 In order to supply the cities with food, the Soviets resorted to the brutal policy of "prodrazvyorstka" when armed "prodotryads" (food detachments) were sent to the villages.As a Commissar of Supply, Voykov also dealt with this.Soviet biographers also note that he managed to organize the exchange of Urals iron for Siberian grain and he dealt with the construction of a railroad between Yekaterinburg and Krasnoufimsk.