Patriot Park. Introduction.

By fromSalekhard in My museums 12.03.2026

I’ll try to tell you about the largest and coolest military museum in Russia – Patriot Park near Moscow. I previously published a series of reports about Kubinka. It’s part of this park, one of its sites.

To help you understand what this entire complex is, I’ll list its main components with brief descriptions of each.

Convention and Exhibition Center – for holding exhibitions

and military-technical events.

Partisan Village

A collective image of all the partisan detachments that existed during the Great Patriotic War.

Equestrian Complex

The 1,231-square-meter outdoor arena includes one podium and a 100-seat grandstand. The complex also houses an 850-square-meter indoor two-story arena. The indoor arena can accommodate up to 300 spectators.

Military Tactical Games Center

The center includes three indoor stylized pavilions: “City,” “Industrial Zone,” and “Afghan Road,” a three-level rope course, a “Voroshilov Sharpshooter” shooting range, a soccer field, a tactical field, a military communications and reconnaissance camp, “Uncle Vasya” Square*, and a parachute tower.

*Vasily Margelov is the reorganizer and commander of the Airborne Forces. Affectionately and familiarly called “Uncle Vasya.”

This is a universal training complex covering an area of over 27 hectares for practicing elements of combat training for units of the Armed Forces.

Multifunctional Fire Center
The center includes 20 open galleries with a range of 300 meters, 9 open galleries with a range of 50 meters, and 18 high-precision firing lines with a range of 2 kilometers.

The training downhill is one of the longest tracks in the world, with a length of 500 meters.

The museum and temple complex is the main temple of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. The temple stands 95 meters tall, making it one of the tallest Orthodox churches in Russia and the world. The area of the temple complex is 11,000 square meters. The interior can accommodate up to 6,000 people.

All the dimensions of the temple are symbolic and refer to significant dates associated with the history of the Great Patriotic War, Russia, and the Russian Armed Forces:

The diameter of the main dome’s drum is 19.45 meters. 1945 marks the end of the Great Patriotic War. The diameter of the dome is 22 meters 43 centimeters. On May 8, 1945, at 10:43 PM, the act of unconditional surrender of Germany was signed.
The height of the bell tower is 75 meters. 2020 marked the 75th anniversary of the end of the Great Patriotic War.
The small dome is 14.18 meters high, representing the 1,418 days and nights of fighting in the Great Patriotic War.
The interior mosaic area is 2,644 square meters, corresponding to the number of full Cavaliers of the Order of Glory.
The mandorla is 11,694 mm high, representing the number of Great Patriotic War veterans who received the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

Besides all this, there are hotels, a train platform, and a bunch of other little things.

I’m most interested in two locations:

The Tank Museum (Technical Center) – what used to be Kubinka, which I’ve already told you about.

And Museum Site No. 1, which I’ll try to tell you about, but it’ll be a long, drawn-out story, with long breaks.

You can get to the park from Moscow by commuter train from Belorussky Station. The ride takes between an hour and an hour and a half, depending on the frequency of stops.

Even from the train window, you can see that this station is a bit different from all the others: the military equipment exhibition starts right on the platform!

At the local bus station you need to wait for a special bus.

Text on the bus: I’m going to Patriot Park. We’re on the same path!

It runs strictly according to a schedule, which can be found on the website or at each bus stop, every 40-60 minutes.

The nearest stop is Kubinka.

Text on the building: Patriot Park. Entrance. Ticket office.

To understand the scale of this patriotic site, just look at the road sign.

On the way, it is highly recommended to look out the window, because you can see something interesting.

Text on the armored train: For our Soviet Motherland!

I wonder where that Strategic Missile Forces convoy is headed?

The next stop and final stop for me was “Museum Site No. 1”.

Text: Museum Site No. 1.

Architecturally, it’s designed like the one in Kubinka: a row of enormous hangars stretching to the horizon, each containing the contents I coveted.
Only the hangars here are located next to each other and connected by passages.

There is one entrance and it is in the center.

The thematic distribution of the pavilions differs from Kubinka’s. To the left of the entrance are the stages of the Great Patriotic War, while to the right is a solyanka exhibition with a contemporary twist.

I’ll show you the contents of almost all the hangars later. A series of photo galleries is planned for that purpose—because what’s there to write about? Here, you just have to look.

And indeed, some of the Patriot funds are former Kubinka funds. This has now become clear.

On the left is a 2015 photo from the Kubinka hangar; on the right is a modern photo: the same tank in its new location.

If in Kubinka the bird feeders are militarized, then here the feeders for people are similarly militarized.

If you go through the hangars, the other side reveals an endless plain filled with a huge variety of equipment: tanks, bathyscaphes, missiles, planes, torpedoes, helicopters—the whole assortment. Oh my God!

While Kubinka itself has signs prohibiting climbing on equipment, here they’ve taken the opposite approach. In keeping with the Russian proverb, “If you can’t stop a mess, then lead it,” a significant amount of equipment is equipped with ramps for climbing onto.

Some of the equipment is fenced off, entrance is from the other side and requires a separate ticket.

This technology is alien, and the reasons for its presence here are different from the other exhibits.

Every time I spend the whole day here and I leave this establishment in the evening, before closing. And I didn’t have any strength left: I took spare batteries for the camera, but I didn’t have spare legs.