Item #1531 [SOVIET HEAVY INDUSTRY : KIROV PLANT] Zheleznyi gorod (Zavod “Krasnyi putilovets”) [i.e. Iron City (Red Putilovite Plant)]. V. Cherevkov.
[SOVIET HEAVY INDUSTRY : KIROV PLANT] Zheleznyi gorod (Zavod “Krasnyi putilovets”) [i.e. Iron City (Red Putilovite Plant)]
[SOVIET HEAVY INDUSTRY : KIROV PLANT] Zheleznyi gorod (Zavod “Krasnyi putilovets”) [i.e. Iron City (Red Putilovite Plant)]
[SOVIET HEAVY INDUSTRY : KIROV PLANT] Zheleznyi gorod (Zavod “Krasnyi putilovets”) [i.e. Iron City (Red Putilovite Plant)]

[SOVIET HEAVY INDUSTRY : KIROV PLANT] Zheleznyi gorod (Zavod “Krasnyi putilovets”) [i.e. Iron City (Red Putilovite Plant)]

Item #1531

Moscow: Krest’ianskaia gazeta, 1927. 56 pp.: ill.
22,5x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Spine chipped, with small
tears, otherwise very good copy.
First and only edition. One of 10 000 copies. Very rare.
Good edition on Soviet exploitation of the huge Putilov
Ironworks and its role in industrialization of the country. It was written
by juvenile nonfiction writer Vladimir Cherevkov (1894-1960). He told a
story how the Putilov Works turned from military to civil machinery.
Before the Revolution, the Putilov Ironworks was the largest
mechanical engineering and agricultural machinery plant in Saint
Petersburg. In February 1917, workers of the manufacturer organized
a strike and thus set in motion a chain of revolutionary events. Some
months later, the enterprise was nationalized. When the Russian
Civil War was over, the plant was renamed the Red Putilovite Plant
and reoriented on manufacture of the first Soviet tractors, Fordzon-
Putilovets, based on the Fordson tractor. A photograph of these tractors
is published alongside pictures of work space.
After Sergei Kirov was murdered in 1934, this factory was
renamed again.

Not in Worldcat.

Price: $550.00

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