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Monino Central Museum of Voenno Vozdushnukh Sil (Air Force) is the largest collection of aviation artifacts in Russia. Back few years ago I managed to take few photos, but was warned and in fear to be asked to leave the facilities and to loose the film I interrupted my photo session. The place was still taboo for visitors with cameras (unless you are lucky, can make friends quickly or bribed you way through).

Besides Monino there are few more "must see" places in Moscow and surroundings:

Gromov Flight Research Center (LII) at Zhukovsky
New The Central Museum of Armed forces
National Aviation and Space Museum at Khodynka
Kubinka
Tushino
Space related: Korolev's memorial, Tsialkovski's museum, Cosmos Pavilion etc.
Moscow Victory Park Museum
Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI): aet@tk.mainet.msk.su
Moscow Airports: Sheremet'evo and Vnukovo
New Gorky Park where you can dine inside of Soviet space shuttle Buran
The Yakovlev OKB (Design Bureaus) Museum
The Kamov OKB Museum
The Mikoyan OKB Museum
The Sukhoi OKB Museum
Through out Russia:
New Chkalov's museum in Chkalovsk, Nizhnij Novgorod region
If you saw any of these places or other sites missing from the list and would like to share your experience, please contact me.
There are three videos covering few aviation museums from this list. These are available from Jet-Age Products. I have no idea how good videos are.


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