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HISTORY OF WOMEN'S ACTIVITIES IN LIGHT INDUSTRY OF UZBEKISTAN 
 

Fazilat Akramova 

Lecturer Of The Department "History Of Uzbekistan", National University Of Uzbekistan, Faculty Of History, Uzbekistan 

 

INTRODUCTION 

From the earliest days of Soviet rule, the party 
pursued a "Leninist national policy" and fought 
hard for the liberation of the women of the 
peoples of Soviet Turkestan, including Uzbek 
women. The real goal is clear to everyone. 

During the Second World War, the light industry 
of the USSR suffered heavy damage, many light 
industry enterprises were destroyed. 
Nevertheless, even during the war, light industry 
was able to fully provide Soviet soldiers with 
uniforms, shoes and other items of clothing. 

In the post-war years, there was a rapid recovery 
and development of the industry. In 1950, output 
amounted to 112% of the 1940 volume. In 
addition, the technical level of many enterprises 
turned out to be much higher than the pre-war 
level due to the mechanization and automation of 
production, the commissioning of new capacities 
and thanks to the achievements of scientific and 

technological progress. The USSR became one of 
the world leaders in the light industry. The 
products have been successfully exported to 
other countries. Also, the Soviet Union ranked 

first in the world in the production of footwear
1
. 

In the years following the Second World War, 
women made an invaluable contribution to the 
restoration of the country's economy, the 
complete and decisive completion of the building 
of socialism. 

The issues of training industrial cadres of 
workers and specialists in the country, including 
in Uzbekistan, the growth of their material well-
being, cultural and technical level and creative 
activity at various stages of the development of 
Soviet society receive more and more 
comprehensive coverage in Soviet historical 

                                                             
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ABSTRACT  
 
This article provides a detailed overview of the role and importance of women's participation in the light 
industry of Uzbekistan.  The history of human society is unthinkable without light industry. With the 
development of a person, his needs grew, and in particular his needs for clothes, shoes, fabrics. The textile, 
sewing, leather and fur and footwear industries developed. The impetus for industrialization and the 
development of capitalism was the development of textile production. 
 
 
KEYWORDS: - Womens, industry, textile, Second World War, Soviet Union, Uzbekistan 

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literature. 

This is evidenced by the historiographic review 
of the literature on the working class, on 
industrial development, given in the collective 
works, monographs and articles of M.A. 
Akhunova, B.V. Lunin, G.I. Zheltova, I.E. 

Vorozheikin, E.E. Beilina and other scientists
2
. 

Thanks to the successful implementation of the 
first post-war five-year plans, Soviet Uzbekistan 
in the mid-1950s was a republic with a 
diversified industry and mechanized agriculture. 
By this time, the increasing importance in the 
national economy of the country began to be 
occupied by the industry of Uzbekistan, 
especially such industries as the chemical 
industry, mechanical engineering, and non-
ferrous metallurgy. Uzbekistan became the main 
producer and supplier of agricultural machinery 
for processing cotton crops for all cotton regions 
of the USSR. The production of mineral fertilizers 
has reached the volume, which made it possible 
to supply part of the products to the neighboring 
fraternal republics. The electrical engineering 
industry, the production of technological 
equipment and machinery for many sectors of 
the national economy have developed 

significantly
3
. 

                                                             
2
 Ахунова М.А., Лунин Б.В. История исторической 

науки в Узбекистане. Краткий очерк.- Т.:"Фан", 1970; 

Желтова Г.И., Исламджанова М.Г. Рабочий класс 

Узбекистана в освещении советской историографии. В 

журн. "Общественные науки в Узбекистане", 1972, № б; 

Ворожейкия И.Е. Очерк историографии рабочего 

класса СССР.- М.:Политиздат,1975; Ежов В.А. Рабочий 

класс СССР в современной советской историографии. 

В кн.: Рабочий класс в мировом революционном 

процессе".- М.: Наука,1975; Ворожей-дин И.Е., 

Сенявский С.Л. Рабочий класс - ведущая сила 

советского общества (Вопросы методологии и 

историографии).-М.: Мысль,1977;и др. 
3
 Усманов А.У. Подготовка промышленных кадров 

Узбекистана и рост их творческой активности (1956-

Of course, in the period after 1965. the state of 
affairs with the training of personnel in general, 
in particular for industry, has improved 
significantly. During the period under study, 
there were still significant shortcomings and 
problems in this important area. Due to the weak 
development of the network of vocational 
schools, the overwhelming majority of young 
workers were trained directly in production. Few 
trained and highly qualified specialists. This was 
one of the reasons for the low level of 
engineering, economic and planning work at 
many enterprises; in an insufficient number of 
specialists trained for a number of rapidly 
developing industries, in particular, for non-
ferrous metallurgy, electrical, gas, 

petrochemical
4
. 

Much work on the training and advanced 
training of agricultural personnel in the country, 
including Uzbekistan, was done in the years of 
the ninth five-year plan (I97I-I975). 

There was a significant disproportion between 
the continuously increasing equipment of farms 
with machinery and the machine-operator 
personnel capable of operating it. For example, 
by the beginning of 1971, the republic lacked 
more than 40 thousand tractor drivers and many 
other machine operators, and hence the low shift 
ratio, insufficient use of equipment. The available 
cadres were unevenly distributed over the 
regions and districts of the UzSSR. The scale and 
profile of training new personnel in vocational 
schools, higher and secondary specialized 
educational institutions did not properly 
correspond to the real needs of cotton growing, 
animal husbandry and other sectors of 

                                                                                                          
1965 гг.): Авторефер. дисс. ... канд. истор. наук. – М., 

1984. – С. 22. 
4
 Усманов А.У. Подготовка промышленных кадров 

Узбекистана и рост их творческой активности (1956-

1965 гг.): Авторефер. дисс. ... канд. истор. наук. – М., 

1984. – С. 24.  



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agriculture. The proportion of female machine 
operators was low. In order to eliminate these 
and other shortcomings, the party, Soviet, 
economic and public organizations of the 
republic, guided by the decisions of the party and 
the government, have done a lot during the ninth 
five-year plan to expand and improve the entire 
system of training, retraining and advanced 
training of agricultural personnel - leaders, 
specialists, workers of mass trades and especially 

machine operators
5
. 

During the ninth five-year plan, which became an 
important stage in the improvement of the 
society of mature socialism, the training of 
agricultural personnel in the country rose to a 
new level. Various forms of training and 
advanced training of workers were deployed, 
measures for the creation of rural vocational 
schools took on a large scale, state farms-
technical schools and other forms of education 
arose. Notable successes have been achieved in 
the training of female machine operators, 

workers of mass trades
6
. 

Coaching became widespread in the republic in 
1975. This year, 50,000 coaches took care of 
156,000 boys and girls. In 1980, 110,000 coaches 
were involved in the vocational training and 
education of 230,000 young workers. In 1975, 
the Tashkent Textile Combine launched a 
remarkable initiative under the motto "Let the 
young worker-coach achieve his goal.". Well-
known weaver, A.S. Verzilina was the initiator of 
this patriotic movement. She herself taught the 

                                                             
5 Зохидов Т.Т. «Подготовка и повышение квалификации 

сельскохозяйственных кадров в Узбекистане в годы 

девятой пятилетки (1971-1975 гг.): Авторефер. дисс. ... 

канд. истор. наук. – М., 1984. – С. 23 
6
 Зохидов Т.Т. «Подготовка и повышение квалификации 

сельскохозяйственных кадров в Узбекистане в годы 

девятой пятилетки (1971-1975 гг.): Авторефер. дисс. ... 

канд. истор. наук. – М., 1984. – С. 11 

craft to many young women. His students S. 
Fashutdinova and A. Molodovaya, graduates of 
vocational schools, completed their assignments 
in the first year of the fifteenth year. A.S. 
Verzilina herself has completed two personal 
five-year careers in five years, delivering only 

first-class products
7
. When we talk about the 

activities of women in the light industry of 
Uzbekistan, we all know that there are positive 
and negative aspects. 

In the 1990s, there was a significant decline in 
the production of light industry products. The 
opening of the market led to a massive influx of 
cheap, low-quality imported goods. Light 
industry products turned out to be 
uncompetitive in comparison with foreign 
manufacturers, especially with China. 

The collapse of the USSR complicated the supply 
of raw materials from the former Soviet 
republics, especially for the cotton industry, 
since cotton is not grown in Russia due to its 
natural and climatic conditions. The share of 
light industry in GNP began to decline. 

Today, when we talk about Uzbekistan, our 
country is recognized as a modern state with 
rapidly developing industry and growing 
economic power and potential. This is due to the 
fact that during the years of independence, all 
areas of industry in our country, especially high-
tech industries, are constantly developing. 

It is especially gratifying that such gratifying 
results, achieved in a very short period of 
history, are highly valued internationally. Let's 
not go too far, according to a recent World Bank 
ranking of countries on economic development, 
Uzbekistan ranks 66th out of 190 countries in 
terms of GDP calculated on the basis of the 
purchasing power parity of the national 
currency. It is clear that in recent years, the 

                                                             
7
 Исмоилова Г.У. Ўзбекистонда хотин-қиз ишчи кадрлар 

тайёрлаш.  –Тошкент: Ўзбекистон, 1983 йил. 20-бет. 



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country has risen by 6 points on this indicator
8
. 

In short, the consistent implementation of well-
thought-out reforms in our country ensures not 
only the rapid development of the light industry, 
but also the strengthening of our economy. As 
the president said, “Today we can say without 
hesitation that Uzbekistan has a rapidly growing 
modern industrial sector with a historically 
short-lived one-sided economy, mainly adapted 
to the supply of raw cotton, and a catastrophic 
cotton monopoly. It has become a rapidly 
developing country. ” 

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