“Business, so Important for Hastening the Victory...”: the Collection and Export of the Trophy and a Domestic Weapons and Equipment on the Battlefield in the Big Bend of the Don

The article is devoted to active service in the fields of the Battle of Stalingrad and the big bend of the Don special units of the Red Army – the trophy brigades. The first small trophy forming a part of the Red Army appeared in 1941, but at the end of the Battle of Stalingrad for the collection and evacuation from the battlefield unprecedented in scale and the number of the enemy's national military equipment, arms and military equipment required the creation of entire trophy compounds. 1st and 2nd trophy brigades, whose activities are analyzed in the article, mans and special equipment as a residual, and in the course of their combat operation replenish the material part (tractors, trucks) by restoring abandoned on the battlefield motley art. Especially important are the results of work trophy-workers who returned the country tens of thousands of tons of scrap metal, ammunition, thousands of units suitable for the repair of military equipment