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The article characterizes the staffing situation in the building industry of Siberia after the Soviet victory in the World War II; identifies factors which led to increase in number of new workers in the building organizations. The reasons behind this were, in author’s opinion, the growth of investment activities along with low level of mechanization in construction industry. The situation in the labor-market of Siberia and the USSR in general is characterized in connection with losses of population during the Great Patriotic War and large-scale reconstruction of the Soviet economy. During the fourth five-year plan there was an outflow of many retirees and house-wives; young people also left the construction sites in order to continue education. The majority of workers who had been previously mobilized to the construction industry returned to their homes. The author estimates the scale of forced labor in the building organizations; describes problems connected with using the POWs, internees and prisoners as labor force. In this paper dynamics of the number Siberian workers in the postwar decade by certain categories of industrial personnel and economic regions, “krais” and “oblasts” are traced. The author gives examples of formation of several thousand strong collectives in Siberian construction industry. Growth rates of Siberian construction workers during the fourth (1946-1950) and fi fth (1951-1955) five-year plans are calculated. The author describes specifics of sectoral structure of employment in the areas of new industrial development, where the share of builders was particularly high; notes accelerated growth in number of workers as compared with the national average rate; points at concentration of workers in certain production units which increased the share of Siberian workers in the total number of Russian construction workers.