Berezniki Magnesium Plant During the Second World War

Abstract

In this work the questions of the formation and the role of magnesium production in the prewar and war years. Based on the collected production and historical museum AVISMA OAO «Corporation “VSMPO-AVISMA”», Berezniki City History and Art Museum memories home front, declassified documents of the State Archive of Perm region, analyzes the complex issues of occurrence of Berezniki magnesium plant in a «starting minimum» of wartime. Showing unusually heavy working and living conditions of workers and employees of magnesium production in the Great Patriotic War.