Source: Tom 18

Plant 183 of the People's Commissariat of the Tank Industry To the Director, Comrade Maksarev, and all workers, engineers, and technical staff

I express my gratitude to the collective of Plant 183 for its self-sacrificing labor in the production of tanks during the Great Patriotic War. The plant's collective has made an outstanding contribution to equipping the Red Army's tank forces with the finest combat vehicles.

I wish you further success.

I. Stalin

May 27, 1945