The countless sufferings brought by the fascist invaders to children in the occupied territories stained Soviet land with their blood, depriving them of their homes, fathers, and mothers. In the eastern regions of the country, in Toghfisle and Kyrgyzstan, trains with children were arriving. In this regard, caring for children in wartime was a task of enormous state importance. The future of the country largely depended on how local authorities managed this task.
A commission was established under the executive committee of the city council, consisting of representatives from the people's education, healthcare, police, and public organizations. All work by the councils to accommodate children was carried out through authorized population evacuation management.
On September 24, 1941, the first proposal was received to accommodate 900-1000 children in the republic; 700 schoolchildren and 300 preschool children were evacuated from the Moscow automobile plant. In 1942-1943, their numbers significantly increased. Since September 10, 1941, a department for orphanages was operating under the People's Commissariat for Education, dealing with the placement of evacuated orphanages with groups of wards. From January to September 1942, 17 orphanages arrived in the republic from the frontline zone, with a total of 1866 children. According to incomplete data, about 4,000 children were evacuated to the republic from frontline and liberated areas during the war.
On January 23, 1942, the union government obligated the executive committees of local councils, under the personal responsibility of the chairpersons, to ensure the care of children who had become orphans or lost their parents during relocation to another area, preventing their neglect. Only the employees of the executive committees of the district councils organized and took under their guardianship 155 children from orphanages. In total, more than 3,000 children were sponsored and adopted throughout the republic.
Each orphanage had auxiliary farms. By the end of the war, 6,800 children were being raised in forty orphanages in the republic. In 1944, 16 million rubles were allocated for their maintenance, and in 1945, 19.5 million rubles. These funds were spent on providing assistance to orphanages, children's playgrounds, boarding schools, children's canteens, opening new children's institutions, as well as on individual assistance to children.
Activities of the local councils of Frunze in managing the work of enterprises during the Great Patriotic War
