily occupied territory of the USSR. They predetermined the course and outcome of the global catastrophe – the Great Patriotic and World War II. The work used methods of content analysis, comparison and research of processes from “themselves”. This made it possible to create a voluminous idea of the patriotic feat and tragedy of the rear of the fighting USSR. The dialectic of the processes that took place is that it was both a feat and a tragedy of the population of the USSR, which, being on the verge of existence, defended its home, homeland and saved the party-state of the CPSU(b)-SSSR. The pragmatic content of this process looks like this: created – destroyed (USSR industrial base); recreated (under the threat of physical destruction by the invaders of the industrial base for the needs of the invaders) – destroyed (the invaders destroyed the industrial base during the retreat); recreated an industrial base on the liberated territory of the USSR. A review of the processes allows us to draw the following conclusions: a) the life of the rear of the USSR of the Great Patriotic War – heroism woven with the worst tragedy; b) the fate and life of the rear (within the indicated borders) – contempt of all norms and laws of humanism; c) the German rear suffered less human losses than the Soviet one during this period; d) the party-state system of the USSR of that period demonstrated a higher mobilization potential for achieving Victory than the state and party systems of opponents of the USSR; e) the main resource of the Victory of the USSR in this war was the historical ability – the readiness of Soviet people to overcome all kinds of disasters.

In the history of our state, the Great Patriotic War occupies a special place, both heroic and mournful. It left an indelible mark in the memory of the people and had a huge impact on the development of culture and literature. Studying the activities of the writing community during this period allows us to see how the key issues of that time – moral choice, sacrifice and the limits of human endurance – were understood in artistic images and words. That is why the analysis of the activities carried out by the Union of Soviet Writers of the Tatar ASSR seems so important for understanding their contribution to the national cause. This research contributes not only to preserving, but also to expanding the historical knowledge, deepening our understanding of the role played by literature in historical memory formation and education of patriotism. The purpose of the research is to study the activities carried out by the Union of Soviet Writers of the Tatar ASSR during the Great Patriotic War. Materials and methods. The methodological foundation of the research was made by the principles of historicism, objectivity and consistency, as well as the descriptive and narrative method. The research base is the periodical press of the war years. Results. During the Great Patriotic War, the Union of Soviet Writers of the Tatar ASSR carried out multifaceted activities. Many representatives of the Tatar intelligentsia took direct part in the key battles of the Great Patriotic War, showing heroism and bravery at the front, in the rear and in partisan detachments. The writers of the republic actively joined the confrontation to the aggressor, using their works as an instrument of ideological struggle and performing tasks aimed at strengthening the morale of the servicemen of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army and home front workers. The writers created works that glorified the heroism of the Soviet people, exposed the atrocities of fascism and called on compatriots to mobilize all forces to achieve victory. They were published in newspapers, magazines, were played on the radio, and distributed at the front and in the rear. In addition, the writers worked as war correspondents, as well as participated in the creation of propaganda posters and leaflets. The influence of military theme on the development of Tatar literature and its role in the formation of patriotic consciousness of citizens are considered. The Union of Soviet Writers of the Tatar ASSR provided assistance to the families of veterans, organized fund-raising for the defense fund, and participated in the patriotic education of young people. Members of the union went to the front as part of propaganda brigades, where they gave lectures and read their works. Thus, the Union of Soviet Writers of the Tatar ASSR made a significant contribution to the victory over fascism, using its creative potential to strengthen the morale of the army and the people. Conclusions. During the Great Patriotic War, writers of the Tatar ASSR, as well as representatives of other professions – workers, peasants, engineers, teachers, doctors, scientists, defended their Homeland on the front line. They shared a common fate, sacrificing themselves for victory. Thanks to its activities, the writing community not only created a living chronicle of wartime, but also formed moral guidelines for a society that was going through the most difficult trials.

Introduction . The article examines the main aspects of song writing as a special sphere of Russian culture during the Great Patriotic War. The author focuses on its evolution from the dominated propaganda models projected onto public consciousness in the 1930s of the 20th century to universal individualistic narratives that appealed to the inner world and value system of an individual who found himself in the maelstrom of social upheavals and war years of 1940s. Based on this, the purpose of the article is to examine the main aspects of song writing as a special sphere of Russian culture during the Great Patriotic War. In the course of the study, the author used the following methods : hermeneutic, comparative, system analysis, comparative, etc. The author used a set of military songs from the Great Patriotic War as sources. He also studied various aspects of the songwriting of Soviet performers and composers of those years, as well as genre features of the texts of poetic works, folklore, everyday elements of songwriting in the period under review. Various genre and stylistic features of the Soviet song brought into existence by wartime and the tasks that were set before the Soviet society in this difficult historical period are also analyzed article. Results . The author analyzed various aspects of the creative activity of the authors of Soviet songs, revealed the process of generational change in the Soviet musical culture that occurred during the Great Patriotic War. In addition, the article highlighted the general and specific in the creative approach of individual authors. The features of the state policy of those years aimed at the formation and development of musical culture in the period of history under review and are also considered in the article. Conclusion s. The author substantiated the connection between the events that were fateful for the existence of Soviet society and the state with the cultural trends of that time, which found expression in the Soviet song, as the most vivid manifestation of the national spirit and popular consciousness in this difficult period in the history of the country.

The paper reveals the activities of the Zlatoust evacuation hospitals during the Great Patriotic War. These medical institutions made positive contribution to the country and played a huge role in the defeat of fascist troops. For the purposes of the research, we selected and analyzed many literature and archival sources, such as: minutes of the meeting of the executive committee of the Zlatoust City Council of Working People's Deputies (from 1941–1945) on the issue the transformation of certain buildings (mainly schools) to evacuation hospitals, their repair and equipment; newspapers “Bolshevik Slovo”, published in Zlatoust during the Great Patriotic War with the photos of evacuation hospitals; collection of documents “Chelyabinsk region 1917–1945. The purpose of this study is to summarize, analyze and systematize the collected information on the activities of the Zlatoust evacuation hospitals during the Great Patriotic War. Local authorities and the staff of the evacuation hospitals performed this work. Evacuation Hospital is a wartime hospital. There were several evacuation hospitals, such as: EH-1128, EH-1732, EH-3111, etc. in Zlatoust during the Great Patriotic War. Zlatoust contributed to the activities of evacuation hospitals in the country. City hospitals were staffed mainly with medical personnel from the Zlatoust city health department. About 8 thousand wounded people were treated in evacuation hospitals, almost 80 % of them returned to their service. Zlatoust doctors, in spite of fatigue and hunger, brought thousands of soldiers and commanders of the Red Army back to life, showing the examples of genuine philanthropy and professional duty.

In 2025 Russia is celebrating an important anniversary – the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, which further foregrounds the need to preserve the historical memory of it, which is formed and conveyed in the public consciousness thanks to a grandiose set of commemorative practices and «commemoration sites» created everywhere in our country. The purpose of the study is a conceptual analysis of various levels of «commemoration sites» of the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945 in Cheboksary as a special mechanism for preserving the historical memory of society. Materials and methods. The research methodology is defined in accordance with the principles of memoriology. The object and subject of research is not a historical event, but the historical memory about it. Research attention is also focused on the mechanisms by which it is formed, preserved and passed on to the next generations. The most important role in these processes belongs to commemorative practices and «commemoration sites», which have a close relationship. Both a «commemoration site» can become a base for implementing commemorative practices, and the memorials themselves initiate the creation of places of sacralization of the past. Results. The article analyzes the influence of central, regional and local «commemoration sites» in the process of forming and preserving the historical memory of the Russians about the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945 on the example of Cheboksary. «Commemoration sites» of the Great Patriotic War are an integral part of the process of preserving and sacralizing the historical memory of the Russian society. Currently, Russia has a number of central memorial sites: the Grave of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow, Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery in St. Petersburg, the Monument-Ensemble «Heroes of the Battle of Stalingrad» on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd, the Victory Memorial on Poklonnaya Gora in Moscow. All of them belong to places revered at the national level, and commemorative practices are carried out on their territory, which have a national scale of significance. A lot of commemorative work has been done at the regional level in all regions of the Russian Federation: monuments, steles, Victory parks with Eternal Flames were erected, museums of the Great Patriotic War were opened, and a number of state cultural and educational institutions were named after the heroes of the 1941–1945 war as a tribute to their fallen countrymen. Commemorative plaques were installed at the municipal level at libraries and schools, and small museums were opened. Cheboksary is a prime example of implementing the regional policy on implementation of commemorative practices and creation of «commemoration sites». They differ in their appearance, scale, and other features, but they perform the same function – they cherish the memory and are the basis for implementing commemorative practices, primarily ceremonial ones. Conclusions. The Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945 became one of the key events in the Russian history. Actualization and preservation of historical memory about it is one of the most important tasks of state authorities and the society, which are the initiators of constructing «commemoration sites» of central and regional importance. Cheboksary has regional (at the national level, they are of central importance) and local «commemoration sites» that successfully realize the process of actualizing the heroic pages of the Great Patriotic War. Cheboksary’s experience is successfully implemented throughout the republic at the municipal level, where «commemoration sites» exist and continue to be created both in regional centers and in small settlements.

Introduction. The problem and the objective of scientific and methodological research of the issues of civil-patriotic education of young people are determined by the insufficiency of the used descriptive assessments of the results of educational work and the need to determine the possibilities of quantitative approaches in measuring the effectiveness of the educational process. Materials and methods. The SEM (Structural Equation Modeling) was used to study the data obtained as a result of the content analysis of essays submitted to the competition "The feat of a teacher during the Great Patriotic War", dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War and 90th anniversary of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution "Ural State Pedagogical University". These essays were understood as a narrative, i.e., a literary text combining a description and explanation of events, actions in a person's life. The method of content analysis and SEM models of narratives that were used to process and present information are original and are subject to the intellectual property of the authors. The Results. An objective assessment of the result of educational work with young people in the context of the teaching profession is presented. A statistically significant relationship between educational results "Patriotism" and "Civic identity" is found, and the most significant educational result is identified – "Civic identity" and the least significant – "Subjective assessment", and the relationship between educational results "Professional activity" and "Civic identity" is identified. The high efficiency of the use of the competition for forming the civil identity of the participants was proved, as well as the insufficient one – for forming the ability to formulate their own (subjective) assessment; educational work on the formation of patriotic feelings at the same time allows the formation of the civic identity of students and vice versa); it is required to conduct purposeful educational work on the formation of civic identity in the professional activity of a teacher. Conclusion. It was concluded that the competitive event "The feat of a teacher during the Great Patriotic War" was an effective tool for preserving the historical memory and patriotic education of young people.

У статті надано результати комплексного дослідження сучасного стану меморіальних парків воєнної тематики м. Києва, що здійснювалося упродовж 2011-2016 рр. з урахуванням методики оцінювання культурно-історичної цінності та засобів вираження ідейного навантаження меморіальних парків . За результатами комплексного оцінювання меморіальних парків Києва визначено, що найціннішими меморіальними об’єктами є парк «Слава» та Печерський ландшафтний парк, які вирізняються суттєвим впливом на містобудівну та композиційну структуру міста, займають визначне місце у пейзажі Правобережної частини Києва. Найсуперечливішим в ідеологічному плані є такі об’єкти як парки «Перемога» та «Партизанської слави», які мають розважальний характер, що суперечить, власне, трагізму війни, а підпорядковується радянській ідеології виховання молоді і не відповідає сучасним ідеологічним поняттям про Другу світову війну, її причин та наслідків. Наведено концептуальні підходи зміни функціонального зонування малоцінних у меморіальному плані парків м. Києва («Таращанець», ім. генерала Потапова, ім. Ф. Пушиної), що ґрунтується на результатах комплексного оцінювання дослідних об’єктів, сучасних підходах адаптації паркових територій до потреб населення. Запропоновано підходи до адаптації меморіальних парків воєнної тематики на прикладі м. Києва, спрямовані на узгодження сучасних ідеологічних міркувань історичним подіям шляхом акцентування уваги на їхньому інформаційному та культурно-просвітницькому значенні за межами політичного контексту.

The article aims to show the evolution of the significant structural semantic features dominant in the poetics of Yu.V. Bondarev’s works about the Great Patriotic War. The principal research methods are structural semantic and comparative-contrastive analysis. To achieve the goal, the study consistently reveals the specific features of the poetics of the writer’s early novellas "The Battalions Request Fire" and "The Last Shot", as well as the novel "The Hot Snow". Based on the comparison of the obtained results, the paper concludes that the poetics of the writer’s works about the Great Patriotic War evolved in the course of time. Moreover, specific forms of such changes are indicated. The dominant features of Yu.V. Bondarev’s poetics are the protagonist’s specific confessional discourse, the chronotope locality, the leitmotif opposition between the images of lyrical and tragic planes, the expressiveness of the eclectic detail, cinematographicity, sensory language, the semantic significance of the finales. These features are manifested in the writer’s early works about the Great Patriotic War, as well as in his novel "The Hot Snow". The novellas "The Battalions Request Fire" and "The Last Shots" are considered within the framework of the leading genre model of "lieutenant prose", i. e. the genre of the frontline lyric novella. "The Hot Snow" is studied as a lyric-epic novel about the Great Patriotic War. The novel retains some features of the frontline lyrical novella, while others are taken to a new level. In "The Hot Snow" novel, the confessional discourse is enhanced with a rational-analytical component; the chronotope of the work, while retaining its locality, acquires the specificity of a documentary one. Details (object, portrait, landscape, interior, psychological) are actively used, but at the same time they are generalised to a symbolic level. Yu.V. Bondarev’s cinematographic vision is enriched with new forms and techniques; the linguo-sensory system becomes intricate and includes components previously not used by the writer. The novel finale is not abstract, but conceptual. These dominant structural semantic features of the poetics of Yu. V. Bondarev’s works make it possible to determine the genesis of his novelistic creativity and conclude that the writer’s artistic thinking evolved.

Introduction. The article outlines transformations in Uzbekistan’s economy during the Great Patriotic War, the emergence of problems related to personnel as a result of these changes, the main causes of the lack of staff, and measures to prevent this shortage and their effectiveness. The given study analyzed the organizational problems of providing the economy with employees, analyzed measures taken during the Great Patriotic War to meet the demands of the country’s economy for personnel, and obtained new data dealing with the social status of human resources. Methods and Materials. A wide range of archival sources from the funds of the National Archive of Uzbekistan that weren’t published earlier was used in the preparation of the article. The methodological basis of the research is the principle of historicism. In the course of the study, historicalcomparative and statistical methods were applied. Analysis. The research conducted identified factors related to productivity and social issues. In particular, the labor productivity of the new staff (mainly women and adolescents) replacing qualified personnel who went to the war front has been analyzed; on the other hand, the impact of the working process on their social lives has been considered. During the war years, the involvement of women and children in production in the republic and their relationship with the evacuated population resulted in significant positive trends in society. Results. In general, by studying the impact of changes in Uzbekistan’s economy on personnel issues during the Great Patriotic War, valuable information about various sectors of the Republic’s economy during the war years as well as the advances and defects in different economic branches was obtained. Authors’ contribution. Kh.B. Babadjanov and A.K. Abdullayev jointly studied archival materials and scientific literature and drew conclusions on the topic. Kh.B. Babadjanov analyzed the documents of the National Archive of Uzbekistan, which made it possible to explore the peculiarities of the transformation of the economy of Uzbekistan during the Great Patriotic War and the supply of it with personnel. A.K. Abdullayev participated in the analysis of statistical and economic data.