Many Muscovites are aware of the existence of a small village of Monino near the metropolis. In the Moscow region there are a lot of such villages, now many of them are becoming summer cottage clusters, places of out-of-town recreation.
A bit about the village
The town of Monino is located on the 23rd kilometer of the Gorky highway.
More than 21 thousand people live in the village of Monino, Shchelkovo district, Moscow region, according to data for 2016.
Monino consists of 3 parts:
- military garrison;
- the so-called working camp;
- territory near the train station.
There are 3 general education schools, a children's music school, and a hospital in the village.
History
There are 2 versions about the appearance of Monino. According to one, the wasteland near the forest was called Muninskaya, in Finnish it means "personal farming", hence the name of a small village appeared.
According to the second version, lands in the XVIII-XIX centuries. owned by a certain landowner Monin. On its lands a forest was prepared for the railway. Here is his last name and served as the name of the village.
After the revolution, about 30 people lived in Monino, who worked on the Northern Railway and the wool-weaving factory.
Monino and Aviation
The Monino urban settlement in the Moscow Region began to develop actively with the construction of a military airfield on the desert swampy lands in 1926. Thousands of people were busy cutting down hectares of dense forest in order to build 2 runways almost a kilometer long, office premises, hangars and a military town in a short time. Heavy bombers and a regiment of long-range reconnaissance aircraft were stationed at the airport. From here, in 1941, Soviet pilots went to the bombing of Berlin.
In 1940, the Air Force Academy was opened in Monino, which in 1968 was named after the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
Dormitories for families of military personnel were immediately built around the academy, the military camp became a closed zone with access control. The academy trained highly qualified personnel for flying, among the graduates 700 people received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, about 10 cosmonauts were trained. It was here that Ivan Kozhedub studied and then taught three times, Hero of the Soviet Union.
In the VVA them. Yu.A. Gagarin trained well-educated specialists not only for the Soviet army, but also for friendly powers. More than 2 thousand foreign military personnel from Syria, Poland, Cuba, East Germany, Vietnam, China, Laos and other countries completed a training course at the academy.
In 2008, located in Monino, Moscow Region VVA named after Gagarin combine with VVIA them. prof. NOT. Zhukovsky and transferred to the capital, in 2011 the military garrison ceases to be a closed territory.
Now, on the basis of the academy, a federal military educational and scientific center has been established, where engineers are trained in 10 specialties.
Attractions PGT Monino, Moscow Region
The main attraction is the aviation history museum. It was created back in 1958 at the military academy in the village of Monino, Moscow Region.
Today, about 150 thousand people visit the museum annually. Indeed, in 2 hangars, in 6 indoor halls and on the airfield, unique exhibits are located - from the first aircraft to modern designs.
Here you can see one of the 7 Ilya Muromets aircraft created in 1913. This development of I. Sikorsky became the first passenger transport in the world equipped with a sleeping salon and a toilet. There are triplane “Sopvich”, “Letatlin”, airplanes of the Second World War and modern models in the museum. The museum presents collections of uniforms and weapons, domestic and foreign equipment, aircraft, missile systems and helicopters.
At the airport, regularly organize air shows, which attract many tourists.
The Monino Museum in the Moscow Region is open from Wednesday to Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
There is another museum in Monino, the existence of which few people know. This is a food service museum located in military unit 25976. On the museum grounds you can see the development of the military food service from the time of Peter I to the present day. How and with what the soldiers were fed 300 years ago and how it is happening today, samples of military rations, including space, kitchen and table equipment, mobile bakeries and camping boilers - all this will be seen by those who get into the museum by appointment.
Monino for Muscovites
In Monino, Moscow Region it is easy to reach:
- by train from the Yaroslavl station to Fryazino, you will have to spend 1 hour 15 minutes on the way;
- buses from Moscow from the station. m. "Partizanskaya" and "Schelkovskaya", on the way for about an hour, you need to leave at the stop "Turn to Monino";
- By car you should go along the highway of Enthusiasts or Gorkovsky.
Many residents of the capital go on weekends to Monino to relax in nature and gain strength, have a picnic, take a walk through the forest, picking strawberries, raspberries or mushrooms, and go skiing in winter.
Rugby competitions are often held at the Mona Stadium, because the base of the VVA-Moscow Region club, the champion of Russia and the USSR, is located in the village.