In the southeast corner of the open-air display area.

Combat Vehicle

The M4A2 Sherman tank on display is one of over 4,000 tanks the U.S. sent to the Soviet Union under the Lend-Lease Program during World War II. This particular tank was aboard the Liberty ship Thomas Donaldson, which was sunk by a German submarine on March 20, 1945, while part of Arctic Convoy JW-65 en route to Murmansk. Between 2010 and 2018, the Russian Northern Fleet recovered several Sherman tanks from the wreck. This tank was restored at Nevskiy Shipyard and unveiled at the Military-Historical Museum in St. Petersburg on September 2, 2016, commemorating the 75th anniversary of Operation Dervish—the first Allied Arctic Convoy. 

Source of information: www.nssz.ru, uboat.net, thearmoredpatrol.com, 

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English translation of the placard:

Medium Tank M4A2 (76) ‘’Sherman’’

Produced in 1944 in the U.S.A.

During the Great Patriotic War entered

Red Army service via the Lend-Lease Program

Combat weight - 30.3 tons; Engine power - 375 horsepower

Maximum speed - 48 kilometers/hour; Range - 190 kilometers;

Armament: 76 mm gun M1, machine guns 1 x 12.7 mm M2HB, 2 x 7.62 mm M1919A4

Crew - 5 personnel

Tank was raised in 2016 from the bottom of the Barents Sea from the sunken transport ship

THOMAS DONALDSON, transiting to the USSR from the U.S.A. within an Arctic Convoy