Evacuating the Moscow Suburbs
B. N. Chernousov, Evacuating the Moscow Suburbs. October 11, 1941
Translated by Kristen Edwards
A note about the evacuation from the suburbs of Moscow to N. M. Shvernik, the Chairman of the Evacuation Council of the Council of People's Commissariats of the USSR. Secret.
Original Source: GARF, f. 259 ch, op. 40 c, d. 3035, l. 101.
Due to the fact that recently enemy flights have been intensifying around the suburbs of Moscow, and taking into consideration the approaching winter and absence of suitable shelters in the suburbs, the Moscow Oblast Committee of the Communist Party and the Executive Committee of the Moscow Oblast Council consider it necessary to immediately evacuate children, mothers and pregnant women, and request the Evacuation Council of the Soviet Council of People's Commissariats to:
Allow the evacuation of 300,000 children and women from the suburbs of Moscow.
Assign destinations for the evacuated population.
Oblige the People's Commissariat of Transportation to allocate the necessary number of cars to evacuate the population of the suburbs of Moscow.
Secretary of the Moscow Committee of the Communist Party, Chernousov
Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Moscow Oblast Council, Tarasov
Source: M. M. Gorinov, V. N. Parkhachev, and A. N. Ponomarev, eds. Moskva prifrontovaia, 1941 1942: Arkhivnye dokumenty i materialy. (Moscow: Izdatel stvo ob edineniia Mosgorarkhiv, 2001), p. 254.