One of the premier collections of Soviet and Russian aircraft, the Monino museum opened in 1960 and covers an area of about 20 hectares. It has on display more than 173 aircraft and 127 aero engines, with 44 of its exhibits having been declared as monuments of science and technology. The Monino museum charts the history of Soviet and Russian aviation from the earliest pre-revolutionary days until the present time, with exhibits in the form of models, artefacts, posters, aero engines, weapons etc., as well as airframes, ejection seats, rockets covering the later period.
This book describes and illustrates all the exhibits on display in this amazing museum. It serves as a guide for those visiting Monino, and a mouth-watering taste for those unable to get there in person!

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• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Monino
• The (Old) Indoor Exhibition
• The Outdoor Exhibits
• Through the gates
• Bombers, Reconnaissance & ASW
  • Tupolev Tu-4 ‘Bull’
  • Tupolev Tu-16 ‘Badger’
  • Tupolev Tu-22 ‘Blinder’
  • Tupolev Tu-22M ‘Backfire’
  • Tupolev Tu-95 ‘Bear’
  • Myasischev 3M ‘Bison’
  • Myasischev M-50 ‘Bounder’
  • Sukhoi T4 ‘Sotka’
  • Ilyushin Il-28 ‘Beagle’
  • Yakovlev Yak-25RV – ‘Mandrake’
  • Yakovlev Yak-27R – ‘Mangrove’
  • Yakovlev Yak-28L – ‘Brewer-B’
  • Beriev Be-12 ‘Mail’
• Fighters & Fighter Bombers
  • MiG-9 ‘Fargo’
  • MiG-15 ‘Fagot’
  • MiG-15 UTI ‘Midget’
  • MiG-17 ‘Fresco’
  • MiG-19 ‘Farmer’
  • MiG-21 ‘Fishbed’
  • MiG-23 ‘Flogger’
  • MiG-25 ‘Foxbat’
  • MiG-27 ‘Flogger’
  • MiG-29 ‘Fulcrum’
  • MiG-31 ‘Foxhound’
  • Sukhoi Su-7 ‘Fitter’
  • Sukhoi Su-9 ‘Fishpot-B’
  • Sukhoi Su-11 ‘Fishpot-C’
  • Sukhoi Su-15 ‘Flagon’
  • Sukhoi Su-17 ‘Fitter-C’
  • Sukhoi Su-17M3 – ‘Fitter-H’
  • Sukhoi Su-17UM3 – ‘Fitter-G’
  • Sukhoi T6
  • Sukhoi Su-24 – ‘Fencer’
  • Sukhoi Su-25 – ‘Frogfoot’
  • Sukhoi T10
  • Sukhoi Su-35 – ‘Flanker’
  • Tupolev Tu-128 – ‘Fiddler’
  • Yakovlev Yak-17 – ‘Feather’
  • Yakovlev Yak-23 – ‘Flora’
  • Yakovlev Yak-25 – ‘Flashlight’
  • Yakovlev Yak-36 ‘Freehand’
  • Yakovlev Yak-38 – ‘Forger’
  • Yakovlev Yak-141 – ‘Freestyle’
  • Lavochkin La-15 – ‘Fantail’
  • Lavochkin La-250 – ‘Anaconda’
• Transports
  • Antonov An-8 ‘Camp’
  • Antonov An-10 – ‘Cat’
  • Antonov An-12 – ‘Cub’
  • Antonov An-14 – ‘Clod’
  • Antonov An-22 – ‘Cock’
  • Antonov An-24 – ‘Coke’
  • Beriev Be-32 – ‘Cuff’
  • Ilyushin Il-12 – ‘Coach’
  • Ilyushin Il-18 – ‘Coot’
  • Ilyushin Il-62 – ‘Classic’
  • Lisunov Li-2 – ‘Cab’
  • Tupolev Tu-104 – ‘Camel’
  • Tupolev Tu-114 – ‘Cleat’
  • Tupolev Tu-124 – ‘Cookpot’
  • Tupolev Tu-144 – ‘Charger’
  • Yakovlev Yak-40 – ‘Codling’
  • Yakovlev Yak-42 – ‘Clobber’
  • Helicopters
  • Kamov Ka-25 – ‘Hormone’
  • Mil Mi-2 ‘Hoplite’
  • Mil Mi-4 – ‘Hound’
  • Mil M-8 – ‘Hip’
  • Mil Mi-6 – ‘Hook’
  • Mil Mi-24 – ‘Hind’
  • Mil Mi-10 – ‘Harke’
  • Mil V-12 – ‘Homer’
  • Mil Mi-26 – ‘Halo’
  • Yakovlev Yak-24 – ‘Horse’
  • Vertol 44
• Great Patriotic War
  • Douglas A-20 – ‘Boston’
  • North American B-25 – ‘Mitchell’
  • Ilyushin DB-3
  • Polikarpov I-15bis
  • Polikarpov I-16
  • Ilyushin Il-2 ‘Shturmovik’
  • Ilyushin Il-10 – ‘Beast’
  • Lavochkin La-7
  • Lisunov Li-2
  • MiG-3
  • Bell P-63 ‘Kingcobra’
  • Petlyakov Pe-2
  • Polikarpov Po-2
  • Tupolev ANT-40 (SB)
  • Tupolev Tu-2
  • Yakovlev Yak-9U
  • One-Offs, Oddities
  • And Prototypes
  • MiG-21I – ‘Analog’
  • Tupolev Tu-141 – ‘Strizh’
  • Mikoyan E-166 – ‘Flipper’
  • Mikoyan ‘EPOS’
  • Myasischev M-17 – ‘Mystic-A’
  • PZL M-15 – ‘Belphegor’
  • VVA-14 / 14M1P
  • Main Hangar
  • Antonov A-11 Glider
  • Antonov A-13M Glider
  • Vyugov – ‘Aist-2’
  • Tupolev ANT-2
  • Tupolev ANT-25
  • Bereznyak-Isayev BI-1
  • Polikarpov DIT-2
  • Discoplans
  • Gliders
  • Stratospheric Balloon Gondola ‘Volga’
  • Stratospheric Balloon Gondola ‘URSS-1’
  • Illya Mouromets
  • Buryevestnik S-4
  • Rafaelyants ‘Turbolyet, O’
  • Mil V-7 Helicopter
  • Voisin
• Restoration Hangar & Dump
• Inside the Restoration Hangar
• Out on the Dump