Deliveries on the lend-lease into the Soviet Union through the territory of Iran (1941-1945)

Shinkarenko G.V.

Annotation

The author on the basis of the analysis of sources and memoir literature investigates the history of deliveries on the lend-lease through the territory of Iran. According to his opinion, the propagation by the United States of law about the lend-lease in Iran, became the decisive factor, which made "Persian corridor" by the second in a quantity of transported loads route. Allies performed freight handling in close cooperation with the Iranian civil and military specialists. Many times the allies expressed appreciation for Iranian help in the war against the common enemy.