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BBC: Moscow Monino Museum in very serious trouble now...

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VIDEOS showing the volunteers at work plus the "forbidden zone" at Monino further down below...

http://www.bbc.com/russian/russia/2016/ ... useum_move
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Do take away from the Museum of Air Force planes to park "Patriot"?

Pavel Aksenov
BBC Russian Service

February 2, 2016

Aircraft from the world-famous collection of the Central Museum of the Air Force will be transported to the park "The Patriot" -
a large-scale propaganda Russian Ministry of Defense project in Moscow, say the volunteers, who collaborate with the museum.

According to the source, informed about the plans of the Ministry,
the military is not going to take the old artifacts that can be lost in transit.

Act so that the value of the museum's collection has been at least partially lost, the military, too, will not, he assured Bi-bi-si.

At the same time, to Lenta.ru publication source in the Ministry of Defence said that the final decision on withdrawal of funds has been taken out of the museum.

Officially, the Ministry of Defence of its position on this issue is not raised.

Volunteers refer to the information from the administration of the museum,
which, according to them, has received verbal orders from the military.

The Air Force Museum administration on Monday evening Bi-bi-si said that they would not comment on the situation,
because they hold no formal orders or other documents about the transfer of funds elsewhere.

As reported with reference to the publication Gazeta.ru,
museum staff and museum volunteers reported by aircraft carrying the initiative may come from the Ministry of Defence of the department of culture.

Activists restorers who restored the old exhibits of the museum on their own in recent years,
say many planes as a result of the move may be lost -
large vehicles to transport in the form of undismantled impossible due to the fact that they do not fit into the dimensions of the transport routes.

In case, if the old machines will be disassembled for transportation, it can lead to their destruction, they say.

Who is better?

The representative of the Ministry of Defence said Lente.ru that the park "Patriot" the best conditions for the care of the aircraft,
where they will be more safety in the park itself comes more visitors, and there are held various major events.

"By dismantling the aircraft will be connected to specialists in different fields including aviation industry Power Park."

The Patriot "allow not only comfortable to mark exhibits Monino museum, but also significantly expand the exposure Air Force,
and also add exhibits of aerospace forces in the long term", - quotes source edition of the word.

"The exhibits in the Museum of the Air Force will not last forever

They need to be regularly maintained, process special inks and lubricants, which requires considerable financial costs." - Said the representative of the Ministry.

Meanwhile, on the museum page on the website of the Ministry of Defense almost the same thing said about the work of the Monino museum .

"As a result of the search operation,
the recovery found in aircraft design bureau and museum shops of the museum collection
is constantly updated with airplanes and helicopters,
unique samples of engines, equipment and armament of aircraft, personal belongings of famous aviators," - says the Ministry of Defence.

The Ministry of Defence said that the museum staff and volunteers provide
"continuous improvement of exposure,
providing the best conditions of storage of exhibits,
museum-quality representation at various exhibitions and air shows",
and the museum is visited by a quarter of a million people a year.

"Disassemble the impossible"

According to volunteers, many aircraft in the museum too old for transportation,
while others - too big, and many do not adapted for such operations.

"Pick up and carry on the ground such exhibits as the Tu-114, 3MD, Tu-95, B-12, MI-6, especially the Tu-144, T-4 and M-50 - it is impossible.

They just do not fit into the dimensions of roads, bridges and interchanges, even when undocked, "
- says one of the activists of aircraft, leading informal museum page in" Facebook ".

"Even if they try to make out under the technological schemes,
which will most likely not be able to find even in the factories where they were built (and other plants and design bureaus themselves have become history),
the size and weight of aircraft parts will exceed the overall limit allowed for transport on public roads
is not the weight,
in each case will allow to transport such items over the air ", -.
wrote on the website of the restorers another activist Oleg Gavryushenko.


In an interview with BBC BBC he said that for the transport of the aircraft on the road need to dismantle the wings,
empennage, which may touch power lines.

In this passage of any railway crossing in such cases requires a separate agreement with the Ministry of Transport.

In some cases, impossible to disassemble the plane because of the lack of documentation.

According Gavryushenko, one of the most famous exhibits - experienced supersonic bomber T-4 - not at all versed in the field.

According to group activists air museum together with Tupolev and Yakovlev Design Bureau
has reviewed the state of the collection
and identified a list of 22 aircraft, which can not be transported. :!:

Among them - the layout of the first heavy bomber in history,
"Ilya Muromets",
Soviet strategic bomber M-50,
Tu-4,
Tu-22,
an experimental T-4 (Su-100),
airliners Tu-144 and
Tu-114,
the largest in the history of the Mi-12 helicopter, as well as other devices.

Love of Aviation

In Russian society to the history of aviation is treated with great care, and it shows during air shows and exhibitions, which usually exhibit many historical aircraft.
Such shows are traditionally visited by a large number of people.

In Monino museum has a large group of volunteers who restored airplanes, restore their color, interiors, even separate technical units and components.

One of the most famous works of this group - the restoration of the airliner Tu-144. She was covered in detail in the social networks.

The few cases in recent years, as historical monuments, airplanes, caused great public interest have been destroyed in Russia.

Active in social networks cutting Tu-154 at ENEA in 2008, the destruction of the monument-liner Tu-114 in Domodedovo in 2006, and other similar cases. :evil:

In defense of the museum has made the State Duma of the defense committee.

"I spoke with [Deputy Defense Minister] Pankov on this subject, and with the head of Monin said.

We would like everything to remain in place.

The" Patriot "enough other samples from across the country,
and those samples that are in Monino must stay there we will apply it to the Minister of defense "-. Tass quoted the head of Vladimir Komoyedov Committee.

"Patriot"

Park "Patriot", which opened in Moscow last summer, according to the Defense Department, to become an important tool of the military-patriotic propaganda.

It is located on an area of ​​over 5000 hectares, and has already included the one of the world's largest museum of armored vehicles in Kubinka.

Air Museum to place on its territory originally planned. He had to stay on the territory of the air base in the same Kubinka.

According to unofficial information, the aviation museum exhibits for the Ministry of Defense plans to raise not only in Monino, but also in other places, for example, among the monuments in the military units.

In the park last year, held a grand military show "Army 2015" .

According to the information that appeared in the summer of last year in the Russian press, for the construction of "Patriot" Russian authorities have spent about 20 billion rubles.
The "forbidden zone":


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhJ53PqzwYI
In the back of the Museum in Monino
The volunteers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irAzQXvvawI
TV documentary from May 2015 it seems.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja6a11td1Hg
The photos disappear after 0.32, moving footage from 0.33 .
November 2024 update at FokkerNews.nl....
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