Gerhardt's Mill

Gerhardt's Mill (Russian: Мельница Гергардта) is a building of historical significance in the Battle of Stalingrad.

In 1899 the Gerhardt family of entrepreneurs received permission to build a flour-grinding complex in what is now central Volgograd, overlooking the River Volga.

[3] The technical equipment used the most advanced technologies of its time: it had its own generator, which gave independence from the city power grid, its own boiler house, from which the brick smokestack has survived, and internal mechanical conveyors, from which there are still broken remnants.

Every square meter of the exterior walls was cut by shells, bullets and shrapnel, and the reinforced concrete beams on the roof were broken by direct hits from aircraft bombs.

The increased strength and vibration resistance of the reinforced concrete frame, necessary for the operation of industrial equipment of the mill, helped the building to survive and not to be destroyed to the ground.