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Two documents are introduced into the scientific circulation, which are the evidence of difficult food and material situation in Khakass countryside in the first post-war years. The memorandum of the People’s Commissariat of the State Security district department describes a severe famine that struck a number of collective farms in Tashtyp region in early 1946. It was caused by the actual cessation of the food provision to collective farmers as a payment for labor. The note of the Khakass Autonomous Oblast authorities to the Council of Ministers of the USSR on February 8, 1947 reported that the crop failure of 1946 left the collective farmers without bread. According to the memorandum authors, the hunger could have a negative impact on the results of spring sowing and other economic campaigns. Thus, the famine in the Khakass countryside began already in winter of 1945/46 and continued in 1946-1947.