The UMMC Museum (Pyshma) is located in the suburbs of Yekaterinburg and is a unique exhibition space that presents the history of military equipment and the stages of development of the automotive industry. The exposition was conceived as a social project of the UMMC-Holding company. In a short time, a museum complex has grown from a small collection of machines and equipment of the war period, open for development, communication, education and training.
History
The opening of the UMMC Museum in Verkhnyaya Pyshma was timed to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the Victory and took place on May 9, 2005. The first exposition, which consisted of several units of military equipment, was located in the open air near the entrance of the Uralelectromed enterprise. After 10 years, the collection has grown, which made it possible to open a large exhibition area, where armored vehicles, artillery pieces, self-propelled guns, aircraft and much more were presented.
In 2013, on Victory Day, an exhibition center dedicated entirely to military equipment opened its doors. The collection is constantly updated with new rarities. On the first two floors of the museum there are exhibits, oncewho took part in the fighting. The third floor tells the military history of the Urals. For some time, the center housed a collection of civilian vehicles, which became the core of the Automotive Museum, which was opened later.
In 2015, the UMMC museum expanded with another open area dedicated to the feat of the railway workers during the Great Patriotic War. A year later, a site with an exposition of naval equipment appeared in the arsenal. The pride of this collection are models of boats of project 161, 194 and the submarine "Malyutka", as well as a model of a river boat of project 1125, which took part in the Battle of Stalingrad.
Museum of Military Equipment
The UMMC Museum of Technology (Verkhnyaya Pyshma) was conceived as a social project, the purpose of which was to preserve the heritage of the feat of the Soviet people, the military-patriotic education of youth. The exposition center has become the pearl of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company, which managed to involve not only its employees, but also veterans, members of public organizations and schoolchildren.
Today, the UMMC museum has become the largest complex, not inferior in terms of completeness of collections to museums in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Saratov and other cities. Over a decade of activity, museum staff have collected more than 200 items of military equipment, models of firearms, uniforms, national awards and much more. In 2011, the museum was awarded the honorary status of a branch of the Central Museum of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
Open area of the museumoccupies almost 6 hectares, the exposition of the exhibition center is spread over more than 7 thousand square meters. The number of visitors is constantly growing, the monthly flow of tourists is approximately 17 thousand people.
Exposure
The UMMC Museum invites visitors to familiarize themselves with the following departments of the exposition:
- Railway transport - the collection is located in an open area. The pride of the assembly is the layout of the Uzlovaya station. Reconstruction work was carried out on the basis of archival materials and photographs depicting the Kapralovo station, which was once located in the city of Revda, Sverdlovsk Region. The ensemble includes a water tower, water pumps and much more. Near the station, on five tracks, steam locomotives with wagons, armored cars, tepushki, railway platforms are exhibited. In the warm season, an exposition is open for visitors, dedicated to the work and construction of sanitary trains during the Second World War.
- Aviation - in the open area, tourists can get acquainted with such machines as the MiG-21PFM, helicopters of the Mi-21, Mi-2 and Mi-8 models. The public will be interested in an extensive collection of training aircraft, a fighter-bomber, as well as models of the legendary machines of the WWII period. Under the open sky, pre-war bombers and post-war models of supersonic aircraft spread their wings. The largest device on the site is the Tu-16LL flying laboratory, which was in operation until 1995.
- Artillery - this part of the exposition presents mortar systems from the pre-war and war years, howitzers, cannons and much more.
- Awards, uniforms and weapons - the collection contains historical rarities of military distinctions, breastplates, military uniforms, personal items, award weapons related to the Patriotic War of 1812 and the Great Patriotic War.
Military equipment annually takes part in the city parade dedicated to Victory Day.
Tours
The collection of exhibits of the UMMC Museum contains several thousand items. Residents and guests of the city are invited to visit the exposition with the following excursions:
- Overview. Visitors get acquainted with the main exposition, located on three floors of the museum center.
- Soviet pre-war tanks. The tour acquaints visitors with the history of the appearance and construction of the first tanks, their design features and application. Many of the presented exhibits could jump over wide ditches, overcome swamps and river barriers. The collection reflects the high-quality and rapid development of domestic tank building.
- Military auto industry. During the tour, visitors get acquainted with Soviet armored vehicles, military vehicles of pre-war production. Also in this tour is a detailed story about the legends of the American automotive industry - SUVs "Dodge" and "Willis".
- Ambulance trains during the Great Patriotic War - a unique tour dedicated to visitors in particular the operation of military hospital trains during the Great Patriotic War. The doctors and nurses of these hospitals on wheels saved thousands of lives, sent millions of wounded soldiers to the rear. Tourists receivethe opportunity to learn how the staff worked, see the arrangement of operating rooms and understand how dedicated the work of doctors and nurses was.
The duration of any excursion is 1 hour, the ticket price is from 300 to 500 rubles, an appointment is required to visit. The Hospital Train exhibition is open during the summer months.
Automotive history
The UMMC Automotive Museum in Verkhnyaya Pyshma was opened in 2018. The presented collection of exhibits of automotive retro technology is considered one of the largest and best in Russia. A complex was built for the museum, on 4 floors of which more than 160 units of cars, bicycles, motor vehicles are presented. The first level is dedicated to the beginning of the automotive era. In the hall you can admire the first masterpieces of the automotive industry of the brands Auburn, Rolls-Royce, Cadillac, Packard and Delaunay-Belleville, whose cars were in the fleet of Emperor Nicholas II.
The next two floors feature domestic cars. The collection traces the history of the development of the automotive industry, starting from the machines of the Gorky Plant in the early 1930s to the end of the 20th century. The exposition includes experimental samples and cars produced in limited quantities. Four main locations are dedicated to luxury cars that served the top executives of the USSR. The meeting is unique.
On the last, 4th floor of the UMMC Museum of Technology, a collection of sports cars and motorcycles of the early 20th century, including Harley-Davidson, Indian, NATI-A-750, IZH-7. Of interest are racing cars "Estonia", sports bikes and other equipment.
Tours
The Museum of Automobile Technology in Verkhnyaya Pyshma invites you to visit the following excursions:
- Sightseeing tour lasting 1 hour, designed for visitors of all ages.
- For little car enthusiasts, ages 5-8, duration 40 to 50 minutes.
- "Autohistory", schoolchildren under 16 are invited to this informative excursion. Duration - 60 minutes.
The cost of excursions is from 300 to 500 rubles, an appointment is required to visit.
The UMMC museum implements educational programs, there is a modeling circle for children, open lessons and military-historical games for adults and children are held, interactive tank simulators are installed for those who want to feel on the battlefield.
Reviews
In the reviews, visitors wrote that the museum deserves all praise for its huge and varied exposition. Connoisseurs of military equipment noted that in order to examine in detail and enjoy the view of all the exhibits of the UMMC museum, you need to spend a whole day, the collection is so rich. Most visitors liked the work of guides and free access to open areas.
Family couples believe that the museum is no less interesting for children than for adults, and brings incredibly many benefits. Here is an opportunity to see why war is terrible, whyit is so important to improve the technique, and what path of development it has passed. Several locations for photo sessions were positively evaluated, where, in addition to the decorated place, they can offer uniforms, helmets or other items.
The sightseers felt that everything in the museum center was arranged in such a way that visitors could not only view the exposition, but do it in comfort. On the open area and in the premises there are places to relax, there is a buffet where you can have a bite to eat. The cost of tickets was a pleasant surprise, and the benefits for schoolchildren, students and pensioners make the exposition accessible to this category of the population.
The only drawback was the location of the car park, as well as the small number of places on it.
UMMC Museum is located at the address: Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Alexander Kozitsyn street, building 2.
There are many museums in our country dedicated to the war and its participants. It is all the more valuable that the UMMC museum is a relatively new undertaking, where they consider it their duty to carefully preserve the heritage and give it a second life so that future generations can be proud of the country and their ancestors.
