Insnab (a combination from the Russian "INostranets" (foreigner) and "SNABzheniie" (provision)) was a

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

state organization responsible for the provision of foreign specialists and workers employed in the Soviet industry with food and commodities. It was established in 1932 with the aim to reduce the impact of food shortages on foreign communities. Within the system of

food rationing Rationing is the controlled distribution of scarce resources, goods, services, or an artificial restriction of demand. Rationing controls the size of the ration, which is one's allowed portion of the resources being distributed on a particular ...

introduced in the early 1930s, foreign specialists and workers were one of the most privileged group in the USSR. For example, in 1932, American and Canadian specialists employed in the

Soviet Karelia The Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic (Karelo-Finnish SSR; fi, ; rus, Каре́ло-Фи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респу́блика, r=Karelo-Finskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Resp ...

were provided with basic foodstuffs according to the following monthly norms:

*Meat - 7 kg per person, 3 kg per family member *Butter - 1.5 kg per person, 1 kg per family member *Fish - 3 kg per person, 2 kg per family member *Sugar - 3 kg per person, 1.5 kg per family member.

Russian workers who received basics products according to the 2nd rate applied in Soviet Karelia were supplied according to the following monthly norms:

*Meat - 1 kg per person, 1 kg per family member *Butter - not supplied *Fish - 2 kg per person, 1 kg per family member *Sugar - 1 kg per person, 1 kg per family member.
Elena Osokina Elena Aleksandrovna Osokina (born 1959 in Podolsk, Soviet Union) is a Russian historian. Personal Her mother, Octobriana (later renamed Anna), named after the Bolshevik October revolution. Education Elena Aleksandrovna Osokina earned her B.A. a ...
, ''Za fasadom "stalinskogo izobiliia". Raspredeleniie i rynok v snabzhenii naseleniia v gody industrializatsii'' (Moscow, 1998), 251

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{{reflist Companies of the Soviet Union 1932 establishments in the Soviet Union

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