After searching for the t35 they moved out of Kubinka in late 2013, miraculously, under its own power....


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I found this....


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and it works......


The only surviving t35 Soviet heavy tank was restored! and I love this, the only 5 turret tank that made it to production isn't just sitting in a dusty museum (yes I know they look after the displays and they are kept clean, but it wasn't moving like the Tiger 131 in Bovington, in the Tank Museum.


Speaking of which! Tank fest is coming up soon! and... well, every man without a man-bag should want to go... (self explanatory I hope)
(anyway back on topic ill come back to that some time soon)




The T-35 was developed by the OKMO design bureau of the Bolshevik Factory, which began work on a heavy tank in 1930. Two teams developed separate designs. The team headed by German engineer Grotte worked on the 100-ton four-turreted TG-5 tank, armed with a 107 mm naval gun, this didn't get off the drawing table...


multiple t35 prototypes were made and the experience of each model was put towards making the next better in any area of performance. Originally, the main turret was equipped with a 76.2mm gun KT obr.1927/32 adapted from the regimental field-gun.


The main and the two small machine gun turrets of the Т-35 and Т-28 had a high level of standardization. Main-weapon sighting utilized the telescopic breech-sight TOP obr.1930 and the periscope breech-sight PT-1 обр.1932.


In 1938, a conical turret with a maximum thickness of 25mm (at the front) for strengthening the armoured defence of the tank was introduced; the thickness of the frontal armoured plates was also increased, to 70mm. The battle weight of the machine grew to 54 tons, from 42.5...


Service
The T-35 served with the 5th Separate Heavy Tank Brigade in Moscow, primarily for parade duties, from 1935 until 1940. In June 1940, the question was raised as to whether to withdraw the T-35s from frontline service, with the option to either convert them to heavy self-propelled artillery (the prototype SU-14), or to assign them to the various military academies.


One tank survives and is preserved in running condition at the Kubinka Tank Museum near Moscow. It survived World War 2 because it was one of four T-35 machines that were used at training facilities in the Soviet era.