Next up are full-size mockups.
Not only Soviet aircraft are on display, but also Allied aircraft.
There is information that the latter, if not exactly real, because it was restored from several, is still very close to the original.
The enemy is also presented.
And if the fighter is presented as a model, but in its entirety, then from the bomber only the cockpit is present. But the original.
The location ends with the largest exhibit, so large that it did not fit under the roof.
That is the one
One the gun there should be an anchor for the winch cable from the front of the carriage.
The gun slides into the cradle and housing, then the recuperator and recoil cylinders are bolted to the breech frame.
if you search for “Armchair General” on the website there are some other pictures in the gallery section of this and its cousin the BR-2 152mm heavy gun.
Also, while the “correct” method of transport was to remove the barrel and move the howitzer in two loads, after 1943 there are few photos that show that. Most of the time the howitzer was hooked on the limber and towed complete by some tractor.
Those with an especially keen eye were probably able to notice that in the aviation location there were a lot of things that were not airplanes, but related to them. Well, or can be related.
For example, aircraft engines, one of which I have already shown together with the Il-2. I am showing the rest.
And if the tanker fits perfectly into the aviation theme,
and the searchlight installation is more inclined towards anti-aviation,
then all-wheel drive passenger cars can be classified as anything.
Well, these are fine. But how did the amphibian fit into this?
It was so alien that I was so confused that I didn’t take a photo of the museum plaque. I screwed up!
Anti-aircraft exhibits are the largest group.
And such a thematic conclusion will allow us to smoothly move on to the next location.
PS. A few more general views before we leave here.
Looks like a Ford GPA. The windshield does look strange and might not be original but also not an expert on the vehicle. The GAZ-46 MAV was produced as replacement in the 50’s but a different design and using GAZ-69 parts. Interesting vehicle either way.
So, anti-aircraft gun after anti-aircraft gun, and we will enter the open space of the next, artillery location. The guns are also lined up in two rows, but they are denied a canopy.
They are presented as widely known examples, standing in many museums and venues of the country,
and quite rare, and never seen by me before,
including modifications of well-known models.
Or even experimental samples, sometimes in a single copy.
Mountain guns have their own specific charm – I never miss them.
Look at the design: a folding bicycle!
A single mortar has crept into this cannon community,
That, it would seem, is all.
But there are still gun that have been moved to the forefront.
The next location is located separately from the rest of the exhibition. So much so that you have to go beyond one fenced perimeter and enter another, at the entrance to which you will again be asked for a ticket.
That’s why they warn you at the box office to keep your tickets until the end of the session. I warn you too. And doubly so: to return to the original perimeter, you have to show your ticket again.
The subject of the location is fully reflected in its name, so I’ll just silently post photos of the exhibits, especially since, out of stupidity, I snapped almost all of them.
Oddly enough, but again guns: they all didn’t fit in the previous location!
I wish someone would make a kit like this in 1/35 scale.
By this point I had already “eaten” a bit too many guns, so I didn’t have the patience or health to take pictures of these.
There was armored vehicles and artillery, here – aviation: planes and helicopters. But otherwise they are all in one place.
Let’s go in numerological order, not chronological.
Quite a few bombs at one site.
And further on there is a small helicopter area.
Haven’t lost your ticket yet? Then let’s move on!
To be continued…
Wow! And wow again!
Fantastic pictures so many thanks for posting them all.
We reached the strangest location. It is almost entirely located in the forest, and in this respect it fully corresponds to the term “partisan”. But in terms of content – there is nothing in common.
Geographically, in this territory, but substantively outside the theme of the location, large-caliber guns are placed in camouflaged positions.
Plus, in the thicket of the forest there are two camouflaged anti-aircraft positions.
For a long time I could not understand why such a digital index was assigned to the exhibits, because number 6 is assigned to modern equipment, and this equipment is clearly not modern. Until I accidentally and in a completely different place saw a plan of the museum in the version of the previous zoning. In it, under number 6 is listed “Artillery of the Reserve of the General Command, armored equipment.” And the signs are apparently old.
A field kitchen could be considered a guerrilla theme, but this is also a bit of a stretch.
So there are two contenders left for this one: a laser tag site
or the rope town.
To be continued…
Not every time I visited here I managed to get to this location. Most often, I turned around tiredly and, on wooden legs, walked to the metro.
And even if I did get there, due to my landlocked nature, I didn’t pay enough attention.
Having emerged from the partisan thicket, you discover this lake pastoral.
However, we won’t go to the water yet. We’ll walk along the shore, turning left, as most normal men do.
If earlier the main driving force in the navy was sails, now it’s propellers. We’ll start with them.
It is interesting that I never found exhibits #1 and #2 of this location. I will have to look for them on my next visit.
In the meantime, let’s walk along the line of naval artillery installations.
The last one can be easily missed: either it was well camouflaged from the start, or it has been here for a long time and has become overgrown.
Looking back,
you involuntarily notice something global on the other bank.
Looking at this, you involuntarily wonder: what kind of cannon should go with this barrel?
Immediately, turning 180 degrees, you get a complete and exhaustive idea about this!
And now we can go to the water.
In the first, smaller pond, are presented:
torpedo boat and
submarine conning tower.
On the other side of the pond, we didn’t look at a few more exhibits:
torpedo tube
and the torpedoes themselves for it.
The most attentive could notice a match hidden under the barrel, which was actually not a small anchor.
On the way back I couldn’t resist admiring all this splendor once more against the backdrop of the Memorial Mosque!
The second pond of the location is not only larger, but also the upper one with a clearly visible difference in water level.
The initial hilliness still had an effect.
Although the location is marine, let’s first look at a couple of land exhibits so that we don’t get distracted later.
On the shore of the pond there is a monument to the sailors who died defending Moscow.
On the opposite bank, another submarine cabin is installed.
The above-water exhibits are presented in a rather clever way.
The transparency of the water allows us to see that the ship is not afloat, but on supports.
I wonder why no one bathes in such water? Is it because of the prohibitory signs or mines placed for swimmers?
Or maybe it’s just because I filmed all this in October.
The second “marine” exhibit is not a ship at all, but an emulation of one.
However, this does not detract from the entertainment at all. And already on this fenced-off piece of the embankment, exhibits are arranged in an almost logically justified order.
Here I will show some of them in numerological order.
And almost at the exit from the location, the anchor will delay us for a minute,
reminding us of the need to look back.
And we will go further, to where the exhibit of the last location of this museum is visible.
To be continued …
