"steel workers" Magnitogorsk Things to Do Tip by traveloturc

It is said that half of all of the steel that went into the making of Soviet tanks during the years of the war was produced at the Magnitogorsk mills. This heroic effort on the part of the Magnitogorsk steel workers is commemorated in typical Soviet style with a tremendous statue depicting the laborer of the city handing a newly forged swoard with which to slay the enemy to the Soviet soldier.