The article is dedicated to the issues of inter-agency relationships between the NKVD, the Construction Management of the Kuibyshev Hydrosystem (SKGU), and the Kuibyshev Regional Committee from 1938 to 1940. The subject of the research is the conflict situations between the party-economic leadership of the construction, on the one hand, and representatives of the NKVD in the Samara ITL, on the other, at the initial stage of the construction of the Kuibyshev Hydroelectric Power Station. The object of the research is the correspondence of the Kuibyshev Regional Committee regarding the SKGU, which is stored in the Samara Regional State Archive of Social and Political History. These archival documents have not been published before and are being introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. The purpose of this work is to examine the causes of such conflicts and identify the mechanisms for their resolution. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that archival documents related to inter-agency conflicts at a large GULAG construction project have been explored for the first time and analyzed. The construction of the Kuibyshev Hydrosystem is briefly characterized, and a description is provided of Sergey Yakovlevich Zhuk, an outstanding specialist who had such authority that allowed him to openly defend his employees, including those previously convicted, and to achieve the cessation of negative activities against them even from the NKVD. The main part of the research is the analysis of three conflict situations that occurred during the construction in the period under review. As a result, it was concluded that such conflicts arose for various reasons, ranging from the objective difficulties of a large construction project in the case of the Main Forest Office to possible incompetence in the situation with the engineering geology department, and even negligence in the case of the Orsk stone procurement site. Such situations were resolved differently depending on the circumstances. In the first case, the matter ended with the adoption of formal action plans, in another case the materials of the case were submitted for investigation, and in the third situation, any consequences for the participants in the conflict were avoided thanks to the intervention of the construction manager.
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Ilyashenko (Sun,) studied this question.