On August 31, 1935, the Donbass miner Aleksey Stakhanov exceeded the daily rate of coal production by 14 times, which was the beginning of the "Stakhanov movement". Information about the labor feat of Stakhanov quickly scattered throughout the USSR. For a country developing industry at an accelerated pace, the miner's fantastic record turned out to be just in time. The country was engulfed by the Stakhanov movement supported by the party and the government.