The subject of the research is the re-evacuation process. The purpose of the paper is to set forth and substantiate the author’s view of a very important and problematical component of the re-evacuation process – its periodization. The research was performed in accordance with the basic principles of historical science. The author implements the principles of historicism by studying the development, interaction and changes of the processes under discussion. The author used various sources in order to make a comprehensive study of the issue in accordance with the principle of objectivity. The problematic-chronological method used for the research allowed to retrace the dynamics of the processes. The author notes that the re-evacuation problem in general and the challenging issue of its periodization in particular appear to be understudied so far. The author substantiates the necessity of starting the recovery of the national economy and thus starting the re-evacuation of specialists. The author develops and substantiates the re-evacuation process periodization and concludes that there existed a very close connection between re-evacuation and recovery processes, and that re-evacuation process periodization cannot be regarded apart from periodization of the national economy recovery.