The Sakhalin industry management personnel providing during the Great Patriotic War

The reseach is scant in Far Eastern historiography on the problem of providing the Sakhalin industrial sectors and enterprises with managerial personnel during the Great Patriotic War. The author introduced into scientific circulation a number of documents extracted from the funds of the State Historical Archive of the Sakhalin Region and the State Archive of the Khabarovsk Territory, as well as materials published in documents collections and periodicals. The data analysis allowed us to present a more detailed picture of senior personnel provision to leading industries and enterprises of Northern Sakhalin during the Great Patriotic War and to obtain that the problem of a senior personnel shortage in industries remained aggravated by their turnover, high though not of an urgent need. The paper identifies the specific results the activities of the party and Soviet bodies led to in eliminating the shortage of management personnel in the Sakhalin industrial sectors. In particular, it was found that the situation has been changing since 1943. It revealed in the state's refusal to reqruite personnel from the oil industry, conducting a policy on the ground aimed not only to consolidate personnel but also to organise a system for improving their skills, as well as inviting personnel from other regions of the country. According to the statistical data collected during the study, the measures taken by the end of the war resulted in resolving the shortage of management personnel for the leading Sakhalin sectors of the economy and enterprises. It is obvious, that the investigation of the experience of providing a particular region’s industry with senior personnel in wartime conditions can find its further development in subsequent research, and might be useful for educational activities as well as the implementation of modern regional personnel policy.