B.M. Shpotov. Using American Management and Organization Experience in Construction Industry in the USSR in 1920s–1930s
V.3, N1, 2005
In the end of 1920s — the beginning of 1930s the Soviet industry widely employed Western industrial technologies. U.S. companies made technological or construction plans of the biggest Soviet enterprises, like the Stalingrad tractor plant, the Nizhny Novgorod automobile factory, the Magnitogorsk iron and steel plant, etc. In 1930–1932, the Albert Kahn, Inc., from Detroit, taught Russian architects and engineers the best methods of rapid designing and construction works combined in one process. The Soviets used them for the erection of the American-type factories, developed the construction machinery and the building materials industries, established state designing «institutes» and builded «trusts» to serve big orders. The American experience, roughly mastered in 1930s, helped to modernize the national economy and quickly restore about 1360 plants and factories evacuated to the east after the German invasion in 1941.