City of Sverdlovsk in Decrees and Orders State Defense Committee

The article contains an analysis of several dozen declassified resolutions and orders of the State Defense Committee, dedicated to the city of Sverdlovsk and the enterprises and organizations located on its territory. On the basis of the materials introduced into scientific circulation for the first time, the decisions of the State Defense Committee on the placement of the evacuated population, as well as enterprises, organizations and institutions in the city, are shown, the restructuring of the work of industry for the production of military products is shown. The paper shows that on the basis of the decisions made by the State Defense Committee, intensive industrial and housing construction was going on in the city, new enterprises were created and transport logistics improved. The decisions of the State Defense Committee on changing the range of military products manufactured at the largest enterprises of the city, providing them with labor force, and organizing mass housing construction of a simplified type for its workers are characterized.