World War II posed new and complex challenges for the higher education system. It was necessary not only to preserve the system of training personnel for the national economy of the USSR, but also to focus on the development of the new materials necessary for the front and the rear. Ivanovo Chemical Technology Institute (ICTI) took a worthy place in this process. This article is devoted to the activities of the ICTI in 1941–1943, its role in the training personnel for the chemical plants, in the development of the dyes for the textile industry, in the manufacture of Molotov cocktails in the most difficult military conditions in the fall of 1941, etc. In addition, we examine the problems of the organising the educational process, the participation of the students in the procurement of fuel, the harvesting, the work at industrial enterprises. The information presented in the article about the labour heroism of the students and the scientists of the institute, strengthens the general knowledge about the contribution of the ICTI to meeting the needs of the front and the rear in 1941–1943. In the article we use the documents of State Archive of Ivanovo Region, introduced into scientific circulation for the first time, which gives it a special novelty, as well as sources of personal origin, which are the memories of the students of the ICTI during the war years which make it the most interesting to read.

This article is devoted to the study of the training of engineering and technical personnel for the textile industry of the USSR. In the conditions of the third five-year plan, it has acquired particular urgency, since the textile workers of the country were tasked with significantly increasing production capacity in order to ensure the growth of output for the civilian population and technical fabrics. To do this, it was necessary not only to smooth out the consequences of the mass repressions of 1937-1938 in relation to managers and engineering and technical workers of factories and plants, but also to train a huge number of highly qualified specialists for the textile industry. The implementation of the task was carried out in conditions of an acute shortage of educational facilities, their congestion, as well as a shortage of dormitories for students and housing for the teaching staff of higher technical educational institutions. Important attention was paid to the activities of scientific research institutes, their relations with enterprises, and the introduction of scientific developments into production. Despite the creation of new textile districts in Western Siberia, Central Asia and Transcaucasia, the training of engineering and technical personnel was still carried out in Moscow, Leningrad and Ivanovo. The creation of new higher education institutions was hindered by the lack of capital investments, the lack of material and technical base, scientific and teaching staff, as well as the presence of other problems. Nevertheless, the system of scientific research institutions, higher technical educational institutions, industrial academies and technical schools that existed in the pre-war period made it possible to train a large number of qualified specialists, to form the ranks of the Soviet scientific and technical intelligentsia.

This article is devoted to the restoration of the activities of the former plant No. 3 (Alexandrov) of the Ivanovo region renamed in 1942 to the plant No. 729, with the aim of producing battalion radio stations for the existing army. Until August 1944, Alexandrov was administratively part of the Ivanovo region, therefore, the decisions of the State Defense Committee regarding this enterprise were accompanied by the adoption by the Ivanovsky committee of the WCP (b) and the Executive Committee of the regional council of the organizational and administrative decisions. To fulfill the defense committee of the defense, the task of restoring the plant in the Ivanovo region and any opportunities were sought outside of its borders, acute problems with the organization of life and the provision of labor collective were solved. The article was prepared on the basis of previously secret and completely secret documents from the Russian state archive of socio-political history and the state archive of the Ivanovo region, which are first introduced into scientific turns. Their use allows to overcome existing gaps in regional historical knowledge about the activities of the defense and industrial complex of the Ivanovo region during the Great Patriotic War.

This article is devoted to the law ensuring of the activities of the accounting and loan committees at the branches of the State Bank of the Russian Empire in the post-reform period. On May 31 (old style) (June 12 new style), 1860, Emperor Alexander II signed a decree establishing the State Bank of the Russian Empire. At the same time, the charter of the State Bank was adopted. 13 articles of the charter were devoted to the activities of the accounting and loan committees at local branches of the State Bank. The authors cite extracts from these articles of the charter that regulate the activities of the committees and attempt to analyse them. The provisions of the articles of the charter of the State Bank are confirmed by examples from the documents of the State Archives of Ivanovo and Vladimir regions. A study of the articles of the charter showed that industrialists and merchants – representatives of the merchant class of the region of the branch – were approved as the members of the committees at the local branches of the State Bank. Industrialists and traders, who worked as members of the committee at the branch of the State Bank, informed the bank about the state of various branches of trade and industry, they gave recommendations on the issuance of a loan by the bank and they were guarantors of the loan repayment to the bank. For their useful activities for the committee's affairs, the State Bank awarded them with honorary awards, recognising their merits in the public activities of the city. At the end of the article, the authors conclude that the accounting and loan committees at the branches of the State Bank were created and functioned on the basis of the institution of public-private partnership.

The article is devoted to the study of the actions of the Soviet state on agitation and propaganda protection of state interests in the Ivanovo region in 1941. It reflects the measures of the Soviet government and the state defense Committee of the USSR to prevent uncontrolled forms of dissemination of information that arouses alarm among the population and measures of responsibility for these actions. Important attention is paid to such official means of countering German propaganda in the Ivanovo region as radio broadcasting, periodicals and film production. It shows the specifics of their activities in the most difficult conditions of the initial period of the great Patriotic war, the degree of perception of the population of the region of the information they bring. The article is based on the materials of the Russian state archive of socio-political history, the state archive of the Ivanovo region and the local periodical press. The results of this research may be of interest to specialists in the history of the great Patriotic war, students of higher educational institutions, as well as the General public.