We invite you to this tank repair factory in Saint Petersburg to see how they repair tanks there.

At the factory, they repair mostly the T-72 and T-80. Recently, it became 100% civil organization.

The T-80 was the main tank of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union. Weight: 42.5 tons; equipped with 125 mm 2A46 gun.

Major repairs of these tanks began in 1992.

The factory includes 20 departments and the assembly/disassembly department is of most interest.

Here, they disassemble tanks and replace broken component parts with new ones. As for old component parts, they sell them to other countries.

It is amazingly clean in this department.

A T-80.

A BMD’s body (infantry fighting vehicle) after repairs.

Another department.

Here they color bodies.

An artillery turret installation stand and coloring box.

These component parts are prepared for coloring.

‘Distillate repair department’.

A disassembled T-80.

Another disassembled T-80.

It looks like a butterfly net.

A fire-fighting tank based on the Т-54/55 chassis.

This fire-fighting tank resembles Wall-E (the robot from Wall-E cartoon by Pixar).

‘Purga’ is a device intended for extinguishing fire from inflammable materials and combustible mixtures, degassing, light and heat protection, and camouflaging military and civil targets.

Inside the fire-fighting tank.

They use old caterpillars to make tank tracks.

The tank is equipped with three flashers.

Here is coordinate information on the tank repair factory.

Location: Saint Petersburg

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