title: Renovation under the Blockade: Demolition of Wooden Buildings in Leningrad. 1941–1942
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metadata.value: Gavrilova, O. A.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Sun, Yizhi
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-01-09T16:52:44Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-01-09T16:52:44Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Gavrilova O. A., Sun Yizhi. ‘Renovation under the Blockade: Demolition of Wooden Buildings in Leningrad. 1941–1942’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 12, no. 4, 2022, pp. 853–869. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu24.2022.403 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu24.2022.403
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/38834
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Based on a complex of published and archival sources, the article deals with a problem that has not
  been adequately covered in historiography. Since half of the housing stock of Leningrad on the eve of the war
  was made up of wooden buildings, it was they who at the turn of 1941/1942 have become one of the resources for
  solving fuel problems. Carrying out the planned demolition of about 6 thousand wooden residential buildings, as
  well as numerous wooden kiosks, fences, summer theaters, restaurants, pavilions, the city government solved a
  number of urgent tasks. Thus, it got rid of emergency and fire hazardous objects, provided enterprises and institutions
  with precious fuel, and provided the population of the besieged city with the opportunity to independently
  engage in firewood. Brigades of workers, employees and other categories of the population, created in factories,
  factories and households, carried out the demolition of wooden structures, and carried out another important
  mission. They contributed to the fact that some of the townspeople were relocated from dilapidated wooden
  buildings to rooms and apartments that were empty as a result of the death of hundreds of thousands of Leningraders
  during the first blockade winter. This was to ensure the safety and proper operation of stone houses. Several
  waves of evacuation of disabled categories of the population created additional opportunities for preparing
  for an active resettlement policy. Thus, significant areas of urban housing stock were subject to renovation in the
  shortest possible time, and its technical and transport support became the main problem. The implementation of
  this action was possible as a result of a significant reduction in the population of Leningrad.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The research was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (RSF), project no. 22-28-00617 “‘The Forbidden
  City’: Housing Policy in Leningrad in the 1940s”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 12; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: siege
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Leningrad
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: housing stock
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: wooden houses
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: fuel crisis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: firewood
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Renovation under the Blockade: Demolition of Wooden Buildings in Leningrad. 1941–1942
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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