The consumer sector of trade and household service of the population of Kuibyshev in the early 1980s

The paper is devoted to the analysis of documents of industrial-transport, administrative and trade-financial bodies of the Kuibyshev city committee of the CPSU, which allow to reconstruct the state of trade and consumer services in the city of Kuibyshev in the early 1980s. The author reveals the main problems in supplying the population with food and industrial goods. The data prove that the real state of trade enterprises did not always correspond to the optimistic indicators and achievements declared in the resolutions of the CPSU city committee bureau. On the example of fruits and vegetables, the author points out the difficulties of foodstuffs supplying the population in 1980-1982. It is proved that the shortage of products was due to both objective and subjective factors. The heads of the city party committee and departments of the city executive committee not only performed the functions of coordinating and controlling the activities of trade and consumer services enterprises, but also considered proposals for further improvement and development of their work. The author highlights the main problems of consumer services, primarily related to the financing of the city and the ever-growing needs of its population.