When did the earliest labor competition occur in the former Soviet Union?

Recognized as the Second Five-Year Plan Period

The Stakhanov Competition Movement in the 1930s. During the Second Five-Year Plan, Stakhanov, a worker at the Donets Coal Mine in the Soviet Union, and some other advanced workers initiated a production technology innovation movement, later called the Stakhanov Movement. This new competition movement was quickly spread throughout the country, allowing all economic sectors to participate in the movement, which brought socialist labor competition into a new stage. In this production technology innovation movement, workers quickly learned new technologies, improved production organization, and became experts in their own profession, thus greatly improving labor productivity.

In addition, in the late 1930s there was also a competition for generalists looking after several machine tools. This form first started in the machine manufacturing industry and then spread to the textile industry and other sectors. The shift of labor competition from the commando movement to the Stakhanov movement and the generalist movement marks the continuous deepening and improvement of the labor competition movement and reflects the high degree of wisdom and inventiveness of the working people. This has created favorable conditions for improving labor productivity and completing the second and third five-year plans ahead of schedule and beyond the target.