ЭВАКУАЦИОННЫЕ ПЕРЕВОЗКИ – ОДНО ИЗ НАПРАВЛЕНИЙ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ КИРОВСКОЙ ЖЕЛЕЗНОЙ ДОРОГИ НА НАЧАЛЬНОМ ЭТАПЕ ВЕЛИКОЙ ОТЕЧЕСТВЕННОЙ ВОЙНЫ
EVACUATION TRANSPORTATION AS ONE OF THE ACTIVITIES OF THE KIROV RAILWAY AT THE INITIAL STAGE OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR

Summary/Abstract: Evacuation transportation, carried out by the Kirov railway in summer and autumn of 1941, was performed in the state of emergency.Simultaneously with the evacuation of the KFSSR residents and the material-technical base of the company, the staff of the Kirovrailway dismantled and removed the property of its services and depots. The staff members of the Archive of the railway managementalso transported the documents. The well-coordinated activity of the railway workers made it possible to save and transportto the home front a significant part of the industrial equipment, livestock, construction materials, foodstuff, and population of therepublic. Only a small part of the railway property remained on the territory occupied by the enemy. However, according to the documentsof management and record keeping of the National Archive of the Republic of Karelia, the activities of the Kirov railway werevalued at a low rate. In particular, it was pointed out that the administration of the railway did not fulfill the plan of the rolling stockprovision for the enterprises and organizations of KFSSR. The research analysis of historical sources and comparison of availabledata helped to reveal a set of objective reasons that prevented the railroad management from directing the planned number of wagonsand platforms for evacuation needs. For the same reasons, railway workers had to destroy and leave the property of the railwaycompany on the territory occupied by the enemy. All these circumstances are analyzed in the article thoroughly.

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