Maj. Gen. Isaac Saltman, one-time People’s Commissar of Tank Industry, has been appointed director of the Kirov tank plant in Chelyabinsk, the largest tank factory in the USSR, according to an announcement made here today. Saltzman, son of a Jewish tailor from Vinnitsa, in the Ukraine, holds three Orders of Lenin, the Gold Medal, the Hammer and Sickle, which denotes the title of Hero of Socialist Labor, the Suvorov Order, the Kutuzov Order, and several other medals.
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