Have you heard about the Military Technical Museum, which recently opened near the science city of Chernogolovka? The museum's creators have done an incredible job of collecting and restoring the amazing exhibits that can be seen just a few tens of kilometers from Moscow. A flying saucer, Stalin's armored car, the reliability of which he tested on living people, the car of the movie character directed by Yakin and much more. We are glad that we met the museum staff who know how to talk about their “brainchild” in such a way that one question arises: “Why haven’t I visited this museum before?!” We present to your attention a short fascinating tour of the Military Technical Museum, written by its employees, after which, I am sure, you will have no doubt where to get out of Moscow this coming weekend.

Hello! We are glad to welcome you to the Military Technical Museum! One of the youngest museums in the Moscow region is intriguing with its collection - we present the evolution of technical thought from a cart to a flying saucer. And now we will try to follow this path, which our exhibits have traversed through an amazing thread of the intricacies of history. More than 400 units different eras, factories, countries are collected in our museum. Even a simple listing of tactical and technical characteristics will take at least four hours. Therefore, we will focus on iconic exhibits that became an event for a certain time.

Military Technical Museum in Chernogolovka

So let's start from the beginning.

Tachanka

All our ideas about it are connected with history Civil War in Russia. But the prototype of the combat unit appeared much earlier: 1200 chariots supported the infantry Ancient Egypt. But our cart is a completely different story, a completely different tactical application and a completely different design. This is exactly what it was in service with the Red Army until 1956, and it was called in regulatory documents - a combat machine-gun cart for cavalry units. The skeleton that arrived at our restoration workshops represented only the outlines of the once famous combat unit: half-decayed wooden parts, many of which were lost, rusty and cracked metal components. It was possible to restore the structure only using the original drawings, which we found after a long search at the Serdobsky plant in the Penza region. Our efforts were crowned with success only after a year of difficult work by our craftsmen. And now all the elements are ready and painted, the structure is assembled, the machine-gun frame is installed. By the way, at the beginning of the 20th century, two types of machine guns were installed: a Lewis system machine gun or a Maxim system machine gun. But the choice remained with the “Maxim”: it was stable when firing from a standard machine gun, gave good accuracy and allowed very precise fire control. So, the design is ready, now we needed to make sure that our cart is a real combat unit. For testing, we first harnessed a couple of horses. But it turned out that the weight of the equipped and equipped unit, which weighs more than a ton, they can only “pull” along a good road; a cart with a pair of horses stood in the field. We added a couple more - and our cart took off!

Frankly speaking, there are not so many such carts. The rumor about ours immediately spread to all collectors and specialists. A year of difficult work, mistakes and unexpected technical discoveries culminated in a well-deserved event - the cart was invited to participate in the November Parade on Red Square. And on November 7, 2010, our cart received well-deserved applause from all participants and spectators of the parade. And for six years now, the cart we restored has been a constant participant in festive historical parades, theatrical reenactments of the fighting of the First and Second World Wars, and the exhibit with which our exposition begins.

ZiS 110B

Our next story is about an amazing car - ZiS 110B. Famous ZiSs. Despite the fact that these cars were produced for only a short time - from 1949 to 1957 - they became a symbol of post-war life in the country of the Soviets. They owed their appearance to Stalin. It was he, with his characteristic ambitions, who demanded that the designers create a “Soviet Packard”. We will not go into details of the entire “Zisov” family - there are many twists and turns, but we will focus on our ZiS-110B with a phaeton body. Over the course of 8 years, the Likhachev plant, in those years named after Stalin, produced a little more than 40 such machines. The history of our car is perhaps one of the most interesting. We found this ZiS at the Sverdlovsk film studio in those difficult times when the entire film production industry was on the verge of bankruptcy. The car was almost completely dismantled. It was missing a starter, radiator, signals, radio, clock, knobs and switches, and not to mention the body! In general, this skeleton could hardly be called a car. But this is the same handsome movie hero who starred in the film “True Friends” and it was in him in the famous film “Ivan Vasilyevich Changes His Profession” that director Yakin sat so proudly and imposingly. In general, short negotiations and the car was transferred to the museum. The film studio employees themselves understood that they would not be able to provide the car with proper care and restoration. Having taken responsibility for the car, we had to bury ourselves more than once in the original drawings and documents in search of information. And this digging in the archives revealed to us another interesting fact in the car's biography. It turned out that before her “film” part of her life, she carried out military service in the Ural Military District. And these were precisely those years when the commander of the district, by order of the then minister armed forces Nikolai Bulganin, Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov was appointed. This ZiS 110B was the marshal's parade car. We decided to restore this part of the car’s biography, changing the black “film” color to gray-turquoise. It was precisely this color, coinciding with the color of the marshal's overcoat, that was chosen for the ceremonial phaetons.

And so the restoration work began. We completely overhauled the engine and restored the body. We had to re-make many elements of interior fittings, floor carpeting, awning, branding, moldings and handles, based on drawings and knowledge of specialists. The work lasted four years. But we are all the more proud that our museum ZiS 110B phaeton is one of the most the best cars of this series, which, in addition to complete authenticity, has retained its excellent driving performance. Today this car takes part in many ceremonial parades and represents not only the era, but also the Military Technical Museum.

Aircraft "EKiP L2-3", 1993

Aircraft

One of the most amazing exhibits of our museum is the EKiP non-airfield amphibious aircraft. I can proudly say that only our museum exhibits this unique project of the design bureau of Lev Nikolaevich Shchukin. We can talk a lot about the disadvantages of the so-called period of stagnation, but this has absolutely nothing to do with technical thought. The development of such an aircraft in the 80s of the last century turned out to be so unusual and progressive that today it remains the pinnacle of engineering genius. And even the name itself speaks about it: EKiP - ecology and progress. This is exactly the meaning that Lev Shchukin put into his brainchild. The development, which began in the last century, still excites the minds of designers all over the world, because it was not without reason that prudent Americans, as soon as they learned about the project, offered one and a half million dollars for it. Soviet designers considered this proposal incorrect - this is OUR project.

And the history of its appearance in the museum is as follows: in 2010, it was proposed to transfer the aircraft to the museum in connection with the disbandment of the Saratov Aviation Plant. Saratov residents were afraid that in this fuss, the world’s only multifunctional aircraft could simply be cut up and sold for scrap. But the transfer process turned out to be very difficult. Collect everything Required documents and signatures were required at all enterprises involved in development and manufacturing. These are the Saratov Aviation Plant, the Triumph research and production enterprise, the Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, the Saturn Association, the Progress machine-building design bureau, the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute named after Professor Zhukovsky, the Institute of Geodesy and the actual aviation concern "EKiP". I assure you that I have not listed all the authorities. And there’s no need to talk about the geography of their location! So we covered a lot of kilometers.

And finally, on March 21, 2011, the EKiP, divided for transportation into 3 components, arrived at the Military Technical Museum in the village of Ivanovskoye. The exhibition site was determined in advance, since it is not easy to assemble such a scale and weight; all installation work was carried out directly on the spot where this beauty now stands.

The grand opening of the exposition on April 2, 2011 was attended by the Head of Noginsk municipal district, President of the research and production company "EKiP" Anatoly Ivanovich Savitsky and designer of EKiP Semyon Mikhailovich Zelvinsky. And in 2014, we managed to organize a meeting with academician, professor Rostislav Mikhailovich Pushkin, who worked in a team specifically developing a unique engine.

This aircraft is not just an exhibit with the history of the development of scientific and technical thought, this is a rare case when a museum speaks not about the past, but about the future, the idea itself is so progressive. After all, EKiP is a fundamentally new aircraft with unique performance and properties. It is designed for transporting goods and passengers and can be used without problems in hard-to-reach areas of the planet, for example, in the Far North. It is indispensable for reconnaissance and patrolling, use in emergency situations: rescuing people on water, extinguishing forest fires. In addition, it was planned to use the latest development as fuel - aquazin, a fuel consisting of 70% water.

To ensure that this project is not forgotten, we are developing our own projects. The plans include the construction of a new exhibition pavilion, in which the EKiP itself and the history of its creation will be presented in photographs, details and drawings. We will do everything to ensure that our E&P becomes not just a museum exhibit, but a magnet that attracts modern technical thought of young people.

ZIL-4105, 1983

ZIL-4105 is a famous government armored vehicle, which has such an amazing level of protection that even the Americans were able to repeat the level set by Soviet designers only at the beginning of this century.

The issue of protecting top officials of the state and preventing possible assassinations has not lost its relevance since the end of the 19th century. It was then that the first armored carriages appeared. Then new round- years of Stalin's reign. This is precisely the story connected with this time, when Joseph Vissarionovich decided to “test” the reliability of his new armored vehicle ZiS 115. He invited the designers to get into the car. A platoon of machine gunners lined up in front of the car, and they opened heavy fire on it. Fortunately for the designers, their calculations turned out to be correct and the ZIS-115 “without casualties” was approved by the commission. During the “thaw” years of the reign of Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, such cars were not made; he preferred to drive convertibles.

But 1969 will make serious demands on the quality of safety. In January of this year there will be an assassination attempt on Brezhnev. None of the officials will be seriously injured, but one of the 11 bullets fired from the pistols of the lone terrorist at the government ZIL-111G car will cause the death of the driver.

Development to improve the reservation will begin at the Likhachev plant. KGB Chairman Yu.V. will be entrusted with overseeing the work. Andropov. And our designers will choose a completely new security technology at that time: instead of the traditional armoring of the roof and doors, it will be decided to use a solid armored body. The so-called “armored capsule” was welded at the Kurgan plant, and then a car was assembled on its basis! This design is absolutely impossible in mass production. So every car is hand-built. A total of 25 of them were assembled, two of them - with chassis numbers 001 and 002 - were intended for testing. The car with 001 passed all road tests, and our car with chassis number 002 was intended for fire tests. It withstood bullets from a Dragunov rifle, bullets with a heat-strengthened core from an AKM assault rifle, armor-piercing incendiary bullets, and grenades exploded on the roof and under the gas tank could not destroy the car. But the test of time turned out to be difficult. After passing all the tests, the car was forgotten for almost 20 years in the bins of one of the Zilov workshops. In the early 2000s, when many factory sites had already begun to be disbanded, a dismantled car ended up in a museum. The process of restoring any car begins with studying it and carefully studying all engineering documents. And restoring an armored vehicle weighing more than 5 tons is a completely different experience, a completely different technology. In addition to the fact that the necessary preliminary disassembly required the “participation” of the crane, many lost components, once made according to the original drawings, had to be not only restored, but made anew. It turned out that all the systems in the car were redundant: two batteries, two fuel pumps, two electrical circuits, two brake systems. As a result, we carried out a complete restoration of the engine, manufactured the missing decorative elements and restored the geometry of the body. It was deformed during “impact” tests: the car crashed into a concrete wall at a speed of 60 km/h. The internal deformation of the car did not exceed one and a half centimeters! We needed to carry out all the restoration work without the slightest changes in the design. Otherwise there would be a change technical characteristics a car that is so precisely calibrated in its driving performance that this armored monster, even with flat tires, moves at a speed of 160 km/h! And the ease of turning a five-ton, six-meter colossus is comparable to turning a small car.

In March of this year, our fully restored car with preserved traces of bullet tests took part in the exhibition “Special Purpose Garage. 95 years in service to the Fatherland."

We took a closer look at just a few of the exhibits in our museum. But the collection, using examples of machines, reveals more than a century-long period of development of world technical thought. Handsome Fords - the entire line of the early 20th century with indexes from “a” to “T”. Look at them - Henry Ford himself never imagined that his model, nicknamed “Tin Lizzie,” would become a legend. And we are also proud that our collection is not just a body on wheels, but working machines that delight our visitors with the sound of the engine during theatrical and thematic events.

In everyday life, the phrase “search and rescue equipment” is practically not used. Unless we can say “all-terrain vehicle”. And in our museum this is the name of a whole collection of machines from the design bureau of the Likhachev plant. Vitaly Andreevich Grachev is the author of this line of amazing machines. Andrei Voznesensky's lines are dedicated to him. Ah, Grachev - a driver, a legend, a Tomsk resident! It was about him that the film “Extraordinary Constructor” was made, and it was the Americans who were chasing his drafts, offering huge amounts of money for a scribbled sheet of paper. Look, here it is - the only auger-driven snow and swamp-going vehicle in the world, built in 1972. ZIL-4904 was seen by the creators as the pinnacle model range, whose vehicles should be used by search and rescue services, geologists, oil workers, researchers Far North- everyone who deals with total off-road conditions. Here in this line there are also “amphibians”, and the “strong man” - ZIL-135 LM, and the only snowmobile ZIL-E167, with a load capacity of 5 tons.

You don't know how to tell your children about the war? Or maybe it’s better to show and tell? Here is the famous “thirty-four” - the Victory tank, and here is the GAZ - Polutorka, carrying one and a half tons of cargo. These are the beauties that were produced before the war. But look, it’s the same car, only there’s already a war going on, the factories have been evacuated. The design was simplified as much as possible, they even abandoned the front brakes - “a cart with a motor,” the soldiers said. But repairs are easy and quick. And here are the French light wedges Renault and Lorraine. An amazing design to help infantry units. The tractor-transport has a carrying capacity of almost 2 tons and a speed of 70 km/h! And this is the Japanese light tank Ha-Go. It is in working order. The workshops put it in motion, and now it bravely carries its 37-mm cannon at a speed of 45 km/h.

And there are hundreds of such stories on the history of the world automotive industry in our museum. And if you are tired or simply gravitate more towards lyricists than physicists, then we have a lot of interesting things for you too. The wooded shore of our pond creates a truly lyrical atmosphere. By the way, they confess their love here. And for children we conduct military sports programs and educational master classes. It is for them that an interactive platform has been organized where they can play with real military equipment, imagining themselves as a brave soldier of the Red Army. Are you hungry? The field kitchen is always ready to support morale with a soldier's lunch in a real field tent. Not a single fighter has ever resisted buckwheat porridge with stew!

Come to the Military Technical Museum to continue our audio acquaintance!

How to get there

Address: Moscow region, Noginsky district, Chernogolovka urban district, Ivanovskoye village. Official site.

Public transport: bus at Shchelkovsky station No. 320 "Moscow-Chernogolovka", No. 360 "Moscow-Dubrovo", minibus "Moscow-Chernogolovka" - to Chernogolovka, stop - bus station. Next, transfer to bus No. 73 “Chernogolovka-Ivanovskoye” and go to the village. Ivanovskoe, stop “Bolnitsa”, then 400 meters on foot.

By car: you need to move along the Shchelkovskoye highway to the intersection with the Small Concrete Ring, then you need to turn left in the direction of Yaroslavskoye highway, follow the “Makarovo” sign, turn right and go to the village of Ivanovskoye. Continue along the sign to the museum.

On the territory of the science city Chernogolovka, located 40 km from Moscow, a Military Technical Museum dedicated to the history of civil and military equipment.

The museum is government agency culture of the Moscow region. Its exhibition was created over several years through the efforts of enthusiasts and passionate people and represents a joint project with the National Patriotic Museum of the "Combat Brotherhood". Today the museum’s collection includes samples of equipment from the Soviet Union, Germany, France, the USA, Japan, and others. foreign countries and covers more than 100 years: from late XIX centuries to the present day.

The exhibition opens with a collection of horse-drawn transport: horse-drawn carriages, carriages, carriages in which our great-grandfathers rode, and, of course, the famous carts - war chariots of modern world history.

The exhibition of automotive technology introduces many achievements of the foreign automobile industry, and most importantly, the products of the main domestic automobile factories. In the line of the Gorky Automobile Plant you can see first GAZ-A, “Lorry” GAZ-AA and GAZ-MM, the legendary “Emka”, “Pobeda”, “Volga”, “Chaika”. The Likhachev plant produces fire fighters ZIS-5, ZIS-6, ZIL-157, limousines ZIS-101, ZIS-110, government ZILs. The history of domestic small cars can be easily traced through the “Muscovites” of the Lenin Komsomol Automobile Plant and the “Zaporozhets” of the Kommunar automobile plant, which once formed the basis of the country’s automobile fleet. There are interesting exhibits that came off the assembly lines of the Minsk Automobile Plant (MAZ), the Riga Automobile Factory (RAF), the Yaroslavl Automobile Plant (now the Yaroslavl Motor Plant - YaMZ) and others.

There is a collection of taxi cars here, the main part of which was given to the museum by Vitaly Vasilyevich Klyuev, a researcher of the history of Moscow taxis.

A significant place is devoted to motor vehicles: motorcycles, scooters and motorbikes.

Only in the Military Technical Museum you can see a one-of-a-kind collection of fire fighting vehicles and equipment, as well as search and rescue vehicles for evacuating astronauts and other all-terrain vehicles created by the outstanding Soviet designer Vitaly Andreevich Grachev at the ZIL automobile plant.

But still Special attention The exhibition focuses on cars and armored vehicles from the times of the Great Patriotic War, which embodied all the best that was developed by engineers of the pre-war period. Along with domestic cars, there are rare specimens American freight and passenger cars, once supplied to the USSR under the Lend-Lease agreement. There are also military trophies of the Mercedes-Benz, Horch, Volkswagen, and Stöwer brands. The pride of the museum are tanks, armored personnel carriers, self-propelled artillery installations, mortars, guns, howitzers, small arms models.

The State Military Technical Museum in Chernogolovka is not only an exhibition complex, but also a restoration and educational center. Our specialists restore and, when necessary, recreate any type of vehicle of any complexity: from a simple cart to a ZIL limousine.

The museum has organized search parties, conducting work to establish and perpetuate the names of fallen soldiers, searching for equipment, equipment, historical documents, and household items. In the future, a children's military sports camp, scientific and technical creativity workshops, a library, archives, and a cinema will also be created here.

The Military Technical Museum in Chernogolovka hosts Active participation in automobile and historical exhibitions, festivals, car rallies, battle reconstructions held jointly with Russian military history clubs. Particular importance is attached to participation in ceremonial parades, dedicated to the Day Victory Day, Defender of the Fatherland Day, and other memorable events and dates.

The main task of the museum is to preserve civilian and military equipment, including especially valuable and unique exhibits, develop the interest of the younger generation in the history of the country, and patriotic education of youth using examples of the courage and heroism of our people.

This is a tribute to the memory of our ancestors, who with their knowledge, work and talent created the greatness and glory of the Motherland.

This summer I visited a museum in the village of Ivanovskoye, near Chernogolovka. The museum is extensive and there is a lot to see.
For those interested - the museum website http://gvtm.ru/ - there you can find the museum's opening hours. How to get there is described there, in the “contacts” section. I got from the Shchelkovskaya metro station by minibus No. 320, which goes to Chernogolovka, then I had to wait for bus No. 73. The bus leaves from there at 8-00, 9-00, 10-00, 12-00, 13-50, 16-00, 17-10. You can go either to the “hospital” stop, then you will have to walk a little forward, or to the “temple” stop, then you will have to walk back. You can also ask the driver to stop at the turn towards the museum. Further - on foot.

The places here are picturesque; I advise you to get out at the Church of John the Baptist, built in 1902. The impression is only slightly spoiled by the scaffolding:

Having walked a little along the road to the museum, we will meet, so to speak, the first sign:

Then everything is clear: we need to move forward. After about 5 minutes of walking, the visitor will reach the main entrance:

The museum, as I understand it, is located on the territory of a former pioneer camp. There are three closed rooms with equipment (mostly cars and armored personnel carriers), several sheds and, finally, just fences behind which the equipment stands in the open air.
The first thing a visitor will see is old remains different equipment, for example, the cabin from Sturmgeschutz III.

Then you can go to the first building and look at the vehicles (I will publish photos from the buildings in the next post). On the way you will come across an anti-aircraft searchlight station of type 3-15-4B (based on the ZiS-12, produced from 1938 to 1942, 15,529 units produced). Exactly the same car stands in Moscow on Poklonnaya Hill, only better preserved:

The museum has not only military equipment and cars, but even a boat:

This is the executive class boat "Moscow", launched back in 1935. On this boat in 1937, Stalin and his entourage performed the opening ceremony of the Moscow Canal. In the same year, the boat was sent to serve in the Far Eastern Military District, where it served until 2007, after which it was transferred to the museum.

Then you can go to the third building. You can go behind it and look at the sad Soviet concept cars:

On the wall behind them hangs, of course, some information, but, obviously, not about all the cars. And reading it from the wall is very inconvenient: it’s small. But there are no signs.

And the cars are interesting:

They just look very abandoned. It was like being in a car scrapyard.

There is also a shooting range here where you can shoot with various weapons. Even from something like this:

Then you can go to the equipment standing under the awnings. There is a lot of equipment, mostly, of course, the kind that can be seen in any Russian military museum. That’s why I don’t post her photo, I post what I found most interesting.
(also the camera, the shaitan-pipe, began to discharge after visiting the first two buildings, so it was necessary to take care of the battery...)

The bus below is a ZIL-118K "Yunost", produced from 1961 to 1994. In total, about 100 units were produced. The bus was comfortable, executive class. Such machines worked in a special-purpose garage, in the garages of the Intourist Hotel, the Ministry of Defense and other government organizations high level.

The following photo was taken mainly for the sake of the Japanese Type-97 Chi-Ha tank. But somehow strangely they placed it here, with its stern towards the audience, and pushed it further away. But you can look at the face of the BTR-40.

Citroen T-45 truck, France. Produced from 1933 to 1953. A total of 72 thousand trucks were produced, of which 35 thousand were used by the Wehrmacht:

American tractor Diamond T-969A. Produced from 1941 to 1945, 6,420 units produced. It was supplied to the USSR under Lend-Lease. A rare exhibit, the only one in Russia:

Fire truck OM CL51 Feuerwehr Witterswil, Italy. 1950

Tracked fire truck GPM-54 (Russia), produced since 1977. Designed to extinguish high-complexity fires in extreme conditions:

A prototype of a self-propelled electronic warfare system based on the T-72 tank, Russia. The purpose of the complex was to provide countermeasures electronic systems surveillance and control of weapons in harsh climatic conditions. It was put into service in 1992, but then the Ministry of Defense abandoned its use:

At the entrance to the third building there is a BM-13 on the left on the Studebaker base:

On the right are several tractors. Here, for example, is the 1928 Fordson Putilovets.

Let's move on to the next canopy. From the edge the visitor is greeted by a snowmobile without a sign:

Amphibious snowmobile A-3. Produced from 1964 to the mid-80s. Some instances continue to work today:

ZIL-4904. The auger-rotary snow and swamp-going vehicle was designed to search for and evacuate crews of descending spacecraft. But due to its large dimensions and weight, the ZIL-4904 was considered impractical.
(it seems that Dunno and his friends drove a similar car in the book “Dunno in the Sunny City”):

ZIL-49061 "Blue Bird". Just like the auger, it was intended for searching and evacuating space crews. 14 cars were produced.

General photo: Soviet tanks T-34 and T-60.

Tow truck Scammel Pioneer SV/2S, UK. During World War II, about 1,600 vehicles were produced, some were transferred to the USSR under Lend-Lease:

Bussing-NAG type 4500 S, Germany. During the Second World War, 14,813 trucks were produced.

Cletrac High-Speed ​​M2 crawler tractor, USA. Manufactured in the 1930s, mainly for the US Air Force. They could reach speeds of up to 30 km/h.

German car "Horch" without a plate and in a sad state:

German floodlight Kystdefensionen Progektor Type G150K, produced since 1937:

A corner of old Soviet technology requiring restoration:

ZIL-49042, a prototype search and rescue vehicle. Released in 1972:

ZiS-485 BAV (USSR, 1950-62). The amphibian could carry 25 people or 2.5 tons of cargo:

Snowmobile KA-30 (USSR, 1962-80s). Could accommodate up to 10 passengers. IN summer time could be equipped with floats and used as high-speed vessels:

Light multi-purpose aircraft AN-2 (USSR, 1947-1971). Over 18,000 units produced. Also produced under license in China:

BTS-4 tractor, USSR. It was developed on the basis of the T-44M tank in 1967:

Wheeled bulldozer BKT, USSR. Was introduced into the engineering troops in the early eighties:

Next are several more exhibits that require restoration. Here is Pobeda in good condition:


The same cannot be said about other cars. And they stand somehow completely forgotten and abandoned, in the thick grass:

More:

It seems that GAZ "Ataman":

Some bus with a sign “for restoration”:

Another row of Soviet guns not far from the exit.

And finally - the amphibious non-airfield aircraft "Ekip". A new word in aviation technology, practically a flying saucer. The only question is when such devices will come into widespread use:

This concludes the review of the external exhibition of the museum. In another post I will publish photos from the museum buildings.

Photos

Description of the place

The State Military Technical Museum on the territory of the science city Chernogolovka in the village of Ivanovskoye is dedicated to the history of military and civilian equipment. Its exhibition, created through the efforts of enthusiasts, covers the period from the end of the 19th century to the present day.

The exhibition opens with an extensive collection of horse-drawn vehicles, including carriages, carriages, horse-drawn carriages, as well as the famous carts - war chariots modern history. The exposition of automobiles and motorcycles presents the achievements of the foreign automobile industry and the products of famous domestic factories. Here you can see the legendary “Lorry”, “Emki”, “Pobeda”, “Volga”, “Chaika”, ZIS-101, ZIS-110 limousines, government ZILs, “Muscovites”, “Zaporozhets” and much more.

An important place in the museum is occupied by vehicles and armored vehicles from the Great Patriotic War, which embodied the best achievements of engineers of the pre-war period. The pride of the museum are tanks, self-propelled artillery, mortars, armored personnel carriers, howitzers, cannons and models of small arms.

Visitors to the Military Technical Museum are given the opportunity to independently disassemble and assemble a Kalashnikov assault rifle, shoot at targets and visit the inside of a real T-34 tank.

On June 12, Russia Day, we visited a very interesting place, a museum that will not leave indifferent a lover of technology, military and more. The advertising slogan “From a cart to a flying saucer” quite accurately characterizes the museum’s extensive and diverse collection.

It features vehicles, military and civilian, armored vehicles, artillery pieces, fire and search and rescue vehicles, and even a ship and airplanes. The oldest exhibits date back to the end of the 19th century.

How to get there, opening hours and cost.

The museum is located in a picturesque place, on the territory of a former pioneer camp.

Museum address: Moscow region, Chernogolovka, village. Ivanovskoe, building 1.

Driving directions:

We were traveling by car. The road is good, except for the last 500 m before the museum, after turning at the sign the road surface is terrible, there is a hole in the hole. There is a large parking lot in front of the entrance to the museum. A tank greets visitors there.

Museum opening hours:

WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY, SUNDAY FROM 10:00 to 17:00

Price:

Adult ticket 200 rub.

Children's ticket 100 rub.

Children under 7 years old, large families- for free.

Photography on site is paid - 50 rubles.

There are benefits for students and pensioners.

Near the cash register there is a stand with booklets you can take as souvenirs.

The museum has an excellent website [link], which not only provides contact information, but also detailed description collections with photographs of exhibits.

Exposition.

The museum occupies a fairly large area. The exhibits are located both in buildings and under canopies on the street.

The first exhibit that appeared before us was an airplane, or rather its remains. Unfortunately, the plaque did not tell the story of this particular plane, where it was found, in what battle it was shot down, or who flew it.

The condition of the plane confused me; will we really continue to look at piles of rusty iron? But then an exhibit of a completely different kind awaited us. The EKIP aircraft is the pride of the museum. A real flying saucer!

The very first exhibit in this building is a cart.

Cars "GAZ-4" (produced 1933-1937) and "GAZ-6" (1933-1934)

My son really liked the American wartime car with a mannequin in a soldier's uniform.

And my attention was attracted by the pre-revolutionary Ford T, bright yellow.

The collection includes more than just vehicles. For example, in one of the rooms there is a carpentry shop late XIX century.

We also saw a collection of sewing and typewriters.

And in the corridor there are such interesting exhibits.

The condition of the exhibits varies, but the condition of the building itself is depressing. There are torn walls and knocked down floor tiles everywhere.

In the second building we were interested in executive cars Soviet years- the famous Seagulls. Unfortunately, the photos do not convey the beauty of these cars.

Having visited building 2, we moved on to the exhibits on the street.

One of the museum employees gave us ribbons in the colors of the national flag. We tied them for ourselves and the child, and I got a certain feeling of celebration, because we came to the museum not on an ordinary day, but on Russia Day.

Tanks, search and rescue vehicles, various fire engines and much, much more were waiting for us under the canopies. interesting technology. But why all the signs near military equipment say “model” remains a mystery to me.

Being nearby, you can feel the full power of these military machines.

Search and rescue vehicles designed to rescue crews spaceships, in the background is a snowmobile.

Airfield fire trucks are striking in their impressive size.

The viewing of the exhibition was almost interrupted by the sudden onset of heavy rain. We hid under a canopy that covered not only the exhibits, but also the path for visitors. The path itself is lined with wooden flooring; we were not afraid of puddles.

Most of the exhibits are separated from visitors by chains and fences, but there are also some that you can climb onto.

My son and his dad gladly climbed into the armored personnel carrier, and I, after thinking a little, followed their example. And although there is nothing special inside, the child was delighted to have the opportunity to turn the steering wheel of the armored vehicle.

Other children also happily climbed both inside and on the roof of the armored personnel carrier, taking pictures, leaning out of the hatch on the roof. The anti-aircraft gun, on which you could spin by rotating the wheel, was also a huge success among children.

For hungry visitors, the Field Kitchen, located in two tents, and the Headquarters Cafe, located in a wooden cottage, are open, more presentable and with a higher price tag.