Event
Ford–Soviet agreement of 1929
Agreement between Ford Motor Company and the Soviet government to help open car plants at Nizhny Novgorod and Moscow.
- Dates
- 1929
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involved
- Ford Motor Company supplied drawings and sent engineers and foremen Scholarship & press 1
- Soviet government the other party Scholarship & press 1
- Nizhny Novgorod site of one of the plants Scholarship & press 1
- Moscow site of the other plant Scholarship & press 1
Timeline 1 date
- 1929 Ford–Soviet agreement of 1929
Proof 1 source
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Ford Motor Company's Foundry at Molotov Avtozavod, Gorky, USSR, 1935, The Henry Ford (museum collection record).
Scholarship & press
In 1929, Ford Motor Company signed an agreement with the Soviet government to help open two plants in the U.S.S.R. at Nizhny Novgorod and Moscow.
Ford provided detailed drawings of factory buildings and equipment, and it sent engineers and foremen to oversee construction and startup.
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