Sevastopol a city destroyed Updated with new pics

[Savage]

Last year I was fortunate to travel to Sevastopol and Yalta Ukraine and see the many areas of conflict from the Crimean War to WWII to say the least there are many reminders of the conflicts that took place in this region and for the most part I took about 4000 pictures and burned out a digital camera in the process . Well there are many great places in and around Sevastopol there is the Black Sea museum , Nicholava, Panorama , Sapun mountain, Maxum Gorky II and the Balaclava Crimean war museum. I have started to just get to these pictures So I will start with the Black Sea museum it is predominately a Russian navy museum so it contents date back to conflicts that predate the Crimean war . I will publish photos every couple of days and I will focus on WWII During the German siege of Sevastopol the city was almost completely destroyed when the Germans captured Sevastopol only seven building were still standing when the Germans finally captured this port . Still standing and damaged Nicholava Battery , Vladimirsky Cathedral , St Vladimir's church at Chersonese , Panorama as well as another battery at the harbor entrance to Sevastopol . During the siege the Germans brought in a railway gun that fired from Simferopol about 75 km to the NE. it shelled both Sevastopol and Maxum Gorky II gun battery at the south end of peninsula .

a couple of Russian recovered rifles that were buried Mosin Nagant 91/30 ,SVT 40 , PPSH

Battlefield recovered German Army weapons and field gear

Captured Axis and German rifles

Recovered Iron crosses 1st Class and Battle ensign

Model of the rail way gun used to shell Sevastopol

Russian maxum machine gun

 

[Moparlover]

holey crap, great pix

 

[popymoy]

Thanks for pics

 

[bellero]

Thanks for sharing

 

[Nabs]

That Belgian 1889 carbine sure had an interesting life to end up in Sevastopol. Same with the two Gewehr 98ms.

The pile of Iron crosses is also interesting but what caught my eye was the huge Imperial German cross, was there any story behind that one ?

 

[buffdog]

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Thanks for sharing these interesting pictures. Looking forward to the rest.
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[joe n]

Incredible! Thank you!

 

[cyclone]

I love Crimean-era revolvers.........too bad the pics of them are kinda "fe and far between"....

 

[JAGDMORDER]

Someone had a bad day with the helmet.

 

[Savage]

This is only one of the many museums that deal with the WWII
Artifacts . As for the German imperial cross it was recovered in Sevastopol after the city was liberated from the Germans . It is interesting to note that all the items were actually used or were recovered in Sevastopol at the end of the conflict there . There is another museum that I will post pictures from it has some interesting items

 

[Nabs]

I just noticed the Luger is missing her magazine .

 

[harryhand]

Nice pics! When I went backpacking through Europe in the 90's I saw some really cool museums.Belgium actually has a couple really nice tank museums,and let's not forget the Deutsche museum in Munich!

 

[Hawkshadow]

wow that picture with all of the Iron Crosses hit me.. Thanks for sharing, looking forward to seeing more.

 

[Savage]

Nicholav battery is one of two surviving gun battery's that were built prior to the Crimean war the Sheremetiyev brothers purchased this derelict battery about 3 yrs ago and went about restoring the interior and left much of the small arms and artillery damage on the exterior intact the building was painted the same color as it was during WWII. So we will will start from there.

The walls are about 2 meters thick and there is some evidence of damage from direct fire on the inside .
When we entered the Museum we had the museums currator Daniel Berjistky give us an unrestricted tour of the museum . They are planning on installing non glare glass on all the cases in the future
The Museum has many uniforms from the Crimean War and from the Battle of Sevastopol but I will restrict the photos to WWII

The Museum has an impressive small arms collection the interesting thing is that all the small arms that are servicable are operational
Every body loves Maxums so we will start there

Maxum on a AA mount

Intersting mobile gun mount on a horse drawn carriage I asked Daniel about this he researched this carriage and it is authentic

interesting mount for the maxum the belt of ammunition is real and it is live ammunition and is from that period of time

This maxum was recovered in the battery when they were doing the restoration

Items recovered from the restoration

The museum also has made a few rooms into barracks rooms and were the soldiers fought from

and gun emplacements
There is a good selection of Soviet and captured German artifacts

Grenade body's and shrapnel

We come back to Imperial German army items these were recovered in Sevastopol after the liberation from the German army .

The museum also has a nice display of small arms

It is an interesting piece the Panzer Faust Yes it was deactivated .

 

[Nabs]

Wow, VERY impressive items.

It is on my list of places to visit .