Tamiya 1/35 Russian 1943 T34/76 Tank ChTZ Version Scaled Plastic Model Kit

During the early period of the Second World War, the Wehrmacht invasion into industrialized Russia threatened the supply of critical war materials and manufacturing plants. Russia's National Defense Committee made a decision to move tank production and associated factories to a location that became known as "Tankograd" (Tank City), situated deep in the Urals. The Russians, with an urgent requirement to reinforce their tank strength, made efforts to simplify tank manufacturing methods, resulting in many versions of the T34 tank that differed greatly from each other.

One of the more distinctive versions was produced at the Chelyabinsk Tractor Works ("ChTZ") in Tankograd in 1943. With few of the "ChTZ" versions produced, of the thousands of T34/76 tanks manufactured, it is regarded almost as a rarity.