Development of housing and communal services Aktobe region in 1945 -1953

Abstract

The article deals with the development of housing and communal and domestic services of the population of the Aktobe region in 1945 -1953. This problem hasn’t been separately considered in the modern national historiography, and the available researches on Aktobe region were mainly devoted to economic and cultural life of the population and contain only fragmentary information. In this connec- tion, the purpose of the given work is the analysis of a condition of housing and communal services in the post-war years, revealing of the inhabitants’ problems in conditions of the post-war development, on the basis of attraction of archive materials. The author pays attention to the issues of housing provision, the state of the city housing stock and the rate of construction of new houses, the development of electri- fication, the water supply and sewerage system in the region. In the conclusion the author concludes that the state of the institutions of consumer services in the period under consideration was not satisfactory. The sphere of housing and communal services in Aktobe oblast was lagging behind, despite the intensive industrial and agricultural development of the region. Some positive changes in addressing the housing issue, improvement of districts, electrification began to appear only in 1951-1952 years.

Key words: Aktobe oblast, housing, housing and utilities, consumer services.