Place
Volgograd
Russian city on the Volga, called Stalingrad in the 1930s and 1940s.
- Also known as
- Stalingrad
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involved in
- Albert Kahn’s Soviet contracts, 1929–1930 site of the first tractor plant, then Stalingrad Scholarship & press 1
located in
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Soviet Union
Scholarship & press
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Then called Stalingrad.
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 major projects designed in Detroit included the tractor plants in Stalingrad and Chelyabinsk, the Avtostroi truck assembly plants in Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod
The Stalingrad plant was the first of three giant Soviet tractor plants designed by Kahn’s firm in record time.
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