Scholarship for Master's Students — Vladislav Tyurin

At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, between 10 and 16 million Soviet citizens were evacuated to the rear, according to various estimates. After the front stabilized in 1942, the authorities began the reverse process — the re-evacuation of the population, i.e., their return to their former places of residence. Moscow became the largest center of re-evacuation. For the Soviet government, the top priority was the rapid restoration of the capital's economy. This required returning a workforce to the city as soon as possible. However, due to the bombing of the city, a lack of funds for building repairs, and a number of other reasons, the city's housing stock suffered catastrophically during the war. This exacerbated one of the most acute problems for both the Soviet government and the people returning to the capital — the housing problem.

This work will examine the main aspects of the housing problem faced by citizens re-evacuated to Moscow, its causes and consequences, with special attention paid to the study of the practice of judicial housing disputes over the re-evacuees' rights to their pre-war housing.

A separate part of the research will be devoted to the ambiguous situation regarding the re-evacuation and housing problem of Jews, as they constituted about 25% of all evacuated Soviet citizens. The work will analyze whether the increased level of everyday antisemitism during the war years influenced the resolution of the housing issue for Jews in Moscow.
The research will be based on a whole range of various sources, including archival materials from the State Archive of the Russian Federation.

Image: A house destroyed by an air raid. Lavrushinsky Lane. 1942. Source: Kammere? Yu.Yu. Moscow - Air Raid Alert. M.: "Agar" Publishing House. 2000.

The research was carried out with the financial support of A. Klyachin.

The work on the project is completed.