Model 1940 (German designation: T-34/76A) - This was a production model built in 1940, armed with a L-11 76.2 mm tank gun it had a welded or cast two-man turret.
The T-34-85 had a larger three-man turret, with a long 85 mm gun. 112 continued building narrow-turret 76 mm armed models long after all other plants had switched to hexagonal-turreted tanks. Also, not every factory implemented all model changes at the same time. (This page has adopted that convention.)īecause many different factories manufactured T-34s, with components built by subcontractors, the listing below merely gives a broad overview and does not capture every possible variant. Since at least the 1980s, many academic sources (notably AFV expert Steven Zaloga) have used Soviet-style nomenclature: T-34 and T-34-85, with minor models distinguished by year: T-34 Model 1940. German intelligence in World War II referred to the two main production models as T-34/76 and T-34/85 with minor models receiving letter designations such as T-34/76A-this nomenclature has been widely used in the west, especially in popular literature. Since the break-up of the Soviet Union, newly declassified sources have demonstrated that all T-34s with the original turret and F-34 gun (conventionally known as Models 19) were officially called "Model 1941", and hexagonal-turret T-34 (Model 1943) was officially called "Model 1942".
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