Verkhnyaya Pyshma. Summer 2025.
Reports on the Verneye Pyshma museum complex are incremental. And now I will show you the visible changes since last year’s visit
For those who remember, and for those who don’t, I will show you, from the entrance you pass six pavilions. As in some trains, the numbering starts from the end.
The sixth pavilion is still closed to visitors and serves as either a repair shop or a warehouse for blanks.
One of the clearly new ones is the helicopter.
The fifth pavilion, within the framework of the established global concept – cars of the USSR, continues to change the composition of the exhibition (left – before, right – after),
There are even fewer changes in the fourth pavilion. They just rearranged the exhibits a bit. The cabins were on one side, now they are on the other (on the left – it was, on the right – it is).
Here the third pavilion is completely filled with exhibits.
The second pavilion is about engines. There are no changes there.
But in the first pavilion there may be changes, but it is covered with a veil of uncertainty!
Leaving wide scope for imagination, provoking it with a deliberate demonstration of the two extreme poles of passenger car manufacturing.
The Yak-38 was removed from the area behind the pavilions and replaced with an airfield sweeper.
And they found a worthy, no less strange replacement for the strange MoAZ:
buckets of huge excavators!
I have encountered a walking excavator once in my life – as a student, when I was building a railway next to a coal quarry in Siberia. The sight of a bulldozer cleaning the inside of an excavator bucket and maneuvering quite freely has been etched in my memory for the rest of my life. I dream of finding such a miracle in the vast expanses of my Motherland and admiring it at least once more.
Stairs were attached to the monstrous BelAZ, obviously for excursions around the body – the size allows, but the entrance was closed in my presence
Over the past year they managed to complete the An-12.
And here is the “lost” Yak-38.
The fences have been removed from all the planes – apparently all the repair work has been completed,
and now you can wander under them as much as you like.
They reformatted the helicopter parking lot (on the left – well, you already figured it out…).
But now you can clearly understand the differences between the Mi-24 modifications.
Who is struggling with choosing the colors of Soviet military equipment? Here’s a painting guide for you.
In the place where Buran was “hiding” behind the fence, there was no longer a fence or Buran, but a ready-made site with exhibits that were not yet ready.
Is the museum encroaching on the plant? Maybe it’s a more profitable establishment?
Maybe they’ll drag the An-12 there and create a corner of civil aviation? We’ll see.
And where did they put the Buran? Intrigue. True, it won’t last long.
They are building a separate pavilion for it, and that is right. At the same time, taking advantage of the opportunity, they are running electricity somewhere. Hopefully to new exhibition venues.
I propose to take a closer look at armored cars, armored railcars and other armored vehicles on rail tracks.
The range of German fascist equipment seems to have not changed.
However, I didn’t count them carefully. But opposite and in addition to them they placed a lonely Tiger.
And behind it is a very interesting unit of a class never seen before.
I accidentally stumbled upon a cache of wheeled vehicles in a secluded corner.
But then I got upset. Looking at a row of tanks from afar, I decided at first that they were primed brown for painting.
But then I realized that only the green paint had turned brown, all the other colors remained in place. This is the effect of burning.
At the same time, the column of heavy tanks sparkles with summer green.
This time I decided to visit the automobile museum, because I haven’t been there for a long time. There will be a separate series of reports about it. Of the new items, I’ll show you this dissected Volga GAZ-21.
And finally, to understand the size of the museum and just to admire it: several general views from the windows of this building.
To be continued …