Contribution of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (AULYCL) to industrialization and strengthening of the defense capability of the Far-Eastern region of the USSR in the 1930th (on the example of construction of Komsomolsk-on-the Amur city)

Abstract

The Far East always took an important place in the system of national security of Russia because of its special geopolitical status. The problem of modernization and strengthening of defense capability of the region, which actual today, was particularly acute for the Soviet state in the 1920th - the 1930th years. On the basis of unpublished contemporary records and memoirs of Komsomol members the author opens participation of the Komsomol organization in development of edge on the example of a city building of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, which became an important milestone in industrial development of the Far East. In article emphasized the special role of Komsomol mobilization for economic development of edge, reflected the contribution of Komsomol members to construction of the major industrial facilities: ship-building and aviation plants, noted severe conditions of work and life of young first builders. The author comes to a conclusion that the youth involved on the most responsible sites of construction became a support in realization of party governmental activities and the solution of social and economic problems of industrialization of the region.