00:00It is this American of German origin who can be considered the author of Soviet industrialization.
00:05For secrecy, the actual branch of Albert Kahn's company in Moscow was called Gosbrokdestroy.
00:11It was headed by Albert Kahn's employee, George Scrimger. It employed 25 Americans and 2,500
00:18Soviet engineers who studied Western practices in designing and constructing large industrial
00:22facilities. According to Kahn's plan, a program for the construction of industrial facilities
00:26was developed for the first five-year plan. Another design company, Delaware M.O.K., which
00:31was German, also had an office in Moscow disguised under the name Central Bureau of Heavy Engineering.
00:37An astonishing fact, the last Demokar rolling mill or blooming mill at the Magnitogorsk
00:42Metallurgical Plant was dismantled only in 2005. Most of the enterprises built during the years
00:47of industrialization are the brainchild of Kahn, whose specialist created the most detailed
00:51documentation. For such giants of Soviet industry as the tractor plants in Stalingrad, Kharkov,
00:56Chelyabinsk, the tractor plants in Dnepropetrovsk, Magnitogorsk, Sormovo. All the factory equipment
01:02was manufactured in the USA and then shipped by steamers to the Soviet Union, where, under
01:06the supervision of Kahn's people, the factory was assembled inside buildings erected in advance
01:10and production was launched. Kahn's firm designed and set up almost 600 enterprises and in total,
01:15with the help of foreign companies, one and a half thousand factories and plants were built
01:19in the Soviet Union.
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