 "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) |