Problematic Issues in the Organization of the Activities of the Territorial Internal Affairs Bodies of the Rear Areas at the Initial Stage of the Great Patriotic War of 1941—1945 on the Example of the Office of the Peoples Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the Khabarovsk Territory

The history of the Great Patriotic War of 1941—1945 and 80 years after its end continues to teach us lessons. The special military operation launched by Russia in 2022 updated a new appeal to the experience of the internal affairs bodies in the rear areas in the context of military confrontation. Of particular interest is the history of the adaptation of the activities of the Peoples Commissariat of Internal Affairunits in the Khabarovsk Territory to the conditions of the war, in a region 4.6 times larger than modern France, which had a small but complex social population, geography and specific climate, surrounded by a long land and sea state border. In 1941—1942, the regional law enforcement agencies took measures to minimize the negative factors caused by the war, solving the problems of staffing and education, organizing the fight against crime and searching for new forms and methods of work in war conditions.