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Training of Working Staff in North Ossetia During the Great Patriotic War


(V.I. Abaev North-Ossetian institute for Humanitarian and Social Studies of the Vladikavkaz Scientific Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences)

The article is devoted to the process of training working staff in North Ossetia during the Great Patriotic War. The study is based on published monographs, scientific and newspaper articles, as well as documents from the funds of
the Republican archives related to the training of workers. The conclusion is made about effectiveness of the measures for timely replenishment of the labor shortage at industrial enterprises in North Ossetia.
The article is devoted to the process of training working staff in North Ossetia during the Great Patriotic War. The study is based on published monographs, scientific and newspaper articles, as well as documents from the funds of the Republican archives related to the training of workers. The conclusion is made about effectiveness of the measures for timely replenishment of the labor shortage at industrial enterprises in North Ossetia.
At the beginning of the article, the relevance and the purpose of the study are substantiated. The article describes the significant assistance of the citizens of North Ossetia to the fronts of the Great Patriotic war, the immediate reprofiling
of the industry of the Republic for military production. A brief review of the degree of development of the stated problem is given. The characteristic of the source base of the article is made. The article focuses on the measures, which helped the party, trade union and Komsomol organizations in North Ossetia to provide attraction of new workers. The process of mobilizing the able-bodied urban population to industrial enterprises is described, there was a massive transition of employees of the administrative and managerial apparatus to production as well. Initially, in the first period of the war, the main source of replenishment of the working class of North Ossetia was the urban population, while the rural and evacuated population was an additional source. Despite all this, there was a growing demand for workers during the period of restructuring enterprises for military goals. To launch production plants and factories needed more workers, and the significant growth of the number of workers in industrial enterprises began only in 1943.
However, a decrease in the number of skilled workers accounted for the difficulties in providing training for new arrives. The success of the workers and their contribution to the cause of victory are shown. As a result of the study, the
process of organizing labor in the rear was researched, the measures undertaken to fill the shortage of labor at industrial enterprises were identified: mobilization of the previously unemployed population, improving the training of highly qualified workers in colleges and schools of the Factory and plant education, hiring the evacuated population to work in the industrial enterprises of North Ossetia.
enterprises, workers, Vladikavkaz, factories, specialized schools

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