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At the end of 1941, the Chkalov Aviation Plant, which played an important role in the defense industry of the Soviet Union, was evacuated to Tashkent.
The first train with the plant workers arrived in Tashkent on November 20, 1941. This date is considered the day of the plant’s second birth, but already on Uzbek soil.
“Our workshop was housed in a hangar. The cold there was infernal. Slipways were brought to the shop on draggers, and we carried them into the shop on our hands. There was no compressed air. At certain times, a ZIS-5 truck with a compressor came by, from which one drill and one pneumatic hammer worked. The wing was drilled and riveted by hand,” recalls a worker of the plant.
During the war years, 2,090 airplanes were sent to the front from the Uzbek SSR.
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