ChTZ Celebrates 75 Years of Engine-Making
13 December 2016 (13:56)
UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 13, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ) celebrates seventy-five years of engine-making on December 12, the company press service reports.
The very first engine made completely in Chelyabinsk got assembled on December 12, 1941. This special date is now considered the start of engine-making activities at the plant. Chelyabinsk Kirov Plant, as it was then called, was making as many as ten B-2 diesel engines a day by January 1942 and had supplied over 9,000 engines to the front by the end of the year. In 1944, the plant reached a production record of more than 15,000 diesels a year.
‘The plant fully met the country’s need for B-2 tank engines during the war. These were very good quality, reliable engines. We made some 48,500 units then. These powerful ‘hearts of steel’ inside KV and IS heavy tanks, self-propelled artillery units, T-34 medium tanks, and other military vehicles were also ‘fighting at the front’ and helping win the war,’ the press service says.
The very first engine made completely in Chelyabinsk got assembled on December 12, 1941. This special date is now considered the start of engine-making activities at the plant. Chelyabinsk Kirov Plant, as it was then called, was making as many as ten B-2 diesel engines a day by January 1942 and had supplied over 9,000 engines to the front by the end of the year. In 1944, the plant reached a production record of more than 15,000 diesels a year.
‘The plant fully met the country’s need for B-2 tank engines during the war. These were very good quality, reliable engines. We made some 48,500 units then. These powerful ‘hearts of steel’ inside KV and IS heavy tanks, self-propelled artillery units, T-34 medium tanks, and other military vehicles were also ‘fighting at the front’ and helping win the war,’ the press service says.
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