#FILM STUDIO

Designed between 1949 and 1951, the T-55 entered the service of the Red Army and other Warsaw Pact militaries in 1958. Photo: Adam Hauner, Wikmedia Commons

Russian film studio gives dozens of 1950s tanks to army amid equipment shortages

Russia’s largest film studio has donated 36 Soviet-era tanks to the Russian ministry of defense, the studio’s head has said.