One of the brightest pages of the national combat and labor feat of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War is the unprecedented scale of defense and civil construction in Moscow and the Moscow region in 1941-1945. Even when Hitler's propaganda trumpeted the inevitable fall of the capital, the workers of Moscow's construction projects built defensive fortifications and metro lines, created industrial enterprises, and built residential and public buildings. Even during the war, restoration work began on the territory liberated from the enemy and the re-evacuation of industrial enterprises. The special interest in this stage of the history of Moscow builders is explained not only by the huge scope of work and numerous examples of selfless service to the Motherland, which help "educate all workers on the best labor standards" 1, but also by the fact that the rich experience of workers in the capital's industry in using ideological and material factors to increase labor productivity, centralization of construction organizations, breaking outdated canons He had a great influence on the further development of this important branch of public production. The authors of studies on the contribution of Muscovites to the Great Patriotic War do not consider the activity of builders in full, but only briefly write about the construction of fortifications in the autumn of 1941, cite individual facts (usually from the practice of trusts of the Moscow City Council system) about its other aspects .2 The work of Moscow builders is not reflected in any detail in the collections of documents about Moscow in 1941-1945. Almost all the materials published in them relate to only one issue: the construction of defensive lines - and do not create a complete picture of the work of the builders. 3 Therefore, we can agree with the editorial board of one of the collections of the Institute of History of the USSR that "the feat of builders during the war years has not yet been sufficiently st ... Read more