Editing Soviet calendar (section)

=== Implementation of continuous production weeks ===
Specific lengths for continuous production weeks were first mentioned when rules for the five-day continuous work week were issued on {{nowrap|24 September 1929}}. On {{nowrap|23 October 1929}} building construction and seasonal trades were put on a continuous six-day week, while factories that regularly halted production every month for maintenance were put on six- or seven-day continuous production weeks. In {{nowrap|December 1929}}, it was reported that about 50 different versions of the continuous work week were in use, the longest being a 'week' of 37 days (30 continuous days of work followed by seven days of rest). By the end of 1929, orders were issued that the continuous week was to be extended to 43% of industrial workers by {{nowrap|1 April 1930}} and to 67% by {{nowrap|1 October 1930}}. Actual conversion was more rapid, 63% by {{nowrap|1 April 1930}}. In {{nowrap|June 1930}} it was decreed that the conversion of all industries was to be completed during the economic year {{nowrap|1930–31}}, except for the textile industry. But on {{nowrap|1 October 1930}} peak usage was reached, with 72.9% of industrial workers on continuous schedules. Thereafter, usage decreased. All of these official figures were somewhat inflated because some factories said they adopted the continuous week without actually doing so. The continuous week was applied to retail and government workers as well, but no usage figures were ever published.<ref name=Schwarz31/><ref name=Davies/><ref name=Schwarz51>Solomon M. Schwarz, ''Labor in the Soviet Union'' (New York: Praegar, 1951) 258–277.</ref>

The continuous week began as a five-day cycle, with each day color-coded and marked with a symbol. The population would be carved up into as many groups, each with its own rest day. These circles indicated when you worked and when you rested.<ref>{{cite web |last1=FROST |first1=NATASHA |title=For 11 Years, the Soviet Union Had No Weekends |url=https://www.history.com/news/soviet-union-stalin-weekend-labor-policy |website=History.com |access-date=16 June 2020 |date=25 May 2018}}</ref>