Plant No. 183 of the People's Commissariat of the Tank Industry. To the Director of the Plant, Comrade Maksarev; to the Chief Engineer, Comrade Kordyuner; to the Party Organizer of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), Comrade Petukhov; to the Chairman of the Plant Committee, Comrade Susidko. May 27, 1945.

I congratulate the collective of workers, engineering-technical personnel, and employees of Plant No. 183 on a great production victory — the release of the thirty-five-thousandth tank and the awarding, in connection with this, of the plant with the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st Class.

Your heroic labor helped our valiant Red Army to defeat Hitlerite Germany and to bring the war to a victorious conclusion.

I wish you new successes in the production of tanks and other output necessary for our national economy and the Red Army.

I. Stalin

Pravda. 1945. May 27.