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.