Military History Museum (Museum of Military Glory) description and photos - Russia - Far East: Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (Topic)

Military History Museum (Museum of Military Glory) description and photos - Russia - Far East: Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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On July 26, 1959, in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, on the initiative of the Hero of the Soviet Union, submariner, Vice-Admiral G.I.Shchedrin, the Kamchatka Military History Museum was opened. This is the only large museum in northeastern Russia dedicated to military themes.

The building of the museum is located next to the House of Navy Officers. The museum has one exhibition and four exhibition halls.

The museum acquaints visitors with both the main moments of the history of the Kamchatka Territory from the founding of the Petropavlovsk port to the present day, and the stages of development of the armed forces based in Kamchatka.

The main excursions are held in four halls of the museum:
- Sightseeing tour of the museum exposition;
- Military history of Kamchatka;
- Kamchatka expeditions of the 18th century under the leadership of V. Bering and A. Chirikov;
- Defense of the Peter and Paul port from the Anglo-French landing in 1854.
- Russian-Japanese War of 1904-1905;
- Kamchatka during the Great Patriotic War (Kamchatka - to the front);
- Kuril airborne operation in 1945.

The museum fund comprises 12,000 storage units - collections of foreign and domestic firearms and edged weapons, medals and orders, battle flags, insignia, samples of military equipment, works of graphics, painting and sculpture.

The museum contains front-line diaries, photographs, memoirs and letters of participants in the Great Patriotic War and veterans of the Armed Forces. The pride of the museum is two dioramas "The feat of sailors Nikolai Vilkov and Pyotr Ilyichev" (Kuril landing operation in 1945) and "Defense of the Petropavlovsk port in 1854". Among the unique collections of the museum are exhibits that have survived since the Second Kamchatka Expedition of Vitus Bering.

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