About Tsar tank
Tsar tank - armored combat mobile device developed by an engineer Nikolai Lebedenko in Russia in the 1914-1915 biennium. In development also participated N. Zhukovskii and his nephews, B. and A. Stechkin Mikulin. Strictly speaking, the object was not a tank, but a wheel combat vehicles. King-tank - the largest land armored fighting vehicle ever built. The construction and testing of the tank were carried out in 1916. According to the results of the tests were concluded on the general unsuitability of the tank for use in a fight that led to the closure of the project. Constructed a copy was later dismantled for scrap metal.
Nickname "Bat" or "bat" tank was because his model to carry over the rear wheel resembling bat, sleeping upside down on the cave wall or a tree branch.
Wood model of a tank made Lebedenko to show the emperor, Nicholas II left me. The fate of the model is unknown.
Regarding the fate of the king-tank project, there is also a conspiracy theory. As it is assumed that known failure project vehicles heavily lobbied the General Staff in the high-ranking officials, acting in the interests of Britain. Those same reasons, in accordance with the version, "buried" project "Off-road vehicles" Porohovschikova, drawings of which subsequently came to England and formed the basis for the first British tanks. The overall similarity of form of the shell cross-country vehicles and tanks Mk I spoke in favor of this hypothesis. However, this version does not have any documentary evidence.
Among the local population in the area adjacent to the site of testing the tank, timber, where the ground and later rzhavel tank was named "forest Tanka".