Dear Reader! You are holding a book based on the feature film of the same name "TANKS." This movie is timed to coincide with the 120th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding designer Mikhail Ilyich Koshkin and is dedicated to the creators of the T-34 tank. The film is based on real events. He talks about the secret run in 1940 of Mikhail Koshkin to Stalin in Moscow on prototypes of a tank for approval and launch into a series of prototypes of a combat vehicle. The very legendary "thirty-four" on which the world was saved from fascist invaders! In this book you can read not only a fictional film story, but also find out how everything was in reality. How the T-34 was created, what sacrifices its creators made. Here is a portrait of the pre-war generation, when people put the common good above their personal interests in the name of their homeland. I wish you interesting reading and fascinating viewing! Medinsky Vladimir Rostislavovich