File:KS Light Tank – Kubinka Tank Museum (37975943501).jpg

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English: The Soviet Red Army captured 14 burnt-out Renault FTs from White Russian forces and rebuilt them at the Krasnoye Sormovo Factory in 1920. 15 nearly exact copies, called "Russkiy Renoe", were produced in 1920–1922, but they never used in battle because of many technical problems.

This example, believed to be part replica, is on display outside at what is known as the Kubinka Tank Museum, although it is now officially titled Area 2 of the Park Patriot Museum. Kubinka, Moscow Oblast, Russia. 24th August 2017

The following info comes from the excellent ‘preservedtanks.com’

“The original source of this KS is unknown but it is presumed to have been one of the original Soviet FT tanks. If so, it is possible to determine the likely route it took from France to Russia. These tanks were captured by the Bolshevik Red Army from the White Russian forces that were in turn supported by the French Army. In the autumn of 1918 the third company of the French unit AS303 was secretly transferred to Romania via Salonika in an attempt to support Romanian plans to re-enter the war on the Allied Side (source: S. Zaloga, ‘The Renault FT Tank’). The tanks were landed on 4 October 1918, but did not see any fighting; instead they were reloaded on ships and landed at the Black Sea port of Odessa on 18 December 1918. They were first used in February 1919 supporting a Polish infantry attack near Tiraspol. They were then all either lost in action in fighting in March near Berezovka, or were left behind when the French abandoned Odessa in April 1919. In 1919 and 1920 the Bolsheviks rebuilt them and they became a popular fixture at Red Army parades in the early 1920s.”
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Source KS Light Tank – Kubinka Tank Museum
Author Alan Wilson from Stilton, Peterborough, Cambs, UK
Camera location55° 33′ 52.5″ N, 36° 42′ 56.01″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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