having filed in 1781, modern yekaterinburg lives in the rhythm of a metropolis, the center of economic , financial and business life , the skyscraper quarter. it became the same landmark of its architecture as the ancient mansions of the 18th and 19th centuries during the difficult times of war. the urals have always stood up to defend their homeland. they took an active part in the military campaign of 1812 in the middle of the 20th century. during the confrontation with hitler's germany, the urals became the stronghold of the power of the great patriotic war, and radically changed in in the life of sverdlovsk, the city bore this name for almost the entire soviet period of history; lines of refugees, trains with factory equipment, were drawn here, the city hosted dozens of institutes in the treasures of the hermitage theater and paintings in galleries in the basement of a house on radishchev street there was a radio center. the promise of the soviet union from the axis not 1941 to

the spring of 1943, levitanov’s loud attention says moscow sounded 1,000 km from the capital from sverdlovsk we convey to the market government about the evacuation of yuri borisovich to few knew the urals; his voice united the country and inspired faith in victory. hitler called levitan his personal enemy number one. from the first days of the war, drilling and volunteering enlisted in the ranks of the red army. they went to the front to serve in the army, and here

more than 700,000 people in the sverdlovsk region fought not only in the army, but also in the front in the ranks of the red army. among the memorable places in yekaterinburg there are those that directly relate us to the events of those years. right here, at the intersection of lunacharsky street and tveritin street, right here this is where marching battalions were formed , marching companies, units, people came in order to receive an appointment to a military unit and from here. they went to the front. and in honor of these people, in 2005 , this monument was erected , called gray ural. the author of this monument. eh, georgian sculptor, a reminder of the words of alexander nevsky , whoever comes to us with the key is responsible for the dead, to find out about the contribution of the drill in the chan of the region's residents to the cause of victory, it is worth going to the museum of the district house of officers of the central military district photographs, newspaper chronicles, personal belongings

of participants in the great patriotic war recreate the atmosphere of that time. you can also consider here the bundling of soldiers of the famous ural volunteer corps; 9,660 people were selected into the corps. they were equipped at the expense of the residents of the urals; all weapons and tanks were produced at the ural factories. with the battles of the formation , more than 5,000 km passed from orel and kursk to berlin and prague, a monument to the ural volunteer corps greets city guests on station square in uralsky the state military historical museum stores unique evidence of the history of the ural volunteer corps in front of you. first of all, this is an order to the volunteers of the ural volunteer tank corps from the workers of the southern urals. and this order was made

entirely by hand, it is unique in that it is the only copy that exists, and another interesting exhibit is the famous knife black knife, they are also called, and it was for these knives that our corps received the name schwartz , the month of the german division, the black knife division during the war, the urals and including the sverdlovsk region became the center of industrial evacuation in full force, the ural heavy machinery plant began operating. for the first time in world history, the uralmash structure established the mass production of cast tank turrets, produced field tank guns, famous self-propelled artillery installations , one of the centers of industrial evacuation became an old factory, the city of nizhny tagil nizhny tagil is the second most populous city in the sverdlovsk region from yekaterinburg to nizhny tagil along the highway . about 150 km. there is

a railway connection between the two cities; the travel time will be 2-3 hours; from moscow to nizhny tagil you can get on the branded malachite train since the fall of 1941. the nizhny tagil enterprise placed factories from central russia on its premises when there was not enough space , the authorities installed the machines in the open air, and urgently looked for suitable housing for hundreds of people, a significant part of which were families. the workers of the evacuated enterprises on krasny bor were given a small room with this little slap. she everything was in india because there was no stove in this room. well, it was impossible to live there. i ran away from the cold to the factory.

mom also worked at the plant’s synod workshop, and even before the war, the ural carriage works was preparing to be a kind of backup for the kharkov steam locomotive of the construction plant of the main pre-war manufacturer of medium tanks in the ussr. in the fall of 1941, trains with machines and drawings arrived in the urals along with director yuri evgenievich motsarev within 50 days he managed to organize and establish the production of t-34 tanks in nizhny tagil a was identified as the parent enterprise. regarding the production of the t-34 medium tanks, because this is where the head design bureau was located, literally from the first days, all efforts were devoted to simplifying the design of the t-34 tank ; there were a lot of problems; it was necessary to resolve issues related to metallurgy. and this is one of the main production facilities at the enterprises. after all, it’s one thing to produce steel for freight cars , and it’s a completely different job to smelt

expensive alloy grades of manganese steel in war conditions. the plant developed new advanced technologies in the times of technology, for example, they designed automatic welding machines and mastered the casting of tank turrets. in the museum halls you can see a model of the world's first tank assembly conveyor, the workshop where the tank conveyor worked and now exists at the plant in. on modern equipment , freight cars are assembled at the plant, work continues above the new generation tanks , the uralvagon plant's armored vehicle museum displays the entire line of tanks that its workshops produced and are producing. any technique is powerless without

tested ammunition after the evacuation of the sofrinsky firing range near moscow to nizhny tagil fell, the main burden of testing shells, four of all the ammunition fired during the war reached the front after testing at the nizhnyaya tokyo training ground . the prospector then reasoned, after all, there was no time then the organization of the training ground was probably around the clock they brought the shipment. she immediately went to test the wheels. people didn’t have enough to eat and didn’t get enough sleep, but they did everything for the front. everything for victory in the sverdlovsk region there is one of the largest military museums technology. in the country on the border of yekaterinburg in the small town of verkhnyaya pyshma, almost 6 hectares are occupied by a park of tanks, military aircraft, boats and boats from school age. children begin to get acquainted with military equipment in detail in the bench modeling workshop ; most of the museum’s exhibits were restored by specialists from the ural mining metallurgical company. one of the most interesting exhibits in our collection of light tanks is the soviet amphibious tank

t-37, and no other museum has such an amphibious tank produced by the izhora plant. and for us, this is a great pride for the thirties . it was a unique combat vehicle . there have never been amphibious tanks anywhere in the world. and here they were already mass-produced. and this is not an easy machine, it’s really a kind of armored boat that can move both on land and on the water surface. since 2015 , a model of the uzlovaya railway station appeared on the open area of ​​the museum, on its tracks you can see all the main equipment that moved across the expanses of the soviet union during the war at the oldest steam locomotive series uv in the common people the sheep about the main one in the walshart steam engine. this is the first main steam locomotive from russian railways. these locomotives were produced in tsarist russia until the fifteenth year. they produced a little bit. uh, in soviet power literally 3 years in the late twenties. yes, they went through everything

, they went through the first world war, but they went through the civil war, but they went through the interwar conflicts and the great patriotic war itself. yes, and when we talk about armored trains, we always imagine a sheep locomotive, because, well, what is an armored train? it’s an armored train, which is very heavy and if you armor an armored locomotive. for some big guy, he will be very heavy and the mass will be excessive, and he will simply break the railway tracks with his weight, that’s why they always armored the sheep. in the sverdlovsk region, the memory of the great patriotic war is carefully respected by the residents of sverglav, who made a huge contribution to the cause of victory both at the fronts and in the rear. marshal of victory georgy zhukov called industrial evacuation equal to the commander spent five post-war years fighting the greatest battles of world war ii in yekaterinburg. as commander of the ural military district, one of the most expressive monuments to georgy zhukov is now installed in the historical part of the city in front of the headquarters building of the central military

district. the people of the urals have always been famous as strong people.