Organization

Amtorg Trading Corporation

Soviet trading agency in New York.

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Albert Kahn, Inc. 8 May 1929 design of the first Soviet tractor plant, at Stalingrad Scholarship & press 1
Albert Kahn, Inc. 9 Jan 1930 consulting architects for all Soviet industrial construction Scholarship & press 1

Albert Kahn’s Soviet contracts, 1929–1930 signed for the Soviet side; the U.S. did not recognize the Soviet government in 1929 Scholarship & press 1

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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 United States did not recognize the Soviet government

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