Production Status of Engineering and Technical Personnel of the Urals in the Mid-1920s

Abstract

The paper analyzes the engineering and technical personnel production status in the Urals in the mid-1920s. The aim is to identify the causes and evolution of changes occurring at the time in the rights and duties of engineers in the industrial sector of the region. The paper is based on Ural archival documents (Proceedings of the Regional Committee of the CPSU (b), the information of the Regional Council of Trade Unions, the investigation of the case of engineers arrested by the OGPU in the late 1920s – early 1930s.). The author concludes that the pragmatic course of the Supreme Economic Council leadership to empower engineers in the field of technical guidance between 1924 and mid-1926 was replaced by an irrational one caused mainly by political factors, and aimed at reducing of the number of engineers’ rights. In the context of Ural Region (with the lack of technical staff more acute than nationwide), this leads to particularly pronounced negative consequences.

Keywords

• инженерно-технические кадры
• производственный статус специалистов
• интеллигенция
• партийно-государственная политика
• история Урала.