Stalin’s Soviet Union · TURNING POINT ·
Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (1929–32)
On the Stalin’s Soviet Union map as “Magnitogorsk”
1929–1932 — A steel city raised from bare steppe at the Magnetic Mountain in the southern Urals, modelled on the US Steel works at Gary, Indiana. Its first blast furnace was lit in early 1932, built by volunteers, peasants and deported kulaks who lived in tents, barracks and dugouts.
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- Stalin’s Five-Year Plans (chapter 4 of Stalin’s Soviet Union)
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- The Soviet Union under Stalin, 1924–1953
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