On Factors Ensuring Successful Restoration Works on Railway Transport during Great Patriotic War
The article states that a huge amount of destruction of railway transport caused by the German fascist invaders during the Great Patriotic war required the adoption of a number of organizational measures by the Soviet and military leadership. Three main groups of participants in renovation works are revealed: railway troops, special units of the People’s Commissariat of Railroads, combining elements of the military and civilian agencies, mobilized population. By example of administration of military renovation works No. 3 the factors that contributed to successful reconstruction are revealed. Among these, there are the increase of technical equipment of renovation units; unity of skilled professionals concentrated in special units and the mass workforce of mobilized civil population; the use of local and trophy resources, allowing to significantly reduce the cost of the work performed; the use of lump sum premium and piecework wages, forcing timed wages; the combination of moral and material stimulation of labour; strict discipline; the insistence in performing the tasks involved in rebuilding parts.