"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) |