"Zaitseva Gora" Military Historical Museum was opened in 1972, on May 9, the Victory Day. This place, which is two hours away from Kaluga, was chosen not coincidentally. Zaitseva Gora accepted bloody battles from January 1942 to spring of 1943. The Soviet army, which had losses of several tens of thousands soldiers, managed to win back Zaitseva Gora from the fascist invaders.
The exposition of "Zaitseva Gora" Museum is dedicated not only to the battles for this mountain: separate exhibitions tell about the partisan movement and the people's militia in this region, the liberation of the occupied areas of the Kaluga Region. Here you can see personal belongings of soldiers, maps of battles, combat weapons and mock-ups of the battlefield. The museum complex includes a memorial with a monument to the fallen soldiers, a shell crater 100 meter in diameter, formed during the battles on Zaitseva Gora, several soldiers' graves and a chapel church. In the courtyard of the museum there is a tank T-34 and ZIS-3 gun.