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 sits on the grounds of an active airport, which makes the visit feel unlike a typical museum trip. Some of the aircraft on display can be entered, giving visitors a direct sense of what Soviet passenger cabins looked like from the inside.
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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