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Unique ID: 1937 Added to Database: 26 December 2011 Last Edited: 22 March 2012 Type (ID): KV-1 (2770) Model (ID): Model 1941 (Cast Turret) (2774) Location Category (ID): The Tank Museum - Public Areas (3000) Location (ID): World War 2 (3010) Serial Number: 11306: “11306” engraved into the glacis. Registration: Name: Other Identification: “716” and a patriotic slogan painted on turret sides. Painted overall in a whitewash (previously overall green). Collection Reference: E1952.42. (Accession 4252, Entry 1952.1010 ). Links: Museum Vehicle Record References: Associated Tanks: Location History: (see map) 1: Chelyabinskiy Traktornyy Zavod (ChTZ), Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Ekaterinburg and Surrounding Regions, Russia (Sole manufacturer) 2: Directorate of Tank Design, Chertsey, Surrey, South East England, Britain (Evaluated 1943) 3: The Tank Museum - Public Areas, Bovington, Dorset, South West England, Britain (Current location) Text in original Preserved Soviet Tanks publication: [No entry] Text in Preserved Soviet Tanks Update: [No entry] Text in original Preserved Tanks In Britain publication: This is a Model 1941 KV-1 with cast turret. It was built in the ‘Tankograd’ factory at Chelyabinsk. Two KV-1 tanks, which according to contemporary sources had a lot of extra care lavished on them, were supplied by the USSR in 1943 as samples to the West, one to Britain, one to the USA. This exhibit is the British sample and after evaluation at the British Army’s School of Tank Technology it was donated to the Tank Museum. It was put on the museum books in 1952. It has been painted to represent a Red Army tank, whitewashed for winter conditions and bearing the patriotic slogan ‘From the women of Leningrad to the Front’.

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March 2011 1: Front left view Taken: 6 March 2011 Contributor: M. Foti Photo ID: 7147 Added: 22 March 2012 Filename: 55967945... Views: 158 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		2: Front right view Taken: 6 March 2011 Contributor: M. Foti Photo ID: 7148 Added: 22 March 2012 Filename: 55973793... Views: 151 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		3: Front right view Taken: 6 March 2011 Contributor: M. Foti Photo ID: 7149 Added: 22 March 2012 Filename: 55973707... Views: 149 Select/Has Priority: 21/0
October 2008 4: Front right view Taken: 27 October 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 6224 Added: 26 December 2011 Filename: P1030926... Views: 128 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		5: Front left view Taken: 27 October 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 6225 Added: 26 December 2011 Filename: P1030932... Views: 128 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		6: Front view Taken: 27 October 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 6226 Added: 26 December 2011 Filename: P1030927... Views: 146 Select/Has Priority: 21/0
7: Right view Taken: 27 October 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 6227 Added: 26 December 2011 Filename: P1030924... Views: 131 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		8: Rear view Taken: 27 October 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 6228 Added: 26 December 2011 Filename: P1030922... Views: 130 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		9: Rear right view Taken: 27 October 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 6229 Added: 26 December 2011 Filename: P1030921... Views: 144 Select/Has Priority: 21/0
10: Turret close-up Taken: 27 October 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 6230 Added: 26 December 2011 Filename: P1030925... Views: 120 Select/Has Priority: 21/0		11: Glacis markings Taken: 27 October 2008 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 6231 Added: 26 December 2011 Filename: P1030931... Views: 119 Select/Has Priority: 21/0
October 1982 12: Right view Taken: 26 October 1982 Contributor: T. Larkum Photo ID: 6732 Added: 12 February 2012 Filename: Scan_KV1... Views: 165 Select/Has Priority: 21/0

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