Dioramas At The Military History Museum In Almaty

Nothing like a stirring Great Patriotic War battle re-creation to dump you into intense history. The Military History Museum of the Ministry of Defense of Kazakhstan has a few dioramas to illustrate war vividly.

Epic Soviet battle during the winter. Don't forget your white jacket, pants set!

Hunkering down in a trench. Always lead with your pistol.

Tending to the eerily content wounded. Is that medic a woman or a communist hippie?

Calm before storms. Coat and machine gun hanging in a cabin. Communication post up in the mountains.

Death arrives. Grim.

Visiting Almaty's Military History Museum

Or its mouthful name, Military History Museum of the Ministry of Defense of Kazakhstan. Seems imposing. Actually, a bit modest as former Soviet war machine, propaganda temples go. Almaty's slender museum is no match for behemoth's like the one in Minsk.

Emblematic entrance.

Uniforms are always good items to display. Do you turf or surf?

Galleries are modest in scope, more like conference rooms with a bunch of cases.

Heavy metal, canteens and bombs. Fill it up to bring it down. History is written. A letter from President Roosevelt, a big, mash note thank you for defending Leningrad. who else was going to do it?

Flying the colors (red). The flag on the left commemorates the heroic work of the 374 anti-aircraft company.