T-34: The Red Army's Legendary Medium Tank by Tucker-Jones Anthony

Author:Tucker-Jones, Anthony
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HISTORY / Military / World War II
ISBN: 9781473854468
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2015-03-30T16:00:00+00:00

A burnt-out Model 1941 or 1942 lies in the winter snow, having rear-ended another tank. It was during the winter of 1941/42 that the T-34 began to show what it was capable of in the defence of Moscow. However, they were still too few in number and the Germans had more pressing concerns, such as the lack of cold weather clothing and widespread frostbite.

Another Model 1941/42 during the winter. This is a good ambush position but the crew would have been freezing.

New tank plants sprang up east of the Ural Mountains, notably Uralvagonzavod in Nizhny Tagil and the Tractor Factory at Chelyabinsk, which had to make good the appalling losses. The tank factory at Kharkov was evacuated to Nizhny Tagil to help create Ural Tank Factory No. 183. Likewise Kharkov’s diesel engine factory and Leningrad’s Kirov Plant (Factory No. 100) and S.M. Kirov (No. 185) moved to Chelyabinsk and combined with the Tractor Factory to became popularly known as ‘Tankograd’ or ‘Tank City’. Leningrad’s Voroshilov Plant (Factory No. 174) moved to Chkalov in 1941 and then to Omsk in 1942.

According to Zhukov, the first batch of T-34s were delivered from the Chelyabinsk production line just a month after the relocation of the Leningrad factory. The Krasnoye Sormovo shipyards in Gorkiy on the Volga were also put to work producing T-34 tanks, and these were employed during the Battle of Moscow in December 1941. Zhukov, who was charged with defending the capital, noted that the tanks came just in time, though there were not enough for his liking. He told Stalin he needed 200 additional tanks, but he did not get them.

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