Evacuation of industry and civilian population to the territory of Kuzbass during the Great Patriotic War

Abstract

The paper examines the process of evacuation of industrial facilities and civilian population to the territory of the Kemerovo region – Kuzbass during the Great Patriotic War. The author provides information on the number of evacuated enterprises, and also clarifies their locations before and after the relocation. The largest industrial facilities in Kuzbass are highlighted, which were created even before the start of the war and were industrial sites for the commissioning of equipment from arriving factories. The evacuation of the civilian population in most cases occurred in clear dependence on the relocation of industrial facilities. In this regard, the author raises question about the number of evacuated citizens, both in the region as a whole and in individual cities and districts. Based on these statistics, it gives the percentage of the number of evacuees to the total population. In addition, based on archival documents, the author pays attention to aspects related to the evacuation process: reception and accommodation, medical and consumer services, employment. Also, the work highlights the difficulties that evacuated citizens had to face, as well as ways to solve them. 

Keywords

• evacuation
• industry
• enterprises
• population
• kuzbass
• great patriotic war
• rear