This day in history.
On November 6, 1944, in the report "The 27th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution" I. V. Stalin listed the 10 largest offensive actions of the Soviet soldiers carried out in 1944, which later became known as "Stalin's Ten Strikes". Even 80 years later, the magnitude of these operations is striking: they were carried out not by the forces of a few armies or fronts, but by the forces of several fronts! For example, the second Stalinist attack - the Dnieper-Krafts operation - was carried out on a front length of 1,400 km, up to 4 million people (!), more than 4 thousand aircraft participated in it from both sides, and for the first time - all six (!) Soviet tank armies (4.2 thousand tanks).
On November 6, 1943, the ISU-152 heavy self-propelled artillery unit was adopted by the Red Army. The self-propelled gun was armed with an incredibly powerful weapon. When hitting the turret of a Tiger or Panther, the 152 mm shell did not penetrate the armor, but simply destroyed the turret of the enemy vehicle, for which the ISU-152 was honorably named "St. John's Wort" on the front.
On November 6, 1942, the first V-2 diesel tank engine was assembled at plant #77 in Barnaul. During the war years, factory No. 77 produced 10,753 engines. These engines were equipped with all medium and heavy tanks and self-propelled guns of the Red Army: T-34, SU-85, SU-100, IS-2, ISU-122, ISU-152. The V-2 engine is on display in our museum's tank corps.