The history of the construction of the Kuibyshev–Bezymyanka tram line on the eve and during the Great Patriotic War

On the eve of the eightieth anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War, it is important to pay attention to the least studied, and, at first glance, not the most global aspects in the history of the home front, which selflessly worked for the needs of the front. The presented article analyzes a similar topic – the history of the creation of a tram line connecting the industrial district of Kuibyshev, Bezymyanka, with the main part of the city. During the war, several dozen industrial enterprises were evacuated here, making Kuibyshev a major aircraft manufacturing center. But Bezymyanka was located at a considerable distance from the city, where a significant part of the workers lived. We are considering the background of the appearance of this tram line, as well as its design, construction and commissioning. Thanks to the advent of a regular tram line, tens of thousands of workers were able to reach defense enterprises with much greater success, whose products were in dire need of the front. The sources for the article are unpublished documents from the collections of federal (the State Archive of the Russian Federation, the Russian State Archive of Economics and the Russian State Archive in Samara) and regional (the Central State Archive of the Samara Region and the Samara Regional State Archive of Socio-Political History) archives.