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Military history writer specializing in armoured warfare in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Members of a volunteer construction brigade are posing next to an IS-3 tank, 1970s. Even though production ended in 1946, these tanks continued to serve until the end of the 1980s.

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Two German trophies: a tank and improvised winter boots, captured south of Stalingrad in November of 1942. Even this late into the war, the Germans were not always prepared for realities of winter combat.

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Finished a very on brand kit: the new Zvezda T-34. Tried winter camo again, I think it worked better than last time.

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Alexandra Boiko was another famous female tanker. A chemist by trade, she was commissioned as a Junior Lieutenant in 1943 and fought as the commander of an IS-2 tank with her husband Ivan as the driver. Both survived the war.

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Guards Engineer-Captain Tatiana Pyzhova did her part for the war effort as a deputy commander of a tank repair battalion. Her actions earned her the Battle Merit medal and Order of the Red Star.

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Soviet tanks in Harbin, fall of 1945. T-34-85 tanks are lined up in the background, but the tank in the foreground is BT-7 tank. Over 100 tanks of this type were assigned to the 6th Guards Tank Army, all abandoned within the first few days of the invasion.

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Heavy tanks need heavy logs! This ISU-152 carries a total of four unditching logs with a large diameter.

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A tank wreck on the Kiev-Zhitomir highway, 1943. It's hard to tell, but this used to be a Tiger. A successful Soviet offensive in the area set up the stage for the formation of the Korsun Pocket.

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Swords to plowshares: an IS-2 converted into a tractor helps with the rebuilding of a power plant at Korsun-Shevchenkovskiy.

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Another Tiger from the exhibition, this one in poorer condition.

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