Which 1991 festival tour included Metallica’s concert at Tushino Airfield in Moscow?

The Monsters of Rock festival tour included Metallica’s 1991 concert at Tushino Airfield in Moscow. The show took place on September 28, 1991, during the album’s first major international touring period.

The Moscow concert was described as the first free outdoor Western rock concert in Soviet history. Estimates of attendance vary widely, with commonly cited figures ranging from about 150,000 to 500,000 people. Some unofficial estimates were even higher, so the exact audience size should not be presented as settled fact.

Metallica’s appearance at the festival was part of the band’s wider activity around The Black Album, but it was not the name of the album’s dedicated support tour. That tour was called the Wherever We May Roam Tour and began separately.

The Moscow event is often remembered as a symbol of rock music’s expanding reach at the end of the Soviet era. It also appears in the second part of A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica, which documents the band’s touring and performances after the album’s release.