Nikita Nikolaevich Melnikov,
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Institute of History and Archaeology of the Ural Branch of the Russia Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The USSR Academy of Sciences Plan for the Development of the Power Industry in the Urals During the Great Patriotic War: From Conception to Implementation
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2022-6-8
During the Great Patriotic War, arms production was moved to the East of the Soviet Union. One of the main industrial centres of the Country was the Urals region. In the autumn of 1941, the Commission for the mobilisation of the Urals economy, headed by V.L. Komarov, president of the USSR Academy of Sciences, began its work in Sverdlovsk. The Commission completed its work by the end of the year. The Commission showed the current state of the Industry in the Urals and made a forecast of the development of the region in 1942. This plan called for a doubling of the Urals industrial potential during the year. In this article, the history of the development of the electric power industry is used as an example to show the difficulty of implementing the plan of the V.L. Komarov Commission. Up to the end of the war period, electricity production was growing, but did not reach the planned level. The energy industry was the basis which was to ensure the development of the Urals economy. During all wartime years, the Urals industry had a shortage of electricity. Therefore, the plan for the development of the industrial base of the Urals was impossible to implement.
Publishing: 28/12/2022
The article has been received by the editor on 13/09/2022
How to cite: Melnikov N.N. The USSR Academy of Sciences Plan for the Development of the Power Industry in the Urals During the Great Patriotic War: From Conception to Implementation // Historical Courier, 2022, No. 6 (26), pp. 110–123. [Available online: http://istkurier.ru/data/2022/ISTKURIER-2022-6-08.pdf]
Links: Issue 6 2022
Keywords: economy; War; electric power industry; Academy of Sciences; V.L. Komarov Commission