FX.co ★ Exhibits of the largest Russian Museum of Railways

1. Museum's surface area
   
   The new museum complex covers an area of more than 57 thousand square meters where there are 115 units of rolling stock, as well as 38 interactive and multimedia installations. The complex consists of two buildings: the historical building of the locomotive depot of the 19th century Peterhof Railway and a new building, reminiscent of its shape but superior in surface area. Both buildings are connected by a covered passage. In the center of the museum complex, there is a turntable for steam locomotives, diesel locomotives and other types of railway equipment were placed inside the two buildings of the museum and in the adjoining territory.

2. Porcelain plate and sheet music of Pavlovsk Waltz

The collection of the St. Petersburg Museum includes items related to the history of the famous Pavlovsk station, a part of the first railway in Russia. It was both a station and a concert hall where musicians with world names performed. Among the artifacts reminiscent of the glory of the music station is a porcelain plate made at the plant Kornilov and used during meals in the restaurant of the station, as well as the sheet music of Pavlovsk Waltz of the late XIX century.

3. Luxury salon wagon

Presented in the museum one of the four pre-revolutionary salon wagons of the luxury class has the best-preserved interior and a rare type of body, polonso. In the wagon, there is a kitchen, a compartment for servants and guards, as well as a meeting room. At the beginning of XX century, metallic bullet-proof half-walls defended the generals and admirals of the Russian army on the front line. After the Second World War, in the Soviet Union, the wagon was used as a service one until the early 1990's.

4. Locomotive in a cross section

The cross-section layout of the locomotive ER791-81, one of the most interesting exhibits of the St. Petersburg museum, gives an opportunity to examine in detail how this running model of railway transport is arranged. The locomotive itself was built in 1955 and along with other 2,700 locomotives of the "Er" series was to replenish the locomotive fleet of domestic railways which suffered losses during the Great Patriotic War.

5. Mobile missile system

A little more than 10 years ago Russian Railways was given permission to exhibit a sample of a combat railway missile complex equipped with an intercontinental ballistic missile RT-23UTTKH "Molodets". The module consists of three wagons: a firing control point, a launcher and a supply unit. The missile shaft is fixed in the fighting position. Special equipment allows you to see how the combat calculation works when launching the missile. The last Russian combat railway missile complex was withdrawn from combat duty on August 15, 2005.

6. Artillery systems from a sunken battleship

Such artillery systems were intended mainly to combat naval targets and were part of the coastal units of the Navy. One of the systems of TM-3-12, produced by the Nikolaev plant named after Andre Marti in 1938, modeled after the ones located on the sunk battleship "Empress Maria", is now in the new St. Petersburg museum. During the Great Patriotic War, such cannons were both in Finland and in the evacuation, until finally in 1944 they returned to the USSR where they continued to serve under Leningrad until 1961.