Occasionally they have to fix the car with their own hands fortunately, they are very good at welding.Infinite Tanks WW2 brings an innovative, never seen before approach to WW2 tank battles. Vladimir drives an old Soviet Niva four-by-four. When working for the club, they sold a German armored vehicle, an SdKfz 252, to a collector in Britain, and a Soviet heavy tank IS-2 went to a private collection in Latvia. At the time it was built it was the fastest tank. On the wheels it can go 70km/h and on its tracks 55km/h,” says Vladimir. The BT-7 the team helped bring back to life is the only working specimen in the world. The sales permit is only issued if there are more than two examples in the country. Where do these tanks go, after they have been restored? Some of them settle on plinths as monuments (practically every Belarusian town has one), while some become museum exhibits in Belarus or Russia. The KV-1 we have followed in this story was restored to help mark the 75th anniversary of Kolobanov’s battle. In August 1941 the crew of the Soviet tank commander Kolobanov in a KV-1 knocked out 22 German tanks within 30 minutes after setting an ambush near the city of Leningrad. The KV-1 was feared by the Germans because its armour was too thick for their standard shells. He was absolutely right – the BT-7 was discovered 10 metres (33ft) away from the current spring. Vladimir suggested that the tank had been blocking the spring and the water had found a new route. Older locals said the vehicle had sunk into soft ground near a spring, but nobody knew the exact location. One day, some people asked him to find and lift up a BT-7 tank, that had been stuck in the marshes since 1942. Some years ago Vladimir Yakushev worked as a collective farm engineer.
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