Efforts to Restore Agricultural Industries in Karakalpakstan in 1946-1953 Years

Abstract

A major problem in the post-war production sector of Karakalpakstan's agriculture was the lack of labor resources. On the eve of the war, Karakalpakstan was an agricultural republic with poorly developed infrastructure, and its industry was mainly related to the processing of agricultural products. For example, according to the 1926 census, 331,000 people lived in Karakalpakstan during this period, and in 1939, their number was 475,000, of which only 12 percent lived in cities and district centers [1]. In the year when the Second World War started, the population of the republic was 505.6 thousand people, of which the working population (16 to 60 years old) consisted of 260.7 people. 86,000 Karakalpakstans participated in the front and military industrial centers, i.e., in 1941 and 1945, 1/6 of the total population of the republic or 1/3 of the total able-bodied population worked on the front and behind the front [2].