Kubinka Tank Museum Hall N4 Guide and Virtual Tour

When the Kubinka Tank Museum opened in 1972, Pavilion N4 was built for Soviet armored vehicles, armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles, both serial and experimental. There were many armored vehicles from the Second World War and famous battles like the Battle of Moscow, the Battle of Stalingrad and the Kursk Bulge. It is for this reason that the hangar underwent a lot of changes during the formation of Patriot Park and lost a large number of interesting exhibits. To fill empty spaces, exhibits from other locations were temporarily moved to this hangar, disrupting the historical and engineering sequence of development of armored vehicles. Below we provide views of the hangar and a list of exhibits for the current state, as well as for the period until 2015.

Entrance after the restoration and 2021 re-opening of the museum

Soviet armored vehicles, armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles. The new design after the 2021 rebuilding and re-opening

History of the pavilion N 4. Virtual tour on the tank museum 1972-2014
“Before the pavilion № 4 on the pedestal there is an exact copy of the armored car from which VI Lenin arrived at the Finland Station (by the way, despite the assurances of some skeptics with aplomb assuring that there was no armored car, there was not one but two!).
Pavilion No 4 will surprise you with the first Russian* armored vehicles and armored personnel carriers, unique infantry combat vehicles by combining combat capabilities, firepower unmatched in the world. Infantry fighting vehicles, scorched by the flames of the war in Afghanistan, in Chechnya .. ” (colonel Boris Ozerov)

View of the hangar 20 years ago. Comrade Lenin’s armored car

View of the hangar inside from 1972 before reform

Soviet armored vehicles, personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles list

Tank museum an official catalogue*, P4 exhibits, (Soviet armored Cars and Carriers, BTR – amphibious armored personnel carriers, BMP -Soviet amphibious tracked infantry fighting vehicles ). (Copyright Mikhail Blinov, please make the link if referred).

N –  Model  –         Object –     Year of Issue –   Name –  Factory Type – comments

1. BA-27, 1931, armored car, serial
2. BA-3, 1934, armored car, serial
3. PB-4, 1935, amphibious armored car, small series
4. BA-6, 1935, armored car, serial
5. BA-21, 1939,  light armored car, the one sample
6. KSP-76, 1944, rolled self-propelled gun, the one sample
7. BTR-152, 1950,  armored carrier, serial
8. ZPTU-2 on BTR-152, 1950, anti-aircraft gun on the BTR-152A base, serial
9. ZPTU-4 on BTR-152, 1955, anti-aircraft gun on the BTR-152 base, the small series
10. BTR-152V, 1955, armored carrier, serial
11. BTR-152V1, 1957, armored carrier, serial
12. BTR-152K, 1959, armored carrier, serial
13. ZIL-153, 1959, infantry fighting vehicle, the one sample
14.BTR-40, 1950, armored personnel carrier, serial
15. ZPTU-2 on BTR-40A, 1950, anti-aircraft gun ZTPU-2 on the BTR-40A base, serial
16. BTR-40A, 1969, Rail road armored carrier, small series
17. BTR-40B, 1957, armored carrier (armor covered), serial
18. БТР-40В, 1956, armored carrier, the small series
19. BRDM-1, 1957, BRDM – amphibious Combat Reconnaissance/Patrol Vehicle, serial
20. BRDM-2, 1962, BRDM – amphibious Combat Reconnaissance/Patrol Vehicle, serial
21. BTR-60P, BTR amphibious armored carrier, serial
22. BTR-60PA, 1963, BTR amphibious armored carrier, serial
23. BTR -60 PB (-50P,) 1965, BTR – amphibious armored carrier, serial
24. GAZ-50, 1971, BTR infantry fighting vehicle, the one sample
25. BTR-60PZ, 1974,  BTR – armored carrier, the small series
26. BTR-70, 1972, BTR- armored carrier, serial
27. BTR-80, 1984, BTR- armored carrier, serial
28. BREM, 1988, BREM – armored repair and recovery vehicle, serial
29. BMP, Object 1200, 1964, experimental infantry fighting vehicle, the one sample
30. БМП, Object 19, 1965, BMP infantry fighting vehicle, the one sample serial (?)
31. BMP, Object 911, 1964, experimental BMP infantry fighting vehicle, the one sample
32. BMP, Object 914, 1966, BMP infantry fighting vehicle, the one sample
33. BMP-1, Object 765, 1981,  BMP  infantry fighting vehicle, serial
34. BMP-1K, Object 773, 1971, Commander infantry fighting vehicle, serial
35. BMP-1KSh, Object 774, 1972, Command-staff infantry fighting vehicle, serial
36. BMP-2, Object 769, 1974, BMP infantry fighting vehicle, the one sample
37. BMP-1G, Object 681, 1977, experimental infantry fighting vehicle, the one sample
38. BREM-2, 1982, armored repair and recovery vehicle on BMP-1 base, serial
39. BMP-2, Object 680, 1972, BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicle, the one sample
40. BMP-2D, Object 675, 1981, BMP-2D infantry fighting vehicle, serial
41. — , Object  688, 1981, BMP infantry fighting vehicle, the one sample
42. BMP-3, Object 609, 1989, BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicle, serial
out of 1994 catalogue (received later)

BMP, Object  768, 1972, BMP infantry fighting vehicle, the one sample
BTR-80 – armored carrier, serial

*official catalogue was made in USSR period, could be the changed and not-correct ID