Coverage in the Irkutsk Region periodical press of the implementation of the Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR on the conscription of urban and collective farm youth into vocational schools, railway schools, and factory training schools in 1940–1941

This work is the first part of a review of publications on the issues and problems of organizing labor reserves in the Irkutsk Region. In this study, this system is examined in the pre-war period. The prerequisites for the creation of a labor reserve system in the Soviet Union during the third five-year plan are considered. The study of this issue is based on an analysis of publications in periodicals of the specified period, published in various cities of the region, as well as relevant regulatory legal acts. The attention of the press was focused both on campaigning for the implementation of recruitment (including non-fulfillment of the recruitment plan), as well as on the functioning of the entire system and the results of training. The quantitative characteristics of the conscripted contingent in various educational institutions, including in the districts of the Irkutsk Region, as well as the financial and material support of the labor reserve system are reflected in detail. A comparative description of the draft plans of students in various regions and regions of Siberia is given. For example, 4,600 people were supposed to be enrolled in educational institutions in the Irkutsk Region for the first time, while 34,660 people were planned to graduate throughout Siberia over the same period. At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, publications were not detailed, giving way to summaries of military operations and other wartime events.

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