Abstract: The subject of the study is the system of training and staffing of industrial enterprises of Stalingrad with engineering and technical personnel during the period of industrialization. Based on data from the State Archive of the Volgograd Region, the Center for Documentation of the Modern History of the Volgograd Region, the funds of the museum of the Krasny Oktyabr plant, as well as scientific literature, the problem of shortage of technical personnel at industrial enterprises of Stalingrad in 1929-1941 is revealed; ways and sources of attracting engineers and technicians to the factories of the city, as well as their training to solve this problem as a holistic the system. The author considers in detail the external and internal sources for the recruitment and training of qualified technical specialists. Special attention is paid to the effectiveness of the in-house training system as one of the main sources of replenishment of enterprises by engineers and technicians. The study is based on a systematic approach that allows us to consider the solution of the problem of staffing Stalingrad factories with engineers and technicians and training new technical personnel as a system. Also, in the course of the research, a functional and structural approach was used, which allowed us to consider the activities of various party, state and factory bodies aimed at recruiting enterprises with qualified technical personnel. The novelty of the work consists in attracting archival materials previously unused in scientific circulation, as well as a comprehensive consideration of the problem of staffing industrial enterprises of Stalingrad with technical personnel, which allowed us to reveal the causes of the shortage of engineers and technicians at the factories of the city, sources and methods of attracting and training technical personnel. During the period of industrialization, Stalingrad experienced an acute shortage of technical specialists. To solve this problem, Stalingrad had an extensive system for recruiting and training technical specialists. It was divided into external forms of recruitment, when enterprises attracted foreign specialists, engineers and technicians from other industrial regions of the USSR, as well as internal ones, which included sending their specialists for training, in-house training and training of specialists in specialized secondary and higher educational institutions. By 1940 – 1941, Stalingrad enterprises still lacked qualified technical specialists, but their total number increased many times, which allowed not only to increase output, but also to develop production qualitatively.

Abstract: The purpose of the study is to identify the system of recruitment of industrial enterprises of Stalingrad by engineering and technical workers during the recovery period of 1943 – 1950. With the help of data from the State Archive of the Volgograd region and scientific literature, the reasons for the active activity of factories and the local administration in building a system of training and attracting technical personnel to industrial enterprises are revealed. Therefore, the subject of the study is engineering and technical personnel who were involved in the industrial enterprises of Stalingrad during the reconstruction period. The research is based on a systematic approach that allows us to consider the solution of the personnel problem of Stalingrad industrial enterprises as a system, as well as a functional and structural approach that allows us to consider the activities of various organizations for the formation of personnel support for Stalingrad industry. The novelty of the research is the involvement of archival data that had not been previously introduced into scientific circulation, as well as consideration of the problem of staffing the city affected by the fighting as a system of organizations engaged in personnel training. The results of the study are: the reason for the active formation of the Stalingrad technical personnel training system during the recovery period was the need to restore and launch the industrial production of the city in conditions of severe destruction of factories during the fighting; the personnel training system included three elements, namely, the training of practical engineers directly at enterprises, correspondence training of technical specialists, as well as full-time education in Stalingrad educational institutions. At the same time, if at the beginning of the recovery period – 1943-1945 the training of practical engineers directly at the factories plays an important role, then during the second period more and more specialists graduate from educational organizations of Stalingrad; by the end of 1950 the developed system made it possible to somewhat improve the situation with a shortage of qualified engineering and technical personnel.