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RUSSIAN CENTRAL AIR FORCE MUSEUM at MONINO
EXHIBITS
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Models of aircraft:
Mozhaisky, Bleriot, Wrights, Voisin, De
Havilland, Farman-30, LVG(Luft Verkehrs Gesellshaft), Sopwith,
Ilya
Muromets, Grizodubov, Morane-G, Nieuport, Svyatogor.
Engines:
Gabriel Iona steam-engine (3cyl.,1887); O.S.Kostovitch
(1883-1885), Wrights (4 cyl., 1907-1910), Antuannet (4 cyl., 1908-1909), Anzani
(3 cyl., 1909), Argues (6 cyl., 1910), Kalep-Gnome (7cyl., 1913), Ufimtsev ADU-4
(6 cyl., 1910), Grizodubov (4 cyl., 1908), Gnome (7 cyl.), Salmson (9 cyl.,),
T.-F.Kalep (1913) gas and piston engines.
Propellers:
low-speed p. of airship, 2-blade p. (1914-1915),
4-blade p., designed by Zhukovsky.
Ammunition:
iron-cast arrows.
Stands:
Russian scientists and aviation; Aviation science and
engineering; First Russian pilots; Aircraft before the Revolution; Development
of aircraft combat employment; Lenin and aviation; Red flyers - the Heroes of
the Civil War; Operations of the Red Air Fleet on the Civil War's fronts
(1918-1921).
Show-cases:
Personal things, letters, documents and awards of
pilots - S.Nikitin, N.Kudryavtsev, I.Petrozhitsky, I.Voedilo, F.G.Shkudov;
Articles of uniform and equipment: I.Petrozhitsky's flight helmet, head gear of
a Red military flyer, barometric altimeter attached to a pilot's knee.
Flags:
Red Banner of the 35th separate air flight.
Photo panels:
Lifting of Kryakutny's balloon;
Khodynskoe
field;
Towing of one of the first gliders;
Airplanes on the Gatchino Air
School's airfield;
Captive balloon on the Red Square.
Oils:
S.Kirov arrives from Astrakhan (A.Zhabo); Starting
(E.Melnikov);
O.Shmidt before departure from the Cheluskin camp
(Reshetnikov).
Sculptures:
A.Popov (unkn.), K.Tsiolkovsky (Grozov), M.Frunze
(unkn.) - busts; V.Lenin and a Red Army man (Scherbakov).
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Aircraft:
Letatlin flapflyer.
Models of aircraft:
I-15, I-16, I-153, I-5, R-5, Sh-2, R-1, IP-1,
Po-2, TB-1 (ANT-4), TB-3 (ANT-6), SB (ANT-40), Rodina (ANT-37bis), ANT-25,
M.Gorky (ANT-20) aircraft
Airships V-1, MS-2, V-5, V-6, Tsiolkovsky (project)
Aircraft engines:
M-5, AM-34RN - in production, Uvarov rotary
(1933-1940), Starostin (1923) - experimental.
Bomb and gun sights:
OPB-1, OPB-2, PAB-6, ASB, ESBR-2, PVBT-1,
PS-1, mechanical bomb sight of Po-2, SPB-22, NKPB-1D, OPB-1D, PBL-1, PAK-1,
KP-1, OPT-2, PAN-23, OP-L, PMP-2
Ammunition:
AO-2.5-2, ZAB-2.5-1, AO-2.5, AO-10, AO-10-6.5,
ZAB-2.5, AO-15, AO-8, AO-25-35, FAB-100, OFAB-100. PLAB-100, FOTAB-50-35,
ZAB-50, OFAB-100, SAB-25 bombs; V-390, RD fuses; ShKAS-7.62 turret machine-gun
(replica).
Radio equipment:
AK-1 first radio phone transmitter; 14s-1 (1926)
radio communication set;
SPU-F (1939) aircraft interphone system.
Stands:
Aircraft engineering development; Air Force combat
employment; Air navigation; Aircraft gunnery; Air records; Performing
international duty; Defense of the Soviet borders; Air personnel training;
Bombardment armament; Development of engines production; Air Force before the
Great Patriotic War.
Show-cases:
Personal things, awards, letters and documents of air
commanders, pilots and navigators - I.Spirin, A.Belyakov, V.Chkalov,
I.Gluschenko, M.Vedenin, A.Kuznetsov; books of various authors; badges and
insignia.
Turnstile books:
Evacuation of Cheluskin's team (1934); Soviet
help to Republican Spain (1936-1939);
Help of the Soviet pilots to the
Chinese people (1937-1941).
Gromov's corner:
Documents, personal things, pieces of furniture,
sports facilities, flight suits of outstanding Russian test-pilot
M.Gromov.
Oils:
A.Loktionov (Rodionov), Ya.Smushkevich (Kachalina),
Ya.Alksnis (Ananyev), P.Baranov (Feldman) - portraits;
Ordzhonikidze greets
V.Chkalov (unkn.).
Sculpture busts:
Ya.Alksnis (Vasilyev), I.Spirin (Nitov),
P.Baranov (Shilnikov), V.Chkalov (unkn.).
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Aircraft:
Po-2, R-5, La-7, Yak-9u, Il-2, Pe-2,
King Cobra P-63 combat planes; I-16, MiG-3
full-scale replicas of combat planes; BI-1 full-scale replica of experimental
jet interceptor; Ivenson "Josef Unshlikht" or "Thaika" glider; Nevdachin
"Burevestnik" motor-glider.
Models of aircraft:
Su-2, Il-4, Yak-1, Il-2, La-5, Pe-2,
Aerocobra P-39.
Aircraft engines:
VK-105PF, M-11, M-17, AM-38, ASh-82FN, ASh-62IR
piston; Dushkin two-chamber liquid propellant rocket.
Armament:
N-37, VYa-23, ShVAK-20, B-20 guns, U-12.7, UB-12.7,
UBT-12.7, ShKAS-7.62, Ultra ShKAS-7.62, SN-7.62 machine-guns.
Ammunition:
FAB-500, ZAB-500-300TSh with AGDT fuse, MAB-250 with
AMA fuse, FAB-250TsK M-44 with AVD fuse, ROSAB-250, RBK-250, OFAB-210-270,
FAB-100, OFAB-100, AO-50-100, AO-25 with AMA fuse, PTAB-2.5-1.5, PTAB-2.5 bombs;
AMA, DTs-533 fuses; RS-132, ROFS-132 rocket projectiles; 12.7, 7.62 mm rounds,
23, 37 mm shells.
Sights:
OPB-1R, NKPB-4, PKI, PBP-1.
Radio equipment:
RSIU-3 (1948),RSI-6 (1944), RSU-5 (1947), RSB-70M
(1950), RSB-3bis (1942) radio communication sets; RPKO-10M (1943) radio
semicompass; RB-2 radio altimeter; SPU-2 (1952), SPU-5 (1949) aircraft
interphone systems; RP-2 (1950) glide path receiver; MRP-56P marker receiver;
KRP-F (1950) heading receiver.
Stands:
The beginning of the Great Patriotic War; Moscow battle;
Defense of Leningrad; Stalingrad battle; Kuban fighting; Kursk battle;
Completing phase of the War; Alaska-Siberia-front ferry route; Combat paths of
air forces; Chronicle of the War; Losses of the USSR Armed Forces; Meetings of
combat friends; Normandie-Nieman air regiment; Test-pilots of the Air Force.
Show-cases:
Personal things and awards of L.Litvinova, N.Rusakova,
O.Yamschikova, A.Timofeeva (Egorova), A.Kochetkov, A.Lokhanov, S.Ushakov,
M.Galkin, D.Tarasov, V.Strelchenko, B.Eryomin, F.Bely, S.Krassovsky,
A.Pokryshkin, A.Vorozheikin, M.Devyatyev, F.Falaleev, A.Lozhechnikov,
N.Shimanov; Stalingrad battle's ground; Barentsov sea's water from the place
where B.Safronov perished; Remains of P.Artyukhin plane; Newspaper articles,
leaflets, books, albums.
Turnstile books: A.Bereznyak; 70 years anniversary of A.Isayev.
Photo panels:
Results of aviation ground attack in the
Byelorussian operation (V.Lebedev); Il-2 on the front airfield (V.Lebedev); Po-2
over its target (V.Lebedev); Meeting of the crew; Soviet fighter hovers over
downed fascist plane (V.Lebedev); Il-2 over the battle field (V.Lebedev); Crew
of the night bomber.
Oils:
Moscow battle (A.Brevnov, P.Tarasov), Berlin battle
(Feldman, Ananyev) - triptychs; Aviation take part in the Stalingrad battle
(unkn.); IL-2 over the battle field (Fedulov); Aerocobra performs ram (unkn.);
I.Kozhedub (E.Ermilov), A.Pokryshkin (G.Arsenov, N.Sheffer, 1962) - portraits.
Sculpture busts:
K.Zhukov (unkn.), S.Krassovsky (unkn.),
F.Falaleev (unkn.), R.Gasheva (Rayzman), N.Gelman (Rayzman), A.Efimov (Dyuzhev),
N.Skomorokhov (L.S.Chaus), A.Pokryshkin (Pavlova), I.Kozhedub (Kepikov),
P.Pokryshev (Tomsky), V.Talalikhin (unkn.), A.F.Kovachevich (G.Kolpakova),
A.Katrich (M.Lastochkin), D.Glinka (I.Pershudchev).
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Flags:
1st guards long range air corps; 1st guards attack air
corps; 78th guards attack air regiment; 1st Vitebsk guards bomber air corps; 1st
Minsk fighter air corps; 2nd guards attack air division; 35th bomber air
regiment.
Stands:
Soviet Air Force in Berlin operation; Rout of militarist
Japan; Pilots awarded with the title of The Hero of the Soviet Union two times;
Air forces commanders; Great historical Victory; Combat contribution of aviation
to the Victory; 35 years to the AF Museum.
Show-cases:
Newspapers, leaflets, books and gifts to the Museum;
Personal things and awards of S.Krassovsky, A.Scherbakov, K.Vershinin,
A.Tischenko, A.Medvedev, N.Belanin, S.Rudenko.
Turnstile books:
1st guards long range air corps; 2nd guards
fighter air division; Combat path of the 2nd fighter air corps; 1st guards
fighter air regiment; 482th Kovensky fighter air regiment; Aviators awarded with
orders of Glory.
Diorama:
Berlin assault (P.Koretsky, A.Khmelnitsky).
Photo panels (V.Lebedev):
Bombers over their target, Fighters
going combat mission, Yak-9 fighters, Pe-2 over its target, Il-4 over its
target.
Sculptures:
Brotherhood (K.Pokorny); M.Egorov (I.Pershudchev),
M.Kantaria (I.Pershudchev), A.Sudets (unkn.), A.Maresyev
(Fedorova-Maklashevskaya) - busts.
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Cockpit of MiG-21 jet.
Aircraft engines:
AM-5 turbojet.
Models:
An-12, An-22,
An-124, M aircraft; Mi-6, Mi-8, Mi-10, Mi-12, Mi-14, Ka-22 helicopters; 1st, 2nd
and 3rd soviet sputniks; Military airfield.
Armament:
NR-23, NS-23, N-37, GSh-23, GSh-6-30, GSh-6-23, NR-30,
R-23 guns; A-12.7, four-barrel 12.7 mm machine-guns.
Ammunition:
S-5, S-21, S-24, S-3K rockets; R-60, R-3R, R-3S,
K-13M, RS-2-US air-to-air missiles, X-66, X-23 air-to-surface missiles; KS-1
air-to-surface winged missile; UB-8, UB-16, UB-32 tube launchers.
Sights:
ASP-3NM, ASP-5N, OPB-5S gun and bomb sights; S-13, KP2-2,
PAU-437 photo guns.
Ejection seat:
KS-4-4-22, MiG-19's, K-36DM.
Stands:
Development of aviation after War; The AF personnel
training; Performing international duty; Heroic deeds of peaceful time;
April,12,1961; Salut-Soyuz space complex; 30 years to cosmonautics; In the sky
of North Korea.
Show-cases:
Personal things and awards of Y.Bukalo, V.Shevchuk,
G.Eliseev, A.Zhukov; Some items of pilot's flight equipment; MSK sea rescue
suit; VKK-6M, VKK-3M , KKO-1 pressurized high altitude suits; E.Khrunov space
suit; P.Belyaev flight suit; Oxygen equipment items; Shoulder boards, chevrons,
service badges, flight insignia; Soviet and Russian dress, service and field
uniforms.
Turnstile books:
Military uniforms of 1918-1940; Military uniforms
of 1940-1956.
Photo panels (V.Lebedev):
To the frozen sky; The sky calls;
Honorable test-pilot of the USSR Y.A.Antipov; Su-15 in flight; MiG-23 over
clouds; An-22 over clouds; Fighters; MiG-21 in the air; Missile carriers.
Sculpture busts:
P.Kutakhov (G.Postnikov), S.P.Korolev (unkn.),
Y.Gagarin ( G.Kolpakova).
Debris of Powers' Lockheed U-2 spy aircraft.
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Aircraft:
U-2, UT-2, Su-2,
I-15bis, Farman-IV (replica), Sopwith,
Voisin, Ilya
Muromets (replica), ANT-25 (replica), ANT-2,
Turbolyot
(experimental).
Stratospheric balloon's pressurized nacelles:
USSR-1, Volga.
Gliders:
A-11, LAK-9M "Letuva", A-15,KAI-19M, A-13M, Kashuk,
Tupolev glider, Sukhanov
diskoplanes.
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Aircraft of the Great Patriotic War
Li-2, Tu-2, Il-10, A-20
Boston, DB-3,
SB (ANT-40),
B-25 Mitchell.
Aircraft of the Post-War period
Tupolev design bureau:
Tu-4, Tu-16, Tu-22, Tu-22M, Tu-16K,
Tu-128, Tu-95,
Tu-104A, Tu-114, Tu-124, Tu-144, M-141.
Ilyushin design bureau:
Il-28, Il-12,
Il-18, Il-62.
Yakovlev design bureau:
Yak-17, Yak-23, Yak-25, Yak-25RV,
Yak-27R, Yak-28L, Yak-36, Yak-38, Yak-24, Yak-40,
Yak-42.
Mil design bureau:
Mi-1, Mi-4, Mi-6,
Mi-10, Mi-2, Mi-8, Mi-24, Mi-24V, Mi-12 (V-12), Mi-26.
Kamov design bureau:
Ka-25K, Ka-26.
Mikoyan and Gurevich design bureau:
MiG-9, MiG-15 bis, MiG-15
UTI, MiG-17, MiG-19PM, MiG-21PFS,
MiG-21I (analog of Tu-144),
MiG-23
(experimental), MiG-23, MiG-25RB, MiG-25, MiG-31,
MiG-29
(prototype), Ye-166 (experimental), 2-nd stage of the
space orbital plane.
Myasischev design bureau:
3M, M-50,
M-17.
Lavochkin design bureau:
La-15, La-250.
Antonov design bureau:
An-2, An-14, An-8,
An-10, An-12, An-22,
An-24.
Beriev design bureau:
Be-12,
Be-32.
ÎÊÁ Ñóõîãî:
Ñó-25, Ñó-7Á,
Ñó-7Ë, Ñó-7ÁÊË,
Ñó-17M, Ñó-9,
Ñó-11, Ñó-15,
Ñó-24, T-6-1
(ýêñïåðèìåíòàëüíûé), Ñó-27 (T-10), Ñó-35, Ñó-100
(T-4)
Other aircraft:
Vertol-44, M-15.
Bombs:
OFAB-100-120, FAB-250, FAB-1000, FAB-1500, FAB-2000,
FAB-3000, FAB-5000, FAB-9000.
Armament suspensions are installed at each combat aircraft
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