Evacuation of Farm Animals to Southern Urals in the Great Patriotic War
This paper investigates the problem of evacuation and recovery of productive livestock during the Great Patriotic War. The authors focus on the activity of collective and state farms of the Southern Urals, which made a great contribution to the salvation of the evacuated livestock and helped to rebuild livestock in the western regions of the USSR. The article examines the role of government at various levels in the organizing evacuation and re-evacuation processes. The composition and structure of the evacuated livestock and its fate are described. The part of the livestock evacuated to the South Urals died, but the economy of the region and especially the Chkalov region fully compensated for the loss.