Thank you Yuri for these reports, I am amazed at the scope of this museum and the images are so valuable to any serious model-maker. I hope the word “speechless” translates well into Russian. I also want to compliment you on your English, I know you’re using Google a lot but even so, we English-speakers usually do not comprehend or appreciate the difficulties of communicating successfully in an “alien” language.
Can you tell us more about this museum? When did it open? Does it have an accessible website? I know it is privately funded, but where have all the exhibits come from? Have they been purchased from other private (or State-sponsored) collections? I’m curious to know where so many of the Great Patriotic War vehicles/planes etc. have been hiding (?) over the past 80 years? Perhaps some have been excavated and restored from battlefields recently?
(P.S. my own specific interest is about the battles around Ponyri during the battle of what we westerners call “Kursk” which I know is a geographically inaccurate description. I even tried to travel there in 2013 but it proved too difficult. Do you know of any recent new websites or discoveries of original 1943 (Russian) photographs from Ponyri?) 