Evacuation in the Soviet Union

Evacuation in the Soviet Union is the evacuation of people and industry after the German invasion in 1941. According to Rebeca Marley over sixteen million Soviet civilians were evacuated. According to Walter S. Dunn 1,523 large factories were moved by the end of 1941. Prisoners were evacuated, many of them massacred. Lenin's body was moved to Tyumen. Part of Hermitage Museum collection was evacuated to Sverdlovsk. Kuybyshev was the alternative capital of the Soviet Union 1941-1943. Novosibirsk received more than 140,000 refugees and many factories.

Evacuation of Industry
Due to the speed of the initial German advance, factories were in danger not only because of the threat of being lost to the Germans, but the general collapse of the civilian economy along with this loss of territory, leading to a lack of supplies and as such, productivity.