The article is devoted to the practically unexplored issue of the rationalization movement on the territory of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR during the Great Patriotic War, which explains its relevance. The aim is to determine the degree of impact of the activities of innovators on improving the efficiency of the oil production and refining industry of Chechen-Ingushetia during the study period. The article is written mainly on the materials of the Republican newspaper "Grozny worker" (organ of the Chechen-Ingush regional Committee of the CPSU(b), allowing with a sufficient degree of completeness to recreate the scale of activity of inventors and innovators and to describe the impact on the oil industry of national economy. Separate data are taken from published even in Soviet times of works M. A. Abisalova and S. O. Zoeva. In the work on the article, comparative-historical and problem-chronological methods were used, which made it possible to identify the general and special in the described historical events and to consider the activities of the CHIASSR rationalizers of the period of the Great Patriotic War in chronological order. Based on the materials used, it can be concluded that although not all of the proposed rationalization proposals were implemented, in general, they allowed the state to save significant financial and material resources. Was thereby made a significant contribution to the increase of efficiency of activity of the Republican oil industry complex. The Republican corps of inventors and innovators consisted mainly of engineering and technical workers and highly qualified workers, and the bonuses given to innovators for implemented proposals amounted to a significant increase in the income of about a thousand employees and their families.
