Military Historical Museum Of Artillery, Engineers And Signal Corps
Global Aviator|August 2020
The Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineers and Signal Corps, also known simply as the Artillery Museum, is a state-owned military museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Its collections – consisting of Russian military equipment, uniforms and decorations – are hosted in the Kronverk (a crown work of the Peter and Paul Fortress) situated on the right bank of the Neva near Alexander Park. The museum is managed by the Russian Ministry of Defence.
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Military Historical Museum Of Artillery, Engineers And Signal Corps

Location The museum is located on the southern shore of Petrogradsky Island, directly across the Kronverkskiy Strait from the Peter and Paul Fortress. The nearest metro station is Gorkovskaya, which is approximately ten minutes by foot along the Kronverkskaya Embankment and Kamennoostrovskiy Prospekt.

It is east of the Leningrad Zoo. To the museum's east is the Northwestern Branch of the Russian State University of Justice.

Cannons and artillery

The museum houses amongst its exhibits, cannons made by Andrei Chokhov – the maker of the famous Czar Cannon - cannons from the entertainment regiments of Peter the Great, an official chariot used for transportation of the artillery banner in the middle of the 18th century, personal arms, medals, and gifts received by Russian emperors and military commanders, trophy arms (for example, Swedish and Turkish arm, and Napoleon's personal arms from his invasion of Russia), the famous Katyusha rocket launcher of World War II, a room dedicated to the Kalashnikov AK-47 and its designer, Mikhail Kalashnikov, and a wide array of Cold War era artillery pieces, anti-aircraft systems, armoured vehicles, and missiles

One of the largest military-historical museums of the world

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