Everything from T55 onwards and their myriad of variants make them a nightmare lol… I may just get a T72B3 and build that lol
I can find you hundreds of photos of the front of this sign, but not a single photo of the back.
And rightly so - leaving (any) city, you do not look back, but look forward.
But being a Soviet person (and the sign is specifically Soviet - not Ukrainian or Russian), I would venture to suggest that the blue part is concrete, and the yellow part is metal. Here you can see it
Although I am confused by the supporting stick at the end of the right beam. Although if it is reinforced concrete (and this is it), then this may well be.
To substantiate the Sovetic logic, I am attaching two photographs of the sign of the city of Uryupinsk (in Russia this is a household name, it means a completely provincial city at the end of the world) from two sides.
I think that the stele itself is the same on both sides, and the inscription is only on one side.
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You may be right Yuri, even though it looks like the sign is bolted to the concrete (?) base, just like a metal structure would be…
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You’re right - it’s all metal
But the key is that it is a box-like construction.
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I agree ! 
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And these signs are from the Soviet era ? and like you said in Russia still today ? do many Ex soviet era Warsaw Pact countries still have them ? just interested
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No to the MS.
Here is a kit of the M- Russian T-90M MBT, Tiger Model 4614 (2022)
They are slightly different.
Thanks Dan … 
Uh… wait!
Ukraine is not a Warsaw Pact country, but one of the republics of the USSR - the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. There, as there was Cyrillic under Soviet power, it remained. And why change the sign? In other republics, the names could change. In Uzbekistan, they switched from Cyrillic to Latin - signboards were changed there.
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Bad wording by me
Apparently it was imaged above and its a mine clearer but not used for that at the moment. its a few post up Greg.
A demining combat vehicle based on the T-64A tank was seen in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Slavyansk direction. During the conversion, the gun was dismantled from the original tank and a set of KMT roller and knife trawls was mounted. In this case, only one knife trawl is installed.At present, perhaps this machine is used as a tractor.
This type of sign was common across the Soviet Union. A couple of the more famous; Pripyat City signs outside Chernobyl.
If you look up “Soviet City Signs” in Google, you will see hundreds of interesting ones…
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Another example of concrete + metal city sign in Ukraine
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I guess it could be so…
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These are basically oversized SLOW DOWN signs, mostly on major roads and the shape and size is determined…as everything…by the budget you have. The more west you go in Ukraine the more you see european style medieval city “shields”. It also depends on how old the city is. Its another specific European thing that is interesting from a diorama point of view, same like the small roadside religious shrines… when i think of it its sort of like a Welcome to Vegas sign 
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April 27: Ukrainian servicemen install a machine gun on a tank during repairs after fighting Russian forces in the country’s Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine.
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Instant shell scrape for the infantry - See, us tankies are always thinking about the infantry and helping them out 
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