Moscow State Defense Museum

The State Museum of Defense of Moscow shows the history of the greatest event in the history of Russia, which predetermined the fate of not only our country, but also the whole world - the Moscow Battle of 1941-1942. Recreated with the help of more than 4000 authentic exhibits, a unique architectural and artistic solution of the exposition, the grandiose picture of the defense of the capital helps visitors to realize what stopped the best forces of the most powerful army at that time at the walls of Moscow. Viewers seem to turn the pages of the dramatic history of Russia: the people’s militia of 1941, the air defense of Moscow, which saved the capital from enemy raids that turned London into ruins.