Captured Soviet T-34-76 tank from the 47th Tank Brigade of the Red Army in Stary Oskol, July 1942. The tank was abandoned during the fighting of the German summer offensive.
This photograph shows a captured Soviet T-34-76 of the 47th Tank Brigade in Stary Oskol during July 1942. The vehicle bears the tactical marking "L2-KS" and was produced at the Stalingrad Tractor Plant (STZ), one of the Soviet Union's principal wartime tank factories.
The tank is an early production T-34-76 armed with the 76.2 mm F-34 gun. Details visible in the photograph, including the road wheels and overall construction, reflect the manufacturing characteristics of STZ-built vehicles produced during a difficult period of wartime production.
Photographs of abandoned or captured tanks such as this document the intense fighting around Stary Oskol during the summer campaign of 1942. Besides recording combat losses, they preserve valuable details that help identify individual vehicles, production batches, and the units that operated them.
Technical photo data
📝 Source of information: Unknown
📍 Location: Stary Oskol, Belgorod Oblast, USSR
📅 Date of photo: July 1942
📷 Photographer: Unknown
Recommended literature
- Steven J. Zaloga – T-34 Medium Tank 1941–45
- Mikhail Svirin – Stalin's Armour
- David Glantz – To the Gates of Stalingrad
Tags
- T-34-76
- 47th Tank Brigade
- Stalingrad Tractor Plant
- Stary Oskol
- July 1942
- Captured Soviet tank
- Eastern Front
- World War II
- Red Army armored forces
- STZ-built T-34
- Historical wartime photography
- Soviet armor