the history of the minsk tank cloth factory began at the end of 1945, when a decision was made to beginnew enterprise on the site of two pre-war ones. the weight repair plant udarnik and the oldest clothing production plant in the republic, the oktyabr factory, which was badly damaged during the occupation. in 1946, the reparation plant began to receive equipment from germany, 456 cars worth 7,400 thousand rubles. a new direction in textile industry was born in the republic industry. in the first post-war. during the five-year period, an enterprise was created that, along with traditional thick woolen ones , began to develop finely clothed woolen and half-woolen fabrics for dress and costume groups, different in weave color. the heroism of the people was such that already on july 1, 1947 , the first stage of the plant came into operation, in one work shift... 337 m of the first belarusian coat fabrics were produced, they became so popular in the clothing industry of the republic of the ussr that literally decades later the plant was already had his own trading sign, fabrics under the br