Soviet Armored Cars, Carriers, Kubinka museum Hall N4

The Tank Museum in Kubinka. Pavilion N 4 – “Soviet armored vehicles, armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles

Tank museum an official catalogue*, P4 exhibits, (Soviet armored Cars and Carriers, BTR – amphibious armoured 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 serie
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 serie
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 serie
17. BTR-40B, 1957, armored carrier (armor covered), serial
18. БТР-40В, 1956, armored carrier, the small serie
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 serie
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, experomental 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 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

Time Machine. Back to the past of the pavilion.

2016 Entrance to the Pavilion of the Soviet armored vehicles, armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles. In the foreground is an exact copy of the armored cars used for the filming of movies and parade in honor of the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution (1967). Pay attention to the color of the Day tanker armored car has become more historical (see color earlier. Photo below)

Kubunka tank museum. Soviet armored cars, carriers BTR, BMP pavilion N4

Soviet armored cars, carriers (BTR, BMP) pavilion N4. Tank museum (Kubinka)

By the Day of the tank crew-2014, the management of the museum organized the corners of the “living history”, where classical exhibitions of military museums are represented – mannequins with uniform. Next to the armored car of the Great Patriotic War (initial period), samples of the military uniform of tankmen (replicas)  and armored units from the period 1935-1942 are presented.

униформа танкистов и бронечастей периода Великой Отечественной войны

uniform of tankmen and armored units of the Great Patriotic War

The correct (authentic) re-painting of the vehicles of the various historical periods, including WW2 and the “cold war”

советские броне-автомобили

Историческая окраска техники

In the pavilion there are the infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers, as being in the service of the Russian Army (serial models), as well as the experimental samples of the period of the USSR

Object N769. Experienced infantry fighing vehicle based on BMP-1

Object N769. Experienced infantry fighing vehicle based on BMP-1. Tank museum (Kubinka)

Боевая Машина Пехоты - БМП

In 2016, part of the armored vehicles of the period of the beginning of the Second World War were withdrawn from the exposition.

Tank museum (Kubinka). Soviet Armored Cars and Carriers (BTR, BMP), Pavilion N 4 Armored vehicles of World War two, Cold War and the Local Conflicts

The pavilion N4 shows armored vehicles (infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers – BTR, BMP), the armament of the Russian army and the experemental samples – period of the USSR

2003  Some exhibits (archives photos):

This is how the pavilion looked from the time the museum opened in 1972 until 2014. Cold walls. Monotonous green military (protective) color of the exhibits. A fence that cannot be entered.