From Urals – With Love!
Soviet Industry Poster
To us – in tanks, but back – on sleds.
Russian Proverb – reference to defeat of Hitler, when in winter bodies of Nazi soldiers were carried out of the battlefield on sleds.
From the northern board of the Arctic Ocean to the southern Kazakhstan steppes extend the Ural mountain ranges. The Ural Mountains are not high, but rich of mineral resources. In 1941 – 1942, when the Nazi Wehrmacht occupied the western regions of the USSR, the Soviets lost industrially developed territories, the Soviet government started evacuation of the socialist industry from the near-front area to the East. Within 1941-42 evacuation service moved rearward circa 2.500 factories, millions of workers and specialists. “The Red directors” were supposed to do impossible: to accomplish transportation and deployment of plants, ensuring fulfillment of over-estimated norms. And they did. Totally during the war the Soviet rearward industry produced circa 136.000 warplanes, 102.000 tanks and SP vehicles, 488.000 guns, and sufficient quantity of shells.
Many factories were deployed in the southern Urals, near the mineral resources and the local metallurgical plants. The biggest factory was called “Tankograd” (“The Tank-City”). The Urals industry contributes much in the allied victory.
The message of this WWII poster says: «From Urals to the front». It was created by the Russian artist Pyotr Karachentsov (1907—1998). He is not so famous in Russia, as his son, the popular Russian actor Nikolai Karachentsov.
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