Created on the basis of the tank museum and its collection, Patriot Park occupies a huge area from Kubinka to Alabino on the territory of the 2nd Guards Taman motorized Division, annually expands and forms its branches throughout the country, and is also replenished with new exhibits from all military units.
Patriot Park – a museum of tanks, aviation, spacecraft and other vehicles & equipment
The structure of the Patriot Park and its main objects.
The name of the main museum area of Patriot Park changed several times and was originally called “Aerospace site”. At that time, the new pavilion N1 was an excellent museum of military space and satellites, pavilion N2 was dedicated to air defense, and the open area housed rocket carriers and aircraft. Probably, this area was planned to be made according to the model of the Aerospace Museum in Le Bourget. Tanks from World War II were still located at the old site in Kubinka. Within 1-2 years, a significant part of the tanks from World War II were transported to Patriot Park and new hangars were created with exhibits dedicated to the Battle of Moscow, the Battle of Stalingrad, the Kursk Bulge and Prokhorovka. As a result, the aerospace theme ceased to be dominant and the area was renamed to Museum Site N1.
Patriot Park Museum site N1, expositions and pavilions:
- Space: Soviet / Russian military satellites for reconnaissance, navigation and communications, spaceships with man and monkey (Hall N 1 on the map)
- Air Defense (PVO): WW2, S25-S75-..300 Soviet Anti Aircraft missiles and systems (2)
- WW1 and chemical weapons: Russian Imperial Army, British Mk V tank (3)
- USSR Military Cars: Cold War vehicles. Moved to separate Automobile Pavilion (4)
- Tank ride and drive training: / Game systems: T-80 tank rides, T-62, MiG / Su, Navy, Shooting simulators (Interhall area 5 a)
- Soviet nuclear weapons: nuclear and thermonuclear bombs, laboratories (5b)
- Airborne Forces (DVD): Paratroopers, armored vehicles, cold war and the modern (6)
- WW2 Hall N8 the Battle of Moscow: 1941 Great Patriotic War begin exhibition
- Hall N9 Battle of Stalingrad exhibition: 1942 German, Soviet and Lend-Lease AV’s
- Hall N10 1943 Battle of Kursk / Prokhorovka: Citadel Operation Tigers and Ferdinand’s
- Liberation 1944-1945: the Battle of Ukraine, Poland, East Prussia, Berlin (Hall N11)
- USSR-Japan War: 1945, Manchuria trophies and found on island battlefields (12)
- Motors of War: Soviet, Japanese, German, Italian rare cars, trucks (no longer) 13
- Special Military Operation in Ukraine: USA, Germany, France weapons trophies (13)
- The war in Syria against ISIS: Russian uniforms and weapons, rare amazing trophies (14)
Outdoor exhibition: tanks, armored personnel carriers, missiles, planes, drones, ships,
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- Cold War soviet tanks and armored vehicles on open area
- Soviet military cars and trucks, supply vehicles and field kitchens
- Air defense missile systems
- Air Force: training system, outdoor expo, archives etc.
Patriot Park Museum site N1, hangars and railway to Kubinka from car window (2016 photo)
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- Spacecraft, communications, navigation and reconnaissance satellites
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- Air defense hall, soviet S-25, S-75, S-125 etc.
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- WW1 anti-chemical, anti-radiation and biological defense
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- Tank driving, small arm shooting, Navy training systems
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- Soviet nuclear bomb and weapons area
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- History of the Soviet Airborne Forces, modern BMD, parachutes
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- 1941 Battle of Moscow (Hall N8)
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- Trophies from Ukraine Hall, since 2023, the access is restricted
Technical Center (former Kubinka tank museum)
- Soviet heavy tanks and Assault Guns except World War II (ex. Hall N1)
- Cold War and modern medium serial and experimental tanks (ex. Hall N2)
- Light post-war serial and experimental tanks and armored vehicles (N3)
- Cold War Soviet serial and experimental armored cars and personnel carriers (N4)
- British / American Vehicles: Local wars and conflicts tanks & carriers, trophies (N5)
- Third Reich German monsters: Mouse, 600 mm Adam, World War II and local wars (6)
- Armored vehicles of foreign states: from hangar N7 moved to N5, N6 and Patriot Area
- Repair workshops: demonstration and master class on holidays only
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- Soviet armored cars and personnel carriers (ex. Hall 4 in 2019)
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- Armored vehicles of the Airborne Forces of the USSR and Russia, ex. Hall N3 in 2019
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- Heavy post-war experimental tanks and prototypes in ex. Hall N1
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- Monsters of the Soviet-Finnish Winter War (Hall 1)
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- Monsters of the Wehrmacht, 600 mm AG Karl-Gerät (Adam)
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- Panzer VIII Maus WW2 German super heavy tank
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- WW2 AV Restoration workshops and master class
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- Repair of engines of WW2 tanks and self-propelled guns
WW2 partisan Guerilla Village
Hidden in the forests behind enemy lines is the base of a Partisan (Guerilla) detachment under the leadership of the NKVD. The construction of camouflaged dugouts, a radio station and a wired communication line, and a manual printing press for anti-Hitler leaflets and propaganda are shown. The famous School of Soviet saboteurs. How to organize covert reconnaissance behind trains with military equipment. Here you will be taught how to properly fish out shells found at battle sites and blow up a railroad. How to properly organize a food warehouse and raise animals as meat for fighters. Show you bread baking in the camp with the opportunity to buy a hot flatbread. Bathhouse, kitchen and Samogon (moonshine or homemade vodka, no more). Stables and horses as horse-drawn transport for partisans.
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- WW2 Guerrilla camp in the forest, but a stone path for tourists
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- You can climb onto the Observation Point and wait for the Germans
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- Red corner dugout – propaganda of Marxism-Leninism
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- Scout observation post near the railway
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- Anti-personnel mines, electric detonators, TNT and an educational film on TV
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- How to properly blow up a tree on the road or a telegraph pole with explosives
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- Where is the right place to undermine a rail? How many grams of explosives do you need?
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- Radio stations and field telephones, communication with the mainland
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- Food storage: canned meat (stew), pickles and tomatoes, and of course vodka
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- Farming or live food – rabbits, hares, chickens
- Patriot park, Guerilla village, learn more
Re-enactment field: Napoleonic Wars, World War I & II
A horse base, caponiers with T-34-85 tanks, self-propelled guns and guns, trenches and even a model of the Reichstag made from wood. The laid railway makes it possible to show a real armored train in motion, a participant in the battle for Leningrad. A special high platform was built for spectators and VIP guests to watch the Red Army storm the Reichstag, and re-enactors in German uniforms with blank light weapons defended it. The show is held on public holidays (Victory Day, Russia Day, Airborne Forces, etc.) for a separate ticket fee. The Battle of Borodino in 1812 and the capture of Paris by Russian Cossacks in 1814 are held elsewhere. Sometimes this site hosts a demonstration performance by Airborne Special Forces soldiers with demonstrations of BMD, hand-to-hand combat and drones. The wooden Reichstag is periodically used for YunArmiya (Young Army) training, an analogue of the Soviet game Zarnitsa. Next to the partisan village there is a YunArmiya summer camp and exhibition center. Evil tongues compare such a children’s organization with the Hitler Youth, which is incorrect. Read more in our author’s guide to youth Russian military sports organizations in pre-revolutionary Russia, in exile in the USA, France and other countries. Scouts, Orthodox Knights, Sokol and other organizations.
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- The famous wooden Reichstag, the object of jokes and ridicule
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- WW2 Reenactment zone, military-patriotic education
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- WW2 soviet armored train Za Leningrad
The Equestrian Center, located next to the youth camp and partisan village, is also part of this large area. It is expected that there will be horse care workshops and racing.
Multifunctional Firing Complex – Shooting Range
The former army shooting range has been converted into a shooting range for modern hunting or historical weapons for military personnel and civilians. Civilians with their own hunting weapons must have a special license. The rules for providing historical and modern weapons are constantly changing, but foreign citizens are not allowed entry. Constantly or on holidays, special points for firing blank cartridges from modern or historical weapons operate on the territory of the former museum and other places.
- Small arm shooting in Kubinka and Patriot Park
Center for Military Tactical Games and Engineering area
The building has specially equipped classic rooms for playing airsoft or paintball. Rent of premises for various teams and clubs. The space around the building is equipped as an engineering camp. This area is also called the Scout’s Trail. The local military shuttle (special bus or minivan) has a special stop here.
Patriot Expo Exhibition Center
This area includes a military convention center, exhibition pavilions, military-industrial company demonstration centers and an open area. Various events take place here several times a year, the most important of which is the annual week-long exhibition of weapons and equipment, called the Army with the addition of a year. In winter this area becomes deserted. There is only one restaurant and a few kiosks open. The permanent exhibition in the open area includes several tanks from the Cold War period and aircraft. Below we post several photo galleries from the annual Army forums.
- Army Forum 2023 Russia photo gallery, the famous T-14 Armata tank and more
Congress – Exhibition Center main buildings during Army Forum 2023
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- Patriot Expo in winter
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- Hangars and permanent exhibition of Russian armored vehicles
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- Cars, trucks, tractors from the Cold War
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- Soviet tanks of the Cold War
The exhibition Halls of the Congress and Exhibition Center at “Patriot” park behind the AV outdoor exhibition
Located inside of the restricted military area, the access is available during the special events (see the schedule), mostly “Army forum – 2015”, “Army forum -2016” (probably one week per year at this moment, summer time. Since 2017 the schedule will be displayed later))
Congress Exhibition Center north side, view from car park
The entrance fee during the Army forum depends of the day (one day for the military official only, for the specialists 2 days – 1000- 1500 Roubles (17-25$), 3 days for the regular visitors 300 Roubles (5$). But the program (including the gun shows, tank shooting etc.) is different.
Location. How to visit. The restrictions.
The visits are available (after ID registration) only during the special days. See the schedule or events
- 2015 (June) Army forum
- 2016 (September) Army forum
- 2017 (August) Army forum
- 2018, 2019 (June) etc
The residence and the temporary outdoor exhibitions at Expo site, Patriot park, Moscow region.
Residence exhibition, Cold war soviet tanks:
- T-55
- T-64
- T-72
Temporary exhibition (including Kubinka tank museum collection):
- T-34-85
- IS-3
Recommendation for visitors: this area has a café (restaurant), souvenir shop. During the Army forum Expo there are a lot of the modern military exhibits.
Park Patriot Expo is inside of the restricted military area and can be reached by different ways. For the foreign visitors (without the Russian language knowledge) strongly recommended the guided tours (public transportation, including the train, local taxi etc., or by the car). See below…
- private tours (individual or the small group) by car with a English speaking guide, charges, FAQ’s etc.