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The article examines certain aspects of the activities of the heads of the military-industrial complex of the Penza region in 1941–1945. The specifics ofthe source base arethe limited corpus of documentsfromthe Penza Region State Archive andthe subjectivity of surveys offactories by local party bodies. The appointment of senior officials in the region considered in the article confirms the all-Union trend. Sometimes the dismissal was accompanied by a transfer to another job.

The article is sacred to the insufficiently known aspects of migration of population in the years of Great Patriotic war. On the basis of the vast archived material an author investigates receptions and methods of returning of the evacuated population into former places of inhabitation, general mechanism of re-evacuation processes. The features of state and independent re-evacuation come to light. Likenesses and distinctions of re-evacuation processes are shown for the different social and professional layers of soviet society.