Inscription (WoT)/U.S.S.R.
Below is a list with a description of the historical inscriptions available by default for U.S.S.R. vehicles.
Historical background of some inscription
Inscription | History |
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Беспощадный (Merciless) | The name was given to the heavy tank KV-1, it was a gift from the group of cartoonists "Kukryniksy" to the Red Army. The tank was made in May by the CCP (Chelyabinsk Kirov Plant) as a "plan" in M. Macagon's brigade. The machine was assigned on May 25, 1942, to the crew of the 6th (later renamed 23rd) Guards Tank Brigade composed of tank commander Lieutenant P. Choroshilov (died in March 1943 near the village of Ashkovo), senior mechanic-driver E. Carapin, younger technician-driver G. Filipov, shooter-radio operator A. Yegorov (died in March 1943 near the village of Ashkovo). |
Ейский колхозник (Yeysk farmer) | The name was given to the T-34 tank number 4. The acquisition of funds for the construction of the tank began thanks to the initiative of Yeisk employees. A total of 380,508 rubles from Yeisk County workers contributed to the construction of the tank. |
Боевая подруга (Fighting girlfriend) | Maria Vasilyev was an extraordinary Soviet woman who decided to avenge her husband's death at all costs. Vasilyevna learned of her husband's death with considerable delay. She sent a letter to Stalin stating that she wanted revenge on the Nazi "dogs" for the death of her beloved husband and therefore sent all her savings to the National Bank so that a tank could be built for her. To her surprise, Stalin agreed. tank, a legendary T-34 named "fighting girlfriend", and underwent five months of tank training as a driver, so that she could fully participate in the fighting. This also succeeded later. In September 1943, she was sent to the 26th Tank Brigade as a driver and mechanic. In combat, however, she later distinguished herself and directly deployed her life, when in full enemy fire, for example, carried out repairs to the tank. For her bravery, she earned a promotion to the rank of sergeant. |
Освободитель (Liberator) | In 1944, in the district of Kuibyshev has selected almost 70 thousand rubles for the construction of the tank "Liberator". |
Автозаводский школьник (Motor works student) | Between 1942 and 1943, students in the Gorky region transferred about 2 million rubles to build military equipment. Of these funds were built 7 tanks and aircraft. Pupils from the Arzamas area gave money for the construction of a school plane Arzamas and students of the Avtozavodsky region for a tank and the inscription "Student car manufacturer". |
Отважный (Courageous) | Commander Courageous in the T-34-76 tank took part in the attack of the Red Army in the late 42's and died in a battle near the village of Pogorelki. Around 2009, Sergei Chibinev, a resident of Pushkin near Moscow, found fragments of the reservoir in the Rzhevsky area and began to restore it. Neither the identification marks nor the personal documents of the deceased crew survived. It was decided that the tank would go to the museum of military equipment in the Sverdlovsk region. |
Зверобой (Hunter) | The Soviet SU-152 was called the "Hunter" for its ability to pierce the hulls and armor of tanks. In the Wehrmacht, the tank was called "Dosenöffner" (literally - "can opener"). |
Мстители Донбасса (Donbas avengers) | After the expulsion of the Germans by the inhabitants of Gorlovka (Donetsk region) was built a crowd of T-34 tanks "Liberated Donbas". One of the tanks called "Avengers of Donbas" was built from the personal resources of brothers Zolotek and F. Boyk, who sent a personal letter to the commander-in-chief and asked him for permission to fight with a special name. |
Грозный (Menacing) | The T-34 tank was built in 1943 for the A. Tolstoy State Prize for the novel "Хождение по мукам" (Trilogy of the Stations of the Cross I.). He participated in the crossing of the Dnieper and the liberation of Ukraine. |
Сталинец (Stalinets) | The T-34 from 1942, with the same name as part of the 30th Guards Tank Brigade in the fall of 1943, reached a score of 8 destroyed enemy tanks. Crew unknown. |
Комсомолец (Komsomolets) | The first repaired tank in the tractor plant in Stalingrad in 1943, was named "Komsomolec". |
Пионер (Pioneer) | The name of a column of tanks built at the expense of schoolchildren and teachers across the country in 1942. An initiative of the 102nd Gorky School. |
Советский полярник (Soviet polar explorer) | The name of the tank, designed by a team that worked in Kozhevnikov Bay. Polar explorers Tiksi, Dixon, Malaya Kheta, Provideniya, Anadyr, and others. Within a few months, more than 20 million rubles were spent on construction. |
Червонный (Chervonny) | In the tank with this name was the first crew of Dmitry Frolikov, who fell on July 3, 1944, in the streets of Minsk. "Chervonny" destroyed two enemy anti-aircraft weapons, a heavily armored self-propelled gun Ferdinand and an anti-tank gun. |
Пенза мстит! (Penza takes revenge!) | In 1983, the film "Combat Vehicle Crew" was made. There was also a T-34 tank in this film, on the tower of which was written "Penza revenge". |
Суворов (Suvorov) | There were many tanks with this designation in this city. Among them was a fast-firing tank KV-8 No. 445, heavy tank KV-1 No. 700. Another machine with the inscription "Suvorov" was built thanks to the personal savings of Marshal of the Soviet Union B. M. Shaposhnikov. |
За Родину! (For the Motherland!) | According to archival data from the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the tank "For the Fatherland" was made as a copy of the tank KV-220. It is said that the tank was hit by 150 mm missiles from the German sFH18 cannon, as a result of which his ammunition was subsequently fired. |
За Ленинград! (For Leningrad!) | In the autumn of 1942, in cooperation with the disabled, 1013 thousand rubles were transferred to the account of the State Bank of the USSR. for the construction of 5 T-34 tanks. Also for the construction of the tank received funding the fighters of the Leningrad Front at the end of 1942 for 300 thousand rubles. |
За Сталина! (For Stalin!) | One of the tanks with such an inscription is a T-34 made at the Stalingrad Tractor Plant. He belonged to the 5th Armored Army on the Bryansk Front and took part in hostilities in the summer of 1942. The tank was painted in the standard dark green color and had a non-standard designation in white or yellow: the number "07" in front of the star and the inscription "For Stalin!". |
Димитрий Донской (Dimitrij Donskij) | Tank T-34/85, "Dmitry Donsky" - 38 Independent Tank Regiment, Ukraine 1944. The tank was created on the initiative of the Moscow Patriarchate for the gifts of believers. It was transferred in 1944 to the USSR Naval Forces. The unit consisted of 19 T-34-85 tanks and 21 OT-34 flamethrowers. |
Владимир Маяковский (Vladimir Majakovskij) | Artist and writer Vladimir Nikolayevich Yakhontov (born November 28, 1899) had one big dream: to build a tank for his own money, call it "Vladimir Mayakovsky" and send it to the front. The request of a well-known writer was heard. The Kirov plant accepted the order and fulfilled everything down to the last detail. |
Иван Сусанин ((Ivan Susanin) | A report in the newspaper "Truth" on December 12, 1942. Fellow farmers from the Yaroslavl region collected 70 million rubles to build several troops of the tank. |
Илья Муромец (Ilja Muromec) | September 9, 1942, in the battle in the village of Mikheevo, the tank crew destroyed 2 medium-sized tanks. The tanks were hit, but the crew evacuated them from the battlefield. Major M. Kupernyuk decided to grant the crew of the KV-1 tank the honorary title of "Ilya Muromec". |
Чапаев (Čapajev) | One of the main tanks of the 73rd Guards Heavy Tank Regiment. It was manufactured on May 3, 1944. It had armament from the KV-1S tank, including rapid-fire artillery. |
Спартак (Spartacus) | The inscription was on the tank T-34-76. It was destroyed in the Don area in July 1942. |
Щорс (Nikolaj Sčors) | In 1919, he commanded the first Ukrainian Soviet division, which conquered Zhytomyr, Vinnytsia, and Zmerynka. The Red Army advanced further west, destroying Symon Petliura's military forces in Rovno and Proskurov. On August 15, 1919, the first Ukrainian division became part of the 44th Rifle Division of the Red Army. On August 21 of the same year, Nikolai Schors became the commander of this division. He died under not entirely clear circumstances on August 30, 1919, during the fighting with the Ukrainian Galician Army in the Zhytomyr region. |
За Радянську Україну! (For Soviet Ukraine!) | The name of several tank divisions. The first consisted of 21 Churchill IV tanks, which were purchased at the expense of soldiers of the Southwest Front (22 million rubles). The second consisted of T-34 tanks, built for the money of people from evacuated enterprises of Ukraine and residents of the occupied areas. |
За Советскую Белоруссию (For Soviet Belarus!) | This inscription was on one of the T-34-76 tanks. |
Даёшь Берлин! (To Berlin!) | These inscriptions were applied to tank turrets, which came from a tank assembly line in the Urals in the spring of 1945. |
Ленинградец (Resident of Leningrad) | Leningrad workers contributed a total of 74.5 million rubles to the construction of the tank "Leningradec", aircraft and artillery. |
Rudy (Rudy) | Tank RUDY (in the original Redhead) T-34 based on the war novel by the Polish writer Janusz Przymanowski Four of a Tank and a Dog. Crew: shooter Jan Kos, radio operator Gustav Jelen, driver Grigory Saakashvilish, commander Vasil Semen and of course the faithful dog Sharik. |
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