Kubinka Tank Museum

Kubinka Tank Museum
Военно-Исторический музей Бронетанкового Вооружения и Техники
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Kubinka Tank Museum is located in Moscow Oblast
Kubinka Tank Museum
Location within Moscow Oblast
Established1972 (1972)
LocationKubinka, Moscow oblast, Russia
Coordinates55°33′54″N 36°42′56″E / 55.56500°N 36.71556°E / 55.56500; 36.71556
Key holdingsPanzerkampfwagen VIII Maus, Karl-Gerät, Object 279
Visitors70,000 a year
Kugelpanzer at Kubinka

The Kubinka Tank Museum (Центральный музей бронетанкового вооружения и техники - Tsentral'nyy Muzey Bronetankovogo Vooruzheniya I Tekhniki -Central Museum of Armored Arms and Technology) is a large military museum in Kubinka, Odintsovsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russia where tanks, armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs) and their relevant information are displayed and showcased. The museum consists of open-air and indoor permanent exhibitions of many famous tanks and armored vehicles from throughout the 20th and 21st centuries (between 1917 and the present day). It also houses and displays many unique, unusual and one-of-a-kind military vehicles of which there are very few remaining examples, such as the German Panzer VIII Maus super-heavy tank, Troyanov's Object 279 Kotin heavy tank, the Karl-Gerät heavy self-propelled artillery, and the Object 120 Su-152 "Taran" tank destroyer, amongst other single or limited-production prototypes from the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.