German army soldiers inspect and taking pictures on the background of the Soviet T-35 heavy tank multi-turret, which was abandoned in the streets of Central Zapytov village of Kamenka-Bug district of the Lviv region, western Ukraine.
This T-35 from the 67th armored regiment of the 34th Tank Division of the 8th Mechanized Corps of the South-Western Front of the Red army. Serial № 234-42.
Extract from the act of writing off the Soviet tank: July 3, 1941, the village Zapytov. T-35 crashed, burst cylinder and burned the main clutch. T-35 is given in disrepair. Armament dismantled. The commander of a combat vehicle – Yakovlev.
Abandoned T-35 tank with a conical turret and turret box with vertical walls. Driver Hatches – folding, side skirts fitted with hatches accessing the chassis of early type in the rear recess of the main turret mounted machine gun, right in the main turret hatch – rectangular.
Based on these grounds, it is the earliest version of the T-35 with conical turrets, released in late 1938.
Photography Location: village Zapytov, Lviv region, Ukraine, USSR
Time taken: July 1941