registered, only 246 arrived; specialists from the saratov region, where 43 people are still there, penzinskaya 26, gorky and chkalovskaya 28, are especially poorly released people, we ask you to instruct the regional party committees to expedite sending agricultural specialists to our disposal . but there were no complaints, people worked selflessly in the hope of reviving the village and helping the army and the country. the republic was raised by the heroism of the people. this is how kirill mazurov, later the first secretary of the central committee of the party of the republic, recalled this period. the leadership did everything to support the peasants in those difficult conditions. the measures are different. which were tested in this region, it was the allocation of land to the peasants, that is, to them the land that they owned before the german attack on the soviet union was returned. the specifics of the region were taken into account, the priority to private farms, but a characteristic feature of the restoration of agriculture in the western regions is that they did not begin to forc