The World War II Great Patriotic War Museum - Moscow

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Great Patriotic War Museum - Moscow: Entrance	Great Patriotic War Museum - Moscow: Victory Monument
Great Patriotic War Museum - Moscow: Entrance	Great Patriotic War Museum - Moscow: 122 mm gun
Great Patriotic War Museum - Moscow: Stalingrad diorama	Great Patriotic War Museum - Moscow: Stalingrad diorama
Great Patriotic War Museum - Moscow: Stalingrad diorama	Great Patriotic War Museum - Moscow: Kursk diorama
Great Patriotic War Museum - Moscow: Kursk diorama	Great Patriotic War Museum - Moscow: Berlin diorama
Great Patriotic War Museum - Moscow: Berlin diorama	Great Patriotic War Museum - Moscow: To Collections
Great Patriotic War Museum - Moscow: To Collections	Great Patriotic War Museum - Moscow: Zhukov Statue
Great Patriotic War Museum - Moscow: Stalin	Great Patriotic War Museum - Moscow: Main Alley
Great Patriotic War Museum - Moscow: Main Alley	Great Patriotic War Museum - Moscow: Cannons
Great Patriotic War Museum - Moscow: Cannons	Great Patriotic War Museum - Moscow: Second Alley
Great Patriotic War Museum - Moscow: mausoleum	Great Patriotic War Museum - Moscow: mausoleum
Great Patriotic War Museum - Moscow: mausoleum	Great Patriotic War Museum - Moscow: mausoleum
Great Patriotic War Museum - Moscow: Exit	Great Patriotic War Museum - Moscow: To the museum at night

The state museum of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 is the part of the memorial complex at Poklonnaya Gora. This place has always been the best point to observe panorama of Moscow. A wide alley with fountains leads to the central part of the complex - The State Museum of the Great Patriotic War devoted to the great courage of the Russians defending their Motherland. The principal part of the museum is the War-History exposition rendering the whole course of war. The exposition is divided into three parts according to three periods of the War - from the perfidious fascist aggression in 1941 to the victory in 1945.
Here you can see an open-air exhibition, where you can see famous "Katusha", different tanks, cannons, mortars and other examples of Soviet military equipment.

According to the museum itself "This is a federal institution of culture, the centre of the Memorial Complex on Poklonnaya Gora, created to commemorate the victory over Nazism and immortalize heroic deeds, courage and self-sacrifice of the patriots of the motherland. It was opened on May 9, 1995. The memorial comprises the Victory Park, the Main Victory Monument (141.8 m high), the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 and the open air exhibition of military vehicles and engineering fortifications. The exhibition has over 110,000 items of authentic weapons, military vehicles, uniforms, medals, photos, documentary films, letters from the battlefield, works of art, pictures, posters and other documents of the war-time".

Address: 10 Bratiyev Fonchenko
Metro station: Park Pobedy
Official website (in Russian only): http://www.museum.ru/M421

Here are other websites dedicated to the museum:

Two sites dedicated to aircraft displayed in the open air exhibition of the Great Patriotic War museum: here and there.

A site dedicated to tanks displayed in the open air exhibition of the Great Patriotic War museum: here.

A site where visits of WWII museums in Russia are organized including the Great Patriotic War museum: here.

Finally a website (in English) listing hyperlinks to all Russian museums: http://www.hist.msu.ru/ER/museum_e.htm