When traveling, many choose such tours where you can not only have a good rest, but also get new impressions, knowledge and interesting information by visiting 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 working, while others are simply not used to spending time like this. There are those who consider this boring, recalling long excursions from their childhood, when a teacher or museum employee told something long and monotonously.
Probably, those days 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 kids.
Interactive excursions are organized for both children and adults, where everyone can take part in the cognitive process. Some museums offer theatrical programs and photo sessions in themed costumes.
And although the format of excursions has changed significantly, the museums themselves have remained the same. Most often this is a building where thematic collections are collected on the history, culture, life, nature of a particular people, region. However, there are specific museums. For example , an open-air museum, which presents the architecture and life of the Russian countryside, military equipment; museums of iron, nail, mouse; music and the time in which musical instruments and watches are exposed and displayed in action.
St. Petersburg
As for the guests of the northern capital, they are given great opportunities to choose which museum to go to. One cannot but visit the treasury 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 the submarine museum in St. Petersburg. If on surface ships, although civilian ones, were most likely in their lives, then being on a submarine is the fate of the elite. Everyone can feel like this 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 cities that can be proud of having such attractions.
Where are such exhibits and memorials
If you do not own information about the world history of the Navy, then such museums may seem exotic. In fact, the museum submarine in St. Petersburg is far from the only one of its kind.
Listed below are some Russian and foreign memorials and exhibits.
- In Obninsk, the cabin of the Soviet nuclear submarine K-14, project 627A, is available for inspection. It is set in a commemorative composition dedicated to the Pioneers of the submarine nuclear fleet.
- The cabin of the Kampa-type Kampa boat that died during the exercises in 1909 was included in the memorial at the mass grave of the crew in Sevastopol.
- Part of the felling of the K-141 Kursk submarine of Project 949A Antey, which sank in 2000, has been preserved and installed as a memorial to the Sailors Died in Peace.
- There are similar monuments in a city like Vladivostok. The museum submarine is made of the Soviet combat submarine of World War II of the S-56 project. Also in the city, on the mass grave of sailors, the cabin of the S-178 boat of project 613 was installed, which sank in 1981 near Fr. Skrypleva as a result of a collision with the ship.
- The B-413 submarine of project 641 (Foxtrot according to NATO classification) was installed in Kaliningrad on the Peter the Great embankment.
- In Vytegra, located on the border of the Vologda Oblast and the Karelian Republic, there is also a museum-submarine. This is the DEPL project 641 - B-440.
- It has a similar exposure and Severomorsk. The submarine museum is organized in the aft compartments of the K-21 project vessel installed on the pedestal.
- USS Nautilus, USA, is located at the base of a submarine 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.
- Felling - what is preserved from the legendary US nuclear submarine USS Parche (SSN-683) is installed at the Navy's Puget Sound Museum in Bremerton , Washington, on the waterfront.
- The world's only nuclear submarine museum Le Redoutable is located in the dry dock of the complex of the buildings of the old station in 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 exhibition in the summer harbor of the Tallinn Maritime Museum of Estonia. The submarine museum is equipped inside an English / Estonian-built Kalev-type Lembit mine-loader.
- A copy of the largest Soviet project, 613, was installed as a memorial in Surobaya (Indonesia). The S-79 KRI Pasopati 410 boat served in the Indonesian Navy during the period 1959-1994. Now the interior is available to visitors.
This is not a complete list of those cities in Russia and the world where submarines or their cabin are installed as monuments or converted into museums. Many of them are located in parks on pedestals, but there are those that, thanks to restoration and reconstruction work, still remain buoyant to this day.
Submarine (St. Petersburg)
The museum is the Soviet average diesel-electric torpedo submarine of project 613. This is the first and most massive type of submarine built after World War II.
The ships of this project until the end of the 1980s carried combat duty in all seas and oceans. They tested new types of weapons. They were used as training centers for training personnel.
The submarine museum in St. Petersburg S-189, which met the first visitors in this capacity on March 20, 2010, was built at the Baltic Shipyard in 1954. In the same year, launched. In the spring of 1955 she began combat duty. The USSR 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 distinctions. After her exclusion from the fleet, dismantling of equipment, she was waiting for disposal. Due to malfunctions, she sank at the pier in the Merchant harbor of the port of Kronstadt. After numerous attempts by the Navy's submarine veterans to attract sponsors to finance the project, it was successfully lifted from the ground and transported to the Kanonersky Plant, where it 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.
Visiting Rules
The museum is open to all categories of citizens. Discount tickets are valid for students (cadets), senior citizens and children. In connection with the specifics of this object, in addition to the generally accepted ones, there are specific requirements for viewing the exposition:
- children under 14 years old should only be accompanied by adults;
- during the tour, every 8 children must be accompanied by 2 adults;
- no more than twenty visitors can be inside a submarine at a time;
- in any one compartment at the same time there should be no more than ten people;
- Do not open closed rooms;
- care must be taken when crossing the round bulkhead doors.
Where is
The museum is located in St. Petersburg on the Embankment of Lieutenant Schmidt, 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 No. 1 from the Vasileostrovskaya metro station.
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 Northern Tushino Park. The submarine was waiting for about two years when it will find a worthy place.
The large B-396 submarine was built at the Krasnoye Sormovo plant in Nizhny Novgorod according to the design of the Leningrad Central Design Bureau MT Rubin. The boat is called "Novosibirsk Komsomolets". The opening of the museum was dedicated to 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
In 2003, Sevmash Enterprise in Severodvinsk was engaged in the conversion of the boat into a museum. Significant changes were made to the design. Two doors were made on the sides for the entrance and exit of excursion groups, the internal space was expanded for ease of inspection. Hatches between compartments are preserved, however, passages for visitors are made.
The berths in the cabins of the military personnel were removed so that the excursion group could be accommodated here. Although museums usually don’t leave hygienic rooms, a latrine and a shower room have been preserved for complete authenticity. Outside torpedo compartments are closed, and inside are available for inspection of 6 torpedo tubes. You can see the diving equipment, which was used if necessary.
In some compartments, figures of people in vests and military uniforms are installed, and there is also a separate exhibition room with crew personal belongings. The development plan 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: st. Liberty, possession 50−56, the park "Northern Tushino". The nearest metro station is Skhodnenskaya. There are days of free visits, however, in this case, excursions are not conducted.
"Narodovolets"
This submarine is a legend of the navy. It was built in 1931 at the Baltic Plant. Defending the country during the war years, participated in many battles, destroyed enemy ships. Until 1975, as part of the Baltic Fleet, the Narodovolets submarine continued to be on alert. The museum was opened in 1994. The appearance of all the premises was recreated with maximum accuracy. Narrow passages, low ceilings, all bulkheads are preserved. A large number of devices and wires create a realistic atmosphere.
If you decide to organize an excursion for schoolchildren on the theme of patriotism and the defense of the homeland, the submarine Narodovolets is an excellent choice. The museum is located in St. Petersburg at the address: Skipersky duct, 10. The nearest metro station is Primorskaya.
So, you have learned in which cities you can visit the submarines, museums. Photos clearly show the uniqueness of such expositions. They are very interesting and informative. To visit such a sight is worth both children and adults. You can find out the actual prices for excursions directly in museums.