An important component of the armored weapons of the red Army during the great Patriotic war was self-propelled artillery. As you know, the red Army did the heavy (SU-152, ISU-152 and ISU-122), medium (SU-122, SU-85 and SU-100) and light (SU-76 and SU-76M) self-propelled guns. The process of creating the latter was launched on 3 March 1942 after the formation of the special Bureau of self-propelled artillery. It was created on the basis of the 2nd Department of the NKTP (engineering), chief of which S. Ginsburg A., on starting from September, 1941, put forward proposals for an assault and anti-aircraft self-propelled gun on the basis of outdated and light tanks.
THE MASS “SELF-PROPELLED GUN” OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC
Modelist-KONSTRUKTOR No. 3, 2012.
Luxury car ZIS-101. In the early 1930-ies in the Soviet Union there is an urgent need in an Executive car of a domestic production. The fact that pautinopodobnoj elite in the Soviet Union cars were not issued a Soviet-American trading company Amtorg had regularly purchasing not cheap cars Buick and Packard.
