Foreign experience in domestic tank building: ideas and implementation (1929–1938)
- Authors: Zapary V.V.1
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Affiliations:
- Institute of History and Archaeology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Issue: Vol 7, No 3 (2025)
- Pages: 55-62
- Section: HISTORY OF RUSSIA
- URL: https://journals.eco-vector.com/2658-4654/article/view/695627
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.33693/2658-4654-2025-7-3-55-62
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/fbawjm
- ID: 695627
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Abstract
The article presents the main directions of borrowing foreign experience in Soviet tank building in the 1930s, shows the importance of foreign experience in the formation of the tank industry of the USSR in the pre-war years. The main areas of cooperation with foreign countries (Germany, USA, Great Britain) on tank building, acquisition of technologies and invitation of foreign engineers to work in the interests of domestic tank building are shown. The importance of the French experience in quality control of tank armor in order to improve the quality of work of Soviet armor factories is analyzed.
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Vasily V. Zapary
Institute of History and Archaeology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Author for correspondence.
Email: pantera.zap@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2716-2336
SPIN-code: 5942-3942
Cand. Sci. (Hist.), Senior Researcher at the Center for Political and Socio-Cultural History of the Institute of History and Archeology
Russian Federation, YekaterinburgReferences
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