The features of consumer services of the population of national regions of Siberia in 1965 - 1975th (on an example of the Gorny Altai autonomous region)

In 1960th the party proclaimed theincrease of well-being of the people to be the main task. Congresses demanded to carry out economy turn to the decision of diverse problemsof increase of material security of the population. The considerable role in the decision of these problems was taken away to consumer servicessphere. The role of this branch for Gorny Altai autonomous region followed from economic-geographical and natural-environmentalconditions of the given region.Remoteness of settlements from each other, characteristic for Gorny Altai excluded the possibility of the rational organization of allspheres of public service from the united center and dictated necessity of creation of specific forms of service. The system of functioning ofconsumer services of the population looked as follows. Management of consumer services of Gorny Altai autonomous region was regionalmanagement of a double subordination. It submitted to Gorny Altai regional executive committee and regional management of consumerservices of Altai executive committee. The primary goals of management were: maintenance of performance of decisions of party and thegovernment on development of consumer services, plans of household services, capital construction, profit and payments in the budget, andalso increase of culture of service; realization of the actions directed on transformation of consumer services in large mechanized branch of anational economy; studying of requirements city and agricultural population in consumer services and on this basis working out and realizationof actions for consumer services development in the region.According to the problems the performance of various household services, basically at the expense of network expansion was carriedout. For example, in 1966 there were 164 units of household workshops on management of consumer services of the population, but in 1974there were 201, including the countryside: the number of workshops increased from 137 units in 1966 to 187 units in 1975. Typical buildingsof industrial complexes of the consumer services were constructed in the majority of the regional centers of Altai Republic (Maiminsky,Shebalinsky, Ongudaisky, Ust-Kansk, etc.), the quantity of which increased from 205 in 1965 to 255 in 1975.For Gorny Altai autonomous region, especially for its mountainous areas, consumer services was the most actual. It was because of thelevel of sphere of service in the given region on many branches was much lower, than on the average across the USSR. Economic specializationof area on pasturable animal industries dictated necessity of the organization of a network of seasonally-lived settlements that causeddifficulties in any reception of services on places of the appendix of work, i.e. parking. Besides, big dispersion, rural settlements, weak materialresources of the road and transport organization created additional difficulties in rendering of household services to the population of thegiven region.

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