Editing Soviet calendar (section)

=== Implementation of six-day weeks ===
As early as May 1930, while usage of the continuous week was still advancing, some factories reverted to an interrupted week. On {{nowrap|30 April 1931}}, one of the largest factories in the Soviet Union was put on an interrupted six-day week ([[:ru:Шестидневка|Шестидневка]] = ''shestidnevka''). On {{nowrap|23 June 1931}}, Stalin condemned the continuous work week as then practiced, supporting the temporary use of the interrupted six-day week (one common rest day for all workers) until the problems with the continuous work week could be resolved. During {{nowrap|August 1931}}, most factories were put on an interrupted six-day week as the result of an interview with the People's Commissar for Labor, who severely restricted the use of the continuous week. The official conversion to non-continuous schedules was decreed by the Sovnarkom of the [[USSR]] somewhat later, on {{nowrap|23 November 1931}}.<ref name=Zerubavel/><ref name=Schwarz51/><ref name=Friedman>Elisha M. Friedman, ''Russia in transition: a business man's appraisal'' (New York: Viking Press, 1932) 260–262.</ref> Institutions serving cultural and social needs and those enterprises engaged in continuous production such as ore [[smelting]] were exempted.<ref>''Handbook of the Soviet Union'' (New York: American-Russian Chamber of Commerce, 1936) 524, 526.</ref> It is often stated that the effective date of the interrupted six-day work week was {{nowrap|1 December 1931,<ref name=Echlin/><ref name=Ketchum/><ref name=Holford/><ref name=Richards/><ref name=Zerubavel/><ref name=Friedman/>}} but that is only the first whole month after the 'official conversion'. The massive summer 1931 conversion made this date after-the-fact and some industries continued to use continuous weeks. The last figures available indicate that on {{nowrap|1 July 1935}} 74.2% of all industrial workers were on non-continuous schedules (almost all six-day weeks) while 25.8% were still on continuous schedules. Due to a decree dated {{nowrap|26 June 1940}}, the traditional interrupted seven-day week with Sunday as the common day of rest was reintroduced on {{nowrap|27 June 1940}}.<ref name=Grigorenko/><ref name=Malyavin/><ref name=Schwarz51/><ref>[http://www.cyberussr.com/rus/uk-trud-e.html On the transfer to the seven-day work week, 26 June 1940] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221116003237/http://www.cyberussr.com/rus/uk-trud-e.html |date=16 November 2022 }} (item 2)</ref>
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