About partial unloading of the city of Stalingrad.

Resolutions of the Bureau of the Stalingrad Regional Committee of the CPSU(b) and the Stalingrad Regional Executive Committee

About partial unloading of the city of Stalingrad.

(report by com. Polyakov A.M.)
(In cooperation with city council executive committee)

1. In accordance with com. Schvernik, evacuate 15 thousand non-working women with children out of the city of Stalingrad to Kuibyshev region / Ulyanovsk and Syzransky districts / and 8-10 thousand people to settle them in trans-Volga regions.
2. Including in the mentioned numbers, evacuate from the city of Stalingrad families of Red Army soldier families and commanding staff, families of workers, employees, soviet party workers, those who don’t work at plants or institutions.
3. Oblige head of NVRP com. Kachenin, head of Southern railroads com. Molchanov to provide the appropriate amount of tonnage and railroad cars to evacuate the above mentioned families from Stalingrad city, according to the requests from the Region Administration of employment of the evacuated population - deputy chair of executive committee com. Krutsko, who has to be assigned the management of the task of partial unloading of the Stalingrad city.

15 August 1942

RGASPI (Russian Government Archive of Social-Political history)
Ф. 17. Оп. 43. Д. 1772. Л. 248–249.
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