Zavod Korpusov - Great Patriotic War
Even more responsible tasks were assigned to the plant during the Great Patriotic War. In its production workshops, hands, workers, technicians and engineers created the weapon that played a decisive role at all stages of the war, crushed the fascist aggressor and covered with unfading glory the heroic Red Army. In March 1942, the BA-64 armored car, created by the Gorky Automobile Plant on the basis of the GAZ-64 army all-terrain vehicle, was adopted by the Red Army. At first, armored hulls for serial vehicles were manufactured at the Vyksa Plant, with the start of the War, fully transferred to the manufacture of military products.
In 1943, an improved model BA-64B was launched into mass production on the basis of a light army all-terrain vehicle GAZ-67B with a wider track. The new BA-64V armored car, which passed the tests in December 1942 (“V” means “Vyksa”), was modernized at the plant for driving along the railway track (backlog of metal wheels with flanges from the BA-20 railway was used). In just four years, 9110 BA-64 and BA-64B armored vehicles were made, some of which were manufactured in Vyksa.
During the years of the Great Patriotic War, the Vyksa plant, then with number 177, in large quantities produced armored corps for light tanks T-60 and T-70, artillery units SU-76, as well as armored cabins for aircraft - attack aircraft IL-2 and other military destination.
The T-60 is a light tank from the period of the Second World War. Developed in August 1941 at the Moscow factory number 37. In September of the same year, the T-60 was adopted by the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army and mass-produced in several engineering plants. Production of the T-60 continued until February 1943, when it was replaced on the assembly lines with a more powerful light tank T-70. The T-70 light tank was produced during the War. Developed in October - November 1941 at the Gorky Automobile Plant (GAZ), in January 1942, the T-70 was adopted by the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army and mass-produced in several machine-building plants. Production of the T-70 continued until October 1943, when, as a result of the hostilities of the summer of this year and the great need of the Red Army in the self-propelled artillery installations of the Su-76, it was decided to stop its mass production at its base.
The SU-76 light self-propelled artillery installation (SAU) became the most widely produced after the T-34 armored combat vehicle in the Red Army. A total of 13932 modernized SU-76s were produced, of which 9133 self-propelled guns were built by GAZ. The serial production of the SU-76M was completed in 1945.
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