PREPARATION OF THE RAILWAY INFRASTRUCTURE OF THE NORTH-WEST DIRECTION FOR THE UPCOMING WAR (IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 1930s - EARLY 1940s.)
The article analyzes the development of the railway infrastructure of the European North of the USSR in the second half of the 1930s and the beginning of the 1940s in the context ofpreparing the Soviet Union for the inevitable big war. It is shown that the insufficient attention of the Soviet military-political administration to the northern-western direction and the underestimation of Finland as a military adversary predetermined the transport difficulties that arose in the territory of the European North of the USSR during the period of the Soviet-Finnish and Great Patriotic wars.