The Activities of the Local Councils of Frunze in Managing Enterprises During the Great Patriotic War

The local authorities showed particular concern for the veterans of the Great Patriotic War and the families of servicemen, those who bravely fought on the front lines defending the independence of the Motherland, sacrificing their health. The focus of the city and district councils was on providing material and medical assistance, creating necessary living conditions, and facilitating employment. At the end of June 1941, a commission for the appointment of benefits to the families of servicemen began operating under the Frunze City Executive Committee.

The Executive Committee of the City Council, on August 31, 1942, reviewed the issue of assistance to war veterans and families of servicemen, noting that since the beginning of the war, state benefits totaling 677,133 rubles had been paid to 6,730 families of servicemen, 11,350 rubles to 760 veterans of the Great Patriotic War, and 1,220 servicemen's families and war veterans had been employed. All war veterans were attached to the city's stores and canteens. Courses for retraining war veterans were organized, including shoemaking, accounting, and legal courses, with 120 individuals trained.

Considering the significant need for repairs to the housing stock occupied by the families of front-line soldiers, the Executive Committee of the City Council allocated additional funds for the repair of the communal housing stock in the amount of 156,000 rubles on November 20, 1944 (under the chairmanship of M. Svyshov) and approved an annual title list for capital repairs of the housing stock amounting to 635,090 rubles. During the war, the social security departments of the city and district executive committees in Frunze paid 22 million rubles in state benefits to families of servicemen, provided material assistance totaling 226,000 rubles, and issued 3,663 orders for shoes and other goods. War veterans received 7,200,000 rubles in pensions, 195,000 rubles in benefits, and 90 vouchers to rest homes and sanatoriums.

The activities of local councils in managing the work of enterprises in the light, local, and cooperative industries, which produced uniforms, warm clothing, and footwear for the army, had significant defense importance. The nomenclature and range of products produced were revised. The republic's government introduced an industrial plan for the production of food and uniforms.

Labor force, engineering and technical personnel, raw materials, fuel, and materials were redistributed in favor of enterprises converted to produce goods for the needs of the war. The issues of fulfilling military orders and planning their production were periodically discussed at meetings of the executive committees of the councils.

Mobilization departments, labor accounting and distribution bureaus of the city and district councils of Frunze mobilized the able-bodied population for both permanent work and temporary seasonal jobs. Mobilized individuals were generally directed to industrial enterprises, construction sites, and transport for the entire duration of the war, while for agricultural work and the harvesting of firewood and peat, they were assigned for a specific period. The labor force was primarily provided to enterprises and construction sites of heavy and military industries that were established in Frunze at the beginning of the war.

In the city and the Frunze region, 21 artels of industrial cooperation and 17 cooperatives for the disabled operated. On September 3, 1941, the Executive Committee of the City Council, considering the possibilities of producing consumer goods from local raw materials and waste from large industrial enterprises—soap, tar, window putty, raw hides, sheepskin processing, lime burning, etc.—defined the tasks for the city industrial combine and several enterprises to increase the production of consumer goods from local raw materials.

Fulfillment of Military Orders in the Frunze Region in 1941-45

Enterprises in the light and local industries, as well as 9 artels in the capital, switched to fulfilling military orders. They produced textile and knitted underwear, bandages, tunics, trousers, overcoats, shoes, belts, field bags, cavalry saddles, harnesses, and more.

The artels "Vympel," "Textile," "Khimik," "Krasny Pimokat," and "May First" produced for the soldiers: felt boots, fur coats, mittens, ushanka hats, and overcoats.

Industrial departments of the city and district executive committees organized short-term courses for training and retraining specialists at enterprises, where workers learned new professions. Over three years of war, 17,585 workers at the Pendyok-Jute Factory received professions, including 55 women trained as weavers. At Factory No. 60, worker Brezanov designed a special machine for sending cartridges into clips, saving 30,335 rubles. Many factory workers, as inventors, took the initiative to create simple equipment, mechanisms, tools, and spare parts that were previously imported.

Over three and a half years of war, the Frunze Leather Factory provided enough leather for the front to make 2 million pairs of shoes and 0.5 million pairs of boots, while knitting and sewing factories produced 29 million knitted and 5.6 million sewn products.

The country's railway, including that of Kyrgyzstan, made significant contributions to supplying the Red Army. They continuously delivered trains with ammunition, food, and uniforms to the front, and raw materials and fuel to factories. Drivers of motor transport honorably fulfilled tasks to supply industrial enterprises in the capital with raw materials, materials, and fuel, as well as delivering military supplies to their destinations.

In 1942-1943, 30 large industrial enterprises were built, restored, and put into operation in Frunze and the Frunze region. During the war years, new industries emerged in Frunze: machine engineering, silk weaving, fruit canning, jute production, pharmaceuticals, alcohol production, vitamin production, and others. The main industrial production assets of the city increased by 5.6 times. According to statistical data, the gross output of all industries in the republic increased from 281.5 million rubles in 1940 to 344.1 million rubles in 1945, or by 22%. During this time, Frunze's share in the republic's economy accounted for 55.9% of the gross industrial output. The city's industry was supported by a newly built state power station on the Alamidin River, making the capital one of the forges of reserves for the Red Army. Now, trains carrying weapons, ammunition, and food traveled from east to west across the country.

Assistance from the Population of the City of Frunze to the Front During the Great Patriotic War