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Albert Kahn’s Soviet contracts, 1929–1930

Two contracts: to design the first Soviet tractor plant (8 May 1929) and to act as consulting architects for Soviet industrial construction (9 January 1930).

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8 May 1929 – 9 Jan 1930

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  • Albert Kahn, Inc. the firm that signed both contracts Scholarship & press 1
  • Amtorg Trading Corporation signed for the Soviet side; the U.S. did not recognize the Soviet government in 1929 Scholarship & press 1
  • Volgograd site of the first tractor plant, then Stalingrad Scholarship & press 1
  • Detroit where the plant designs were drawn Scholarship & press 1
  • Nizhny Novgorod site of a truck assembly plant designed in Detroit Scholarship & press 1
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  1. 8 May 1929 – 9 Jan 1930 Albert Kahn’s Soviet contracts, 1929–1930
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  1. 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 United States did not recognize the Soviet government
    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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