The Museum of Railways of Russia is a museum in St. Petersburg, opened on July 25, 1978 as the museum of the Oktyabrskaya Railway. The modern site of the museum began operating on October 30, 2017.
The museum is located in the Library Lane near the Baltiysky Vokzal subway station.
The museum's collections include more than 45 thousand items of storage, including documents, photographs, works of fine art, collections of numismatics, faleristics, tools, instruments and rare items of railway subjects of different years. The basis and main value of the museum is a collection of 118 units of historical rolling stock. Rare and unique locomotives, wagons, special and military railway equipment are presented in the exhibition — in the museum halls and in the open area.
The first stage in the history of the modern museum was the creation of the museum of the October Railway in 1978. In 1991, a full-scale exhibition of railway equipment of the Oktyabrskaya Railway Museum was opened at the station "Post 16 km" (now "Steam Locomotive Museum"). Here the collection of equipment was placed until 2001, after which it was transferred to the closed Warsaw railway station in St. Petersburg. In 2012, it was decided to create a new museum and in 2014, construction work began near the Baltic Railway Station in St. Petersburg. Since June 8, 2016, the rolling stock exposition is moving to new buildings. On October 30, 2017, the Russian Railway Museum opened to the public.
The Museum of Railways of Russia is a place where adults and children get acquainted with the history of railways and rail transport, learn a lot about modern and outdated technologies and railway professions.
St.-Petersburg videos
[ Ссылка ]
