Abstract
The article discusses the activities of workers in Western Siberia, aimed at assisting the families of front-line soldiers and evacuated children, the majority of whom died at the beginning of the war. Realizing that help and care for the everyday needs of families of servicemen and orphans are of utmost importance, residents of Siberian cities and villages under the leadership of party, public and Komsomol organizations used various forms of assistance to soldier families and children: organized voluntary Sunday work, ten-day campaigns and funds earned from them sent to the families of front-line soldiers and children left without parents. Also, there was gathering of food, warm clothes, shoes among the population; families of front-line soldiers were provided with fuel and patronage assistance. It was found that this assistance was significant and included the efforts of various strata of the population, from pioneer activists to enterprise workers, and had various forms of manifestation, from the leadership of party, Soviet and Komsomol organizations to the personal initiatives of people in Western Siberia.