Creation and development of the system of tank reserve's preparation on South Ural in the years of the Great Patriotic War

In this article the role of South Ural in training of the tank cadre for battle-front in the years of the Great Patriotic war is researched. Here the formation and development of the system of tank troopers' preparation by different ways is shown, the list of military schools, training tank parts, and training centers, situated in South Ural is given. This article draws attention on relations of the tank troopers' education and the types of the fighting machines produced on Chelyabinsk Kirovsk plant. Author, being guided by recently opened archive sources, for the first time introduces into scientific use generalized statistic material on amount of trained tank troopers specialist in 1941-1945 years.