Shells, bullets, and blasting machines were
produced in Aktobe during the war. The region focused on providing military
support to soldiers defending the Motherland. Aktyubrentgen, an enterprise
relocated from Moscow in November 1941, also produced X-ray machines for use in
mobile and rear hospitals. Today, these exhibits are kept in the Aktobe Regional
Museum of Local History.
«Our region supplied raw materials to
factories that cast bullets and grenades. There is also documented evidence
that torpedoes and shells were produced at the Alga chemical plant during the
war,» said Arman Yerzhanov, the museum’s academic secretary.
At the time, eight factories and plants
operated in Aktobe. One facility manufactured cast iron and bronze fittings for
tanks, spare parts for tractors and cars, and components for shells and
mortars. In 1943, the Aktobe ferroalloys plant began producing metal parts for
weapons and bullets. The region also had evacuation hospitals. The museum is
always full of visitors, who are interested in the city’s history.
«I learned a lot of new things in the local
history museum – about the heroes who fought in the war, what contribution they
made to bringing Victory closer, and that many ethnographic and archaeological
artifacts were found in our region,» shared schoolgirl Arailym Ansatgali.
Notably, 122,000 people from the Aktobe region
went to the front, while the region’s total population was 335,000 at the time.
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