The musket is a 78 cm steel smoothbore. The diameter of the breech of the barrel is Ø мах. 27 mm, while the diameter of the muzzle of the barrel is only 19 mm. The calibre may also vary. Closer to the muzzle end the bore hole is shaped as an uneven circle with the diameter of 13 mm. The barrel is attached to the polished redwood stock. The buttstock is of an Arabic type. During the restoration of the musket the stock was equipped with a wooden lock with a metal staple attached with two pins. Besides screws, the barrel is also attached to the stock with three brass clamps of different width. It is also equipped with a flintlock mechanism that used to be extremely popular in France in the late 18th century and early 19th century. The buttstock and the trigger guard are both made of brass. The touchhole is located in the breech, on the right side of the barrel. There is also a hole for a ramrod in the top part of the stock. The recreated ramrod is 58 mm long. Such muskets were used in Afghanistan in the late 19th century and early 20th century to fight against British colonizers.
Flintlock (musket)
Afghanistan ,
01.11.1987
МЗСБ КП 22072 П 887
111,5 х 12,5 х 6 cm
steel, wood, brass, handmade
A gift from the Afghan government delegation led by Mohammad Najibullah, the Chairman of the Revolutionary Council of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, to the Panorama Museum "Battle of Stalingrad", [Great Britain, India]
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Scarf. Present from the delegation of the Supreme Advisory Council of Indonesia led by Roeslan Abdulgani
Indonesia ,
04.05.1961
Scarf. Present from the delegation of the Supreme Advisory Council of Indonesia led by Roeslan Abdulgani
Present from the delegation of the Supreme Advisory Council of Indonesia led by Roeslan Abdulgani to the Tsaritsyn - Stalingrad Museum of Defense
Cross from the roof nails of the Cathedral Coventry
The United Kingdom ,
24.06.1959
Cross from the roof nails of the Cathedral Coventry
A gift from the abbot of the Coventry Cathedral to the abbot of the Kazan Cathedral of Stalingrad, 1959. West Midlands county, Coventry
Glass melted during the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
Japan ,
June, 1966
Glass melted during the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
Glass melted during the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. A gift from the delegation of the Japan-USSR Friendship Society, June 1966