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RP79TK
tankovaya kolonna Tambovskiy kolhoznik
Tambovskaya oblast
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tank column "Tambov collective farmer" built at the own expense of the collective farmers of the Tambov region during the Great Patriotic War On the battlefields during the Great Patriotic War and in the war with Japan, these combat vehicles withstood severe tests. In 1942, M. I. Koshkin (posthumously), A. A. Morozov, P. A. Kucherenko were awarded the USSR State Prize, the design bureau was awarded the Order of Lenin. In 1949, one of the T-34 combat vehicles (side number 266) from the Tambov Kolkhoznik tank column, which fought from Stalingrad to Vinnytsia, was delivered to Tambov and solemnly raised to the pedestal of Glory as a symbol of heroism, courage and fearlessness of Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War (architect's project V. G. Samorodova). This combat vehicle took part in the battles of Stalingrad, the Kursk Bulge, and the crossing of the Dnieper. The tank commander was Hero of the Soviet Union Philip Antonovich Gokov from the Belgorod region. The title of Hero to him |