"Big Urals" film industry in the Great Patriotic War period

The article reveals the peculiarities of the film industry development in the Ural region during the Great Patriotic War period. The author made an attempt to display the role of "the main art" in the process of formation and support of high level of spiritual potential of the people carrying war. Taken tree Ural regions as an example (Sverdlovsk, Molotovsk and Chelyabinsk regions) the author shows the main directions, forms and methods of the cinemafication system and its usage for achieving the Victory.