ChTZ tanks to bear names of creators
6 April 2015 (18:58)
April 6, 2015. Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant/ChTZ (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) is going to take part in the Victory Day Parade with tanks with the names of their creators on them.
According to the corporation’s press service, the plant usually offers historic samples of combat vehicles from its collection for the parade, which takes place in Chelyabinsk on May 9. The collection comprises tanks that were designed or manufactured at the plant and that are now stored on its premises. Every spring, tanks such as T-34 and IS-3, SP guns such as ISU 152, and infantry combat vehicles are featured in the parade in the city’s main square.
This year, a decision was made to have the vehicles bear the names of people who designed the). The T-34 should be named after one of the founders of diesel motor building school and Hero of Socialist Labor Ivan Trashutin. The IS-3 will commemorate the efforts of Mikhail Balzhi, who worked as the plant’s Deputy Chief Engineer during the war. It was Balzhi who designed the Second World War’s best heavy tank (aka Victory Tank).
SP artillery gun ISU 152 will be named after Lev Troyanov, designer and the USSR State Prize winner, while the infantry combat vehicle BMP 1 will bear the name of Pavel Isakov, Hero of Socialist Labor and Lenin Prize winner. He supervised the design and serial production of the infantry combat vehicle that had no counterparts anywhere else in the world at the time.
The graphical tools and appliances for painting the vehicles have already been prepared. The tanks will be officially named in April.
According to the corporation’s press service, the plant usually offers historic samples of combat vehicles from its collection for the parade, which takes place in Chelyabinsk on May 9. The collection comprises tanks that were designed or manufactured at the plant and that are now stored on its premises. Every spring, tanks such as T-34 and IS-3, SP guns such as ISU 152, and infantry combat vehicles are featured in the parade in the city’s main square.
This year, a decision was made to have the vehicles bear the names of people who designed the). The T-34 should be named after one of the founders of diesel motor building school and Hero of Socialist Labor Ivan Trashutin. The IS-3 will commemorate the efforts of Mikhail Balzhi, who worked as the plant’s Deputy Chief Engineer during the war. It was Balzhi who designed the Second World War’s best heavy tank (aka Victory Tank).
SP artillery gun ISU 152 will be named after Lev Troyanov, designer and the USSR State Prize winner, while the infantry combat vehicle BMP 1 will bear the name of Pavel Isakov, Hero of Socialist Labor and Lenin Prize winner. He supervised the design and serial production of the infantry combat vehicle that had no counterparts anywhere else in the world at the time.
The graphical tools and appliances for painting the vehicles have already been prepared. The tanks will be officially named in April.
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