About giantomania, or the necessity to use resources for restoration of liberated territories: on the question of the feedability of construction of the Alapayevsk Machine Building Plant

Introduction. One of the largest machine tool factories in the Urals is the Alapaevsky Machine Building Plant, built during the Great Patriotic War. Its appearance was not without clouds, not only because it was built during the war years. The plant produced its products for the next 70 years. The Alapaevsk Machine Building Plant produced more than 50 thousand units of turret lathes, screw-cutting lathes and special machines. The plant’s 150 models continue to operate successfully in 44 countries around the world and in more than thousands of domestic enterprises. The article is devoted to a small but significant moment in the history of the Great Patriotic War and the history of the creation of the Alapaevsky machine Building plant in the Urals, which was built in difficult war conditions.