re-evacuation

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.

The article discusses the process of returning of the inhabitants of the Pskov region to their native places after their liberation from the Nazi invaders, evacuated in 1941 to the eastern regions of the country. Digital data on the number of evacuated and re-evacuated, examples of state aid to the latter are presented, the difficulties of re-evacuation and the demographic consequences of the war for one of the indigenous regions of Russia are revealed.