Decree of the State Defense Committee on the Construction of the 3rd Defense Line of Moscow, 12 October 1941

Source: Tom 18

Source: Tom 18

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In order to accelerate the construction of the 3rd defense line of Moscow, the State Defense Committee decrees:

1. To oblige the Moscow Regional Executive Committee -- Comrade Tarasov -- to mobilize by way of labor conscription for a period of 20 days, 250,000 collective farmers, workers, and employees of institutions and enterprises located in the Moscow Region, for the construction of the 3rd defense line of Moscow.

To oblige the Chairman of the Moscow Regional Executive Committee -- Comrade Tarasov -- to provide food and tools (shovels, stretchers, wheelbarrows) to those mobilized for the construction of fortifications.

2. To oblige the Moscow Soviet -- Comrade Pronin -- to mobilize by way of labor conscription 200,000 employees of institutions and enterprises and workers of enterprises of the city of Moscow not engaged in the production of tanks, ammunition, and armaments, for the construction of defensive works.

To maintain the average wages for workers and employees mobilized for the construction of fortifications.

3. To grant the Moscow Soviet the right to requisition from institutions and enterprises (except defense plants) materials (reinforcing steel, cement, timber), motor transport, and construction machinery for the construction of defensive fortifications.

4. To oblige the Moscow Soviet -- Comrade Pronin -- to provide those mobilized for the construction of defensive fortifications with food and tools (shovels, stretchers, wheelbarrows).

5. To oblige the People's Commissariat of Ferrous Metallurgy -- Comrade Tevosyan -- to allocate 400 tons of shovel steel to the Moscow Soviet within 3 days.

Chairman of the State Defense Committee

I. Stalin

Izvestiya TsK KPSS. 1990. No. 12. P. 215.