This armoured train was one of somewhere around a dozen which were made while the tensions between the USSR and China were at a high point, and they were made to be used on the Trans-Siberian railway as a means to deter the "invading Chinese".

It was equipped with various weapons, of which the main armaments were either a T-54/55 or T-62 tank on one end of the locomotive, with 4x ZPU anti-aircraft guns mounted between them in a repeating pattern, with rarely vehicles like the PT-76/76B being featured as a command vehicle.

They never saw any combat due to the Sino-Soviet border conflict ending in 1969, though they were in use for another half a decade before being either removed and put up as a Museum, or salvaged to use the original weapons in their intended roles.