Surviving IS-3 Tanks Last update : 23 January 2018

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1 Surviving IS-3 Tanks Last update : 23 January 2018 Listed here are the Iosif Stalin IS-3 heavy tanks that still exist today. Mathieu George, September 2013 IS-3M Heintz Barracks, Bastogne (Belgium) Rafał Białęcki, September 2008 IS-3 Polish Army Museum, Fort IX Czerniakowski, Warsaw (Poland) Only two IS-3 were bought by Poland in 1946/1947. This vehicle has factory number A58 and was built in May It was st used several times in military parades, especially on 1 May. In the 70s it went to the Orzysz Military Area where it served as a practise target, and in the 90s after renovation it went to the Museum in Fort Czerniakowski (Łukasz Sambor)

2 IS-3 Armoured Weapons Museum, Land Forces Training Centre, Poznań (Poland) running condition This vehicle has factory number A81 and was built in April In 1951, it went to the Technical Officers Armoured and Mechanized School in Giżycko (Techniczna Oficerska Szkoła Wojsk Pancernych i Zmechanizowanych w Giżycku) and in November 1957 it went to the Officers Armour School in Poznań (Oficerska Szkoła Wojsk Pancernych w Poznaniu ) (Łukasz Sambor) Axel Recke, May 2016 IS-3 Army Technical Museum, Lesany (Czech Republic) running condition This IS-3 is the single one that Czechoslovakia received in 1950 (Alex Pankov). Currently on loan to the Militärhistorischen Museum der Bundeswehr, Dresden (Germany)

3 Oleksandr Yakymenko, IS-3M Svente Manor and the Museum of Military Vehicles (Latvia) Rostislav Sherstnev - IS-3M Great Patriotic War Museum, Minsk (Belarus)

4 IS-3M Military Academy, Minsk (Belarus) Studio LUVR, May IS-3M seen at Minsk (Belarus) running condition

5 Sergueï Yevets, IS-3M Hrodna, Hrodna Voblast (Belarus) IS-3M Smarhoń, Hrodna Voblast (Belarus)

6 IS-3M Vawkavys, Hrodna Voblast (Belarus) This tank was restored at the 815 th Logistics Center in Baranovichi (Belarus) IS-3M Senno, Vitebsk Voblast (Belarus)

7 IS-3M Glory Hill Memorial, near Minsk, Minsk Voblast (Belarus) Ton Bezemer, September 2005 Skitmeister, May IS-3M "Stalin Line" Museum, Zaslavl', Minsk Voblast (Belarus)

8 Skitmaster, May IS-3M Stalin Line Museum, Zaslavl, Minsk Voblast (Belarus) IS-3M Vileyka, Minsk Voblast (Belarus) Android40 -

9 Unknow source IS-3 Maryina Horka, Minsk Voblast (Belarus) IS-3 Minsk fortified area, Stańkava, Minsk Voblast (Belarus)

10 IS-3 Kletsk, Minsk Voblast (Belarus) Peter - IS-3M Gomel Museum of Military Glory, Gomel, Homiel Voblast (Belarus)

11 IS-3M Dobrush, Homiel Voblast (Belarus) IS-3M Korovatichi, Homiel Voblast (Belarus)

12 IS-3M Shkloŭ, Mahilyow Voblast (Belarus) Alexander Kuzyak, April IS-3M Academy of the armed forces of the Ukraine, Kiev (Ukraine)

13 Alexander Kuzyak - IS-3M Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Kiev (Ukraine) RANGER, June IS-3M Degtiarivska street, Kiev (Ukraine)

14 necovi4, June IS-3M Darnytskyi district, Kiev (Ukraine) IS-3M Uzhhorod, Zakarpattia Oblast (Ukraine)

15 Oleg Kostjukevich - First IS-3M Rivne, Rivne Oblast (Ukraine) Second IS-3M Rivne, Rivne Oblast (Ukraine)

16 IS-3M Kostopil, Rivne Oblast (Ukraine) victor344448, July IS-3M Chemerivtsi, Khmelnytskyi Oblast (Ukraine)

17 Sergey Tkachev - IS-3M Polonne, Khmelnytskyi Oblast (Ukraine) Александр Наровлянский - IS-3M Novohrad-Volynskyi, Zhytomyr Oblast (Ukraine)

18 March IS-3M Kozyatyn, Vinnytsia Oblast (Ukraine) IS-3M Trostjanets, Chernihiv Oblast (Ukraine)

19 IS-3M Ripky, Chernihiv Oblast (Ukraine) Oleg Kozhuhar, July IS-3M Bahmach, Chernihiv Oblast (Ukraine)

20 IS-3M Desna, Chernihiv Oblast (Ukraine) IS-3M Lubech, Chernihiv Oblast (Ukraine)

21 Alexander Kuzyak, March IS-3M Museum of Kyiv Liberation, Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi, Kiev Oblast (Ukraine) Alexander Kuzyak, March IS-3M Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi, Kiev Oblast (Ukraine)

22 necovi4", November IS-3M Sulymivka, Kiev Oblast (Ukraine) IS-3M Myronivka, Kiev Oblast (Ukraine) -ALP-, March

23 RANGER, June IS-3M Ochmatiw, Cherkasy Oblast (Ukraine) praktolog, May IS-3M Komsomolsk, Poltava Oblast (Ukraine)

24 IS-3M Komsomolsk, Poltava Oblast (Ukraine) "necovi4" - arttiful, April IS-3M Blyzniuky, Kharkiv Oblast (Ukraine)

25 RANGER, June IS-3M Bashkyrivka, Kharkiv Oblast (Ukraine) Novel M., August IS-3M Novomirgorod, Kirovograd Oblast, (Ukraine)

26 Abysim, July IS-3M Ustynivka, Kirovograd Oblast, (Ukraine) Александр Домбровский - IS-3M Dolynska, Kirovograd Oblast (Ukraine)

27 Jackson, IS-3M Sinelnikovo, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (Ukraine) Александр Наровлянский - IS-3M Mezhyrich, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (Ukraine)

28 Makulan, April IS-3M Krivoy Rog, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (Ukraine) arttiful, December IS-3M Museum of local lore, Krivoy Rog, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (Ukraine)

29 arttiful, April IS-3M Pavlograd, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (Ukraine) Александр Домбровский - IS-3M Golubovka, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (Ukraine)

30 Andrey Sukhodolskiy, November IS-3M Pervomaysk, Mykolayiv Oblast (Ukraine) IS-3M Chaplynka, Kherson Oblast (Ukraine)

31 Sotnikov, July IS-3M Konkove, Donetsk Oblast (Ukraine) Gennadiy Moysenko, IS-3M Konstantinovka, Donetsk Oblast (Ukraine)

32 Vladimir Mendus - IS-3M Makeyevka, Donetsk Oblast (Ukraine) arttiful, April IS-3M Dzerzhynsk, Donetsk Oblast (Ukraine)

33 vit1580", June IS-3M Svitlodarsk, Donetsk Oblast (Ukraine) voky89, November IS-3M Yasynuvata, Donetsk Oblast (Ukraine)

34 Denis Gedrovich, June IS-3M Luhansk, Luhansk Oblast (Ukraine) IS-3M Corneşti, Ungheni district (Moldova) "scovalenco" -

35 IS-3M Yad la-shiryon Museum, Latrun (Israel) Jim Goetz, March IS-3M Shizafon army base (Israel)

36 "Bukvoed", October IS-3M Batey ha-osef Museum, Tel Aviv (Israel)

37 vatryk, November IS-3M Undisclosed military depot (Israel) IS-3M Royal Jordanian Tank Museum (Jordan)

38 chrispit1955, November IS-3M National Military Museum, Cairo Citadel, Cairo (Egypt) IS-3M Suez (Egypt) Roman Golovko, August 2012

39 IS-3M Victory Park at Poklonnaya Gora, Moscow (Russia) Jim Goetz, August 2015 Nick Matveev, IS-3M Kubinka Tank Museum (Russia)

40 Vitaly Kuzmin, June IS-3M Kubinka Tank Museum (Russia) running condition chetvertkov IS-3M Crossroads to the Kubinka Tank Museum, Kubinka (Russia)

41 IS-3M Military Historical Museum, Lenino-Snegiri (Russia) Jim Goetz, August 2015 Yura Penkerton, October IS-3M Mosfilm Military and Technical Cinema Depot (Russia) running c.

42 IS-3M Victory Train (Russia) "digitaldharma", March IS-3M Krasnoznamensk, Kaliningrad Oblast (Russia)

43 Штурман (ang. Navigator) - IS-3M Russian Northern Fleet naval base, Severomorsk, Murmansk Oblast (Russia) IS-3M Safonovo, Murmansk Oblast (Russia)

44 "fedoroff" - IS-3M Strugy-Krasnie, Pskov Oblast (Russia) "Kаеведъ (FotosergS)", IS-3 Priozersk, Leningrad Oblast (Russia)

45 Oleg Bushko, September IS-3M Vechtchevo, Vyborg, Leningrad Oblast (Russia) IS-3M Sertolovo military range, Leningrad Oblast (Russia)

46 Vitalliu Krupoderov, May IS-3M Polunino, Tver Oblast (Russia) Виталий Смирнов - IS-3M Arkhangelsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast (Russia)

47 chetvertkov IS-3M Dyat'kovo, Bryansk Oblast (Russia) Олег Редичев, January IS-3M Tula, Tula Oblast (Russia)

48 Timur Gennadievich, August IS-3 Vadim Zadorozhny Museum, Arhangelskoe, Moscow Oblast (Russia) Taranov, February IS-3M Museum of the National Military History, Padikovo, Moscow Oblast (Russia) This is an ex-egyptian tank, captured by Israeli Defense Forces ( Taranov )

49 IS-3M Kalininets, Moscow Oblast (Russia) Lystseva Marina - IS-3M Naro-Fominsk, Moscow Oblast (Russia)

50 Vasilii Nikitinskii, May IS-3M near Kovrov, Vladimir Oblast (Russia) "digitaldharma", March IS-3M Kursk, Kursk Oblast (Russia)

51 музей-диорама, August IS-3M Belgorod State Historical and Art Museum-Diorama Kursk Battle Belgorod, Belgorod Oblast (Russia) музей-диорама, August IS-3M Belgorod State Historical and Art Museum-Diorama Kursk Battle Belgorod, Belgorod Oblast (Russia)

52 za_donsky, October IS-3M Prokhorovka, Belgorod Oblast (Russia) Alexander Lagutin, IS-3M Rossosh, Voronezh Oblast (Russia)

53 vitt5 - IS-3M Mylino, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (Russia) apashenko, August IS-3M Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod road, Mylino area, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (Russia)

54 IS-3M Gorodets, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (Russia) "crazy_reader" IS-3 Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Oblast (Russia)

55 Alexander Kochetkov, 2004 IS-3M Rodionovo-Nesvetaiskaya, Rostov Oblast (Russia) The engine was removed and the engine compartment plates were replaced by plain sheet of metal welded to the hull (Alexander Kochetkov) panzermehaniker - IS-3M Taganrog, Rostov Oblast (Russia)

56 IS-3 Belaya Kalitva, Rostov Oblast (Russia) intacto61, October IS-3 Somewhere in the Kasharsky raion, Rostov Oblast (Russia)

57 intacto61, October IS-3M Krasnodar, Krasnodar Krai (Russia) Ксю-Ха-Ха, April IS-3M Memorial complex, Novorossisk, Krasnodar Krai (Russia)

58 Alexander Fedorov, September IS-3M Military Hill, Temryuk, Krasnodar Krai (Russia) Vitalliu Krupoderov, August IS-3M Belyi (Temryuk Raion), Krasnodar Krai (Russia)

59 Vladimir Rogov, August IS-3M Labinsk, Krasnodar Krai (Russia) Dohtur - IS-3M Old Minsk (Starominskaya), Krasnodar Krai (Russia)

60 "trs999", May IS-3M Armavir, Krasnodar Krai (Russia) "foto65-sharapov" - IS-3M Abinsk, Krasnodar Krai (Russia)

61 V. Kononov, June IS-3M Dzhankoj, Crimean Peninsula (Russia) "cynical_reason", May IS-3M - Maykop, Republic of Adygea (Russia)

62 Alexander Muzafarov, May IS-3M Abundant, Stavropol Krai (Russia) IS-3M Comgaron, Republic of North Ossetia (Russia) Vasily Diounov

63 "mmdocent" - IS-3 Malgobek, Republic of Ingushetia (Russia) K. Kim, S. Panferova - IS-3M Panoramic Museum "Stalingrad Battle", Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast (Russia)

64 IS-3M Sokolova Hill, Saratov, Saratov Oblast (Russia) IS-3M Engels, Saratov Oblast (Russia)

65 IS-3M Ulyanovsk, Ulyanovsk Oblast (Russia) Kohl Kalashnikov - Serguey Sorokin aka ShinePhantom, August IS-3M Victory Park, Tolyatti, Samara Oblast (Russia)

66 K. Dunaïev, IS-3 Technical museum, Tolyatti, Samara Oblast (Russia) Yevgeny Lyzhin, August IS-3M Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast (Russia)

67 artyom_77, September IS-3M Victory Garden, Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast (Russia) volik-a-v, May IS-3M Chelyabinsk Tractor Factory, Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast (Russia) Chelyabinsk Tractor Factory (ChTZ) did produce IS-3s (Alex Pankov)

68 chetvertkov IS-3M Chelyabinsk Tank School, Chelyabinsk Oblast (Russia) Patrick Verkade, August IS-3M Military Historical Museum of the Volga, Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Obl (Russia)

69 IS-3 Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast (Russia) IS-3M Museum of military equipment "Battle Glory of the Urals", Verkhnyaya Pyshma Sverdlovsk Oblast (Russia)

70 sergey208, August IS-3 Artyomovsky, Sverdlovsk Oblast (Russia) IS-3M Omsk, Omsk Oblast (Russia) andrey

71 chetvertkov IS-3M Highest Command School, Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk Oblast (Russia) IS-3M Blagoveschenka, Altai Krai (Russia)

72 IS-3M Aleysk, Altai Krai (Russia) IS-3M Victory Square, Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai (Russia)

73 Ivan Manankin, October IS-3M Achinsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai (Russia) vololo, May IS-3M Exhibition in park ODORA SibVo, Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai (Russia)

74 vovaton2009, October IS-3M Birobidzhan, Jewish Autonomous Oblast (Russia) IS-3M Military History Museum, Khabarovsk, Khabarovsk Krai (Russia)

75 "dkphoto", May IS-3M Khabarovsk, Khabarovsk Kraï (Russia) running condition IS-3M Sergeyevka, Primorskiy Krai (Russia) interest68 -

76 Сэппа - IS-3M Saratovka, Primorskiy Krai (Russia) vit - IS-3M Shikotan Island, Kuril Islands, Sakhalin Oblast (Russia)

77 IS-3M Yuzhno Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin Island, Sakhalin Oblast (Russia) Ronald Jongeling, 2006 Photo provided by Patrik Cristo IS-3 Used as a pillbox on of the Kuril Islands, Sakhalin Oblast (Russia)

78 Yuri Maksimov - IS-3 Used as a pillbox on of the Kuril Islands, Sakhalin Oblast (Russia) Two IS-3Ms Cape Crillon, Sakhalin Island, Sakhalin Oblast (Russia)

79 Chris Hughes, June IS-3M The Collings Foundation, Stow, MA (USA) This vehicle was part of Jacques Littlefield Collection in California. The entire Littlefield collection was donated to the Collings Foundation, and only 80 of the 240 vehicles of the collection will be displayed in a new museum, which will be built in Massachussetts and is expected to open its doors in late The other vehicles were sold in an auction in August 2014 Dmitry Kiyatkin - IS-3M US Army Center for Military History Storage Facility, Anniston, AL (USA) This IS-3M has been seized by Israelis from the Egyptian army, and used together with other trophies (IS-3 and IS-3M) until the 1970s. The original V-54K-IS engine was replaced by the Israeli for a V-54 from a captured Т-54A. The engine compartment roof also comes from a T-54A (Alex Pankov)

80 k_kronos, May Object 704 (ISU-152 m1945) Kubinka Tank Museum (Russia) Prototype based on IS-3 tank with a 152mm ML-20SM m1944 gun-howitzer A. Tchvachko, November IS-3M turret High school «Лидер» in Leipzig street, Kiev (Ukraine)

81 IS-3 turret Museum "Sestroretsk Boundary" at industrial complex-1 "Elephant", Beloostrov, near St. Petersburg (Russia) pakuro, May IS-3M turret Nicholas-Uryupino, Moscow Oblast (Russia)

82 Alex Klochkov, IS-3M Unknown Russian abandoned army base (Russia) "jiva-108" - IS-3M Unknow location (Russia)

83 Dennis Trowbridge IS-3M Unknown location This tank was previously part of the Budge collection damir-gareew, December IS-3 Unknown location

84 and any IS-3 heavy tank that I forgot. I m looking for photos of those IS-3 tanks : This document is a compilation of photos published on the web. I would like to thank especially Rafał Białęcki, who deserved a great part of the job on this document, and also the people who took these photos and put them on their websites, or sent them to me, and those who helped me doing these lists (particularly people of the AFV News Discussion Board). For any question, you can me at soldat_ryan@hotmail.com Main page :