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Iron Soldiers in Single File Line Up in Chelyabinsk before Russia's Biggest Tractor Factory

Object Description

Surround these American-designed machines with armor and guns and you have tanks. Chelyabinsk remained unscathed in the Urals while war devastated Leningrad, Kharkov and Stalingrad, and other tractor centers. Under the Tsars, the town was a stopover for exiles.


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Object Information

Language
en

Date
1940s

Rights
SovPhoto

Source
John Scott, "'Magnetic City,' Core of Valiant Russia's Industrial Might". National Geographic Vol. 83 No. 5 (May 1943)