Nytva

Nytva Metallurgical Plant

The plant was built in the settlement of Nytva, Perm Province, in the middle of the 18th century. During the Great Patriotic War, it produced bimetallic strip for the manufacture of cartridge cases, hand grenades casings, shovels and army flasks. Some of the equipment Arms and Metallurgical Plants which had been evacuated from Tula and Dneprodzerzhinsk was used at the Nytva Metallurgical Plant.

In 1944, the Nytva Metallurgical Plant won first place in the socialist competition for metallurgical works and was awarded the Challenge Red Banner. In 1985 the Nytva Metallurgical Plant For was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree, for successful production during the Great Patriotic War. Most of the company's employees were also given state government awards for their work during the Great Patriotic War.

The directors of the Nytva Metallurgical Plant during the Great Patriotic War were: Yakov Loktionov, Aleksey Maloletkin, Ivan Ostroushko and Aleksandr Borisov.

The chief engineers of the Nytva Metallurgical Plant during the Great Patriotic War were Vassily Utkin and Pavel Portnoi.

Personal Stories

The history of the youth brigades of the Nytva Metallurgical Plant

In November 1944, Kazakov's youth work-team received the Challenge Banner of the Nytva Metallurgical Plant for their excellent work. The teenagers worked in the hot rolling shop. Shift after shift, the boys used tongs to take white-hot metal strips out of the furnaces and pass them over rollers. High under the vaults of the workshop, cranes transported the metal to the next processing areas.

Before Kazakov's team, the Challenge Banner of the plant had been held for 5 months by Stepan Korobeinikov's annealing team. The oldest worker in the team was only 15 years old. Every day that the boys worked, they exceeded their quota.

Previously, the young people of the plant had been rather casual in their attitude to work, but subsequently, it was none other than the young who in many ways began to ensure the success of the plant. The Nytva Metallurgical Plant took it upon itself the commitment to complete the production program ahead of schedule, increase labor productivity, bring down the number of rejects, reduce the costs of production, and save fuel. The youth of the plant kept up their initiative in fulfilling these commitments during the Pre-October Socialist Competition. The work-teams of Kazakov, Stepan Korobeinikov, Zimtsov, Ivanov, Veselkov and Olga Korobeinikova, with their labor, exceeded their production quota.

Olga Korobeinikova in particular made sure that her team of female calibrators did not lag behind the other youth teams. The girls exceeded their quota by one and a half. For six months in 1944, they took the second place in the plant’s youth team competition. Olga Korobeinikova received certificates of honor from the management of the plant and from the People's Commissariat of Armaments.

On November 9th, 1944, festive rallies celebrating the 27th anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution were held at the plant. The young enthusiasts promised to work even harder. Kazakov's team undertook to complete the monthly quota by November 27th, and Korobeinikov's team committed to complete the annual quota by December 15th. Every day, on the display board, the numbers of the quota fulfillment indicators grew, against the names of the best team-leaders of the Nytva Metallurgical Plant.

Zvezda newspaper. 11/10/1944, No. 220. "On the watch of labor."

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