"Submarine" - a museum in St. Petersburg and in Tushino

Traveling, many choose such tours where you can not only have a good rest, but also get new impressions, knowledge and interesting information, having examined the sights of these places. The submarine museum in St. Petersburg deserves your attention. It is definitely worth a visit to all guests of the northern capital.

Unusual museums

Not everyone can boast of regular visits to museums. Many are too busy with work, and others simply are not used to spending time like this. There are those who consider it boring, remembering long excursions from their childhood, when a teacher or a museum employee told something long and monotonously.

Probably, those times are in the past, when the presentation of the exposition assumed exactly this approach. Now there are special children's variants of excursions, oriented to different age groups of schoolchildren and even toddlers.

And for children and adults organize interactive excursions, where everyone can participate in the cognitive process. Some museums offer dramatized programs and photo sessions in thematic costumes.

And although the format of the excursions has changed significantly, the museums themselves have remained the same. Most often this building, where collections of thematic collections on history, culture, way of life, nature of a specific people, region are collected. However, there are specific museums. For example , an open-air museum, where architecture and life of the Russian village are presented, military equipment; Museums of iron, nail, mouse; Music and time, in which musical instruments and watches are exposed and shown in action.

St. Petersburg

As for the guests of the northern capital, they are given huge opportunities to choose which museum to go to. It is impossible not to visit the treasures of the national paintings of the Hermitage and the Russian Museum. The halls of the museum of the Navy are very interesting. A special place is occupied by expositions that are not in ordinary buildings, but, for example, on ships.

This is the legendary cruiser "Aurora" and a submarine museum in St. Petersburg. If on the surface ships, although civilians, in their lives, most likely, the majority, then it is on the submarine - the fate of the elect. Everyone can feel that way by visiting the exposition of submarine museums. They are not only in the northern capital, but also in other cities of Russia and abroad. Severomorsk, Vladivostok, Tushino, Cherbourg (France), Tallinn (Estonia), Bremerton (USA) - a short list of those cities who can be proud of having such attractions.

Where there are such expositions and memorials

If you do not have information about the world history of the Navy, then such museums may seem exotic. In fact, the submarine museum in St. Petersburg is far from the only one of its kind.

Below are listed some Russian and foreign memorials and expositions.

• In Obninsk is available to inspect the cutting of the Soviet nuclear submarine K-14, project 627A. It is installed in a memorable composition dedicated to the Pioneers of the underwater nuclear fleet.
• The felling of the boat "Kambala" of the Karp type, lost during the exercises in 1909, was included in the memorial on the mass grave of the crew in Sevastopol in 1912.
• Part of the cutting of K-141 Kursk submarine of Project 949A Antei, which sank in 2000, was preserved and installed as a memorial to the Sailors who perished in peacetime.
• There are similar monuments in such a city as Vladivostok. The submarine museum was made from the Soviet combat submarine of the World War II Project C-56. Also in the city on the mass grave of sailors there was installed the cutting of the boat C-178 of project 613, which sunk in 1981 at about. Skryplova as a result of a collision with the ship.
• Submarine B-413 project 641 (Foxtrot in NATO classification) is installed in Kaliningrad on the Peter the Great's embankment.
• In Vytegra, located on the border of the Vologda region and the Republic of Karelia, there is also a submarine museum. This is DEPL project 641 - B-440.
• Severomorsk has a similar exposition. The submarine museum is organized in the stern compartments of the project K-21, installed on the pedestal of the vessel.
• USS Nautilus, USA, is located on the basis of the submarine in New London, near the museum The Submarine Force Museum, which presents an exposition on the history of the development of the US Navy.
• Felling is what's left of the legendary US nuclear submarine USS Parche (SSN-683) installed at the Naval Museum Puget Sound in Bremerton , Washington State on the waterfront.
• The world's only nuclear submarine-museum Le Redoutable is located in the dry dock of the complex of buildings of the old station in the city of Cherbourg, where it was towed in 2000, and in 2002, under the name Cite de la Mer, met the first visitors.
• He organized a good exposition in the summer harbor of the Maritime Museum of Estonia in Tallinn. The museum-submarine is equipped inside the Estonian / Soviet minelayer "Lembit" of English construction type "Kalev".
• In Surobaya (Indonesia), a copy of the largest Soviet project, 613, was installed as a memorial. The K-Pasopati 410, the C-79, carried out combat service in the Indonesian Navy between 1959 and 1994. Now the internal premises are accessible to visitors.

This is not a complete list of those cities in Russia and the world where submarines or their logging are installed as monuments or converted into museums. Many of them are in parks on pedestals, but there are also those that, thanks to restoration and reconstruction works, still remain buoyant to this day.

Submarine (St. Petersburg)

The museum is the Soviet medium diesel-electric torpedo submarine of Project 613. This is the first and most massive type of submarine built after the Second World War.

The ships of this project until the end of the 1980s carried combat duty in all the seas and oceans. They experienced new types of weapons. They were used as training centers for the training of personnel.

The submarine museum in St. Petersburg S-189, which met as first visitors on March 20, 2010, was built at the Baltic plant in 1954. In the same year it was launched. In the spring of 1955, combat duty began. In the Soviet Navy was 35 years old. She performed combat missions in the Atlantic and the Baltic Sea, took part in the testing of new weapons, repeatedly participated in naval parades, has awards and insignia. After her exclusion from the fleet, dismantling of equipment, she was waiting for disposal. Due to malfunctions, it sank at the pier in the merchant's harbor of the port of Kronstadt. After numerous attempts of veterans-submariners of the Navy to attract sponsors for financing the project, it was successfully lifted from the ground and transported to the Kanonersky Plant, where it was rebuilt.

In the museum you can learn more about the characteristics of the boat and its combat merits, see thematic expositions, feel like a real sailor.

Visiting rules

The museum is open to all categories of citizens. There are preferential tickets for students (cadets), pensioners and children. In connection with the specifics of this object, in addition to the generally accepted, there are specific requirements for examining the exposition:

• Children under 14 must be accompanied by adults only;
• During the tour, every 8 children should be accompanied by 2 adults;
• Within the submarine at the same time there can be no more than twenty visitors;
• In any one compartment at the same time there should be no more than ten people;
• You can not open a closed room;
• Care must be taken when moving through round bulkhead doors.

Where is

The museum is located in St. Petersburg on the Lieutenant Schmidt Embankment, in front of house 31, on the Neva River, at the berth of the Leningrad Naval Base. The entrance is through the passenger terminal. To get to this place you can take bus number 1 from the metro station "Vasileostrovskaya".

Submarine Museum in Tushino

I met my visitors on the Day of the Navy in 2006. It is the first exhibit of the museum of the Russian submarine fleet, organized in the park "Northern Tushino". Submarine for about two years, waiting for her to find a worthy place.

The large DPL B-396 was built at the Krasnoye Sormovo plant in Nizhny Novgorod under the project of the Leningrad Central Design Bureau, MT Rubin. The boat is named "Novosibirsk Komsomolets". The opening of the museum was timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the submarine fleet. The submarine was in service from 1980 to 2000 in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans.

What can be seen inside the Tushino exhibit

In 2003 Sevmashpredpriyatie was engaged in the conversion of the boat into the museum in Severodvinsk. Significant changes were made to the design. On the sides there are two doors for entry and exit of excursion groups, the interior space has been expanded for easy inspection. The hatches between the compartments are preserved, but passages for visitors have been made.

Sleeping places in the servicemen's cabins were removed so that the excursion group could accommodate here. Although in museums, hygienic rooms are usually not left, for complete certainty, the latrine and shower room are preserved here. Outside, the torpedo compartments are closed, and inside there are 6 torpedo tubes available for inspection. You can see and diving equipment, which was used when necessary.

In some compartments, figures of people in vests and uniforms are installed, and there is a separate exhibition space with the personal belongings of the crew. A plan for the development of the complex is also presented, which will include several more exhibits of large military equipment.

Where is

The submarine museum in Tushino is located at: ul. Freedom, possession of 50-56, the park "Northern Tushino". The nearest metro station is "Shodnenskaya". There are days of free visits, however in this case there are no excursions.

"Narodovolets"

This submarine is a legend of the navy. It was built in 1931 at the Baltic factory. Defending the country during the war years, participated in many battles, destroyed enemy ships. Until 1975, the submarine Narodovolets continued to carry its combat duty in the Baltic Fleet. The museum was opened in 1994. The exterior of all rooms is recreated with the utmost precision. Preserved narrow transitions, low ceilings, all bulkheads. A large number of instruments and wires creates a realistic atmosphere.

If you decide to organize for students a tour on the topic of patriotism and the defense of the Motherland, an excellent choice is the submarine Narodovolets. The museum is located in St. Petersburg at the following address: Shkipersky channel, 10. The nearest metro station is Primorskaya.

So, you learned in what cities you can visit submarine museums. The photographs clearly show the uniqueness of such expositions. They are very interesting and informative. Visit such a tourist attraction is for children and adults. You can find out the actual prices for excursions directly in museums.