On the territory of the memorial complex National Museum of the Great Patriotic War, not far from the statue Motherland, there is a rather large exhibition of military equipment, which contains unique examples of weapons of the Red Army from pre-war times to the 70s of the last century.
At the military equipment exhibition you can see single-seat, medium and heavy tanks, and the famous Katyusha rocket launcher. The name of one of the exhibits is of a humorous nature: in 1941, at the Odessa Tractor Plant, a homemade tank based on a tractor was hastily created for defense, which had the characteristic Odessa name “For Fright” or simply “NI-1”. The model of the armored train, which rises on the hill, looks no less convincing than its original, which, unfortunately, has not survived.
This is interesting!
1. The combat self-propelled launcher with the RSD-10 ballistic missile was provided to the exhibition of military equipment according to an agreement between the USSR and the USA in May 1990. The weight of the “RSD-10” is 41 tons, the length is 17 meters, and the height is 3 meters. The installation launched rockets weighing up to 35 tons, which easily covered a distance of 5,000 km. After the missile was launched, the combat vehicle could not be restored and, in fact, was a disposable launcher.
The oldest exhibit is a wedge from 1931, which could accommodate a maximum of 2 people and reach a speed of approximately 40 km/h, and a howitzer from the same year, which fired 203 mm shells weighing 100 kg at a range of 18 km. Unfortunately, these are also models, but in full size.
Where is the exhibition of military equipment from the Second World War located?
Lavrskaya street, 27