Many contemporaries and memoir artists of Joseph Stalin noted the extraordinary productivity and efficiency of this man. Especially during the WW2, when decisions had to be made almost instantly. Willy-nilly under the regime of the head of state had to adjust and mainly administrative staff of the country. For someone it was given easily, as, for example, to Marshal Zhukov, but not for all of them who worked with him. So, what was the daily routine of the "Leader of the Nations"? 

In peacetime.
 At the moment when Stalin lived with his family, his wife and two children, he spent most of his working time in the Kremlin. It was convenient because the apartment was nearby. At the summertime, Joseph Stalin went to the countryside accompanied by family. In the 1920s, like any southerner, Stalin preferred to get up early and in the morning directly after a light breakfast and began serving encounters in his Kremlin office. This lasted until lunch after the leader was sleeping a bit. At the turn of the 20-30-ies schedule of the day was changed. He refused from afternoon sleep and began to spend more time at the "near dacha" in Kuntsevo. Getting up at 10-11 o'clock in the morning, Joseph Vissarionovich had breakfast, worked for some time with documents, solved some questions by phone. And only after lunch he went to his Kremlin office, where he received people. Supposing by the records in the book of receptions, the day of the leader was visited by 5-6 to 20 or more people. Stalin's working day ended after midnight. After a short rest-often watching a film and talking with colleagues, the head of the USSR returned to the countryside in Kuntsevo. He went to bed at 3-4 in the morning after a hearty dinner and in bed, he used to read something from his personal library.

After his wife's suicide. 
Suicide officially presented as death as a result of an unsuccessful operation to remove appendicitis, got a depressing impact on Stalin. Since 1932, he has tried to stay in his Kremlin office as short as possible. In 1934, for the leader was updated and rebuilt cottage in Kuntsevo, the way to which from the Kremlin took only 12-15 minutes. Most of his day Stalin spent there, at the Kremlin was usually from 5pm to 10 pm. Here, in the Kremlin, usually arranged a late dinner with colleagues, were discussed government problems and often made important decisions. Stalin used to drink a little and mostly Georgian wines, which he considered as a sleeping pill. In the mid-1930s, the leader began to exhibit insomnia, which largely determined by his late schedule. He went in bed in the morning, and before that, he worked a lot with documents of the country and often made late calls asking issues interesting to him. 

During the war.
With the start of the war, Stalin's daily routine became even more ultimate. As Georgy Zhukov tells in the book "Memories and reflections": "he worked hard, for 15-16 hours a day... Adapting to the daily routine of Stalin, until late at night worked the central committee of the party, the council of people's commissars, national committee and the main state and planning structures. It was exhausting for people." During the WW2, Joseph Vissarionovich weighed on five positions and tried to cope with them. What working day gradually became a working evening and night. The Leader got up not earlier than 12pm if it wasn't required by primary state questions. The moment of awakening in the country of reception usually expect members of the general headquarters personnel, administrators and commanders. At the beginning of the war in Kuntsevo was equipped with an underground bunker in which Stalin worked without even going to the Kremlin. At the turn of 1941-1942, during the Battle of Moscow, a similar bunker existed in the capital, near the Kirovskaya metro station. Btw, it is because of Stalin's frequent work in these bunkers, there was a legend that at the beginning of the war the leader was notably confused and discouraged, because of his rare appearance in Kremlin. 


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