152-мм гаубица-пушка образца 1937 года (МЛ-20)

The ML-20 152mm gun-howitzer was the Red Army's principal heavy artillery piece throughout World War II, capable of firing shells weighing up to 44 kilograms across a range of 17 kilometers. It played a direct role in the Battle of Stalingrad (1942–43), where Soviet artillery helped encircle and destroy Germany's Sixth Army in one of the war's most decisive engagements. This preserved example is displayed as an outdoor exhibit in Volgograd — the city, renamed from Stalingrad in 1961, remains one of Russia's foremost sites of World War II commemoration. For visitors interested in military history, it offers a close-up look at the hardware that defined Soviet artillery doctrine during the Eastern Front.