Abstract
The article illuminates the transition period at the development of Soviet tank industry, which chronologically correlates with the era of the First Five-Year Plan. The work analyzes the main trends in the development of the Russian tank industry in the late 1920s - early 1930s, and shows the main reasons for the copying of foreign military equipment samples as the main way to modernize the armored forces of the Red Army. According to the practical technical and economic limitations that influenced the progress of the implementation of the program for creating modern armored weapons of the Red Army during the First Five-Year Plan are shown. The publication covers the organizational and technical formation of the Special Machine Building Trust (Spetsmashtrest) and its subordinate factories as the foundation for the modernization of the USSR tank industry in the Second Five-Year Plan.
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