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President Putin awarded the honorary title of “labor valor” from 20 Russian large and small settlements for the contribution of their inhabitants to the Victory in the great Patriotic war. How they met is the solution?

When in the sky over Kazan heard the first fireworks, the embankments are filled with thousands of people.

They met just recently at a meeting with veterans of the plant, and during the war worked in the neighboring shops. Nikolai Stepanovich Anikin, a homefront worker, recalls how the boys performed technical tasks of Sergei Korolev.

one in six combat aircraft was manufactured at the Kazan aviation plant — in the 10-12 cars per day. At the beginning of the great Patriotic war on a war footing in Kazan was transferred 139 companies, another 70 were evacuated from the Central regions. For 4 years in the factories of the capital of Tatarstan has produced more than 100 thousand tons of gunpowder for different types of weapons and about 30 thousand aircraft.

And in design bureaus and research centers of the city worked Tupolev, Glushko, Kurchatov, Kapitsa, Schmidt. Arrived in Kazan more than 5,000 members of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

After the assignment of honorary titles in every town remember those in the rear fought for the overall victory. Yaroslavl under the air strikes produced military vehicles and petrochemical products. For the sake of Victory worked and the whole Ural tank Stolitsa Nizhny Tagil, where he was released every second tank T-34, metallurgical and machine-building plants of Sverdlovsk.

Yekaterinburg gave Russia and the world great inventors, engineers, metallurgists, and researchers. And this is Udmurtia. During the war factories in Izhevsk gave the front more than 12 million units of small arms.

fireworks thunder and in Ufa, where during the great Patriotic war acted 172 enterprises of machine-building, electrotechnical, chemical industry.