Issues of development of industrial enterprises of Zhambyl region during the Great Patriotic War

Abstract

The article examines the results of studying the history of the economic situation, the activities of industries, transport, communications of the Zhambyl region during the war. Zhambyl region in 1930–1980 became the leader of the Russian industry. One of the paramount industrial centers of the region, the economic significance of which has increased since the first days of the war, is the activity of sugar factories, services of the Zhambyl and Shu railways passing through the Zhambyl region along the Turksib railway. During the war years the activities of the industries, transports and communications also contained the reasons for the shortage of specialists, the deterioration in the social status of workers. The analysis of archival data shows that during the war years there was a shortage of manpower and other difficulties caused by the war. The priority of female labor in the rear, which performed such hard work as a machinist, locksmith, turner, and locomotive washer, was not ignored either.