The transferable Red Banner of Kursk regional committee of VLKSM (All-Union Leninist Young Communist League) was handed over on July 18, 1943 to the Stary Oskol brigade led by Tamara Semyonova for high labor productivity while constructing the Stary Oskol — Rzhava railway.
On June 8, 1943 at the intiative of Army General Nikolay Fedorovich Vatutin, commander of the Voronezh Front, the State Defense Committee adopted a plan to build the Stary Oskol — Rzhava railway. The situation of the Voronezh Front during this period was particularly difficult, as the front had no railway communications of its own.
The construction period was set at two months from June 15 to August 15, 1943. The management of the construction was entrusted to the Voronezh Front Military Reconstruction Department (Chief-General P. A. Kabanov). It obliged the Kursk Regional Committee of the Party and the Regional Executive Committee to allocate manpower and transport for the construction.
The construction of the 95 kilometers of cross-country route was extremely labor-intensive: at least 800,000 cubic meters of earth had to be moved, bridges and numerous auxiliary structures had to be built. To assist the military construction units, columns of workers moved from towns and villages, one per district. They were headed by the secretaries of the district party committees. Over 11 thousand people and 600 horse-drawn carts were sent by Starooskolsky, Novooskolsky, Chernyansky, Volokonovsky, Korochansky, Skorodnyansky, Bobrovodvorsky and other districts of Belgorod region.
The Stary Oskol column (1,000 people and 100 wagons in total) arrived in time for the beginning of construction. It consisted of a brigade of builders-railway workers headed by Nikolay Mikhailovich Emelyanov, the road master of the Stary Oskol railway maintenance section and a Komsomol-military youth detachment. Lydia Shugaeva was the head of the youth detachment, and Tatiana Bolshesolskaya held the position of deputy commander for political affairs. The unit consisted of two brigades. The backbone of one Komsomol-youth brigade consisted of workers of the printing house and district newspapers, headed by Tamara Semyonova, the other brigade was headed by Zinaida Polyakova.
On June 8, 1943 at the intiative of Army General Nikolay Fedorovich Vatutin, commander of the Voronezh Front, the State Defense Committee adopted a plan to build the Stary Oskol — Rzhava railway. The situation of the Voronezh Front during this period was particularly difficult, as the front had no railway communications of its own.
The construction period was set at two months from June 15 to August 15, 1943. The management of the construction was entrusted to the Voronezh Front Military Reconstruction Department (Chief-General P. A. Kabanov). It obliged the Kursk Regional Committee of the Party and the Regional Executive Committee to allocate manpower and transport for the construction.
The construction of the 95 kilometers of cross-country route was extremely labor-intensive: at least 800,000 cubic meters of earth had to be moved, bridges and numerous auxiliary structures had to be built. To assist the military construction units, columns of workers moved from towns and villages, one per district. They were headed by the secretaries of the district party committees. Over 11 thousand people and 600 horse-drawn carts were sent by Starooskolsky, Novooskolsky, Chernyansky, Volokonovsky, Korochansky, Skorodnyansky, Bobrovodvorsky and other districts of Belgorod region.
The Stary Oskol column (1,000 people and 100 wagons in total) arrived in time for the beginning of construction. It consisted of a brigade of builders-railway workers headed by Nikolay Mikhailovich Emelyanov, the road master of the Stary Oskol railway maintenance section and a Komsomol-military youth detachment. Lydia Shugaeva was the head of the youth detachment, and Tatiana Bolshesolskaya held the position of deputy commander for political affairs. The unit consisted of two brigades. The backbone of one Komsomol-youth brigade consisted of workers of the printing house and district newspapers, headed by Tamara Semyonova, the other brigade was headed by Zinaida Polyakova.
