The AvtoVAZ Technical Museum is a museum in the Russian city of Tolyatti. The formal name is now K.G. Sakharov History of Technology Park Complex (Парковый комплекс истории техники имени К. Г. Сахарова).
The
AvtoVAZ
AvtoVAZ ( rus, АвтоВАЗ, p=ɐftɐˈvas) is a Russian automobile manufacturing company owned by the state. It was formerly named as VAZ (), an acronym for Volga Automotive Plant in Russian (). AvtoVAZ is best known for its flagship series of ...
plant, one of the largest automobile factories in the world, is a tourist attraction. AvtoVAZ decided to add a museum to the plant, and in 1998 plans were made to develop a museum, which opened in 2001 as the AvtoVAZ Technical Museum.
[
The museum (mostly outdoors) hosts about 500 vehicles of many types – cars, locomotives, boats, aircraft, and military vehicles – demonstrating the development of Soviet and Russian motorized transport. The timeline of AvtoVAZ ]Lada
LadaAccording to various sources, the name Lada is derived from a Russian word for Viking longships (). (, , marketed as LADAFrom 2004 onwards Lada is marketed worldwide, including in Russia, using the all-capitals brand name written in Latin sc ...
s and Zhigulis from their 1970s introduction to recent times is well covered. Among the exhibits is a long Tango-class submarine
The Tango class was the NATO reporting name of a class of diesel-electric submarines that were built in the Soviet Union to replace the s assigned to the Black Sea and Northern Fleets. The Soviet designation of this class was Project 641B and it ...
, of which the transport from St Petersburg to Tolyatti was a considerable project. The submarine was installed in 2005 and parts of the interior were opened to the public in 2018.[
Military vehicles from World War I are displayed, as well as World War II tanks and other vehicles, and postwar vehicles such as an ]Mil Mi-24 Hind
The Mil Mi-24 (; NATO reporting name: Hind) is a large helicopter gunship, attack helicopter and low-capacity troop transport with room for eight passengers. It is produced by Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant and was introduced by the Soviet Air Fo ...
helicopter and 2S7 Pion
The 2S7 Pion ("peony") or 2S7M Malka is a Soviet self-propelled 203 mm cannon. "2S7" is its GRAU designation. More than 250 units were built; some sources say 500, others up to 1,000. They were distributed around the former Soviet states ...
self-propelled gun. In 2003, a rover
Rover may refer to:
People Name
* Constance Rover (1910–2005), English historian
* Jolanda de Rover (born 1963), Dutch swimmer
* Rover Thomas (c. 1920–1998), Indigenous Australian artist
Stage name
* Rover (musician), French singer-songw ...
and other space vehicles were added.[
In 2010, the name of the museums' primary founder, (former vice-president of AvtoVAZ's technical development section), was attached to the museum.][ In 2014, control of the museum was transferred to the City of Tolyatti. At that time plans for modernization and upgrading were declared, and the museum was renamed to K.G. Sakharova History of Technology Park Complex,][ although it is still often referred to as the AvtoVAZ Technical Museum or, sometimes, the Tolyatti Technical Museum.
]
External links
Official museum website
(in Russian)
Official museum website
(in English)
* Article with many photographs.
References
{{reflist, refs=
[{{cite web , url=http://www.samaratour.com/en/tours/turbazyi-bazyi-otdyixa/avtovaz-technical-museum.html , title=AutoVAZ Technical Museum In Togliatti , location=Smara , work=SamaraTour , accessdate=November 25, 2021]
[{{cite web , url=http://expat63.ru/place/28-sakharovs_technical_museum/ , title=Sakharov's technical museum , author=van Zorin , work=Expat63 , publisher=Togliatti Academy of Management , accessdate=November 25, 2021]
[{{cite web , url=https://blog.nissan-global.com/EN/?p=9759 , title=Inside the AvtoVAZ Classic Car Museum in Togliatti, Russia , author= , date=July 3, 2013 , work=Missan Chanel 23 Blog , publisher=Nissan Motor Corporation , accessdate=November 25, 2021]
[{{cite web , url=https://museumships.us/russia/b307 , title=Tango-Class B307 , author=Blair Shaw , work=Museum Ships , accessdate=November 25, 2021]
[{{cite web , url=http://www.press-volga.ru/2014-09-12/10/ , title=Технический музей ВАЗа стал муниципальным , trans-title=VAZ Technical Museum is now a municipal institution , author=Blair Shaw , work=Press-Volga , date=September 12, 2014 , language=Russian , accessdate=November 25, 2021]
[{{cite web , url=http://pvo.guns.ru/expo/avtovaz2008.htm , title=Технический музей ОАО "АвтоВАЗ" , trans-title=Technical Museum of JSC "AvtoVAZ" , work=PVO Messenger , date=February 2009 , language=Russian , accessdate=November 25, 2021]
Transport museums in Russia
Museums established in 2001
Museums in Samara Oblast
Buildings and structures in Tolyatti
AvtoVAZ