Battle of Kolobanov recreation in World of Tanks Blitz
Tried to recreate Zinoviy Kolobanov battle in his KV-1 against 22 german Panzers. Kolobanov shot first and last tank, so the Axis Panzers were stuck on narrow path with swamp around them. Because they couldn't retreat they tried to fight mighty soviet KV-1, but the couldn't penetrate his turret, because that was only part of the tank that was exposed. In the end Kolobanov managed to destroy 22 german tanks, few other vehicles and 2 88mm Flak guns.
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On 19th August 1941, Zinoviy Kolobanov had his finest moment when he was in command of a small unit of five KV-1 tanks operating near Krasnogvardeysk (now Gatchina), which is near Saint Petersburg (Leningrad at that time). Kolobanov’s unit was dug in and hidden at the edge of a swamp, and were able to ambush an entire column of German tanks - the 8th Panzer Division.
Indeed, the ambush was so well-staged that two German tanks were destroyed before they even worked out what was happening. Even after realising they had been ambushed, it took them a while to work out where the attack was coming from, by which time Kolobanov’s team had destroyed the German tank at the rear of the column, trapping them all in one place.
By this point, they had spotted Kolobanov’s tank, but the other four KV-1 tanks in the unit were still hidden. The Germans tried to pursue, but got bogged down in the swamp, while all five KV-1 tanks shot at them. In total, 43 German tanks were destroyed (mostly Panzer IIs and Panzer IIIs), 22 of them by Kolobanov’s own KV-1.
After the battle, Kolobanov and his crew discovered that their KV-1 had been hit 135 times - none of the shots had penetrated the armour. For his efforts, Kolobanov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, given for extraordinary heroism and courage on the battlefield. The driver, Andrei Usov, received the Order of Lenin for exemplary service.
Despite suffering serious injury in 1942, Zinoviy Kolobanov survived the war. In total, he served in the Red Army for twenty five years before leaving in the 1960s as a Lieutenant-Colonel. Although he received many awards for his service, he was never honoured as a Hero of the Soviet Union. He went on to work in the Minsk Auto Works in Belarus. In the early 1980s, a memorial monument to Kolobanov was built in the village of Noviy Uchkhov. The monument consists of a tank on a plinth. However, as they were unable to find a KV-1, they had to settle for an IS-2!
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