IN CHILDREN'S INSTITUTIONS OF KUZBASS: 1945-1950

Abstract

The article analyzes the problems of child homelessness and neglect in Kuzbass. The characteristics of the material, living conditions of detention, provision of pupils in children's distribution centers and orphanages are given. The issues of physical condition, education, the formation of a communist worldview and morality, as well as the employment of graduates of orphanages, the problems of their supply with housing, clothing and shoes are considered. The authors conclude that the level of homelessness and neglect in the rear area of the country in the post-war years was high. Multinational children's collectives contained orphans taken from the siege of Leningrad, children of repressed parents and special settlers, children of dead front-line soldiers, as well as children abandoned by mobilized workers from many parts and regions of the Soviet Union. The situation of the pupils of children's institutions in Kuzbass was significantly influenced by the difficulties experienced by the country's population in the post-war period. The article is based on documentary sources kept in the Information Center of the Main Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Kemerovo Region