Kharkovchanka - The Soviet Antarctic Snow Cruiser

The Soviet Union had its own version of the Antarctic Snow Cruiser. But while the famous American giant died in the snows of Antarctica, the Soviet Kharkovchanka vehicles still serve Russian polar explorations on the frozen continent. The Kharkovchanka was built in the late 1950s and featured everything the soviet antarctic explorers could need on their journey. While crossing thousands of miles, the snow cruiser visited the pole of inaccesibility, the South Pole and dozens of research stations on the antarctic continent. In 1975, more advanced Kharkovchanka-2 off-roaders were designed and used for future missions. They are the main vehicles used by Russian polar expeditions today. A third version was planned but never realised due to the Soviet fall.
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I really don't understand why Americans didn't use tracks for the Antarctic Snow Cruiser, maybe because the whole body was too big for any tank chassis but still they should have considered a better design.
I still wonder of we'll find it one day.

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Correction, the Russians don't use Kharkovchankas anymore, they stopped using the final one in 2010 as far as I know, they used MT-T, DT-30P Vityaz, then PistenBully 300 vehicles after these. Also I'm not sure if there were 5 first generation Kharkovchankas, I know that sources are scant on this, but from images, it appears that only 3 were made of the initial design. As far as I know, 3 went to Mirny, but only two of them plus an AT-T made the trip to the main US base. But you have shown photos of the second generation Kharkovchankas, so that's a bonus point.

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Wow this looks so old but apparently it stopped being used as recently as 2010(yeah still almost 13 years ago but it ain’t 40).

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A very interesting video actually! Btw I have the video of the insides of such a vehicle that I've managed to make while being at the Antarctic station Progress in February 2020.

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Kharkov = Kharkiv and Kharkovchanka means "little Kharkivian"

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