T-34 medium tank was uncovered in the marsh near the village  Makarovo on summer 2004. It sunk in the mud during the battle and was fired point-blank. There are three holes in  the turret easily visible on the picture. As a result of that shooting all ammunitions inside detonated and the tank was simply torn in pieces.

Parts of two blown tanks were found in 2002. During the time of retreat on summer 1941 those then very rare T-34s were driven into the river and destroyed by their crews due to absence of fuel.

After the surfacing of fragments it was clarified that those tanks were

experimental vehicles, some of the first tanks of this type delivered to the front.

This T-34 tank marked with the Nazi’s swastika was discovered near the village of Bol’shaya Vedren’ at the end of 2003. This tank seemed to be the one captured and used by the German Army, and later on destroyed by the Red Army in combat.

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