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After the Bolshevik Revolution the factory became known as Krasny Oktyabr, Russian: "Red October" (named for the October 1917 Revolution) To the west, it was widely known as the Red October Factory. The factory provided steel for the Stalingrad Tractor Factory. [2] It was completely destroyed in the Battle of Stalingrad, but was restored by ...
This is a list of the former Soviet tank factories.Today most of them are located in the Russian Federation, while only the Malyshev Factory is located in Ukraine.. This list includes the heavy steel manufacturing plants where main production and assembly of medium and heavy armoured vehicles took place, initiated first in the late 1920s as a prerequisite for the developing Red Army doctrine ...
Stalingrad Tractor Plant in the 1930s Factory ruins in November 1942 Stalingrad Tractor Plant on a 1947 stamp. Until 1961, the plant was called the Stalingrad Tractor Plant named for F. Dzerzhinsky (Russian: Сталинградский тракторный завод им. Ф. Э. Дзержинского, Stalingradski traktorni zavod im. F.E. Dzerzhinskogo, or СТЗ, STZ).
Volgograd, [a] formerly Tsaritsyn [b] (1589–1925) and Stalingrad [c] (1925–1961), is the largest city and the administrative centre of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The city lies on the western bank of the Volga , covering an area of 859.4 square kilometres (331.8 square miles), with a population of slightly over one million residents. [ 11 ]
The Pitomnik airfield (Russian: питомник, lit. plant nursery) was an airfield in Russia.During the Second World War, it was the primary of seven airfields used by the German Wehrmacht during the Battle of Stalingrad.
The Soviet War Memorial in Berlin's Treptower Park, designed by Yevgeny Vuchetich and Yakov Belopolsky. The Battle of Stalingrad was a major conflict between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany on the Eastern Front of World War II, fought over six months from July 1942 to February 1943. [1]
Titan had its origins as the factory's design bureau. [4] The factory was overrun and destroyed by the Germans in 1942 during the Battle of Stalingrad, but resumed production in 1944. [4] In 1975 the plant was selected to manufacture the gun and mount for the 2S7 Pion. [5] The Titan Design Bureau was separated from the factory in 1990. [4]
Paulus and many of his senior German commanders were in the smaller southern pocket based in the city center of Stalingrad. The northern pocket was led by XI Corps commander General Karl Strecker and centered in the area around the tractor factory. In bitter fighting, the Soviets gradually cleared the city center.