page_title: T-34 variants
section_title: Support vehicles
hierarchical_section_title: T-34 variants / List of models and variants / Soviet Union / Support vehicles
caption_attribution_description: Description: Soviet self-propelled hoisting crane SPK-5 based on T-34 chassis in Batey ha-Osef Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel. 2005. Source: Photo by me, User:Bukvoed.
context_page_description: The T-34 medium tank is one of the most-produced and longest-lived tanks of all time.
  Identification of T-34 variants can be complicated. Turret castings, superficial details, and equipment differed between factories; new features were added in the middle of production runs, or retrofitted to older tanks; damaged tanks were rebuilt, sometimes with the addition of newer-model equipment and even new turrets. Some tanks had appliqué armor made of scrap steel of varying thickness welded onto the hull and turret; these tanks are called s ekranami, although this was never an official designation for any T-34 variant.
context_section_description: PT-34 - This was a mine roller attachment that could be mounted on any T-34 chassis.
  T-34-T (T stands for tyagach ["tractor"]) - During World War II, some old T-34s were rebuilt as armored recovery vehicles (ARVs) with their turret removed; sometimes the turret ring was plated over or a superstructure was added in place of the turret. They were used solely for towing operations. Also known under the designation TT34.
  SPK-5 (1955) - Turretless T-34 fitted with a crane with a capacity of 10 tons on a rotatable mount fitted in the turret ring.
  SPK-5/10M - An SPK-5 was fitted with electro-hydraulic controls for the crane.
  T-34-TO (1958) (TO stands for technicheskoye obsuzhivaniye ["technical maintenance"]) - This variant was a technical maintenance vehicle fitted with an extensive array of tools and a work platform over the engine deck.
caption: SPK-5 crane tank in Batey ha-Osef Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2005
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