"State Committee of Defense Decree #5568s
April 8th, 1944
Moscow, Kremlin
April 8th, 1944
Moscow, Kremlin
- Allow the commander of Amoured and Mechanized Forces (comrade Fedorenco) to organize, beginning in April of 1944, production of tractors on the T-34 chassis at tank repair factories, with a quota of 50 per month.
- Use T-34 tanks that are submitted for major repairs with irreparable damage to the turret and armament to build tractors.
- T-34 tractors should be assembled and supplied according to T-34 blueprints approved by GBTU, without a turret or armament (with the exception of the radio operator's machinegun). The tractors must have a commander's cupola, installed in the roof of the fighting compartment.
- Conversion of T-34 tanks is done under the quota established by GOKO for the Chief Directorate of Tank Repair for tanks.
Deputy Chair of the State Committee of Defense
V. Molotov"