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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Framed photo under glass. Memorial ceremony at the monument to civilian victims of Nazism in Cours-Saint-Etienne
Belgium ,
29.09.1973
Framed photo under glass. Memorial ceremony at the monument to civilian victims of Nazism in Cours-Saint-Etienne
A gift from the veterans of Belgium partisans to the veterans of the Battle of Stalingrad, Walloon Brabant province
Brochure “Stalingrad, the epic in the current war” (Stalingrado, Una epopeya en la guerra actual)
Argentina ,
7.09.1944
Brochure “Stalingrad, the epic in the current war” (Stalingrado, Una epopeya en la guerra actual)
Brochure with the text of a lecture by Lieutenant General Alexis Schwartz - a Russian emigrant, a teacher at the Argentine Military Academy. The lecture was delivered in March 1943 and is the first public professional analysis of the strategy and tactics of the Battle of Stalingrad.
The author’s inscription on the title page: "To the Museum of Defense of Stalingrad / Let the history of defense / be preserved in memory of peoples / forever for the glory of the Russian arms. / 7 / IX 1944."
Buenos Aires
Box with a lid
China ,
May 1954
Box with a lid
A gift from the delegation of Chinese cultural workers who visited Stalingrad in May 1954. The jewel box is made with the use of cloisonné technique and decorated with floral ornaments. The inside of the box is finished with monochrome enamel (cobalt).