City hairdressing business of Chkalov (Orenburg) region during the Great Patriotic War and post-war reconstruction
Ravilya R. Khisamutdinova, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor
Orenburg State Pedagogical University, Orenburg, Russia, hisamutdinova@inbox.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3546-0683
Abstract
The article analyzes the work of the municipal hairdressing industry of the Chkalov (Orenburg) region during the war and post-war years, with greater attention paid to the activities of hairdressing salons in the regional center. The reasons for the unsatisfactory work of municipal hairdressing salons, which could not fully meet the needs of the urban population, are identified. Data are provided on the number of hairdressing salons, throughput capacity and cost of services, which changed significantly throughout the war. It is proved that the number of municipal hairdressing salons increased by 2.6 times (from 19 to 50 units) over the eight post-war years (1945—1953), the number of clients served increased by 1.5 times (from 704.4 thousand to 1087 thousand). On the basis of the comparative analysis of the communal hairdressing industry of the Chkalov region with the neighboring industrially developed Chelyabinsk region the author comes to the conclusion that the reasons for the unsatisfactory work of the hairdressers were similar, but the number of hairdressers and the number of clients served were significantly higher in the neighboring region, and the tariffs for hairdressing services were lower. The role of the local Soviet and party bodies in solving serious problems at the local level with a shortage of centralized supplies of hairdressing with perfumery materials and hairdressing tools is revealed. It is proved that production plans for hairdressing services delivery to the population by communal hairdressers of the region were fulfilled neither during the war nor in the years of post-war recovery.
Keywords
The Great Patriotic War, Chkalov region, communal hairdressers, throughput capacity, tariffs, tools, customers.
For citation:
Khisamutdinova R. R. City hairdressing business of Chkalov (Orenburg) region during the Great Patriotic War and post-war reconstruction. Vestnik of Orenburg State Pedagogical University. Electronic Scientific Journal, 2025, no. 4 (56), pp. 218—236. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32516/2303-9922.2025.56.14.
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