No nation succeeds fully in anticipating the effects of war. Certainly, this is true insofar as the recent war effected the housing law of the Soviet Union. When war came on June 22, 1941, there instantly arose the necessity of removing all manner of industrial plants and cultural institutions eastward away from the endangered areas. The employees of these factories and institutions were transported to the new sites. Numbers of key personnel, specialists, and highlyskilled workers were individually ordered eastward to work in the relocated plants. Moreover, numbers of individuals who played only a passive role in the war effort—housewives, families of workers and military personnel, invalids—were allowed and encouraged to travel away from the more active war areas. This mass migration of citizens produced unprecedented questions of housing rights.