High Rates of Defense Production
Industrial enterprises quickly adapted to the production of goods necessary to meet military needs. In July 1941, the Frunze Mechanical Plant was tasked with organizing the manufacture of special orders for the front. Workers, engineers, and technicians exerted all their efforts and mastered their production in the shortest possible time. Examples of selfless labor were shown by skilled workers: lathe operator Mavrin, who consistently produced four norms daily, stamp worker Maisterenko, who completed 388% of his task, and grinder Lesnyak, who achieved 308% of the norm. Of the 493 workers at the plant, 207 were Stakhanovites and shock workers, while 109 produced two, three, or more norms per shift. As a result, the production plan, which was increased by 44%, was fulfilled by the collective of the enterprise at 117% in July, 113-115% in August and September, and the ten-month task (January - October) for commodity production was fulfilled at 136%, and for gross output at 112%.
The metallurgists of Kadamjay expanded the production of strategic raw materials. From July to September 1941, a new plant and an electrolytic workshop were rapidly constructed and launched. By the end of the year, the smelting of antimony had sharply increased compared to 1940. These successes were not accidental: 65% of the workers were Stakhanovites and shock workers, and more than 40 were two-hundred percenters.
Even more accelerated rates were observed in the transition to the production of uniforms and equipment by enterprises in the light, textile, and local industries. In these sectors, by the end of June 1941, the production of civilian goods sharply decreased, while the manufacturing of military uniforms, footwear, greatcoats, underwear, and necessary saddlery hardware for cavalry units began to ramp up.
The VI Plenary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kyrgyzstan, held in November 1941, summarized some results of the work over the past months of the war, noting that as a result of the tremendous efforts of party, Soviet, and economic bodies, along with the selfless activities of rear workers, many industrial enterprises successfully mastered and rapidly expanded the production of defense products. A solid foundation was laid for transforming the republic into a military-economic base for the country.
Alongside this, the Plenary pointed out the lagging behind of certain sectors of industry, particularly the meat-dairy and local industries, where "production capacities and local resources are far from being fully utilized, and materials and funds are poorly conserved," and mandated party organizations and enterprise leaders to "check and evaluate their work in light of what they have done to provide maximum assistance to the front."
An integral part of the transition of the national economy of the republic to military tracks was the reception, placement, and commissioning of evacuated industrial enterprises. From July to December 1941, 2,593 industrial enterprises (including 1,523 large ones) were relocated to the eastern regions of the country. Of these, 226 were placed in the Volga region, 667 in the Urals, 224 in Western Siberia, and 308 in Central Asia and Kazakhstan.
In the Kyrgyz SSR, 28 large industrial enterprises were relocated. In particular, the Berdyansk Machine Engineering Plant from the Zaporizhia region and the Nikitovsky Mercury Plant from the Donetsk region were transferred here, along with tanneries, leather goods, and glue factories from Odessa, the Kharkov sewing factory named after Osaviakhim, the Kursk and Kharkov knitting factories, the Moscow plant "Glavkожзаменитель," five shoe factories from Rostov, "Antrea" (Karelo-Finnish SSR), "Kollektivist" (RSFSR), and sugar factories in Novo-Bykov, Smolyan, Veselo-Podolyan, and Artemovsk (Ukrainian SSR), as well as the Yampol alcohol plant (Ukraine), and the Lviv repair-mechanical (Kursk region) and Kyiv sewing and shoe workshops.
Mobilization National Economic Plan of 1941