"Stalingrad Nail Factory" Topic

Does anyone have any images of it (or the building cluster)?

I found the old Nova model, but no actual images

Found a picture at , link

A nail factory? Seriously, a building this size to make nails?

It reminds me of the Stalingrad Grain Elevator also. Why? Huge complex. Just designed for defence (defense) and modern movies (Fillums to us Irish). But why not leave the grain where is was? Why did it need lifting above ground zero?

The name "Nail Factory" is the nickname of the house in the basement of which soldiers found several boxes of nails. This expression in vulgar Russian has an ambiguity. This can be read as a "killing factory", which reflects the intensity of the fighting taking place here.

Elevator: link

Centralized economics at its finest.

Cuprum2, Thank you so much for clarifying both names for me. I suppose I could have been less lazy and Googled Grain Elevator myself, but I would never have got to "Nail factory"

Great to have the insider knowledge to contribute here.

The building that was called the "Nail Factory". In fact, it was a warehouse for metal products of a nearby fittings plant.

An interesting detail associated with this building. The building was divided into two parts by a solid blank wall. There were Germans in one part of the building, Russians in the other. A wall separated them. And they fought from this position for quite a considerable time. But later, German sappers blew up the wall, in which a large hole appeared, and later there were long battles inside the building itself, constantly moving from mutual throwing of grenades to hand-to-hand combat. The Russians defended the building for six days, after which the building was destroyed by tank fire, and the last seven surviving Russian soldiers left the ruins and were able to cross to the other side of the Volga.

What an evocative photograph that is. Even the architecture of the background buildings and the church, the tramlines, and of course the snow. Classical for Russia pre and mid War.

Thanks again