Factory Codes
Tanks, guns, and various such products come with letter codes. The codes indicate the factory that produced/invented the item in question.
- ##-K: factory #8
- 2## / Object 2##: Kirov factory in Leningrad (LKZ)
- 7## / Object 7##: Kirov factory in Chelyabinsk (ChKZ)
- A: factory #183, aka HPZ (Kharkov Locomotive Factory) aka Malyshev Factory
- B: Bolshevik factory
- Br: factory #221, aka Barricade factory
- BL / LB: OKB-172, scientific prison
- D: factory #9
- F: factory #92
- KS: factory #8 "Kalininskiy-Sverdlovskiy" special construction bureau for medium to large AA guns
- M: factory #172 located in Motoviliha
- S: TsAKB
- SM: TsKB-34
- T: Yurginsk machine-building factory
- U: UZTM. Also known as Uralmash or Ural Heavy Machinebuilding Factory
- V: factory #75
- ZIF: factory #7, aka Frunze factory
- ZIK: factory #8 during evacuation, aka Kalinin factory
- ZIS: factory #92, aka Stalin factory
There can also be combinations of letters. For examples, the BS-3 gun was produced by the Bolshevik factory (letter code B), but developed by TsAKB (letter code S).
People's Commissariats
A People's Commissariat was equivalent to a ministry, and a People's Commissar was equivalent to a minister. As such, several of them pop up in documents quite frequently, beginning with the letters NK (Narodniy Kommissar). Here are some that you are likely to encounter in these documents:
- NKID: People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs
- NKO: People's Commissariat of Defense
- NKV: People's Commissariat of Armament
- NKVD: People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs
- NKVM: People's Commissariat of Naval and Military Affairs
- NKVT: People's Commissariat of External Trade
- SNK: Council of People's Commissars
Other Organizations
- AK, ArtKom: Artillery Committee
- GAU: Glavnoye Upravleniye Artillerii, Main Artillery Directorate
- GABTU: Glavnoye Avto-BroneTankovoye Upravleniye: Main Auto and Armour Directorate
- GBTU: Glavnoye BroneTankovoye Upravleniye: Main Armour Directorate
- GANIOP: Gorohovets Artillery Scientific Research Proving Grounds
- GKO/GOKO: State Defense Committee. A list of all GOKO decrees exists here, as well as some scans and instructions on where to find them.
- NIIBT: Scientific Reasearch Intititue. The NIIBT proving grounds near Kubinka are now a well known tank museum.
- US: Communications Directorate
- VAMM: Military Academy of Mechanization and Motorization
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