There are several museums around the world equipped on submarines. In our country, submarines are open to the public in Vytegra, St. Petersburg and Moscow.
Submarine Museum in Moscow
After twenty years of impeccable combat service, in 1998 the legendary diesel submarine called the Novosibirsk Komsomolets was decommissioned from the Russian Navy and turned into a museum. After 8 years, it was re-equipped and installed on the banks of the Khimsky reservoir in the capital of our country. Now there is the Submarine Museum (in Moscow), which is part of the museum and memorial complex of the history of the Russian Navy.
Inside the boat, the interior was slightly modernized: instead of hatches through which divers boarded, the upper deck is equipped with doors for the convenience of museum visitors. Also, the premises of the boat for inspection were expanded. In fact, it was very crowded in the submarine, the military moved through the hatches, which had to be battened down after moving from compartment to compartment. Each hatch has a table that indicates the symbols of the conditional tapping signals, they are needed for communicationbetween submariners.
Torpedo room
The Submarine Museum in Moscow invites you on an excursion, the maximum number of tourists is 15 people. For these purposes, compartments are open: battery, diesel, torpedo, residential, aft and officer cabins. Museum-boat "Novosibirsk Komsomolets" offers a look into the torpedo room, where there are real torpedoes with mines and diving suits.
Also open to the public is the captain's cabin, equipped with a variety of navigational instruments, where everyone can feel like the captain of a controlled vessel, a hydroacoustic cabin, an air supply system, a radio cabin, a medical isolation room, a shower room, a sea latrine. The showroom offers a look at the personal effects of the crew.
Submarines do not have portholes, and movement depends on navigation, which is an important element of control and the life of the ship depends on it.
The Submarine Museum at the "Skhodnenskaya" metro station conducts interesting excursions to get acquainted with the combat capabilities of the submarine, its history, and also during the excursion you can find out how ordinary submariners and officers served and what their everyday life was like conditions.
Ekranoplan
Near the submarine are samples of naval equipment that the Submarine Museum in Moscow installed in the open air on the Khimki reservoir. Curious visitors can get information about the periscope, retractable antenna, emergencybuoy, torpedo, assault hovercraft, ekranoplan, which is designed to deliver troops.
Excursion to the museum "Submarine" for a fee makes it possible to find yourself on an attraction simulator that imitates the cockpit of an ekranoplan, in which, virtually piloting, you need to perform certain tasks as part of your mission.
The submarine is open for tourists from 10 am to 5 pm five days a week, Monday and Tuesday are days off.
Petersburg. "Submarine"
The museum was opened in March 2010. He immediately became very popular, especially among the boys. The submarine museum is located opposite the Naval Corps of Peter the Great in St. Petersburg on the Lieutenant Schmidt Embankment. The S-189 series submarine was manufactured at the B altic Shipyard in 1955. The boat is equipped with six torpedo tubes and is capable of diving to a depth of 200 meters. This type of ships easily withstood numerous combat battles. The USA and Germany highly appreciated the quality of such boats. Over the years of its combat service, the boat plowed the blue of the Atlantic, Arctic Ocean, the B altic Sea and the Neva River.
Restoration work
After 35 years of service, she fell into disrepair and sank in Kronstadt in 1998. In 2000, an attempt was made by veteran submariners to take the initiative to raise it from the bottom and make a museum out of the submarine, but it was not successful due tolack of money. It was only five years later that the lifting operation was completed. At the Kanonersky ship repair plant, it was repaired, and with the help of military specialists, new equipment was supplied. Today, the original appearance of the boat has been restored.
Five years later, with the charitable help of veteran submariner A. Artyushin, the submarine was turned into a museum and installed on the Lieutenant Schmidt embankment. The Submariners' Club of the city has information that the boat was restored at its expense. The submarine received a second birth, only now as a museum.
The "crew" of the submarine today consists of veteran submariners. They keep the museum in good order and provide tours.
"Submarine" in St. Petersburg is the number three museum in a row, after the cruiser "Aurora" and the icebreaker "Krasin".
How to get to the museum?
Getting into the submarine is not easy as it is moored to a pier belonging to the border guard. Foreign cruise ships often moor here. The passage is free when one liner arrives, but if two arrive, the passage becomes blocked. On days when there is no influx of foreign tourists, the boat can be easily approached. Just be careful: going down into the compartments, you can get a lot of bruises.
"Submarine" in St. Petersburg - a museum for getting ideas about military service in the navy. Having been in it, you will know firsthand what it means to be a submariner. If you go further alongcoast, then after three hundred meters you will see the icebreaker "Krasin". It will be an exciting walk along the promenade.
