Ulyanovsk Aircraft Museum, Aviation museum at Baratayevka Airport, Ulyanovsk, Russia.
The Ulyanovsk Aircraft Museum is an aviation museum at Baratayevka Airport in Ulyanovsk, Russia, focused on Soviet civil aviation. It holds dozens of retired aircraft along with thousands of objects such as photographs, instruments, and technical equipment spread across several exhibition halls.
The museum was founded in 1983 on the grounds of the Ulyanovsk Higher Civil Aviation School, which trained pilots for Soviet civil aviation. In 1989, it received the status of a People's Museum, formally recognizing its role as a public educational institution.
The museum's name in Russian, Glavnoy otraslevoy muzey istorii grazhdanskoy aviatsii, marks it as the branch-wide museum of civil aviation history, run by the Ulyanovsk Institute of Civil Aviation, whose cadets use it for history classes. Its first exhibit was a Mi-4 helicopter that flew in from Saratov on 30 August 1983; the second, an Il-18, arrived by special flight from Domodedovo on 4 October 1983. In October 2018 the grounds served as a film set for the two-part detective serial Restavrator.
The museum is on Aviacionnaya Street near Baratayevka Airport and can be reached by public transport or car. It is worth setting aside a good amount of time for the visit, as the collection covers both indoor halls and an outdoor area with full-size aircraft.
Several of the aircraft on display were tracked down by volunteer search teams who traveled across different parts of Russia specifically to find forgotten machines and bring them to the collection. The museum also preserves flight simulators that were once part of the training program at the aviation school next door.
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