In GoldenEye, James Bond commandeers a T-55 tank during the Saint Petersburg chase.
Bond takes the tank from a military museum and uses it to pursue former Soviet general Arkady Ourumov and criminal Janus. The sequence is one of the film’s most recognizable action scenes, combining a heavily armored vehicle with crowded city streets.
The T-55 is a Soviet medium tank introduced in the late 1950s. It was an upgraded development of the T-54, and thousands were built for the Soviet Union and other countries. Viewers sometimes identify the film tank as a T-72 because that later Soviet design is more widely recognized, but GoldenEye specifically identifies Bond’s vehicle as a T-55.
The chase also passes landmarks associated with Saint Petersburg, including the city’s historic streets and squares.