The «housing question» as a component of the history of everyday life: the example of occupied Odesa (1941-1944)

The purpose of the proposed article is to study the functioning of Romanian communal services, which were responsible for the control of the housing stock of Odessa and relations with the city’s population, the distribution of apartments and houses, as well as their operation. The novelty of the study. For the fi rst time, the current issues of life problems in the conditions of the Second World War in Transnistria are considered, in particular, in Odesa, the relations between various groups of the civilian population and the Romanian authorities are examined. War is usually studied through the history of military operations, important political events, economic and social processes. The issues of everyday life, the daily life of an ordinary are not in the focus of researchers. Although it is precisely the everyday small problems, this very life was made up of. The period of the Romanian occupation of Odesa is so interesting to study period of the Romanian occupation of Odesa is the system of accounting and distribution of housing in the city. Research methods: comparative, historical- genetic, retrospective analysis. Conclusions: Analyzing the approaches of the occupation authorities in the «apartment issue», we note that special attention was paid to the organization of accounting and operation of the housing stock of the occupied city and the system of work of the relevant communal bodies of Odessa. However, it was not possible to fi nally settle the «apartment chaos». Especially since after the liberation, the housing issue in the city gained a new social urgency. It is clear that the tragedy of war has always intensifi ed personal human tragedies that every person had to solve somehow.