Roads and local authorities in the rural habitation of the south Russia of the 1930s

The article reveals one of not sufficiently studied aspects of the rural everyday life of the 1930s, dealing with the process of the formation of the road network in the South of Russia. The author considers dynamics of road construction in three categories of roads: paved roads, improved (profiled) roads and dirt ones. The article shows the attitude of local authorities to the construction and maintenance of roads, and discloses their measures to improve the quality of roads. The author explains the existence of difficulties in the road building, although the created collective farms took an active part in improving the roads of the grass-roots network.