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

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When traveling, many choose tours where you can not only have a good rest, but also get new experiences, knowledge and interesting information by seeing the sights of these places. The submarine museum in St. Petersburg deserves your attention. It is definitely worth visiting for all guests of the northern capital.

Unusual museums

Not everyone can boast of regular visits to museums. Many are too busy with work, while others are simply not used to spending time like this. There are those who find 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 suggested just such an approach. Now there are special children's options for excursions aimed at different age groups of schoolchildren and even toddlers.

Interactive excursions are organized for both children and adults, where everyone can take partin the cognitive process. Some museums offer theatrical programs and photo shoots in themed costumes.

Although the format of the tours has changed significantly, the museums themselves have remained the same. Most often, this is a building that contains thematic collections on the history, culture, life, nature of a particular people, region. However, there are also specific museums. For example, an open-air museum, which presents the architecture and life of the Russian village, military equipment; museums of iron, nail, mouse; music and time, in which musical instruments and clocks are exhibited and shown in action.

St. Petersburg

As for the guests of the northern capital, they are given a huge choice of which museum to go to. It is impossible not to visit the treasures of 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 the submarine museum in St. Petersburg. If on surface ships, although civilians, there were most likely the majority in their lives, then being on a submarine is the fate of the elect. Everyone can feel like one by visiting the expositions 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 that can be proud of having suchattractions.

Where 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 being the only one of its kind.

Some Russian and foreign memorials and expositions are listed below.

• In Obninsk, the cabin of the Soviet nuclear submarine K-14, project 627A is available for inspection. It is installed in a commemorative composition dedicated to the Pioneers of the nuclear submarine fleet.
• The felling of the "Kambala" boat of the "Karp" type, which died during the exercises in 1909, was included in the memorial at the mass grave of the crew in Sevastopol in 1912.
• A part of the cabin of the submarine K-141 "Kursk" of project 949A "Antey", which sank in 2000, has been preserved and installed as a memorial to "Sailors who died in peacetime".
• There are similar monuments in a city like Vladivostok. The submarine-museum is made from the Soviet military submarine of the Second World War of the S-56 project. Also in the city, on the mass grave of sailors, a cabin of the S-178 boat of project 613 was installed, which sank in 1981 near about. Skrypleva as a result of a collision with the ship.
• Submarine B-413 of project 641 (Foxtrot according to NATO classification) installed in Kaliningrad on the embankment of Peter the Great.
• In Vytegra, located on the border of the Vologda Oblast and the Karelian Republic, there is also a museum-submarine. This is a diesel-electric submarine of project 641 -B-440.
• Severomorsk has a similar exposition. The museum-submarine is organized in the aft compartments of the vessel of the K-21 project installed on a pedestal.
• USS Nautilus, USA, is located at the submarine base in New London, not far from The Submarine Force Museum, where an exposition on the history of the development of the US Navy is presented.
• The cabin - what has been preserved from the legendary American nuclear submarine USS Parche (SSN-683) is installed at the Puget Sound Naval Museum in the city of Bremerton, Washington on the waterfront.
• The world's only nuclear submarine museum, Le Redoutable, is located in the dry dock of the old train station complex in Cherbourg, where it was towed in 2000 and received its first visitors in 2002 under the name Cite de la Mer.
• Organized a good exposition in the summer harbor of the Estonian Maritime Museum in Tallinn. The museum-submarine is equipped inside the Estonian/Soviet mine-layer "Lembit" of the English-built "Kalev" type.
• In Surobaya (Indonesia), a copy of the most numerous Soviet project - 613 was installed as a memorial. The C-79 KRI Pasopati 410 boat served in combat service in the Indonesian Navy in the period 1959-1994. The interior is now open to visitors.

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

Submarine (St. Petersburg)

Museum is a Soviet medium diesel-electric torpedo submarine of project 613. This is the first and most massive type of submarine built after World War II.

Ships of this project until the end of the 1980s were on combat duty in all seas and oceans. They tested new types of weapons. They were used as training centers for the training of personnel.

The S-189 submarine museum in St. Petersburg, which met its first visitors on March 20, 2010, was built at the B altic Shipyard in 1954. Launched in the same year. In the spring of 1955, she began combat duty. She was in the Navy of the USSR for 35 years. She performed combat missions in the Atlantic and the B altic Sea, took part in the testing of new types of weapons, repeatedly participated in naval parades, and has awards and distinctions. After her exclusion from the fleet, the dismantling of equipment, she was waiting for recycling. Due to malfunctions, she sank at the pier in the Merchant Harbor of the port of Kronstadt. After numerous attempts by veteran submariners of the Navy to attract sponsors to finance the project, she was successfully raised from the ground and transported to the Gunnery Plant, where she was restored.

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

Visit Rules

The museum is open to all categories of citizens. Reduced tickets are available for students (cadets), pensioners and children. Due to the specifics of this object, in addition to the generally accepted ones, there are specific requirements for viewing the exposition:

• children under 14 must be accompanied by an adult;
• during the tour every 8 children must be accompanied by 2 adults;
• no more than twenty visitors can be inside the submarine at the same time;
• no more than ten people should be in any one compartment at the same time;
• you can not open closed rooms;
• care must be taken when crossing round bulkhead doors.

Where is it

The museum is located in St. Petersburg on Lieutenant Schmidt Embankment, opposite house 31, on the Neva River, at the pier of the Leningrad Naval Base. Entrance is through the passenger terminal. You can get to this place by bus number 1 from the metro station "Vasileostrovskaya".

Submarine Museum in Tushino

Met her visitors on Navy Day in 2006. It is the first exhibit of the museum of the Russian submarine fleet, organized in the park "Northern Tushino". The submarine has been waiting for about two years to find a worthy place for it.

The large submarine B-396 was built at the Krasnoye Sormovo plant in Nizhny Novgorod according to the project of the Leningrad Central Design Bureau of 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 served from 1980 to 2000 in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans.

What can be seen inside the Tushino exhibit

Re-equipment of the boat into the museum was carried out in 2003 by "Sevmashpredpriyatie" in Severodvinsk. Significant changes were made to the design. Two doors were made on the sides for the entrance and exit of excursion groups, the interior space was expanded for ease of inspection. The hatches between the compartments have been preserved, but passages for visitors have been made.

Sleeping places in the cabins of military personnel were removed so that an excursion group could be accommodated here. Although hygienic rooms are usually not left in museums, a latrine and a shower room have been preserved here for complete reliability. Outside, the torpedo compartments are closed, and inside 6 torpedo tubes are available for inspection. You can also see the diving equipment that was used if necessary.

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

Where is it

Submarine Museum in Tushino is located at: st. Freedom, possession 50−56, park "Northern Tushino". The nearest metro station is Skhodnenskaya. There are free visit days, however, there are no tours in this case.

People's Will

This submarine is a legend in the navy. She wasbuilt in 1931 at the B altic Shipyard. Defending the country during the war years, she participated in many battles, destroyed enemy ships. Until 1975, the Narodovolets submarine continued to carry out its combat duty as part of the B altic Fleet. The museum was opened in 1994. The appearance of all rooms has been recreated with maximum accuracy. Narrow passages, low ceilings, all bulkheads have been preserved. A large number of devices and wires creates a realistic atmosphere.

If you decide to organize an excursion for schoolchildren on the theme of patriotism and the defense of the Motherland, the Narodovolets submarine is an excellent choice. The museum is located in St. Petersburg at the address: Shkipersky protok, 10. The nearest metro station is Primorskaya.

So, you have found out in which cities you can visit submarine museums. Photos clearly show the uniqueness of such expositions. They are very interesting and informative. A visit to such an attraction is worth both children and adults. You can find out the current prices for excursions directly at the museums.