Saturday 11 August 2012

121st ARZ (Aircraft Repair Plant), Kubinka

(all photos copyright Ken Duffey)

Before setting off to Kubinka, I photographed this monument to Nikolai Gastello near our hotel.

The tower is the oldest fire station in Moscow - contrasting with MacDonalds and our Holiday Inn in Sokolniki.

On the roadside near Kubinka, we stopped to photograph this MiG-21F monument.

Yakovlev Yak-28L in the 121st ARZ museum.

Sukhoi Su-27UB 'Sparka' displaying two different bort numbers.

MiG-29.

MiG-23UB.

Early Mi-8T.

Kamov Ka-27.

Yakovlev Yak-38M.

MiG-25RB.

Mil Mi-24.

Mil Mi-2.

The collection of ejection seats inside the small factory museum.

KT-1 ejection seat - as used on the Tu-22M.

MiG-19 on a pole inside the factory......

... and typical Soviet-era mural on the wall opposite.

MiG-15UTI monument on the road leaving Kubinka.

Technical Museum of Vadim Zadorozhni, Moscow

Some new arrivals at Zadorozhni - all ex-Khodynka airframes. This is a MiG-17

MiG-19.

MiG-21SMT.

Il-28.

This unpainted Yak-38M looks like it came straight out the factory.

Another Yak-38 - this time an early variant from the Yakovlev museum.

Another ex-Yakovlev machine - the Yak-141.

Hawker Hurricane - now in Soviet markings.

Alekse'ev A-90 'Orlyonok' ekranoplan.

A-90 on the riverbank at Khimki, Moscow.

Central Armed Forces Museum, Moscow.

Mil Mi-24 'Hind-A'

MiG-21F.

MiG-2MF.

MiG-23.

The remains of Gary Powers' U-2.

Su-15TM.

Monument to the Kursk submarine outside the museum.

Victory Park (Park Pobed), Moscow.

Hurricane 'replica'......

Il-2 'Shtormovik'.

Polikarpov I-153.

P-63 Kingcobra.

Immaculately restored Il-4 bomber.

Sukoi's rival to the Il-2 - the Su-2.

LaGG-3.

Not so immaculate Bf-109.

Modern day 'Shtormovik' - the Sukhoi Su-25 in naval markings.

Su-17UM3.

Su-15TM.

Li-2 - licence built C-47.

© Ken Duffey August 2012