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05.05.2005

PERM MOTORS congratulated their war veterans on Victory Day

On May 5, 2005 the memorial meeting devoted to 60th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War was held at the Palace of Culture named after Soldatov.

More than 1100 veterans of war and toilers of the home front, who worked at Perm engine enterprises in wartime, were invited to this solemn event. The Managing Director of "Reductor-PM", Nickolai Semikopenko, welcomed and congratulated the invited veterans on behalf of the Perm engine companies' top leaders. The military orchestra of the Perm garrison, children creative groups and the soloists of the Opera & Ballet Theater named after Chaikovsky made their performances. Each invited veteran was given a memorable gift.

The contribution of Perm engine enterprises was gold-lettered to the heroic annals of our Motherland. The aircraft engines produced by Perm during the wartime gained confidence and immense prestige. Perm engines powered the La-5, La-7 fighters and TU-2 bomber. Thanks to their high flight performance and reliability, these aircraft, already at the very beginning of the war, maintained air superiority of the Soviet aviation.

In 1941 six enterprises and two design bureaus evacuated from the western regions of the country were dislocated at the premises of PERM MOTORS. About 50 thousand specialists with their families and dozens of special trains with machines and equipment arrived to Perm. At shortest time possible the machines and equipment were mounted in newly built workshops. Evacuated people were settled in hastily built buildings, basements and in the apartments of Perm townspeople.

The war required the total mobilization of all enterprise's productions. In 1942 the enterprises of the aviation industry initiated the competition for winning the challenge banner of the State Defense Committee. Only in 1942 the Perm enterprise held this banner for 7 months successively. During the whole war period the Perm enterprise was awarded the banner 19 times. In 1945 this valuable relic was given the Perm engine builders for custody in perpetuity.

But not only PERM MOTORS' machines helped the war fronts. The workers spent their own savings for equipping a group of fighters, artillery battery and tanks for the Ural voluntary armored corps. Young Communist Leaguers sent more than 200 thousand rubles earned during the days of voluntary unpaid labor to the Defense Fund.

The Motherland has highly estimated the labor of engine builders during the war period. 359 persons were decorated with the governmental awards in wartime and 18 500 persons more were awarded with the Medal for Labour Valour in the Great Patriotic War in the post-war period. 142 names have been written to the enterprise's Book of Honour.