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Based on archival materials the article explores the development of telephone communications in the Siberian region during the Great Patriotic War. The scale of the linear telephone and telegraph network of Siberia, its station capacities and technological level during this period did not correspond to the strategic, industrial significance of the region. The operation of telephone networks in wartime was extremely complicated by insufficient material and technical supplies and an acute shortage of qualified technical personnel drafted into the ranks of the Red Army. However, in the context of a large-scale evacuation of enterprises, organizations and population to the eastern regions of the country, the redistribution of industrial potential in their favor, telephone communication received a new impetus for development. For the expansion and modernization of telephone networks in large industrial centers of Siberia, almost exclusively station and switching telephone equipment was used, evacuated from the western regions of the USSR; in the last period of the war, it was supplemented with captured equipment. Nevertheless, the problem of the poor quality of telephone communications, its insufficient capacity to meet the elementary needs of the state and public sector was very acute. The worst indicators in this respect were shown by the lower segment of the telephone network – district communications. At the same time, a relatively acceptable level of provision of telephone communications was noted in large Siberian cities – Novosibirsk, Barnaul, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, etc. Due to the fact that all the resources of the state were directed to the needs of the front, none of the tasks of the pre-war technological modernization of telephone communications – the automation of the network, its cabling, the elimination of single-wire and parallel connections, etc. – was not solved during the war years.