The Combine Named After the Leader

Rostselmash «Сталинец» — the trailed grain combine with the Leader's name painted across the hopper

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Here’s a machine for thee, kind chap, called a combine harvester, a most powerful thing, named after His Majesty Leader, a great gadget for turninn thy labours into straw and grub. Here’s t’manual, eighty-eight pages

«Сталинец» — Stalinets — built by Rostselmash in Rostov-on-Don. The placards beside both of these read прицепной зерноуборочный комбайн: a trailed grain combine, no cab, towed by that orange A-frame at the front.

Stalinets-1, 1947

The front of an orange trailed combine harvester preserved outdoors, its grain hopper lettered "Сталинец-1 · жм-4,9 · Ростсельмаш · 1947 г.", with a black engine and exhaust stack mounted at the front and a long orange towing A-frame running to the ground
The front of an orange trailed combine harvester preserved outdoors, its grain hopper lettered "Сталинец-1 · жм-4,9 · Ростсельмаш · 1947 г.", with a black engine and exhaust stack mounted at the front and a long orange towing A-frame running to the ground

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Stalinets-6, 1952

The same view of a second orange trailed combine harvester, hopper lettered "Сталинец-6 · Ростсельмаш · 1952 г." with the exhaust stack crossing the lettering, standing on tarmac in front of a red and white brick building
The same view of a second orange trailed combine harvester, hopper lettered "Сталинец-6 · Ростсельмаш · 1952 г." with the exhaust stack crossing the lettering, standing on tarmac in front of a red and white brick building

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Both photographed at the Rostselmash plant. The dates are read off the machines. The later Soviet combine, the «Нива», is at /wiki/combine-harvester-depot/.