THE ASSIGNMENT OF THE RAILWAY PERSONNEL TO THE LIBERATED RAILROADS OF THE COUNTRY IN THE YEARS OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR (ON THE MATERIALS OF WEST SIBERIA)
The article considers the re-evacuation of railroad personnel from West-Siberian Region caused by the necessity of reconstruction of the arterial railroads in the liberated areas of the country. The article aims to examine the historical experience of solving organization and production problems of the railroad transport personnel re-evacuation. The author seeks to identify the mechanisms of implementation of the main lines of the activity, its scope and results. The research was aligned with the basic principles of historical science. Implementing historism principles, the author regarded the re-evacuation processes in their development, interaction and changes. According to the objectivity principle and in order to perform a comprehensive research the author referred to diverse sources. Problem- and chronology-based method allowed to investigate the problem in its dynamics. The problem of re-evacuation in whole and in particular appears to be understudied. The article evinces that the questions of railroad transport personnel assignment to the west were the focus of the Siberian authorities’ attention. The article emphasizes the high tension of the challenges, their hardness, faults and outcomes. In conclusion the author highlights that the work was the most strenuous in 1943, at the time of the extensive national economy restoration, which included the arterial railroads of the country. Army mobilization and re-evacuation had resulted into the 70–75 % renewal of the railway personnel of Tomsk and Omsk railroads by the end of the war that indicated the significant employee turnover and made serious difficulties for the railway transport work in the region.
Keywords: the Great Patriotic War, evacuation, the People’s Commissariat for Communication Lines, the War-Exploitation Department, liberated areas, re-evacuation, national economy restoration
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