Technical Museum (Togliatti): description, mode of operation and address

The technical museum of VAZ Togliatti is one of the main sights of the city. It was founded in 1998 on the initiative of K.G. Sakharov, who at that time was the vice-president of AvtoVAZ. Subsequently, after the death of the founding father, the museum was renamed in his honor.

Description

On the territory of a total area of 38 hectares, many "veterans" of past centuries have found their shelter. Some of them date from the times of the First World War, while others have joined the ranks of exhibits quite recently. The main part of the museum is open-air and contains more than 500 units of various large equipment and more than 2000 small ones. The VAZ Technical Museum contains many samples of old military and civilian vehicles. Airplanes, helicopters, tanks, armored trains, radar and agricultural machinery - all this is only a brief description of what is here.

All the exhibits in this museum are divided into groups. In one part Tolyatti Technical Museum presents helicopter and airplane visitors who once roamed the air spaces. The other contains monuments to rocket launchers and artillery, which at one time could have made whole villages capitulate, and now they are forced to burn in the sun and collect rain drops. Also there are trains and armored trains on which the ordinary people traveled. Radar antennas, space vehicles and even rovers - you can get acquainted with all this in this place. But the technical museum of Togliatti pays special attention to military equipment. Indeed, having visited this park, having felt on itself the echo of war, looking at the machinery eaten by time, it is impossible to remain indifferent.

Military equipment

In general, the military technical museum in Togliatti contains only Soviet equipment. But there are also foreign exhibits that are relevant to Russian history. For example, cars "Studebaker", which were used in the filming of several Soviet films. In addition, a huge batch of these cars during the war was delivered to the USSR. They were the first carriers of the "BM-13" and "BM-31" complexes, which are better known under the names "Katyusha" and "Andryusha" respectively. During the war, they played a huge role in the victory in the breakthrough of the German defense.

Also in this park are many examples of German, American and English tanks of the Second World War. For example, the German tank Panzer 38. By the way, this tank is not quite German - it is of Czech origin. Of course, this museum presents most of the samples of Soviet tanks, such as: T70, IS-3, T54-2, and even the legendary tank that brought victory to our troops in the war - T34. Some of the samples were indeed able to visit the war in the distant past. Of course, since then they have been repeatedly reconstructed and changed, but perhaps one of today's forever frozen monuments could really be in the thick of the battle and live up to our time.

The technical museum (Togliatti) also singled out a separate site for artillery with missile systems. In this part of the museum, giants such as the Topol Rocket, or multiple rocket fire systems such as Smerch and Grad are resting. In addition to these, there are many other less well-known tools of the time.

Submarine

A special place in the narrative is to be given to the pearl of this place - a real submarine, which the technical museum (Togliatti) acquired in 2002. Its full name is "Diesel submarine B-307 project 641B" Som. "It has a height of 12 meters and a length of more than 90. It was rebuilt in 1980 and joined the ranks of the Soviet Navy in seven months. , Until 1998, after that the boat was written off.During her service, she managed to visit the Atlantic, the Barents Sea, the Mediterranean and the Norwegian Sea.

Preparation for its transportation from Kronstadt to Togliatti took as long as 4 years. From the boat removed all the weapons and tightly sealed it. On special tugboats it was transported through a number of water bodies - the Gulf of Finland, Ladoga, White and Onega lakes. And then it finally reached the Volga through several reservoirs, to a specially built berth in the village of Primorsky. On land, it was transported specially withdrawn for this purpose from its parts by military tractors.

In the technical museum of AvtoVAZ, this boat fell just on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the Great Victory. With its dimensions, it is difficult to imagine how its transportation along the ground looked. However, the fact that she really carried combat duty in our fleet in due time, gives this exhibit special significance.

In addition to this submarine, there are numerous artillery, antiaircraft guns, which were mounted on ships. And besides all this, torpedo systems and some kinds of underwater mines are also represented.

Engineering technology

The technical museum of VAZ Togliatti contains another very interesting site, which is reserved for all kinds of engineering equipment. There are also machines for digging trenches, and various conveyors (including "amphibians"), and a technique for demining or debris analysis.

There is even such a specific machine as the station ADS-50, which was intended for the extraction of liquid and gaseous nitrogen in the field. The variety of shapes and sizes of this technique is just off scale. There is a prototype of the robot STR-1, which participated in the collection of highly active substances from the roof of the 4th power unit at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. It should be noted that there is only a prototype in the museum, none of the presented cars participated in the elimination of the Chernobyl accident, or in any other technogenic catastrophe - all the exhibits are absolutely safe.

Railway engineering

One of the most interesting objects on this site is the captured steam locomotive TE-4844. The German inventory numbers, which have not changed since then, show that this locomotive was built at the Berlin plant. In addition to several more models of trains and locomotives, there are wagons of a combat railway missile complex. They do not stand out in appearance, they look like typical refrigerated cars. The train contained about ten wagons, three of which were armed with RT-23 missiles, which could be fired directly from the train. A distinctive feature of the "armed" cars was the doubled number of wheel sets - ordinary cars with four wheel pairs, with rockets - eight.

Space technology

The Technical Museum of VAZ offers its visitors an opportunity to see not only "earthly" technology. It also features a site dedicated to all kinds of space vehicles and lunar rovers. Most of the exhibits were invented by the All-Russian Research Institute "TransMash" and passed all sorts of tests. Many of the ideas proposed by this institute, later found application in the development of modern lunar and rover vehicles. Of course, if you look at all this technique now, it will look pretty primitive. However, modern machines that are designed for various space missions could not have appeared without research with these "ancestors".

Technical Museum of Togliatti: operating mode

The museum is open daily from 9:00 to 17:00. Excursions are only for groups of 12 people and only with pre-registration. Additional services include the possibility of photo or video shooting - 40 and 60 rubles respectively. An adult ticket will cost 60 rubles without a guide and 80 rubles with it. For schoolchildren, students, disabled or military personnel - 30 or 40 rubles.

Conclusion

The Technical Museum of Togliatti offers the opportunity to admire not only the technology and weapons of past times, but also various cameras, printing and sewing machines, all kinds of gramophone, gramophone and many others. Basically, it's all brought to the museum by the inhabitants of the city. In addition, the museum hosts various historical reconstructions and festivals. A huge territory, covered with all kinds of equipment, festivals, reconstructions and interesting excursions make this museum an excellent place where you can spend your time pleasantly and comfortably.