Employment initiatives for working youth of Dagestan in the 70-ies of the XX century

The process of involving youth organizations, Komsomol-youth groups, young workers in implementation of production programs in industry, transport, construction and in the service sector in the 70-ies of the XX century and used for the effectiveness of various employment initiatives is discussed in this article on the basis of new archival and documentary materials. During this decade youth organizations of the Republic were constantly improving and speeding up the work for supporting patriotic movements on the use of production reserves, declaring “impact weeks” participation in the management of production input the labour competitions. The author emphasizes that the committees of All-Union Lenin Komsomol Youth Union surrounded the advanced workers of labour competitions with warmth and attention, constantly engaged in their further growth and employment success. They were the first to notice the achievements and employment initiatives of young people and gave them a widespread public response; spread the young patriots’ initiatives among the young people. There is emphasized that the characteristic features of the labor youth competitions were: persevering struggle for the fulfillment of a plan ahead of schedule; increasing working efficiency and products quality; reducing prime costs; economy of raw-stuff, materials, fuel and electrical energy. Labor initiatives of the young workers contained elements of labor competition, and in the course of national-economic problems transformed into various forms (struggle for the systematic fulfillment of a plans; obtaining the personal quality mark of guarantee; achieving the title of leading brigade in the name of the Party Congresses and of the Young Communist League; the desire for economical use of raw materials; the conquest of the transitory red pennants, flags and banners; obtainment of the right to participate in the congresses of young manufacture leaders). The most common form of involving the young workers in active participation in the labor competitions initiatives were Komsomol youth brigades, units and shifts.