Activities for Resettling Collective Farmers to the Kexholm and Rautovsky Districts of the Leningrad region in 1945–47

The article is devoted to the assessment of events related to the resettlement of collective farms population to the Karelian Isthmus of the Leningrad region. The author indicates the reasons, encouraged population to move to a new place of residence, as well as the impact of government measures aimed at attracting people to move. The local measures carried out are considered - from the distribution of food and manufactured goods, to the provision of new housing and a personal plot for resettlers. State-scale benefits for collective farmers, such as issuance of long-term cash loans and reduction in the tax burden, are also described. Using specific examples, aspects of the daily life of migrants are considered, as well as cases of exits from collective farms, including unauthorized ones. The author considers the thesis that, in general, the policy of resettlement to the areas of the Karelian Isthmus, conducted by the state, has been quite successful. The demographic indicators of the region increased after resettlement, which made it possible to begin much faster to eliminate the consequences of the Great Patriotic War in these areas of the Leningrad region. The article was written using the materials from the archives of TSGAIPD, LOGAV and periodicals of the described period.