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The publication objective is a comprehensive study of the personal subsidiary economy of the collective farm family during the Great Patriotic War. In line with this goal, the authors identify the following tasks: to determine the role of household books in studying individual subsidiary plots; consider the structure and composition of personal subsidiary farms; characterize the state of gardening, cattle breeding, beekeeping under extreme conditions of war. The research source base were materials of household books (more than 30 cases) collected by authors and students of the Historical Department during the complex historical and ethnographic expeditions of the Center of Oral History and Ethnography” (Altai State Pedagogical University) in six Altai Region districts - Krasnoshchekovsky, Volchikhinsky, Topchikhinsky, Krutikhinsky, Kulunda, Romanovsky ones. The source analysis made it possible to determine the significance of household books as a base to study individual subsidiary farming, which is inaccessible to researchers. For a long time, household books weren’t a subject to study. The household books contain primary written (statistical) information, which includes data on the rural population registration, individual subsidiary farms (amount of land, livestock, cultivated crops, buildings, taxes, etc.) reflecting information on arrived and leaving families, that allows tracking the historical, socio-economic processes of individual subsidiary farms in an annual section. The household book data analysis made it possible to identify and characterize the main important “vital” indicators of peasant families ensuring their existence during the war years. According to household book research, the individual subsidiary plots of the peasant collective farm families in Altai Region in the war years developed largely depending on external drivers, to a lesser degree - to internal ones.