But we plunged into this car, my daughter and I and a classmate. We saw that again there was a queue for bread. We rushed to this car (it could not drive into the yard). 'And you go out into the street and the silence and the cawing of crows is ominous.

We were just lucky that no one was bombing at that time. People, if they move around, go very quickly, quietly, silently. We go out into the street and the atmosphere cannot be conveyed. You go out into the street and silence and the cawing of crows is ominous And here we were - with two cats, with two backpacks on our shoulders and one suitcase. They stuffed two cats into one carrier (they took a bag and just made holes in it). 'In the evening we collected all non-perishable products. Come with me, there will be room in the car.' 'On Tuesday, a classmate calls my daughter and says: 'I'm leaving tomorrow, one of my relatives will take me to the station. I took out this vodka, put it next to me, I think if some kind of injury or something (happens), I will have vodka as salvation or to treat (wounds). 'And suddenly I remember that from some ancient times I had a bottle of vodka. In fact, you don’t understand for sure whether it’s in your micro-district or it’s far enough away and you still have time to go for bread. 'I started to get ready, and then again these very loud explosions. This is Saltovka (an area on the outskirts of Kharkiv) closer to the border, to Belgorod.Ĭhildren look out from a window of an unheated carriage of an emergency evacuation train that is travelling from Kharkiv to Lviv Credit: AP Photo 'We stood at the pharmacy for an hour and a half, the queue was another two hours. I did not open the refrigerator for a day in order to save at least something that is in there. We ran to the pharmacy to buy the most necessary things and a supermarket because we understood that we would not last long without electricity. 'The next day we realised that we had no iodine, no sedatives, no heart medication.

I turned to heaven, I don't even know why. I remembered some prayers despite not believing it would seem in such things. The temperature in the apartment dropped rapidly (it was around zero outside). 'The next day we did not have heating in the apartment and the lights went out.

Antarctic Snow Cruiser, US vehicle, circa 1940, unsuccessful.A man buys food in a damaged street kiosk of Ukraine's second-biggest city of Kharkiv on March 8, 2022.

Wheels: 7 each side with drive sprocket and idler.

Assembly: Kharkiv (Kharkov Transport Engineering Plant), Ukrainian SSR.

Technical characteristics First generation However, this meant that the noise of the engine prevented any sleep and that everything was covered by soot from the exhaust fumes. Like the Antarctic Snow Cruiser, the engine was inside the 20 m 2 (220 sq ft) living space to allow maintenance without being exposed to the elements. : 25:35–26:30 Description First generation : 22:45–24:55Ī potential third generation based on the MT-T tractor was considered in the 1980s, but was put on permanent hold for budgetary reasons, and following the Dissolution of the Soviet Union, left the Kharkovchankas as the main transportation system for Antarctic cargo into the early 2010s as part of the Russian Antarctic operation. Three second generation Karkovchankas came off the production line in the fall of 1975. The largest design difference was the movement of the cab and engine back out in front of the main massive rectangular body structure, as well as the addition of auxiliary power generation for electricity and heat when the main engine was not operating. In 1974–1975, a second generation Kharkovchanka was designed and built for Antarctic service. Dozens of more exploratory missions into Antarctica were made with Kharkovchankas in subsequent years.

Two of these, and a third AT-T tractor, left Vostok station for the geographic South Pole in early December 1959, arriving at the pole on 26 December 1959, and surprising the US crew that had been airlifted into the Amundsen–Scott Station the previous summer. They traversed from the ocean coast to the existing Soviet Vostok Station in February 1959. Three Kharkovchankas were built in 1958, and shipped to Antarctica.

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