Workers and government employees in agricultural farms in the Urals, 1946-1950: number, experience, age

This article analyzes the number, length of service, and age of workers and employees of state agricultural farms in the Urals in the first post-war five-year period (1946-1950). The novelty of the study is that the article used materials from the State Archive of the Russian Federation (SARF) and the Russian State Archive of Economics (RSAE) which were previous unstudied; the literature on the topic is limited. The article covers a significant period in the history of the Soviet Union - the first five years after the end of the Second World War. The majority of workers in state agricultural farms were young people with little work experience. The largest number of workers on state farms and subsidiary farms of enterprises and organizations were in the Chkalov region; the smallest numbers (due to the recently ended war) were workers under the age of 30. In the first post-war years, the bulk of workers in all age groups were women. The demographic perturbations of the war and post-war years are reflected in the number and structure of workers of the government agencies studied. It is concluded that during the period under study, state-owned agricultural enterprises gradually lost their importance, including for reasons of staffing.