The history of creating the Altai Tractor Plant during the Great Patriotic War

this article is devoted to the history of the creation of the Altai Tractor Plant during the Great Patriotic War. The study of the history of the Altai Tractor Plant during the Great Patriotic War is of great relevance, since this event is a significant stage in the development of domestic industry and the country's defense capability in difficult times of war. The analysis of this period makes it possible to understand the importance of creating military-industrial enterprises to provide the army with modern technologies and weapons, as well as to consider the specifics of the organization of production and labor at factories in conditions of front-line and occupation regimes. In addition, studying the history of the Altai Tractor Plant during the war helps to preserve and pass on to future generations the historical heritage and heroic feat of Soviet workers, investing their labor and skill in the victory of the army over the fascist invaders. Altai Tractor Plant played an important role in the defense of the country during the Great Patriotic War and in subsequent years became one of the largest enterprises in the agricultural and defense industries in the Soviet Union. The topic of the emergence and development of the ATP during the Great Patriotic War has been sufficiently studied and consecrated, mainly in local periodicals by Altai authors. Altai journalist I.A. Pustynnikov made a great contribution to the study of the origin of the ATP. In this article, the Great Patriotic War is considered as the main reason for the creation of the ATP, on the basis of an industrial enterprise evacuated from the front line of the city of Kharkov, in the period from 1941 to 1945. The author also focuses on the problems that arose during the formation of the Altai Tractor Plant in such difficult war years.

Altai Tractor Plant (ATP), the Great Patriotic War