The article is dedicated to the problem of coordinating the potential of the mining rescue service with the needs of the mining industry of the USSR during the accelerated modernization of the economy in the 1930s. The subject of the research is the process of reforming the mining rescue service during the years of the first five-year plans, which was based on meeting the needs of the rapidly developing mining industry, primarily the coal sector. The goal of the work is to determine the significance of state regulation and control in the process of increasing the potential of the mining rescue service, driven by the necessity of solving a complex of tasks: the construction of specialized buildings for rescue stations, the import substitution of mining rescue equipment, the improvement of the material and technical base, the formation of a dedicated transport fleet (vehicles, rail rescue vehicles), the training of rescue specialists, and the expansion of housing for rescue workers and their families. The chronological framework of the research covers the period from the beginning of the formation of the concept of reorganizing the mining rescue service at the start of industrialization (1930) to the reform of the mining rescue service implemented under the mobilization model of the economy (1936). The work employs a problem-chronological method, which allowed for tracing and characterizing the process of increasing the potential of the militarized mining rescue service. The basis for the research consisted of documents stored in the State Archive of the Russian Federation and the Russian State Archive of Economics. The preparation of the article made use of archival funds from the Air Defense Administration and the militarized special units of the NKTP of the USSR (1931–1939) and the Execution Commission under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR (1930–1934). The scientific novelty lies in the fact that it is the first attempt to differentiate the measures of state regulation aimed at raising the level of mining rescue activities and the methods of strengthening the potential of the mining rescue service in the context of implementing the mobilization model of the Soviet state's development. The research results allow for the identification and characterization of three stages of reforming the mining rescue service. It was concluded that the significant growth in the potential of the mining rescue service was achieved exclusively through state regulation and control exercised by the highest executive authorities of the country in the interests of developing the mining industry of the USSR, and the modernization of mining rescue institutions and changes in the socio-economic status of rescue workers occurred based on the principles and proven methods of achieving results characteristic of the mobilization model of the economy.
D. P. Sarin (Thu,) studied this question.