100 mm field gun M1944 (BS-3)

The BS-3 100 mm field gun (factory index 52-P-412) is a Soviet artillery piece developed in 1944 and deployed in the final phase of World War II. Designed primarily as an anti-tank gun, its high muzzle velocity allowed it to penetrate the armor of heavy German tanks at combat ranges. The example displayed in Kharkiv stands as an open-air memorial in a city that changed hands four times during the war, making it one of the most fiercely contested urban battlegrounds on the Eastern Front. For visitors interested in military history, the preserved original offers a tangible look at Soviet artillery engineering of the 1940s.