The Rappoport & Rapoport Family

The "Kubinka" Trip

21 August 2011, 20:28 (GMT +4)

Мария Касаткина
  • 84b4827ac6b2c313bff8e353775cf558.jpg #$# Winter version of the legendary T-34-85
  • 347cf422703a4e6368b1fa90f3c9886a.jpg #$# The forefather of all the tanks — Mark V, "Lokhan" in Russian
  • 7f5bec301a40e45308ce0027fa6ba86e.jpg #$# The German mouse, weights 160 tonns
  • 53bc3a063633425f8ed88c23795d3c59.jpg #$# The Tiger. A late German answer to T-34 & KV
  • 3650629cb045d452e460bb3f6ce1c869.jpg #$# Another late answer — The Royal Tiger
  • cb8ec6ecce8ae448b702e21a0f164af6.jpg #$# The antitank cannon ZIS-3
  • 0bdbe10313c91a3af386e632678ec9b0.jpg #$# IS-3 (Iosif Stalin) of the WW2 end period
  • 1ce42757bd6ba42039648e2cbf92d634.jpg #$# The only 4-track tank in the world — object 279
  • 1f62a554f2c3a77f0eaaab45b37ae613.jpg #$# The first basic tank of the Soviet Union — T-54
  • 32bf9903ed314f9a553c577ce13a1eb8.jpg #$# BT-2 — the proudness of Soviet army at the beggining of the WW2

There's a unique historical army museum devoted to tanks and some other machinery just in 64 kilometers from Moscow.

The collection takes start in 1931 and now consists of more than 300 units. It is considered to be one of the biggest in the world.

Юлий Рапопорт
30 August, 2011, 18:54 (GMT +4)

Очень интересно и познавательно.

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