T-44

The T-44 was a Soviet medium tank, first produced at the end of the Second World War. This tank was the successor to the very successful T-34, and although less than two thousand were built, it was the basis for the T-54/55 main battle tank series, which was the most-built tank of all time.

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The T-44 was the result of the T-34M design project, abandoned at the start of the Second World War, resumed at the end of 1943 at Nizhny Tagil (in the Ural Mountains, where most of the Soviet tank industry had been evacuated in 1941), and finally completed after the Morozov Design Bureau had moved back to Kharkiv in Ukraine. Prototypes were tested with 100 mm and 122 mm guns, but the turret was too small for such a gun. Production began in August 1944 at the Kharkiv Plant No. 75, about twenty being built that year, and at least 150 tanks were built by the end of the war, 965 by the end of 1945.

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