Plant No. 37

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The factory no. 37 ( Russian Завод № 37 ) was a Soviet producer lighter armored vehicles in between 1932 and 1943 in Moscow . Since the company was only used for military production, it was not given a civil name and was simply numbered like all such facilities.

The origins of the plant go back to a factory for the repair of automobiles founded in 1916 by order of the tsarist army. After 1918 the plant was nationalized and was used to repair armored wheeled vehicles. Plant No. 37 was restructured in the early 1930s to produce the small T-37 floating tank . It had its own design office attached for the further development of military vehicles. The prominent Soviet designer NA Astrow headed the design office from 1936 to 1941. Under his direction the company developed and produced the small T-38 and T-40 tanks , the armed light artillery tractor T-20 "Komsomolets" and the light tank T-60 in series. In November 1941 the company was evacuated to Sverdlovsk because of the danger of Moscow being captured by the Wehrmacht . There the plant produced the T-60 and spare parts for the new T-70 tank and the SU-76 self-propelled gun . After the war the company was reorganized. The work lost its independence and its own number.

Vehicles produced

  • T-20 (1937-1941)

  • T-37A (1933-1936)

  • T-38 (1936-1939)

  • T-40 (1940-1941)

  • T-60 (1941-1943)

literature

  • Солянкин А. Г. и др .: Советские малые и лёгкие танки 1941–1945 . Цейхгауз, Moscow 2006, ISBN 5-94038-113-8 .
    (Russian and in Cyrillic script; German roughly: AG Soljankin et al .: The Soviet small and light tanks 1941–1945 . Zeughaus, Moscow 2006.)
  • Свирин М. Н .: Броневой щит Сталина. История советского танка 1937–1943 . Eksmo et al. a., Moscow 2007, ISBN 5-699-16243-7 .
    (Russian and in Cyrillic script; German roughly: Michail N. Swirin: The armored shield of Stalin. The history of the Soviet tanks 1937–1943 .)