Музей обороны Туапсе, Military history museum in Tuapse, Russia.
The Defense Museum of Tuapse is a military history museum on the Black Sea coast displaying weapons, photographs, documents, and military equipment from World War II. The collection focuses on operations that occurred during Soviet resistance against German advances in the region.
The museum was founded in 1999 to commemorate Soviet defensive operations from 1942 to 1943, when the city resisted German attacks along the Black Sea. These events remain central to how the local community remembers its past.
The Hall of Memory is named for the defenders of Tuapse and centres on a diorama by painter O. V. Sidorov showing the view from the window of the destroyed Pushkin Library on Tserkovnaya Hill (Hill of Heroes) in 1942, during a German air raid. The hall also displays photographs, personal belongings, awards and letters of home-front workers, alongside images of ruined buildings.
The exhibition occupies two halls and draws on more than 1,500 items gathered by search expeditions on the battle sites around Mount Semashkho, Gunay, Indyuk and Saray-Gora. The first hall holds the three-dimensional relief map of the Black Sea coast from Dzhubga to Sochi, made by hand by museum staff and volunteers over two months.
The outdoor area displays original military vehicles and equipment that were used during the defense of the Black Sea coast. These artifacts offer a direct sense of the machinery soldiers operated during that conflict.
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