List of Soviet tank factories
- List of Soviet tank factories
This is a list of Soviet tank factories.
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 that called for large tank forces. It does not list the related facilities which fabricated components for them, the many lighter automotive industries which built light tracked vehicles and armoured cars in wartime, nor the armoured vehicle repair and overhaul plants.
Keeping track of the tank factories can be difficult. Many were based on pre-Soviet imperial Russian shipbuilding or locomotive factories, and may have changed names more than once. The majority were evacuated and consolidated in the Urals in the fall of 1941, shortly after the disastrous German invasion of June 22. After World War II, some remained in their new location, others were moved back or re-established at other factories. Most were also known by military designation numbers as well as honorific names.
English translations of the factory names can also be confusing. In various sources, the Russian "zavod" (завод) is translated as 'factory', 'plant' or 'works', or simply transliterated.
References
* Sewell, Stephen ‘Cookie’ (1998). [http://www.knox.army.mil/center/ocoa/ArmorMag/ja98/4sewell98.pdf “Why Three Tanks?”] (PDF) in "Armor" vol. 108, no. 4, p. 21. Fort Knox, KY: US Army Armor Center. ISSN 0004-2420.
* Zaloga, Steven J. and James Grandsen (1984). "Soviet Tanks and Combat Vehicles of World War Two". London: Arms and Armour Press. ISBN 0-85368-606-8.
See also
* Soviet armored fighting vehicle production during World War II
External links
*http://www.avtomash.ru/pred/kat_trak.htm (in Russian) Compass in the world of machines and machine-building ( _ru. Компас в Мире Машин и Машиностроения)
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