The Sormovo Plant is a Sormovo (disambiguation), mentioned in Nizhny Novgorod sources from the late 19th century onward. It played a notable role in the history of the workers' and revolutionary movement in Nizhny Novgorod Province. The plant's detailed history is described in the article Krasnoye Sormovo Plant.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, members of the Social Democratic underground worked at the plant. Pyotr Zalomov, dismissed in 1898 from the Kurbatov Plant as a "political," returned two years later to the Sormovo Plant on the recommendation of an engineer he knew and took a job as a fitter in the machine shop. There he carried on underground work up to the May Day demonstration of 1902, which became one of the first public revolutionary demonstrations in the city. Despite the Social Democrats' call for a strike, 12,000 workers remained in the shops and the plant continued to operate on the day of the demonstration.
In September 1900, revolutionary proclamations were distributed at the Sormovo plants — this episode prompted a police investigation, in the course of which a number of members of underground workers' circles were arrested, including Anton Voitkevich, who maintained ties with the workers Zalomov, Dorofeyev, Bulatov and others.
Mikhail Chuvyrin, a native of the Nizhny Novgorod region and a participant in the revolutionary movement, worked as a lathe operator at the Sormovo Plant after his exile, as well as at the Tashino Plant and the Bromley Brothers' plant in Moscow.
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Pyotr Zalomov, Voytkevich Anton Felixovich, Mikhail Chuvyrin