Boats of the Sarapul Roadstead of the Kamlesosplav Trust, Which Worked in Sarapul during the War

There was reconstruction of the biographies of the vessels that worked at the Sarapul roadstead of the Kamlesosplav trust during the war is made.A total of five boats were considered: No. 17, No. 33, No. 40, No. 54 and "Pioner".Boats No. 70, No. 89 and "Kolkhoznitsa" were not considered as they were listed in Sarapul for a short time.Boat No. 58 was also not considered as it was received after the war.The materials used for the reconstruction were orders on the main activities of the Kamlesosplav trust, documentation on the main activities, orders on personnel and statistical reports of the Sarapul roadstead.The conclusions obtained during the work for the Sarapul roadstead can be expanded to the entire Kamlesosplav trust.Thus, as a result of the study, it was established that none of the boats were mobilized, which is explained by the important strategic task of the trust to supply timber to the lower reaches of the Volga.The trust itself and the leadership of the People's Commissariat of the Forestry Industry constantly carried out a castling of the fleet for better use of the available resources.In the most difficult year for the trust in 1942, boats were transferred to it from other trusts, and in 1944 it itself transferred boats to the farms of the liberated regions.During the war, the trust steadily carried out work to transfer the boats to solid fuel.This increased the resilience of the fleet to interruptions in the supply of liquid fuel, but at the same time, it made the maintenance of the ships more difficult, in particular, an additional person was introduced into the team -a shurovischik.During the war, this played a role, and after the Victory, a reverse modernization of the ships took place.