Source: Tom 18

Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR on the Procedure for Supplying Workers, Employees, and Their Family Members with Food and Manufactured Goods through Ration Cards

The Council of People's Commissars of the USSR resolves:

1. To establish the following categories of ration cards for food products: - First category: workers of defense industry enterprises and workers engaged in especially arduous and hazardous labor; - Second category: workers of other industrial enterprises and transport workers; - Third category: employees.

2. Bread rations per day:

- Workers, first category: 800 grams

- Workers, second category: 600 grams

- Employees: 400 grams

- Dependents: 400 grams

- Children under 12: 400 grams

3. Monthly rations for other products per person are established as follows: meat, fish, fats, cereals, sugar, and confectionery products shall be distributed according to the established norms for each category.

4. Family members of military personnel receive ration cards of the dependents' category.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR I. Stalin