Gorky Automobile plant in the years of Great Patriotic war.

The 22 of june, 1941. This sunday was unusually festive for workers of Automobile Plant. On the eve, on saturday, the plant personnel marked an important labour achievement - the assembly of the 1,000,000th engine. Factory's newspaper лAutogigant“ issued with the big title across whole strip: лThere is the millionth engine!“. лGorkovskaya kommuna“ congratulated the plant personnel on a big labor victory. On the radio there was a concert for the best workers of the plant. Already in the morning there were a lot of people on the bus' stops. Some of them were going to Striginski wood, the other - to the Oka's beach, the lovers of sports hurried to the stadium. Everywhere there were happy faces, music. Who could think, that in a few hours everything would be changed? Who could know, that it had already changedЕ

An hour later it was a big meeting in front of the plant. лЕWe declare ourselves mobilized to defend our beloved Motherland and are ready to work and to struggle, Е , up to complete victory over the enemy!“.