CHILDREN’S HOMES IN THE GORKY REGION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE STRUGGLE AGAINST CHILD HOMELESSNESS AND NEGLECT IN THE MIDDLE TO SECOND HALF OF THE 1940s

Based on the materials of the Nizhny Novgorod archives, this paper sheds light on the organisation of children’s homes in the Gorky region after the Great Patriotic War. The acute problem of child homelessness and neglect required an urgent solution in the 1940s. As a result, the number of children’s homes in the region, which became one of the country’s largest evacuation sites, tripled. In the postwar period, the situation remained critical, and a set of measures were introduced to stabilise it. They also implied ensuring the operation of children’s homes.