Northern Fleet Air Force Museum description and photos - Russia - North-West: Severomorsk (Topic)

Northern Fleet Air Force Museum description and photos - Russia - North-West: Severomorsk. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photos and a map showing the nearest significant objects.

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The opening date of the Northern Fleet Air Force Museum is August 20, 1976. This year marked the 40th anniversary of the creation of the first aviation association of the Northern Fleet in the village of Safonovo (the old name is Gryaznaya Guba). On the site of the museum, there was previously the first airfield for seaplanes.

Shortly before this anniversary, the political department of the Northern Fleet Air Force put forward an initiative to build such a museum. Aviators from Severomorsk personally took part in the construction of the NF Air Force Museum. Local residents, military and veteran aviators were also involved in the decoration.

Construction was carried out in a very short time. In less than a year, a new building was built on the site of the old warehouse of the reconnaissance flight regiment. The warehouse building was partially rebuilt as a museum. Not without the help of sponsors, in particular - the Kama Automobile Plant. They took an active part in the project and provided building materials for the construction of the premises. The design of the building was entrusted to "Murmanggrazhdanproekt", in particular to its employees - L. L. Egorov and L. D. Popov.

The museum collection is located in three halls. In the first room you can see the wartime exhibits, in the second there are documentary evidence of the fallen aviators, in the third - all materials related to the post-war period. The museum also contains all the information about the history of the aviation of the Northern Fleet, which was formed in 1936. In addition, the museum contains personal belongings of pilots, veterans of the Northern Fleet. Among them - 53 pilots, awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Perhaps many will immediately remember the name of the legendary commander of the aviation regiment B.F. Safonov. He was awarded this title twice. Among our contemporaries, six naval aviators were awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation. Also in the halls of the museum there are photographs, sculptures and paintings by famous authors - front-line photojournalist E. A. Khaldei, People's Artist of the USSR L. E. Kerbel, Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation E. I. Kitaychuk, artist V. M. Vovk.

The hangar of the museum stores aircraft and helicopters from the Second World War and the post-war period, produced in the USSR, Germany, Great Britain, and the USA. Many of them suffered during the hostilities, but were restored by the hands of the North Sea aviators. There are also other techniques, for example cars for servicing aircraft and airfields, radio-controlled target, simulator cabin. Unfortunately, some types of aircraft were lost forever due to the collapse of the roof of the old hangar building. This happened at the end of the last century.

At the end of 2008, the museum was transformed, as a result of which it became a military history and exposition department at the Safonov House of Naval Aviation Officers of the Northern Fleet.

Notable is the fact that during the filming of "Torpedo bombers" (feature film, filmed at the "Lenfilm" studio in 1983) aviation equipment from the collection of this particular museum was used.

Lyudmila Andreevna Sorokina was the first director of the NF Air Force Museum. Since 1977, she worked as a tour guide in this museum, and then was appointed its leader. Being a historian by training, in this position she found a worthy application of her knowledge and worked as a director until 1985, before moving to Moscow. During this short period of time, she was able to turn the museum into a large complex as part of the Northern Fleet Aviation Museum, the Yuri Gagarin House-Museum, and a hangar that housed a collection of wartime and post-war aviation equipment. In addition, we can say that the museum was the center of local history and military-patriotic work throughout the Murmansk region and on the territory of the Kola Peninsula. Today the museum is headed by Evgenia Dmitrievna Sobakar.

Several tens of thousands of visitors come to the museum every year.

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