Organization
Albert Kahn, Inc.
Detroit architecture firm that designed Soviet tractor and truck plants and was consulting architect for Soviet industrial construction from 1930.
- Also known as
- Albert Kahn Associates, Kahn’s firm
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contracts from
- Amtorg Trading Corporation 8 May 1929 design of the first Soviet tractor plant, at Stalingrad Scholarship & press 1
- Amtorg Trading Corporation 9 Jan 1930 consulting architects for all Soviet industrial construction Scholarship & press 1
involved in
- Albert Kahn’s Soviet contracts, 1929–1930 the firm that signed both contracts Scholarship & press 1
located in
Timeline 2 dates
- 8 May 1929 Amtorg Trading Corporation awarded a contract to Albert Kahn, Inc.
- 9 Jan 1930 Amtorg Trading Corporation awarded a contract to Albert Kahn, Inc.
Proof 1 source
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The Soviet Problem with Two "Unknowns": How an American Architect and a Soviet Negotiator Jump-Started the Industrialization of Russia, Part I: Albert Kahn, IA: The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology, vol. 36, no. 2 (2010), by Sonia Melnikova-Raich, 2010.
Scholarship & press
The work was done under two contracts, one signed on May 8, 1929, to design the first Soviet tractor plant; another on January 9, 1930, to become consulting architects for all industrial construction in the Soviet Union.
the Soviet-controlled agency responsible for contracting with the Americans
The major projects designed in Detroit included the tractor plants in Stalingrad and Chelyabinsk, the Avtostroi truck assembly plants in Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod
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