Музей военной автомобильной техники, Military vehicle museum in Ryazan, Russia

The Museum of Military Automotive Technology in Ryazan occupies three halls of more than 400 square metres plus an open-air yard. Hall 1 covers early Soviet vehicle building and the Great Patriotic War up to the 1970s; Hall 2 shows vehicles from the 1970s onward, including tested wheeled and tracked prototypes; Hall 3 is devoted to mobile repair and evacuation equipment, with photographs from 1911 on.

The museum was created at the Ryazan Military Automobile Institute on the initiative of its teachers and students, following a Russian government decree of 1 June 1994 on preparations for the 50th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War. It opened to visitors on 9 May 1995. In 2010 it was reorganized as a historical-memorial hall within the Ryazan Museum of Airborne Forces History, and 150 exhibits were moved to a Ministry of Defence depot on Rublyovskoye Highway.

The museum grew out of the Ryazan Military Automobile Institute, whose teachers and students proposed it; it opened on 9 May 1995. Its three halls trace Soviet vehicle building from its early stage through the Great Patriotic War to the 1970s, then to experimental wheeled and tracked prototypes. A third hall covers mobile repair and evacuation units and the First Training Automobile Company of 1911.

The museum opened on 9 May 1995 and closed on 1 June 2010; its 150 most valuable exhibits were moved to the 147th Automobile Base on Rublyovskoye Highway, while heavy outdoor vehicles stayed in Ryazan. Check current access to the remaining grounds and the Ryazan Museum of Airborne Forces history, which absorbed the collection.

Among the exhibits were a ZIL-111V that belonged to Yuri Gagarin and a ZIL-117 of Fidel Castro. In 2010, after Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov toured the museum, 150 of its most valuable items were moved to the ministry's 147th automobile base on Rublyovskoye Highway near Moscow; heavy outdoor vehicles stayed in Ryazan.