A modern tank is the most advanced example of ground combat equipment. This is a clot of energy, the embodiment of combat might and power. When tanks, deployed in battle formation, rush to attack, they are indestructible, like God's punishment... At the same time, the tank is beautiful and ugly, proportional and clumsy, perfect and vulnerable. When installed on a pedestal, the tank is a complete sculpture capable of bewitching... Soviet tanks have always been a sign of the power of our country. Most of the German soldiers who fought on our soil in 1941-1945 named three things that they remembered most - Russian open spaces, frosts and tanks. Soviet tanks. More precisely, the masses of Soviet tanks, which, like indestructible monsters, swept across Europe, sweeping away everything in their path... The unique book that you are holding in your hands will reveal to the reader the history of the creation of the Soviet tank from the moment the decision was made to produce the first of them in 1919 and until the end of 1937. You will find out which vehicles provided the striking power of one sixth of the landmass in battles with Japanese militarists and in Republican Spain. The book uses rare materials and photographs from Russian archives, the classification of which has just been lifted.