The Museum of the Moscow Railway is situated next to
Paveletsky Rail Terminal in
Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...
. The museum reopened to private visitors in 2011 and it reopened to the general public in January 2012. It's the object of cultural heritage of
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-ei ...
.
Overview
The museum was formerly the Museum of Lenin’s funeral train. It still houses exhibits relating to
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. ( 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin,. was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1 ...
's
Funeral train
A funeral train carries a coffin or coffins (caskets) to a place of interment by railway. Funeral trains today are often reserved for leaders, national heroes, or government officials, as part of a state funeral, but in the past were sometimes ...
including the
4-6-0
A 4-6-0 steam locomotive, under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, has four leading wheels on two axles in a leading bogie and six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles with the ...
steam
locomotive U-127 (Russian У-127) and Lenin’s funeral van No 1691.
See also
*
Moscow Railway Museum at Rizhsky station
*
History of rail transport in Russia
*
List of Moscow tourist attractions
This is a list of major tourist attractions in the Russian city of Moscow.
__TOC__
Museums
Religious buildings
Convents and monasteries
* St. Andronik Monastery
*Epiphany Monastery
*Chudov Monastery
*Danilov Monastery
* Donskoy Monastery ...
*
List of railway museums (worldwide)
*
Russian Railway Museum,
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
References
*
*
*
*
*
External links
The Official Museum Website* Abou
The Museum of Railroad Machineryn English
N, or n, is the fourteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''en'' (pronounced ), plural ''ens''.
History
...
{{authority control
Museums in Moscow
Cultural depictions of Vladimir Lenin
History of Moscow
Railway museums in Russia
Rail transport in Moscow
Cultural heritage monuments of federal significance in Moscow