Great Patriotic War Museum

"Motherland" - 62m tall - dedicated on 9 May 1981 by Brezhnev	National Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945	"Мати-Батьківщина" (Mother-Motherland)	Less formally called "Brezhnev's Mother"
"Motherland" statue, Kiev - 530 tons	"Motherland" statue by Yevgeny Vuchetich	Memorial complex - Heroes of the Front and of the Rear - Defense of the Soviet border against the 1941 Nazi invasion	Memorial complex - Border Guards composition
Memorial complex - Border Guards	Memorial complex - Terrors of Nazi Occupation	Memorial complex - Kiev	Memorial complex - Parents and Grandparents Protecting the Children
Memorial complex - Mourning the Dead	Memorial Complex - Partisan Struggle	Memorial complex - Kiev	Memorial complex - Red Army Infantry
Memorial complex - Kiev	Memorial complex - The Home Front	Memorial complex - Partisan Struggle	Memorial Complex - Workers in the War Effort
"Motherland" Kiev	"Motherland" statue made of titanium	"Motherland" overlooking the plaza in front of the Great Patriotic War Musuem	The Battle of the Dniepr (1943) memorial, Kiev
The Battle of the Dniepr (1943) memorial, Kiev	The Battle of the Dniepr (1943) memorial, Kiev	The Battle of the Dniepr (1943) memorial, Kiev	The Battle of the Dniepr (1943) memorial, Kiev
The Battle of the Dniepr (1943) memorial, Kiev	Battle of the Dniepr memorial	Battle of the Dniepr memorial	Battle of the Dniepr memorial
Battle of the Dniepr memorial	Battle of the Dniepr memorial	Kiev - Hero City of the Soviet Union	"Motherland" Kiev
"Motherland" - Great Patriotic War Museum, Kiev	Coat-of-Arms of the Soviet Union on the shield of "Motherland"	Great Patriotic War Musuem	A pair of Soviet tanks in front of the Great Patriotic War Museum
T-80UD in a festive blue paint scheme	T-62 main battle tank (USSR)	I'm not quite sure the purpose of the blue paint scheme on this T-80UD	"Motherland" Kiev
"Motherland" - Great Patriotic War Museum - Kiev	"Motherland" - Great Patriotic War Museum - Kiev	"Motherland" Kyiv	Entry hall - Great Patriotic War Museum
Broken Nazi eagle, Great Patriotic War Museum	You don't find this in many museums in Germany	Statue of a soldier with the colors of Ukraine	Soviet Propaganda Poster - Mercilessly Crush and Destroy the Enemy
Soviet Propaganda Poster - Hitler taking a bayonet to the head	Soviet Propaganda Poster - Beat the Facists	Soviet Propaganda Poster - РУБИ ГАДОВ!	Soviet Propaganda Poster - Beat the Enemy Where He is Found
Historic Aerial Photograph - Ruins of Sebastopol (Crimea) 1944	Historic Photograph - Soviet Sailor with a shot down German plane, 1943	Boot on a Russian map of Europe, Great Patriotic War Museum	Reich Service Flag - Great Patriotic War Museum
1938 German edition of Mein Kampf	Badge of a member of the NSDAP	Map of the Deutsche Reich in 1940	German Uniformed Military Police - Feldgendarmerie
Soviet Banner - Workers of the World, Unite!	Historic photograph - Nazi occupation of the Sudentenland (Czechoslovakia), 3 Oct 1938	Soviet Propaganda Poster - Great Patriotic War Museum, Kiev	Certificate of Unteroffizier Karl Hoffstadt, Duisburg 1938
German certificate - Great Patriotic War Museum	Map of Hitler's war plan against the USSR	Border marker of the USSR	Soviet Banner - 90th Border Guards Regiment
Great Patriotic War Museum - Kiev	Soviet 1 Ruble Note wit the portrait of Lenin	Historic Photograph - German soldiers with a captured portrait of Stalin	Book cover with a map of the USSR
Book with a signed photograph of Joseph Stalin	Heroic Defense of Kiev	Map of the lines of the Heroic Defense of Kiev	Relics of the defense of Kiev during World War II
Soviet Private N.I. Pasichnik, 1941	Soviet Red Cross/Red Crescent Society Mug, 1941	Hero of the Soviet Union Certificate - Great Patriotic War Museum	Diorama - the Battle of Kiev
Map of the front - Battle of Moscow	Heroes of the Soviet Union - Great Patriotic War Museum	Hero of the Soviet Union - O.O. Berezovsky, 1941	Wreckage of a Soviet Il-2 fighter, Great Patriotic War Museum, Kiev
Wreckage of a Soviet Il-2 fighter shot down in 1943	Pravda - 30 October 1941, Heroes of the Soviet Union Defend Moscow	Banner of the Soviet Navy	Striped shirts and caps of the Soviet Navy
Heroic Defense of Sevastopol	Greetings from King George VI to Captain Pavel Andreyevich Bobrovnikov for the Order of the British Empire	Relief sculpture - Heroic Defense of Sevastopol, Great Patriotic War Museum	Soviet Navy - Great Patriotic War Museum
Uniform shirt from a German concentration camp	Historic photos of a German officer and civilian victims of the camps	Ripped shirt and barbed wire - Great Patriotic War Museum	Historic Photograph - children behind barbed wire
German Concentration Camp uniform with red triangle of a political prisoner with R for Russian	Gloves made of human skin from a German concentration camp	German Concentration Camp - Jedem Das Seine (To Each His Own)	Sperrgebiet - Restricted Area Entry Prohibited for Civilians under penalty of death
Nazi uniform patch - RBD Reichsbahndirektion Münster (Westfalen)	Notice of Confiscation from the German General Commisioner of Kiev	Kiev under occupation - Death penalty for sabotage, 1942	Public notices from the German occupation of Ukraine
Notice - Do not enter abandoned buildings under penalty of death for plundering or sabotage	German banknotes from the occupation of Ukraine	Arbeitsbuch für Ausländer - Work Book for Foreigners	Notice - Jews entering the streets outside of Jewish areas is strictly prohibited. Jews who breach this order will executed
Concentration camp badge for Jewish political prisoners	Ukainians - Whoever houses or assists Russian soldiers, especially paratroopers, communist leaders or partisans, will be shot	Soviet Banner - Vasilkovskoye Partisans	Partisans Cabin, Ukraine - Great Patriotic War Museum
Historic Photograph - Railway Sabotage	Great Patriotic War Museum - Soviet Tank Factory	Soviet Propaganda Poster - Young Miners Spare No Effort For the Front, For Victory!	Soviet Medals, Great Patriotic War Museum
Soviet Medals, Great Patriotic War Museum	Certificate from the Kazakh SSR	Second Floor, Great Patriotic War Museum	Soviet Artillery - Great Patriotic War Museum
Rusting German steel helmets stacked on top of rubble	Historic Photograph - German road sign pointing to Stalingrad	Relief Sculpture - Za Rodina! For the Motherland!	Relief Sculpture - ЗА РОДИНА! For the Motherland
Diorama - Battle of the Dniepr - Great Patriotic War Museum	Certificate for the Hero City of Kiev presented in 1965 on the 20th Anniversary	Mural - Battle of Kiev - Surrendering German soldiers and burning Panzers	Soviet Propaganda Poster - НА ЗАПАД! To the West!
Historic Photograph - Liberation of Odessa, 1944	Uniform - Marshal of the Soviet Union	Insignia of a Marshal of the Soviet Union	Soviet Propaganda Poster - Revive the Steppe - T.G. Shevchenko
German military motorcycle	Soviet Propaganda Poster - Free Europe from the Chains of Nazi Slavery!	Map of the German retreat and Soviet advance	Nazi flag, Great Patriotic War Museum
Iron Cross made of captured Iron Crosses, Great Patriotic War Museum	Iron Cross made of captured Iron Crosses, Great Patriotic War Museum	German Iron Crosses - Eisernes Kreuz	Soviet Military Uniform - Major General
Diorama - the Fall of Berlin, Great Patriotic War Museum, Kiev	Diorama - the Fall of Berlin - Reichstag in flames	Diorama - the Fall of Berlin - Reichstag in flames	Diorama - the Fall of Berlin - Soviet army at the Brandenburg Gate
Japanese flag and swords, Great Patriotic War Museum	Hall of Memory - Great Patriotic War Museum	Hall of Memory - Great Patriotic War Museum	Mosaic, Hall of Glory - Great Patriotic War Museum
Mosaic, Hall of Glory - Great Patriotic War Museum	Mosaic, Hall of Glory - Great Patriotic War Museum	Mosaic, Hall of Glory - Great Patriotic War Museum	Mosaic, Hall of Glory - Great Patriotic War Museum
Mosaic, Hall of Glory - Great Patriotic War Museum	Mosaic, Hall of Glory - Great Patriotic War Museum	Mosaic, Hall of Glory - Great Patriotic War Museum	Mosaic, Hall of Glory - Great Patriotic War Museum
Ceiling of the Hall of Glory, Great Patriotic War Museum	ПОБЕДА - Soviet Victory Order	"Motherland" Kiev	"Motherland" Kiev
"Motherland" Kiev	Next to the Great Patriotic War Museum, an outdoor exhibit of Soviet weaponry	Exhibition of Military Equipment, Kiev	Soviet Tank T-34-85, 1944
Soviet Armored Car BA-20	USSR - Josef Stalin Heavy Tank, JS-1 (ЙС-1), 1943	Soviet ISU-152 Armored Tank Destroyer, 1943	Soviet SU-100 Tank Destroyer
Artillery and a mobile missile launcher, Exhibition of Military Equipment, Kiev	Soviet Heavy Tank JS-3 (1945)	Soviet Heavy Tank JS-3 (1945)	Soviet T-64 Tank (1967) and a railroad mountedgun
Soviet T-64 Tank (1967)	Soviet T-55 Tank (1955)	"Homemade" (САМОРОБНИЙ) tank used in the defense of Odessa, 1941	Soviet Tank - Joseph Stalin JS-2 (1943)
Soviet 122mm Howitzer and BM-21 Grad Rocket Launcher	Soviet 152mm D-1 Howitzer (1943)	River boat mounted with a tank turret	Soviet MAV Amphibious Vehicle
Soviet IS-2 Tanks, Exhibition of Military Equipment, Kiev	Soviet IS-2 Tanks, Exhibition of Military Equipment, Kiev	Yuzhmash 8K63 Rocket (SS-4)	ЮЖНОЕ ЮЖМАШ
MiG-23	YAK-9	MiG-21	MiG-17
Lisunov Li-2, Soviet version of the DC-3, 1943	Lisunov Li-2, Soviet version of the DC-3, 1943	RSD-10 Pioneer Rocket Launcher (SS-20) intermediate range ballistic missile removed from service in 1988 under the INF Treaty	Exhibition of Soviet Military Equipment, Kiev
Soviet T-54 Tank	Soviet T-55 Tank	Soviet Mi-24 Helicopter Gunship "Hind"	Visitors on a hot summer day
Soviet Mi-24 Hind	Soviet Artillery outside the Great Patriotic War Museum	Soviet T-10 Tank (1955)