Place

Nizhny Novgorod

Russian city on the Volga, called Gorky in Soviet times.

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Connections 2

Ford–Soviet agreement of 1929 site of one of the plants Scholarship & press 1
Albert Kahn’s Soviet contracts, 1929–1930 site of a truck assembly plant designed in Detroit Scholarship & press 2

Proof 2 sources

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.
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 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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