Living conditions of people from Central Asia and Kazakhstan mobilized for labour in the enterprises and constructions of Ural in the years of the Great Patriotic war

Abstract

The article analyses principal documents of the All-Union Communist Party of
Bolsheviks, Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR, State Defense Committee,
which determined the state policy in the sphere of material and domestic services for
war workers. It considers the mul-ti-sided work of Ural party, labour and economic
organizations on provision of living conditions for workers mobilized to defense
enterprises and constructions from Central Asia and Kazakhstan during the war.
The author focuses on the activity of regional authorities and enterprises’ leaders
on acceptance, accommodation, provision of food, clothes, shoes, and articles of
daily necessity for labour army members who were mobilized to defense enterprises
of Ural. In the end the author makes a conclusion that in the hardest conditions of
war period the Uralian people managed considerably to ease the living conditions
of mobilized workers. The Kazakh, Turkmen, Uzbek and Kyrgyz workers made a
great contribution to the common cause of victory over Fascist Germany