Mark V tank and German soldiers looking at the Assumption Cathedral in Smolensk and the English Riccardo tank standing near it. Battle for Smolensk, Eastern Front, World War II.
In 1938, 14 of the Mark V tanks were transferred from the warehouses of the Red Army to several Soviet cities: Smolensk, Rostov-on-Don, Kharkov, Leningrad, Kyiv, Voroshilovgrad and Arkhangelsk to be used as historical monuments of the Civil War in Russia.
Source of information about the Mark V tank photo: rkka.pskov.ru
Location: Smolensk, USSR
Snapshot time: 1941