The Kubinka Tank Museum is a large military museum in Kubinka, Odintsovsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russia where tanks, armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs) and their relevant information are displayed and showcased. The museum consists of open-air and indoor permanent exhibitions of many famous tanks and armored vehicles from throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. It also houses and displays many unique, unusual and one-of-a-kind military vehicles of which there are very few remaining examples, such as the German Panzer VIII Maus super-heavy tank, Troyanov's Object 279 Kotin heavy tank, the Karl-Gerät heavy self-propelled artillery, and the Object 120 Su-152 "Taran" tank destroyer, amongst other single or limited-production prototypes from the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.
Entrance
Image: Шеврон танкового музея Кубинка
Kugelpanzer at Kubinka
Panzer I Ausf. F in the Kubinka Tank Museum
Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus was a German World War II super-heavy tank completed in July of 1944. It is the heaviest fully enclosed armored fighting vehicle ever built. Five were ordered, but only two hulls and one turret were completed, the turret being attached before the testing grounds were captured by advancing Soviet military forces.
The Maus hybrid V1/V2 prototype at the Kubinka Tank Museum, Russia (2009)
The "contact-shoe" and "connector-link" track design of the Maus' suspension system
The rear of the Maus in the Kubinka tank museum
Hall for the "Maus" on the New Verskraft, Army Experimental Station Kummersdorf, 2013