According to Anthony Tucker-Jones' 2015 book on the T-34, the Russian crew simply called their tanks Prinadlezhit-Chetverki, which meant Thirty-Four. But Prinadlezhit doesn't mean Thirty in Russian, from what I gather. So is this some sort of confusion that ended up in Jones' book, or what am I missing?
It seems that somehow tridcat' 'thirty' was transformed into prinadležit 'belongs, pertains'. Possibly there was some confusion of т and п by someone who didn't really know Russian/Cyrillic, and it was probably helped along by trinadcat' 'thirteen'. The actual Russian term is tridcat'četvërka 'a thirty four', without a hyphen.