Food supply of the Northern Transurals timber workers in the 1930s

The features of food supply of the Northern Transurals timber workers in the 1930s are under analysis in the article based on archival and oral sources and documents of personal origin. The timber complex of the region was growing rapidly during the analyzed period therefore the enterprises experienced a shortage of workers. Food supply of the workers became one of the main problems and was being solved in three ways: organized supply, creating individual smallholdings and picking berries, mushrooms, herbs, stealing food and vegetables, begging. Interests of the enterprises and special settlers in the solution of the problem of food supply clashed because the management of the enterprises were not interested in improving food supply of the workers who were mostly special settlers. The author analyses the efficiency of each way of food supply and concludes that the combination of the ways provided stable work of the workers and their fulfillment of the production plan.