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64-703: Although not as large as some oblast centers, Kremenchuk has a large industrial center in Ukraine and Eastern Europe. A KrAZ truck plant, the Kremenchuk Oil Refinery of Ukrtatnafta , the Kriukiv Railway Car Building Works , and Kremenchuk Hydroelectric Power Plant , in nearby Svitlovodsk , are located in or near Kremenchuk. Highway M22 crosses the Dnieper over the dam of the power plant. Originally established on

128-512: A block of stock being purchased by a joint Ukrainian-German enterprise called Mega-Motors . In 2003, KrAZ opened vehicle assembly plants in Russia and Vietnam . In 2004 KrAZ was awarded an order for 2200 KrAZ vehicles to be delivered to Iraq. KrAZ received an ISO 9001:2000 for quality control. On January 27, 2006, the 800,000th truck was assembled at the KrAZ main assembly plant. In October of

192-512: A fighting front. He was transferred to the 4th Rifle Brigade, which was transformed into the 4th Rifle Division in 1915. This was one of the formations cited by Brusilov in his Order No. 643 of 5 (18) April 1916, which sought to end fraternization between Russian and Austrian troops. In October 1916, he was appointed to command the Russian 8th Army Corps and lead troops in Romania. Following

256-510: A patriot, no matter what ideological excuse he may use for taking money to fight his own people." At the conclusion of World War II , correctly anticipating their likely fate at the hands of Joseph Stalin 's Soviet Union , Denikin attempted to persuade the Western Allies not to forcibly repatriate Soviet POWs (see also Operation Keelhaul ). He was largely unsuccessful in his effort. From 1945 until his death in 1947, Denikin lived in

320-504: A plant for heavy-duty vehicle production. Heavy-duty truck manufacture was transferred from the Yaroslavl Motor Plant (YaAZ). The first two KrAZ-222 dump trucks were assembled from imported units and components on 10 April 1959, and by 1961 the plant exported over 500 vehicles in 26 countries of the world such as Argentina , Afghanistan , Bulgaria , China , India , Vietnam etc. On December 30, 1968, 100,000th truck

384-498: Is twinned with: KrAZ KrAZ ( Ukrainian : Кременчуцький автомобільний завод , Kremenchutskyi Avtomobilnyi Zavod , Kremenchuk Automobile Plant , АвтоКрА́З or AvtoKrAZ ) is a factory in Kremenchuk , Ukraine , that produces trucks and other special-purpose vehicles, particularly heavy-duty off-road models. The factory was incorporated as a holding company combining several other factories nationwide and becoming

448-615: Is associated with 17 percent of the attacks, and was generally responsible for the most active propaganda campaign against Jews, whom they openly associated with communism. The Red Army is blamed for 9 percent of the pogroms. In the territories it occupied, Denikin's army carried out mass executions and plunder, in what was later known as the White Terror . In the town of Maykop in Circassia during September 1918, more than 4,000 people were massacred by General Pokrovsky's forces. In

512-1067: Is one of the most important railway junctions in Central Ukraine (thanks to its geographical position and a bridge over the Dnieper River) and a major river port on the main river of Ukraine. Kremenchuk is home to HK Kremenchuk ice hockey team who compete in the Ukrainian Championship and FC Kremin Kremenchuk football team. Beside FC Kremin, the city was also represented by number of other professional football clubs such as FC Adoms Kremenchuk , FC Naftokhimik Kremenchuk , and FC Vahonobudivnyk Kremenchuk . The city has several sports schools , about six stadiums including Polytechnic Stadium (main city stadium), Kremin Stadium , and others, as well as couple of swimming pools and couple of athletic halls. Kremenchuk

576-607: Is the economic center of the Poltava Oblast and one of the leading industrial centers of Ukraine. As of 2005, it contributed about 7 percent of the national economy and accounted for more than 50 percent of the industrial output in Poltava Oblast. The city is home to KrAZ , a truck-manufacturing company (one of the largest in Eastern Europe ) as well as a major European oil refinery operated by Ukrtatnafta ,

640-625: The Crimean War began the installation of a network of railroads in Russia, and in 1869 in Kryukiv were built small railcar repair shops, while in 1872 the city of Kriukiv was connected with Kremenchuk by a railroad bridge over the Dnieper . In 1870 in Kremenchuk a factory was built that produced and maintained agrarian equipment and iron cast products. In 1899 a network of tramway transportation

704-670: The February Revolution and the overthrow of Tsar Nicholas II , he became Chief of Staff to Mikhail Alekseev , then Aleksei Brusilov , and finally Lavr Kornilov . Denikin was concurrently commander of the Southwestern Front from 20 July (2 August) to 16 (29) August 1917. He supported the attempted coup of his superior, Kornilov, in September 1917 and was arrested and imprisoned with him. After this Alekseev would be reappointed commander-in-Chief. Following

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768-591: The Muslim uprisings in Kars and Sharur–Nakhichevan . During the Russian Civil War , an estimated 150,000 Jews were killed in pogroms . Ukrainian forces, nominally under the control of Symon Petliura , perpetrated approximately 40 percent of the recorded pogroms, although Petliura never ordered his forces to engage in such activity and eventually exhorted his troops to refrain from the violence. The White Army

832-676: The October Revolution both Denikin and Kornilov escaped to Novocherkassk in the Northern Caucasus and, with other Tsarist officers, formed the anti- Bolshevik Volunteer Army , initially commanded by Alekseev. Kornilov was killed in April 1918 near Ekaterinodar and the Volunteer Army came under Denikin's command thanks in part to the support of fellow general Sergey Markov . Kornilov's disastrous attempt to take

896-537: The Red Army . A Jewish community of over 5,000 remained in the city throughout the 1950s, although dwindled in the 1990s during migration to Israel . There are a few Jewish cemeteries from different parts of the 20th century in the area, with the last burials having occurred in Jewish Cemetery II in the 1990s. Distribution of the population by native language according to the 2001 census : Kremenchuk

960-656: The Russian All-Military Union . Denikin left the Crimea by ship to Istanbul and then to London. He spent a few months in England, then moved to Belgium, and later to Hungary. From 1926, Denikin lived in France. Although he remained bitterly opposed to Russia's Communist government, he chose to exist discreetly on the periphery of politics, spending most of his time writing and lecturing. This did not prevent

1024-773: The Ukrainian–Soviet War , on 26 January 1918, Russian Bolshevik troops secured the city, however already in February of the same year they had to withdraw due to the treaty of Brest-Litovsk and advance of German and Ukrainian armies. Following the World War I hostilities between the Bolshevik Russia and Ukraine renewed and on 1 February 1919 the Russian Red Army once again secured the city. However, in May of

1088-703: The Yellow Star of Jude . On 27 September 1941, they were exiled from the city, and forced to move into the Ghetto in Novo-Ivanovka. Many Jews who hid throughout the city were later caught and forced into the Ghettos as well. Between October 1941 and January 1942, a total of around 8,000 Jews were shot and killed in various instances of execution over the months, although the community was not entirely wiped out. The Ghetto and town were liberated 29 September 1943 by

1152-686: The 1905 Russo-Japanese War . In 1905, he won promotion to the rank of colonel. In 1910, he became commander of the 17th infantry regiment. A few weeks before the outbreak of the First World War , Denikin reached the rank of major-general. By the outbreak of World War I in August 1914 Denikin was chief of staff of the Kiev Military District. He was initially appointed quartermaster of General Brusilov 's 8th Army. Not one for staff service, Denikin petitioned for an appointment to

1216-560: The Bolshevik machine, and that what they had called the diabolical schemes for Russia's downfall had been hatched in the Petrograd and Moscow Masonic lodges . When I told them that I and most of my best friends were Freemasons, and that England owed a great deal to its loyal Jews, they stared at me askance and sadly shook their heads in fear for England's credulity in trusting the chosen race. One even asked me quietly whether I personally

1280-773: The Canadian defense firm Streit Group to produce the Cougar and Spartan armored vehicles. A total of 21 Spartans were ordered with the Ministry of Defense having an option for an additional 40, 20 Cougars were also ordered. Several Streit Group Spartan APC 's were seen at the Kyiv independence day parade indicating that the order was at least partially complete. In November 2014, the Ukrainian government placed an order for 1200 vehicles and 200 armored personnel carriers. The contract

1344-549: The Dnieper Pikemen Regiment ( Russian : Днепровский пикинёрный полк ) was created and coincidentally a few years later (1768–69) in the neighboring regions of Poland began the Koliyivshchyna . Here in 1786 the Russian general Alexander Suvorov started his military career when he was appointed a commander of the local garrison (in preparation of the 1787–1792 Russo-Turkish War ). Following defeat in

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1408-551: The Hebrew. They held that the whole cataclysm had been engineered by some great and mysterious secret society of international Jews, who, in the pay and at the orders of Germany, had seized the psychological moment and snatched the reins of government. All the figures and facts that were then available appeared to lend colour to this contention. No less than 82 per cent of the Bolshevik Commissars were known to be Jews,

1472-800: The Jewish population and served to earn the favour of the Ukrainian people for much of 1919. Western sponsors were dismayed at the widespread antisemitism in the Whites' officer ranks, especially as the Bolsheviks sought to officially prohibit acts of anti-Semitism. Winston Churchill personally warned General Denikin that: [M]y task in winning support in Parliament for the Russian Nationalist cause will be infinitely harder if well-authenticated complaints continue to be received from Jews in

1536-501: The KrAZ's yearly production output totalled 27667 trucks. 1991 the KrAZ's yearly production output totalled 25094 trucks. In March 1993 750,000th truck was assembled at the KrAZ main assembly plant. KrAZ was registered as a Holding company in June 1996. 1996 the company's yearly production output totalled 1919 trucks. In 1999, the privatization of KrAZ began. 1999 the company's yearly production output totalled 827 trucks In 2001,

1600-608: The Soviets from unsuccessfully targeting him for abduction in the same effort that snared exiled General Alexander Kutepov in 1930 and General Yevgeny Miller in 1937 (both members of the Russian All-Military Union). White Against Red – The Life of General Anton Denikin gives possibly the definitive account of the intrigues during these early Soviet "wet-ops". Denikin was a writer, and prior to World War I had written several pieces in which he criticised

1664-671: The United States, in New York City. On 7 August 1947, at the age of 74, he died of a heart attack while on vacation near Ann Arbor , Michigan. Denikin was buried with military honours in Detroit. His remains were later transferred to St. Vladimir's Cemetery in Jackson, New Jersey . His wife, Xenia Vasilievna Chizh (1892–1973), was buried at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois cemetery near Paris. On 3 October 2005, in accordance with

1728-629: The Whites to retreat. Denikin's army would be decisively defeated at Orel in October 1919, some 360 km south of Moscow. The White forces in southern Russia would be in constant retreat thereafter, eventually reaching the Crimea in March 1920. On 4 January 1920, with defeat and capture by the Bolsheviks in Siberia imminent, Admiral Alexander Kolchak named Denikin as his successor as Supreme Ruler ( Verkhovnyy Pravitel ), but Denikin accepted neither

1792-564: The academy decided to introduce a new system of calculating grades and as a result Denikin was not offered a staff appointment after the final exams. He protested the decision to the highest authority (the Grand Duke). After being offered a settlement according to which he would rescind his complaint in order to attain acceptance into the General Staff school again, Denikin declined, insulted. Denikin first saw active service during

1856-504: The city in the mid-19th century. The community had grown sevenfold within a half decade to 3,475 by 1847. The 1897 All-Russia Census recorded the Jewish population of Kremenchuk at 29,768, or at 47% of the total population. Growth of the city's Jewish population stagnated, still hovering at 28,969 by 1926, around 50% of the population, later heavily falling to 19,880 by 1939. Nazi forces occupied Kremenchuk on 9 September 1941, setting restrictions on Jewish purchases and forcing them to wear

1920-777: The city is located on a giant chert plate. An alternative explanation says that "Kremenchuk" is the Turkish for "small fortress". In 1625, at Lake Kurukove in Kremenchuk, the Treaty of Kurukove was signed between Cossacks and the Poles . Since the establishment of the Cossack Hetmanate , the city was part of the Chyhyryn Polk (regiment). Following the Russo-Polish War (1654–1667) and Treaty of Andrusovo ,

1984-458: The city was finally cancelled and the army retreated towards the north-east, evading destruction and ending the campaign which would become known as the Ice March . There was some sentiment to place Grand Duke Nicholas in overall command but Denikin was not interested in sharing power. In June–November 1918, Denikin launched the highly successful Second Kuban Campaign which gave him control of

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2048-554: The city was secured by the Tsardom of Russia and became part of the Myrhorod Polk (regiment) within the left-bank of the Cossack Hetmanate . The city played a key role in the Russian colonization policy of Ukraine and their striving for the shores of Black Seas as regional administrative center of the early Novorossiya Governorate and Yekaterinoslav Vice-regency (Namestnichestvo). With the creation of Novorossiya Governorate,

2112-652: The city were removed two monuments of the Russian Communist leader in the city center and near the Kryukiv Railcar Factory. Oleh Babayev , the mayor of Kremenchuk was assassinated on 26 July 2014. Oleh Babayev opposed separatism and promoted national unity, prior to becoming mayor he was a member of the Batkivshchyna political party which opposed Victor Yanukovich. His political views and Kremenchuk's large industrial base may have been

2176-685: The community of Russian exiles, Denikin was disliked by émigrés of both political extremes, right and left. With the fall of France in 1940, Denikin left Paris in order to avoid imprisonment by the Germans. Although he was eventually captured, he declined all attempts to co-opt him for use in Nazi anti-Soviet propaganda . The Germans did not press the matter and Denikin was allowed to remain in rural exile. Denikin denounced White Russian collaborators in 1939. "White or Red, our fatherland remains our fatherland. Whoever may aid Russia's enemies cannot call himself

2240-497: The couple's only child, spoke both Russian and Polish growing up. His father's Russian patriotism and devotion to the Russian Orthodox religion led Anton Denikin to the Russian army. The Denikins lived very close to poverty, with the retired major's small pension as their only source of income, and their finances worsened after Ivan's death in 1885. Anton Denikin at this time began tutoring younger schoolmates to support

2304-646: The entire area between the Black and Caspian Sea. In the summer of 1919, Denikin led the assault of the southern White forces in their final push to capture Moscow . For a time, it appeared that the White Army would succeed in its drive; Leon Trotsky , as the supreme commander of the Red Army , hastily concluded an agreement with Nestor Makhno 's anarchist Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine for mutual support. Makhno duly turned his Insurgent Army east and led it against Denikin's extended lines of supply, forcing

2368-686: The factory worked at minimal capacity. 2009 the company's yearly production output totalled 280 trucks In 2010, the company's yearly production output totalled 1002 trucks On August 23, 2011, the KrAZ-5233 "Spetsnaz" entered into service with the Ukrainian Army . In 2013, the company's yearly production output totalled 891 trucks. The government of Ukraine placed large orders for new military vehicles. The Border Guards, National Guard, and Army of Ukraine have all been scheduled to receive new KrAZ armored trucks. Moreover, KrAZ partnered with

2432-530: The family. In 1890, Denikin enrolled at the Kiev Junker School , a military college from which he graduated in 1892. The twenty-year-old Denikin joined an artillery brigade, in which he served for three years. In 1895, he was first accepted into the General Staff Academy , where he did not meet the academic requirements in the first of his two years. After this disappointment, Denikin attempted to attain acceptance again. On his next attempt he did better and finished fourteenth in his class. However, to his misfortune,

2496-404: The fierce and implacable 'Trotsky,' who shared office with Lenin, being a Yiddisher whose real name was Bronstein. Among Denikin's officers this idea was an obsession of such terrible bitterness and insistency as to lead them into making statements of the wildest and most fantastic character. Many of them had persuaded themselves that Freemasonry was, in alliance with the Jews , part and parcel of

2560-562: The functions nor the style of Supreme Leader. Meanwhile, the Soviet government immediately tore up its agreement with Makhno and attacked his anarchist forces. After a seesaw series of battles in which both sides gained ground, Trotsky's more numerous and better equipped Red Army troops decisively defeated and dispersed Makhno's Insurgent Army. Although Denikin refused to recognise the independence of Azerbaijan and Georgia , in maintaining friendly relations with Armenia he recognised their independence and supplied them with ammunition during

2624-416: The hearts of Jew-communists ." Religious and faithful to the Russian Orthodox Church , Denikin did not criticise the pogroms against the Jewish population until the end of 1919. Denikin believed that most people had reasons to hate Jews and wished to avoid an issue that divided his officers. Many of them, intensely anti-Semitic, allowed pogroms under their watch, which turned into a method of terror against

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2688-405: The industrial wing of the finance-industrial group Finance and Credit , which also held the Finance and Credit bank . KrAZ was founded on 31 August 1945 when the People's Commissariat for Transportation Routes issued a warrant to build a mechanical bridge plant in Kremenchuk. The first brick was laid in the plant foundation in 1946 and during the next eight years it produced about 600 bridges with

2752-402: The left bank, Kremenchuk eventually incorporated the city of Kriukiv  [ uk ] on the right bank. The Kriukiv Railway Car Building Works is one of the oldest railway-repair and rail-car-building factories in Eastern Europe, dating from 1869. Kremenchuk was founded in 1571 as a fortress. The name Kremenchuk is explained as deriving from the word "kremen" - flint (a mineral) because

2816-414: The motivation for the attack. During the 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine security at the Kremenchuk Reservoir was heightened as it was seen as a possible target for saboteurs. Until 18 July 2020, Kremenchuk was designated as a city of oblast significance and did not belong to Kremenchuk Raion even though it was the center of the raion. As part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced

2880-420: The number of raions of Poltava Oblast to four, the city was merged into Kremenchuk Raion. During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine , Kremenchuk has been under attack by Russian forces. On 27 April and 12 May an oil refinery was hit by Russian missiles and will be out of operation for months. On 27 June a shopping mall was hit by Russian missiles and caught fire, 16 people died and 59 were injured. Just after

2944-455: The oblast capital of Poltava . During the Cold War, Kremenchuk became the headquarters for the 43rd Rocket Division of the 43rd Army of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces . The division was equipped with R-12 Dvina intercontinental ballistic missiles . In 1975 the city of Kryukiv was merged with Kremenchuk, while Kremenchuk was divided in two raions in city. In 2014 during the mass demolition of monuments to Vladimir Lenin in Ukraine , in

3008-401: The road-making machine works, Kremenchuk Automobile Assembly Plant  [ uk ] , the Kryukivsky Car Manufacturing Plant, train railway rolling stock wagons, the wheel plant, the carbon black plant, the steel works and others. The light industries of the city include tobacco ( JTI ), confectionery ( Roshen ), a knitting factory as well as milk and meat processing plants. Kremenchuk

3072-402: The same year KrAZ won first prize among 100 Ukrainian companies with the best rate of development according to the net profit growth pursuant to the results of rating "Top 100 Most dynamic companies" In 2007, the company's yearly production output totalled 4206 trucks After the Financial crisis of 2007–08 orders for vehicles declined drastically as Ukraine was severely affected by the event,

3136-413: The same year Kremechuk was engulfed in the insurgency of Otaman Grigoriev who earlier sided with Bolsheviks and drove the international force of Triple Entante from Odesa. From July to December 1919 the city was occupied by the Russian "White Guard" troops of Anton Denikin . Following their withdrawal, the Denikin's troops blew up the railroad bridge. In 1920–1922, the city was the administrative center of

3200-465: The short-lived Kremenchuk Governorate  [ uk ] during a peasant insurgency (Kholodnyi Yar) near Chyhyryn (just west of the city). During the 1930s, Kremenchuk's industry was transformed, its Kriukiv railcar repair shops became a railcar manufacturing factory, while its factory in production of agrarian equipment changed to manufacturing road equipment. During World War II (1939–1945), Kremenchuk suffered heavily under Nazi occupation. It

3264-487: The shortcomings of his beloved Russian Army. His voluminous writings after the Russian Civil War (written while living in exile) are notable for their analytical tone and candour. Since he enjoyed writing and most of his income was derived from it, Denikin began to consider himself a full-time writer and developed close friendships with several Russian émigré authors—among them Ivan Bunin (a Nobel laureate), Ivan Shmelev , and Aleksandr Kuprin . Although respected by some of

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3328-434: The small town of Fastov alone, Denikin's Volunteer Army murdered over 1,500 Jews, mostly elderly, women, and children. The press of the Denikin regime regularly incited violence against communist Jews and Jews seen as communists in the context of treason committed by Red agents . For example, a proclamation by one of Denikin's generals incited people to "arm themselves" in order to extirpate "the evil force which lives in

3392-464: The strike, a nearby factory was hit. Russian authorities claimed that the factory hosted weapons supplied by the US and European countries. In 2014, the factory was known to repair armoured personnel carriers ( BTR-70s ). Jews initially began to settle in the city in 1782, and by 1801, there were 454 registered taxpayers in Kremenchuk. As a result of Jewish emigration from further north in the Pale of Settlement, many Jews from northern provinces settled in

3456-421: The total length of about 27 km for use on the Dnieper , Moscow , Dniester , Volga and Daugava rivers etc. In 1956 the plant has manufactured combine harvesters and other farming machines. The Kremenchuk Combine Plant has produced 11,000 agricultural machines in the first two years of its existence. On April 17, 1958, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union decided to rebuild

3520-573: The urgent needs of our defense sector.” The government of Ukraine also took control of engine maker Motor Sich , energy companies Ukrnafta and Ukrtatnafta and transformer maker Zaporozhtransformator at the same time. These are designed to be fitted with various body equipment for paved and dirt road use. Trucks Armored vehicles MRAP S Anton Denikin Anton Ivanovich Denikin ( Russian : Антон Иванович Деникин , IPA: [ɐnˈton ɨˈvanəvʲɪdʑ dʲɪˈnʲikʲɪn] ; 16 December [ O.S. 4 December] 1872 – 7 August 1947)

3584-507: The village of Szpetal Dolny, part of the city Włocławek in Warsaw Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Poland). His father, Ivan Efimovich Denikin, had been born a serf in the province of Saratov . Sent as a recruit to do 25 years of military service, the elder Denikin became an officer in the 22nd year of his army service in 1856. He retired from the army in 1869 with the rank of major. In 1869, Ivan Denikin married Polish seamstress Elżbieta Wrzesińska as his second wife. Anton Denikin,

3648-415: The wishes of his daughter Marina Denikina and by authority of the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin , General Denikin's remains were transferred from the United States and buried together with Ivan Ilyin 's at the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow. The importance of Denikin's diary for explaining the relationship between "Great and little Russia, Ukraine" was cited by Putin during his 24 May 2009 visit to

3712-422: The zone of the Volunteer Armies. John Ernest Hodgson, a British war correspondent with Denikin's forces, said the following of Denikin's and his officers' antisemitism: I had not been with Denikin more than a month before I was forced to the conclusion that the Jew represented a very big element in the Russian upheaval. The officers and men of the Army laid practically all the blame for their country's troubles on

3776-485: Was a Jew. When America showed herself decidedly against any kind of interference in Russia, the idea soon gained wide credence that President Woodrow Wilson was a Jew, while Mr. Lloyd George was referred to as a Jew whenever a cable from England appeared to show him as being lukewarm in support of the anti-Bolsheviks. Facing increasingly sharp criticism and emotionally exhausted, Denikin resigned in April 1920 in favor of General Baron Pyotr Wrangel , who later established

3840-405: Was a Russian military leader who served as the acting supreme ruler of the Russian State and the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of South Russia during the Russian Civil War of 1917–1923. Previously, he was a general in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I . His forces' implementation of the White Terror was known for pogroms . Denikin was born on 16 December 1872, in

3904-425: Was assembled at the KrAZ main assembly plant On January 26, 1971, KrAZ was awarded the Order of Lenin for completion of the five-year plan ahead of schedule and successful developments of new truck models. On January 15, 1976, the plant became "AvtoKrAZ". On April 30, 1984, 500,000th truck was assembled at the KrAZ main assembly plant. By 1986 the KrAZ's yearly production output totalled 30655 vehicles. 1990

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3968-432: Was introduced in Kremenchuk that existed until the complete establishment of Soviet regime in Ukraine in 1921. During the Russian February Revolution of 1917, power in the city was controlled by a council (soviet) of workers' deputies which was dominated by the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and the head of the city council was the future Ukrainian Communist leader Yuriy Lapchynskyi  [ uk ] . During

4032-442: Was occupied from 15 September 1941, to 29 September 1943. More than 90% of the city's buildings were leveled over the course of the war. 29 September, the day when the city was liberated from the Nazis in 1943, is celebrated in Kremenchuk as City Day. Despite a remarkable post-war recovery and a healthier economy, Kremenchuk lacks much of the architectural charm and distinctly Ukrainian (rather than Russian) character of its sister city,

4096-456: Was worth ₴1 billion ($ 64,267,360.00). On 19 May 2021, KrAZ signed a three-year contract to supply the United States Army Contracting Command with KrAZ 4x4 heavy-duty vehicles and spare parts. On November 6, 2022, the government of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy used martial law to nationalise the company. “Such steps, which are necessary for our country in conditions of war, are carried out in accordance with current laws and will help meet

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