The problems of resolving the acute housing crisis in the industrial centers of the Urals in the initial period of the Great Patriotic War

Analyzes the main documents of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b), SNK, which defined the years of the great Patriotic war the policy of the state in solving complex problems of provision of housing for millions of workers, their families, evacuated from the temporarily occupied enemy areas. Considered a versatile work of party, Soviet and economic organizations of the Urals to create its own material-technical base of construction industry, the deployment of large-scale construction of a simplified housing for the evacuees in conditions of acute housing crisis initial period of the war. The author focuses on the operational activities of the regional authorities, managers of industrial enterprises and construction companies to expedite housing construction, development of new organization of construction works, the production technology of local materials, selection of optimum variants of development towns and urban neighborhoods. In article used materials from the archives, which are mostly for the first time introduced into scientific circulation. Do not conceal the great difficulties, unresolved problems, errors and failures in the mass housing construction, in the conclusion author comes to the conclusion that the Urals in the hardest conditions of the war was largely to resolve the crisis of housing, to provide shelter to millions of workers. It had a positive impact on the production activity of workers, forge a weapon of great Victory.