Where did Metallica play the final concert of its 1991 Monsters of Rock tour supporting The Black Album?

Metallica played the final concert of its 1991 Monsters of Rock tour at Tushino Airfield in Moscow.

The concert took place on September 28, 1991, shortly after The Black Album was released. It was described as the first free outdoor Western rock concert in Soviet history, making the event important beyond Metallica’s own touring story.

Estimates of attendance varied widely, but contemporary accounts commonly placed the crowd between roughly 150,000 and 500,000 people. The uncertainty came from the open setting, the lack of conventional ticketing, and the difficulty of counting a huge crowd spread across an airfield.

Tushino Airfield is sometimes confused with Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium because both are major concert locations in the city. The Monsters of Rock event, however, was held at the airfield and featured a large festival lineup including Metallica, AC/DC, and Pantera.