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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).
The events of the Battle for Stalingrad have been covered in numerous media works of British, American, German, and Russian origin, [346] for its significance as a turning point in the Second World War and for the loss of life associated with the battle. Stalingrad has become synonymous with large-scale urban battles with immense casualties on ...
The factory provided steel for the Stalingrad Tractor Factory. [2] It was completely destroyed in the Battle of Stalingrad , but was restored by 1946. [ 3 ] During the Soviet era it was awarded the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner of Labour .
Aerial view of the Stalingrad Tractor Factory. On the night of 2 October, the division crossed back to the right bank of the Volga in Stalingrad and reached the Mokraya Mechyotka river, immediately going into combat. On 2-3 October it was recorded as having 7,000 personnel on hand (66% of shtat, establishment strength (10,670)). [8]
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.
On the night of October 15/16 the 138th began crossing the Volga into Stalingrad, coming under Chuikov's orders again as part of 62nd Army, [22] to take up positions at the Barrikady: 1. The enemy has taken the Stalingrad Tractor Plant, is developing an attack from the STP to the south along the railway line in an attempt to seize Barrikady.
An armory outside the Tractor Plant used by Strecker as a makeshift HQ in the final days of the Battle of Stalingrad. By late January the strategic situation was hopeless and the 6th Army was starving. Strecker's positions had been largely isolated from the rest of the 6th Army, in the northern sector of Stalingrad.
The Soviet order of battle for Operation Uranus details the combat units of the Soviet forces that fought in Operation Uranus, the Soviet strategic counteroffensive that led to the encirclement of the German troops in Stalingrad. The order of battle lists units present on 19 November 1942, the day the operation began, from north to south.