About the Museum

The Chernihiv Military History Museum (Ukrainian: Чернігівський військово-історичний музей) or Chernihiv Museum of Military Glory - a museum in Chernihiv, a department of the Chernihiv Regional Historical Museum named after V. V. Tarnovsky. The museum was moved twice before ending up in the current location, where it was ceremonially opened on May 9 (Victory Day) in 1981 by the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev. On 21 June 1996, the museum was accorded its current status of the National Museum by the special decree signed by Leonid Kuchma, the then-President of Ukraine.