FACTORY 38 KUIBYSHEV (KPZ), KIROV, KIROV OBLAST, NIZHNIY NOVGOROD REGION, RUSSIA

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Number of Photos: 0 Click here or on the image for this location's profile page Location Category ID: 2440 Address: Telephone: Email: Opening Times: Official Website: Kolomensky Zavod – Russian Kolomensky Zavod – English Other Links: Latitude, Longitude: 58.59658467 , 49.66262341 Location Accuracy: 2 Tanks Previously Here: Models of tank built here: 1: T-60 Tank (Additional manufacturer) 2: T-70 Light Tank (Design parent and manufacturer) 3: SU-76 Self-Propelled Gun (Additional manufacturer) 4: SU-76M Self-Propelled Gun (Additional manufacturer) Factory 38, the Kolomenskiy Parovozostroitel'niy Zavod (KPZ, Kolomensky Locomotive Works), at Kolomna, south of Moscow, began making T-60 light tanks in July 1941 but was evacuated to Kirov, north of Moscow, in the autumn of that year. Men and machines evacuated from Factory 37 went to Sverdlovs’k and also to Kirov. At Kirov the two groups were combined to form a new Factory 38 ‘Kuibyshev’. When production resumed at Kirov, it became one of the two major sources of the T-60, along with the GAZ factory. (Source: WS Dunn: Stalin’s Keys to Victory)