Buynaksk Museum of Military Glory

About museum

The museum was opened in 1985 and is a branch of the National Museum of Dagestan named after A. Taho-Godi. Its collection contains more than 450 exhibits. The museum is located in the oldest building of the first capital of Dagestan, where famous figures stayed, such as the eminent surgeon N. Pirogov, the novelist Alexandre Dumas (senior), the writer A. Bestuzhev-Marlinsky, the poet A. Polezhayev, the artist G. Gagarin, and renowned commanders of the Caucasian War. Here you can learn about events related to the establishment of a military infantry school in 1939 and about labor achievements on the home front by city artels, as well as about soldiers who took part in the Great Patriotic War. The museum holds artifacts from the battlefields on the land of Stalingrad, German household items, shell fragments, casings, cartridges, helmets, and an authentic map of Berlin seized from a captured German major.