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Kubinka
Kubinka () is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town in Odintsovsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia, located on the Setun River, west of Moscow. Population: __TOC__ History Kubinka, founded in the 15th century, may have been named after Prince , a prominent local land-owner who died in 1546. It grew in importance in the second half of the 19th century when the Moscow-Smolensk railway passed through the area. The military test-range for tanks opened in 1931 and the military airbase opened soon afterwards. In December 1941 the Red Army halted the Wehrmacht's Battle of Moscow, drive towards Moscow on the outskirts of Kubinka. Kubinka gained town status in 2004. Administrative and municipal status Within the subdivisions of Russia#Administrative divisions, framework of administrative divisions, it is, together with twenty-three types of inhabited localities in Russia, rural localities, incorporated within Odintsovsky District as the Town of district significance, Town ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kubinka Tank Museum
The Kubinka Tank Museum (Центральный музей бронетанкового вооружения и техники - Tsentral'nyy Muzey Bronetankovogo Vooruzheniya I Tekhniki -Central Museum of Armored Arms and Technology) is a large military museum in Kubinka, Odintsovsky District, Moscow Oblast, Russia where tanks, armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs) and their relevant information are displayed and showcased. The museum consists of open-air and indoor permanent exhibitions of many famous tanks and armored vehicles from throughout the 20th and 21st centuries (between 1917 and the present day). It also houses and displays many unique, unusual and one-of-a-kind military vehicles of which there are very few remaining examples, such as the German Panzer VIII Maus super-heavy tank, Object 279, Troyanov's Object 279 Kotin heavy tank, the Karl-Gerät heavy self-propelled artillery, and the SU-152 "Taran", Object 120 Su-152 "Taran" tank destroyer, amongst other single or limit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kubinka (air Base)
Kubinka () is an air base in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located northwest of Kubinka. In close proximity to Moscow, the Kubinka facility is generally home to the best squadrons of the Russian Aerospace Forces. The 82nd aviation detachment (separate) arrived at the base in 1935, joined in 1938 by the 11th and 24th Aviation Regiments. Personnel of these units field-tested the advanced Yak-1 and Lavochkin-Gorbunov-Gudkov LaGG-3, LaGG-3 fighters and defended Moscow during the Second World War. After the war, the base became home to the 324th Svirskaya Fighter Aviation Division from November 1945. In November 1950, the whole 324th Fighter Aviation Division was redeployed to Korea, and the base was taken over by the 9th Fighter Aviation Division from February 1951. image:NASA FIRMS 2024-11-03 Kubinka.png, 200px, Satellite image of Kubinka air base Units which have been stationed at Kubinka include: * 237th Centre for Display of Aviation Equipment (237 TsPAT) flying MiG-29E, Sukhoi Su-17, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kubinka I
Kubinka I (), also called Kubinka-1 is a railway station of Belorussky suburban railway line in Kubinka town, Moscow Oblast, Russia. History Kubinka station was established in 1870. In 1899–1900, a brick station building was constructed from the design of architect . Description The station has two platforms: the island high (linked with the town by a pedestrian bridge) and the low side platform. The platforms are not connected to each other. The station has a two-storey station building. Kubinka has no turnstiles, but has ticket validators for the Moscow Central Diameters. Near to the station the monument of the MiG-23 was erected in 2020. Traffic Kubinka station provides connections in three directions: Belorussky suburban railway line, Greater Ring of the Moscow Railway and a special railway line to the Patriot Park Patriot Park () is a theme park in Kubinka, Russia, that is themed around equipment of the Russian military and the Soviet Union's victory in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus
''Panzerkampfwagen'' VIII ''Maus'' (English: 'mouse') was a Nazi Germany, German World War II super-heavy tank completed in July of 1944. As of 2025, it is the heaviest fully enclosed armored fighting vehicle ever built. Five were ordered, but only two hulls and one turret were completed; the turret being attached before the testing grounds were captured by the Soviet Union in World War II, Soviet military. These two prototypes underwent trials in late 1944. The complete vehicle was long, wide and high. Weighing about 188 metric tons, the Maus's main armament was the Krupp-designed 128 mm KwK 44 L/55 gun, based on the 12.8 cm Pak 44 towed anti-tank gun also used in the casemate-type ''Jagdtiger'' tank destroyer, with a coaxial 75 mm KwK 44 L/36.5 gun. The 128 mm gun was powerful enough to destroy all Allies of World War II, Allied armored fighting vehicles in service at the time, with some at ranges exceeding . The principal problem in the design of the ''Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patriot Park
Patriot Park () is a theme park in Kubinka, Russia, that is themed around equipment of the Russian military and the Soviet Union's victory in World War II. The park, which officially opened in 2016, is designed around a military theme, and includes interactive exhibits with military equipment (including a mini-Reichstag building, Reichstag to storm). The concept and management of Patriot Park changed frequently. The exhibits of the tank museum were located in 7 powerful Soviet pavilions by armored vehicles category in progress, so that specialists could see the development. Initially, only 14 light summer hangars were installed in Patriot Park. One hangar housed armored vehicles of the Second World War of all countries, corresponding to a given period: 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944-45. This roughly corresponded to the "Battle of Moscow", "Battle of Stalingrad", "Battle of Kursk" and "Battle of Berlin". One hangar was dedicated to military space, another to airborne armored vehicles. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Knights
The Russian Knights () is an aerobatic demonstration team of the Russian Air Force. Originally formed on April 5, 1991 at the Kubinka Air Base as a team of six Sukhoi Su-27s, the team was the first to perform outside the Soviet Union in September 1991 when they toured the United Kingdom. On December 12, 1995, disaster struck as three team jets flew ''in-formation'' into a mountainside near Cam Ranh, Vietnam during approach while en route to home from a Malaysian airshow during adverse weather conditions. The team now performs with eight Su-30SM. History The team is based at Kubinka AFB, a major base of the Russian Air Force in the Moscow region. Formed in 1991 with 6 Su-27 fighter jets, the team now operates 16 Sukhoi jets in total - 8 Su-30SM (Flanker-H) and 8 Su-35 (Flanker-E). Accident and incidents On 12 December 1995, when approaching the Cam Ranh airfield (Vietnam) in adverse weather for refueling, two Su-27s and an Su-27UB of the Russian Knights team flew into a ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greater Ring Of The Moscow Railway
The Greater Ring of the Moscow Railway () is the common name for a system of connector lines between the railways that radiate from Moscow. The general configuration of the Greater Ring is a ring around the main part of Moscow (outside Moscow). It forms part of the radial-ring structure of the Moscow railways. The Greater Ring crosses the rail lines in all 11 radial directions from the railway stations of Moscow. It totals in length. For its entire length, the ring is equipped with an automatic locking system, permitting, where necessary, two-way single-track operation; elsewhere, there are two track and multiple track sections. [Baidu] |
Belorussky Railway Station
Belorussky railway station (, ) also referred to as Moscow–Passenger–Smolenskaya (, ), Informally the whole station can be called as Moscow Belorusskaya (, ), is a railway terminal of the Moscow Railway located at the front of Tverskaya Zastava Square in Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow. The station is one of nine railway terminals of Moscow. It was opened in 1870 and rebuilt in its current form in 1907–1912. Operations Belorussky railway station serves long distance trains to regions west and south-west of Moscow, and one train each to the north-east (on the Savyolovsky branch to Rybinsk with continuing service to Uglich, Vesegonsk, and Pestovo) and to the south (to Anapa through Tula, Russia, Tula, Kursk, Voronezh, and Rostov-on-Don). The station also serves local commuter trains (Belorussky suburban railway line, Moscow, Belorussky suburban railway line and Line D1 (Moscow Central Diameters), Line D1 of Moscow Central Diameters) to Usovo, Odintsovo, Golitsyno, Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swifts (aerobatic Team)
The Swifts () is an Aerobatics, aerobatic demonstrator team of the Russian Air Force, formed on 6 May 1991. The team currently performs with 6 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29, MiG-29/29UB aircraft. Team roster The team roster today unchanged since 2008. According to the Russian conventions surnames are listed first, followed by first name and patronymic: *Selutin Viktor Markovich, Guards colonel, “Strizhi” aerobatic team commander. Tail wingman, team leader *Morozov Valeriy Anatolyevich, Guards lieutenant colonel, “Strizhi” aerobatic team master pilot. Team leader *Sokolov Igor Evgenevich, Guards lieutenant colonel, aerobatic team deputy commander. Left wingman *Osyaikin Sergey Ivanovich, Guards lieutenant colonel, “Strizhi” aerobatic team master pilot. Right wingman *Koposov Dmitriy Alexandrovich, Guards lieutenant colonel, aerobatic team deputy commander. Right wingman, single aerobatic, extreme flying *Prohorov Aleksey Vladimirovich, Guards lieutenant colonel, “Strizh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MAPO
MAPO - the Moscow Aircraft Production Association () was a major Russian state-owned military aircraft manufacturer. History MAPO has its origins in Plant #30 of the Dux Factory company. Plant #30 was established in 1939 in Dubna. In December 1941, it was relocated to the former site of Plant #1, where it manufactured the Ilyushin Il-2. In 1950, it merged with Plant #381, to produce the Il-28 in larger volumes. In 1953, Lukhovitsy Machine Building Plant was established as a subsidiary of the plant. Plant #30 became known as the ''Znamya Truda Machine-Building Plant'' in 1965, and as the Moscow Aircraft Production Organisation in 1973. In the early 1990s, it employed 30,000 workers. In 1995, MAPO was merged with the Mikoyan Design Bureau, forming MAPO-MiG. In January 1996, a decree of President Boris Yeltsin established MAPO VPK, which combined 12 different aviation companies, including MAPO-MiG, Kamov, Klimov, the Chernyshev Machine Building Enterprise and Aviabank. Unlike ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odintsovsky District
Odintsovsky District () is an administrativeLaw #11/2013-OZ and municipalLaw #64/2005-OZ district (raion), one of the thirty-six in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is located in the western central part of the oblast and borders with the federal city of Moscow in the east, Leninsky District in the southeast, Naro-Fominsky District in the south, Ruzsky District in the west, Istrinsky District in the north, and with Krasnogorsky District in the northeast. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the city of Odintsovo. Population: 316,696 ( 2010 Census); The population of Odintsovo accounts for 43.9% of the district's total population. The city of Baikonur in Kazakhstan also belongs administratively to the district. Geography The Moskva River with its tributaries flow through the district. History The district was established on January 13, 1965. Attractions Major attractions include the Kubinka Tank Museum The Kubinka Tank Museum (Центральный ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
