Housing and municipal relations in the USSR in the pre-war period: features of social and legal development

The article examines the development of housing and communal relations in the Soviet state in the 1920s and 1930s. The article analyzes the relevant legal acts that regulated this area, archival documents, and scientific works that touch on this topic, with an emphasis on the socio-economic aspect. It is noted that for quite a long time the Soviet government did not determine its approach to solving housing and communal services issues, given their complexity, and above all in cities, where the issue of maintaining the housing and communal infrastructure in proper order was acute. Certain decisions began to be made in the mid-1920s, and by the mid-1930s the corresponding regulatory framework was formed, mainly in the decrees of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and departmental acts. At the same time, taking into account the ongoing industrialization, which provided for an increase in the urban population, the government granted the departments the right to administratively evict workers (with family) from apartments who did not work at the enterprise of this department, and at the same time the enterprises had to ensure the management of departmental housing.