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Tractor
tank
Razumovskaya 13 (Разумовская)
Six blocks west of Cossack / Staro bazarny Square
(Сквер Старобазарный), small park next to Razumovskaya
13
Located
in a small park is a Tractor Tank from World War Two.
During
the 73-day Nazi siege of Odessa, industrial workers
sheathed ordinary tractors in ship steel, mounted
machine guns on them and sent them into battle. Many
of the same workers who built these tanks, rode them
into combat. It had a terrible clatter when storming
enemy positions, usually causing a panic among Nazi
troops. Odessites began to call it the "scare
tank". The name stuck, so that even in official
documents it was referred to as the "scare tank".
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