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St. Petersburg's Artillery Museum

One of the Europe's largest military-historical museums the Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps is situated in the center of Saint-Petersburg on the Petrograd Side. The museum collection numbers near a million of exhibits. Among them there are more than 1200 artillery guns, the world's largest collection of light arms and cold weapons, rocket weapons, engineer equipment, means of military communication, battle colors, military uniform and musical instruments, as well as masterpieces of battle painting, orders and decorations. The museum itself is located in the unique monument of the fortification architecture of the 19th century the Kronwerk of the Peter and Paul Fortress established by Nicholas I in the year 1860. Together with the presenter Igor Maximenko viewers will go on enchanting excursion around halls of the Museum of Artillery. You will get to know interesting facts from the history of Russian weapon, see how the Avtomat Kalashnikova is assembled and disassembled, as well as le arn to load an ancient gun.

Presenter Igor' Maksimenko

Year 2009

Duration 00:27:44

Presenter Igor' Maksimenko

One of the Europe's largest military-historical museums the Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps is situated in the center of Saint-Petersburg on the Petrograd Side. The museum collection numbers near a million of exhibits. Among them there are more than 1200 artillery guns, the world's largest collection of light arms and cold weapons, rocket weapons, engineer equipment, means of military communication, battle colors, military uniform and musical instruments, as well as masterpieces of battle painting, orders and decorations. The museum itself is located in the unique monument of the fortification architecture of the 19th century the Kronwerk of the Peter and Paul Fortress established by Nicholas I in the year 1860. Together with the presenter Igor Maximenko viewers will go on enchanting excursion around halls of the Museum of Artillery. You will get to know interesting facts from the history of Russian weapon, see how the Avtomat Kalashnikova is assembled and disassembled, as well as le arn to load an ancient gun.

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