Tachanka

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Invention

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

A tachanka (Russian and Ukrainian: тачанка) is an open horse-drawn wagon with a heavy machine gun mounted on the rear side. A tachanka requires a crew of two or three (one driver and a machine gun crew) and must be pulled by two to four horses.

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