Next up are full-size mockups.
Not only Soviet aircraft are on display, but also Allied aircraft.
There is information that the latter, if not exactly real, because it was restored from several, is still very close to the original.
The enemy is also presented.
And if the fighter is presented as a model, but in its entirety, then from the bomber only the cockpit is present. But the original.
The location ends with the largest exhibit, so large that it did not fit under the roof.
That is the one
One the gun there should be an anchor for the winch cable from the front of the carriage.
The gun slides into the cradle and housing, then the recuperator and recoil cylinders are bolted to the breech frame.
if you search for “Armchair General” on the website there are some other pictures in the gallery section of this and its cousin the BR-2 152mm heavy gun.
Also, while the “correct” method of transport was to remove the barrel and move the howitzer in two loads, after 1943 there are few photos that show that. Most of the time the howitzer was hooked on the limber and towed complete by some tractor.
Those with an especially keen eye were probably able to notice that in the aviation location there were a lot of things that were not airplanes, but related to them. Well, or can be related.
For example, aircraft engines, one of which I have already shown together with the Il-2. I am showing the rest.
And if the tanker fits perfectly into the aviation theme,
and the searchlight installation is more inclined towards anti-aviation,
then all-wheel drive passenger cars can be classified as anything.
Well, these are fine. But how did the amphibian fit into this?
It was so alien that I was so confused that I didn’t take a photo of the museum plaque. I screwed up!
Anti-aircraft exhibits are the largest group.
And such a thematic conclusion will allow us to smoothly move on to the next location.
PS. A few more general views before we leave here.
Looks like a Ford GPA. The windshield does look strange and might not be original but also not an expert on the vehicle. The GAZ-46 MAV was produced as replacement in the 50’s but a different design and using GAZ-69 parts. Interesting vehicle either way.
So, anti-aircraft gun after anti-aircraft gun, and we will enter the open space of the next, artillery location. The guns are also lined up in two rows, but they are denied a canopy.
They are presented as widely known examples, standing in many museums and venues of the country,
and quite rare, and never seen by me before,
including modifications of well-known models.
Or even experimental samples, sometimes in a single copy.
Mountain guns have their own specific charm – I never miss them.
Look at the design: a folding bicycle!
A single mortar has crept into this cannon community,
That, it would seem, is all.
But there are still gun that have been moved to the forefront.
The next location is located separately from the rest of the exhibition. So much so that you have to go beyond one fenced perimeter and enter another, at the entrance to which you will again be asked for a ticket.
That’s why they warn you at the box office to keep your tickets until the end of the session. I warn you too. And doubly so: to return to the original perimeter, you have to show your ticket again.
The subject of the location is fully reflected in its name, so I’ll just silently post photos of the exhibits, especially since, out of stupidity, I snapped almost all of them.
Oddly enough, but again guns: they all didn’t fit in the previous location!
I wish someone would make a kit like this in 1/35 scale.
By this point I had already “eaten” a bit too many guns, so I didn’t have the patience or health to take pictures of these.
There was armored vehicles and artillery, here – aviation: planes and helicopters. But otherwise they are all in one place.
Let’s go in numerological order, not chronological.
Quite a few bombs at one site.
And further on there is a small helicopter area.
Haven’t lost your ticket yet? Then let’s move on!
To be continued…
Wow! And wow again!
Fantastic pictures so many thanks for posting them all.
We reached the strangest location. It is almost entirely located in the forest, and in this respect it fully corresponds to the term “partisan”. But in terms of content – there is nothing in common.
Geographically, in this territory, but substantively outside the theme of the location, large-caliber guns are placed in camouflaged positions.
Plus, in the thicket of the forest there are two camouflaged anti-aircraft positions.
For a long time I could not understand why such a digital index was assigned to the exhibits, because number 6 is assigned to modern equipment, and this equipment is clearly not modern. Until I accidentally and in a completely different place saw a plan of the museum in the version of the previous zoning. In it, under number 6 is listed “Artillery of the Reserve of the General Command, armored equipment.” And the signs are apparently old.
A field kitchen could be considered a guerrilla theme, but this is also a bit of a stretch.
So there are two contenders left for this one: a laser tag site
or the rope town.
To be continued…
Not every time I visited here I managed to get to this location. Most often, I turned around tiredly and, on wooden legs, walked to the metro.
And even if I did get there, due to my landlocked nature, I didn’t pay enough attention.
Having emerged from the partisan thicket, you discover this lake pastoral.
However, we won’t go to the water yet. We’ll walk along the shore, turning left, as most normal men do.
If earlier the main driving force in the navy was sails, now it’s propellers. We’ll start with them.
It is interesting that I never found exhibits #1 and #2 of this location. I will have to look for them on my next visit.
In the meantime, let’s walk along the line of naval artillery installations.
The last one can be easily missed: either it was well camouflaged from the start, or it has been here for a long time and has become overgrown.
Looking back,
you involuntarily notice something global on the other bank.
Looking at this, you involuntarily wonder: what kind of cannon should go with this barrel?
Immediately, turning 180 degrees, you get a complete and exhaustive idea about this!
And now we can go to the water.
In the first, smaller pond, are presented:
torpedo boat and
submarine conning tower.
On the other side of the pond, we didn’t look at a few more exhibits:
torpedo tube
and the torpedoes themselves for it.
The most attentive could notice a match hidden under the barrel, which was actually not a small anchor.
On the way back I couldn’t resist admiring all this splendor once more against the backdrop of the Memorial Mosque!
The second pond of the location is not only larger, but also the upper one with a clearly visible difference in water level.
The initial hilliness still had an effect.
Although the location is marine, let’s first look at a couple of land exhibits so that we don’t get distracted later.
On the shore of the pond there is a monument to the sailors who died defending Moscow.
On the opposite bank, another submarine cabin is installed.
The above-water exhibits are presented in a rather clever way.
The transparency of the water allows us to see that the ship is not afloat, but on supports.
I wonder why no one bathes in such water? Is it because of the prohibitory signs or mines placed for swimmers?
Or maybe it’s just because I filmed all this in October.
The second “marine” exhibit is not a ship at all, but an emulation of one.
However, this does not detract from the entertainment at all. And already on this fenced-off piece of the embankment, exhibits are arranged in an almost logically justified order.
Here I will show some of them in numerological order.
And almost at the exit from the location, the anchor will delay us for a minute,
reminding us of the need to look back.
And we will go further, to where the exhibit of the last location of this museum is visible.
To be continued …
Japanese location, as it should be: the farthest and the very last. At the same time, it is the smallest, both in area and in the number of exhibits.
It was decorated based on Japanese gardens. Which is beautiful in general, but it interferes with examining the equipment. You come across the largest exhibit right when you exit the previous location, after passing the last anchor.
I found assurances on the Internet that he was originally like this.
There is another plane on the site.
Everything else is almost entirely land-based. Let’s look at them.
Looks like the Japanese fighter wasn’t intact when found either, because that front end looks real suss.
Japanese tank building is a fairly unknown area, especially for me.
The saddest thing is that there is no way to get a good look at the most exotic representative – the amphibious tank.
The bunker gives the impression that it has been here since the war itself.
You can leave the museum here. Opposite the bunker there is an exit gate. But I never went through them, but always went on a long return journey through all the locations.
I left already in the evening, which allowed me to admire the lighting of the fountains. However, after a whole day of walking around the museum, I had neither the strength, nor the time, nor the desire for this.
By the way, this is the advantage – the museum and the park are open until late. And even in the twilight there are still crowds of people wandering around here.
Although, of course, the majority are already heading home.
I deliberately did not close this topic, because someday later there will be a report here about the Victory Museum.
In addition, the exhibition “Trophies of the Russian Army” was held on Poklonnaya Hill throughout May and June of this year.
In two months, 1.3 million people visited it.
I, of course, hope that people of certain views heeded my warning at the beginning of the cycle and did not reach this point, but I must also take into account the opinions of those who remain. Voting is anonymous.
I am leaving for a business trip for a week and during this period I will start a vote, based on the results of which I will add another report here or continue to introduce you to the large military-technical museums of Russia. There are still quite a lot of them left.
There were few voters, but there was not a single negative result. So I will begin.
I started a series of reports about Poklonnaya Gora in Russian with this very story, in English I will finish with it.
As I already said, in May-June, the Trophies of the Russian Army exhibition was held on Poklonnaya Gora. I managed to get there purely by chance: I happened to be on a business trip to Moscow, but I was only able to go to the exhibition on a day off. Not the best time to visit popular exhibitions!
The snake of a queue, meandering along the barriers of the fence, stretched for several hundred meters. At the same time, everything was decorous, cultured and sedate.
You begin to view the exhibition even before you enter it.
Don’t miss the moment, you won’t be able to look from the inside from this angle.
The flow of people carries you past a stand with a diagram of the equipment layout. The text does not need much translation, since all the original names are already in English.
A long row of checkpoints ensures that the queue, filling the fenced area of the exhibition itself, moves slowly but evenly. Keep in mind that they check according to airport rules! I don’t know about the rest, but they won’t let you bring in liquid.
By the way, the approach to starting work, which is at 10.00, had a positive effect. The exhibition area was half full (for pessimists) or half empty (for optimists). I did not immediately appreciate this, but after an hour and a half, trying to make another circle around all the exhibits, I already guessed.
The left photo is in the morning, the right photo is a few hours later, approximately the same place.
Without a doubt, the hits and favorites of the show were the Abrams and the Leopard.
This Abrams was one of those in service with the 47th separate mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces “Magura”.
In March 2024, near Berdychi, the tank was hit by a Kornet ATGM, and then finished off by a Russian tank. If the tank was on fire, it almost always “lies on its belly”, so it seems very low, unlike the Leopard 2A6 standing nearby.
Back in the summer of 2023, the Russian army took its first Leopard tank as a trophy. It was this tank that hit a mine on October 31, 2023, near the village of Berdychi and was attacked by our FPV drone, after which the Ukrainian crew abandoned the tank.
Maybe someone doesn’t know, but these are the details that are reflected in the RFM model.
I have it and I’ve already bragged about it: What the postman brought today (Armorama) - #7141 by fromSalekhard
There is another interesting episode connected with this tank. When installed on Poklonnaya Gora, the barrel was forcibly lowered, depriving him of his proud appearance.
To be continued…
You can’t really get close to them either: young and old take photos and selfies!
It is noteworthy that engineering equipment based on Abrams does not cause such a stir.
Near each, well, or almost each exhibit, there is a military man and patiently answers questions from visitors.
Only one of them stands out from the crowd: Hero of Russia Ivan Zharsky, standing next to a Leopard that was shot down, quite possibly by him.
Nobody asks him about the weight or other technical characteristics of the tank, but at the same time they don’t leave him alone for a second: they take pictures and selfies with him, shake hands and say thank you.
There’s also a queue.
There are two pavilions on the exhibition territory with their own queue.
Since I had already seen this for sure, I didn’t go in.
(Text: “Trophies of the Russian Army”)
But I’ll show you using other people’s photographs.
There are a lot of photos of this exhibition on the RuNet. For example, here are more than 30 photos of Abrams and a link to another 667 photos from the exhibition.
There were quite a lot of animatedly talking Chinese in the crowd. And their youth were charged with patriotism against the backdrop of our soldiers.
This is the second time I have seen the “Three Axes” howitzer, but I never cease to be amazed by this engineering product.
I don’t know what nickname NATO gave it, but here it inherited all the nicknames of cheap port wine, popular in Soviet times precisely because of its price. As for the taste, I still shudder at the memories.
A few photos of the rest of the military equipment. There aren’t many of them: not all the equipment is interesting to me (wheeled), not all of it can be approached well and closely.
Closer to the exit, another wonder weapon attracted attention: BMP “Azovets”.
An interesting thing: without a single optical device - only video surveillance, covered with active armor all around. Created in 2015 on the basis of the T-64 tank, it cost $5 million.
Our troops found it buried at the Azov battalion base. Not prepared for battle and defense, but buried.
The exhibition ends with the idea: History repeats itself (inscription on the screen).
which is illustrated by German equipment that has already traveled on our soil.
And a stand with photographs of a similar exhibition 80 years ago
(Text on the left: "Exhibition of samples of captured weapons captured from the Germans (1941 - 1945)".
Text on the right: “Trophy of the Great Victory”)
(Text on the tank (top to bottom): “Armor 100 mm. Armor penetrated by a 57 mm cannon sub-caliber projectile. Armor 85 mm.”
Text under the photo: “Exhibits of the armored vehicle section of the exhibition: on the right are tanks (in the foreground is a “King Tiger”, behind it are “Tigers” and “Panthers”). On the left are self-propelled guns (Italian Semovente 47/32, behind it are German “Marders”)”
leads to a simple and natural conclusion: “Our victory is inevitable”!
