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Dzerzhinsk
Dzerzhinsk is the city in the Nizhny Novgorod region. During the Great Patriotic War, 13 chemical enterprises functioned in the Gorky region, the main of which were located in the city of Dzerzhinsk. Already in 1941, Dzerzhinsk became the center of the Soviet chemical industry: the share of the chemical industry in the Gorky region by the end of 1941 was 28.9%. At the same time, for caustic soda, it reached 50%, for ethyl liquid - up to 70.7%, for sheet organic glass - up to 90%. It was Dzerzhinsk where the People's Commissariat of the Chemical Industry of the USSR was evacuated at the beginning of the war. The city had such large chemical plants as the Chernorechensky Chemical Plant named after Mikhail Kalinin, the plants named after Yakov Sverdlov, “Zarya”, “Oka”, “Plexiglas”, “Kaprolactam”, “Zavodstroy”, “Java” and etc. The importance of the Dzerzhinsk chemical hub is evidenced by the fact that during the war years up to 50% of the total amount of explosives in the country was produced here and more than 150 million pieces of ammunition were produced.
