Tankograd
탱코그라드
The unofficial name for Chelyabinsk during the Second World War. In autumn 1941, seven enterprises (including the Leningrad Kirov Plant and the Kharkov Diesel Motor Plant) merged with the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ) into a single tank-building combine officially called the Kirov Plant of the People's Commissariat of Tank Industry. Over the course of the war it produced 18,000 tanks and self-propelled guns (one-fifth of all Soviet armour) including the T-34, KV, IS heavy tanks, and SU-152 assault guns, mastering mass production of the T-34 in just 33 days and becoming a symbol of the Soviet industrial mobilisation.
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- Wikipedia (RU) Russian Wikipedia: ЧТЗ merged with seven evacuated enterprises to form the Tankograd combine; 18,000 tanks and self-propelled guns, 48,500 engines, 17.7 million ammunition blanks produced
- Wikipedia (EN) English Wikipedia: seven industrial entities relocated to Chelyabinsk, commonly known as 'Tankograd'; workforce grew from 25,000 to 60,000; produced KV, T-34, IS tanks
- may9.ru Official Russian Victory Day site: Chelyabinsk earned the unofficial name Tankograd, producing a fifth of all wartime tanks (18,000); T-34 mass production mastered in 33 days; the merged Kirov Plant employed Leningrad and Kharkov evacuees