In 1941 on the border military districts, the mechanized corps numbered 954 T-34s. T-34/76 Medium in the Winter- Eastern Front

When creating it, Soviet designers managed to find the optimal balance between the main combat, tactical, protective, operational, running and technological characteristics. Due to the totality of its combat qualities, the T-34 was recognized by many specialists and military experts as the best tank of the Second World War. German troops did not expect such powerful equipment from the USSR. The T-34 tank had a huge impact on the outcome of the war and on the further development of world tank building.

The latest modification ( T-34-85) is in service with some countries to this day. The leading plant for the modification of the T-34 was the Ural Tank Plant No. From 1942 to 1945, the main large-scale production of the T-34 was deployed at powerful machine-building plants in the Urals and Siberia, and continued in the post-war years. The high modernization potential of the design turned out to be very important, this made it possible to effectively improve the combat qualities of the tank simultaneously with increasing its industrial production throughout the war.

The success of the project was predetermined by the use of the newest highly economical V-2 diesel engine, thanks to which the medium thick-armored T-34 inherited from the light, thinly armored BT an unusually high power density (the ratio of engine power to combat weight), which ensured the absolute superiority of the T tank throughout the Great Patriotic War- in cross-country ability, manoeuvrability and mobility… For the first time in the practice of world tank building, a long-barreled (30.5 caliber) 76-mm L-11 cannon (model 1939) was installed on the T-34 medium tank, significantly exceeding the initial velocity of an armor-piercing projectile (635 m/s). T-34 Development Historyĭeveloped by the design bureau of the tank department of the Kharkov plant number 183 under the leadership of Mikhail Ilyich Koshkin.

A large number of these tanks of various modifications have survived to this day in the form of monuments and museum exhibits. The T-34 tank is the most famous Soviet tank and one of the most recognizable symbols of World War II.

T-34-85 Medium Battle Tank