The Technical Museum Vadima Zadorojnogo, Moscow

Harvey Smith was based in and around Moscow off and on from 1997 to 2014 and has now moved to St. Petersburg. Apart from this report he has also posted information on other attractions in Moscow and the rest of Russia, there are links at the bottom of the page.

This is a fantastic world class museum. It is the collection of one man. The website is here:

http://www.tmuseum.ru/

The galleries are here:

http://www.tmuseum.ru/posmotrite-na-sajte/galereya-eksponatov/avtomobili/

It is a collection of cars, aircraft, tanks artillery pieces, trucks, and motorbikes. Some items are unique and rare including the Yak 15 aircraft, the Soviet T10 tank and PTRK “Rubin” tank. Both Krushchev’s and Beria’s cars sit next to each other. Amongst all of these exhibits are 2 dilapidated British steam powered portable engines exported to Russia before the revolution and a Soviet BTR40ZhD Armoured car with retractable rail wheels mounted front and rear. Perhaps not a lot for a steam and railway enthusiast but BTR40ZhD is unusual and the portable engines are rare survivors of the British traction and portable engines that were exported to Russia. One of the portable engines is a Ruston of Lincoln. As for the other I could not find anything to identify the manufacturer.

See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTR-40#Former_USSR

So how to get there? Go north west on the pink line to Tyshinskaya station, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tushinskaya, Turn right out of the train. Go through the barrier out into the underpass. Then turn left passed the kiosks. Get buses 541, 549, 568 or route taxi 151 to “Lipovaya Alley”. The journey takes 20-30 minutes by bus. You may see the giant indoor ski slope on the left. Finally, the museum appears on the left behind some trees. It is near the turn off for Arkhangelskoye Palace, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkhangelskoye_Palace. The price of an adult entrance ticket on 14 July 2013 was 400 roubles.

The museum collection now has L Class 4674 which like most of the exhibits is nicely restored (18th March 2018).

Harvey with some of the exhibits:

The anonymous portable:

The Ruston portable:

The road / rail vehicle:

• The Richskaya (Moscow) Railway Museum

• The Museum of Lenin’s Funeral Train, Moscow (as was)

• Museum of the Moscow Railway at Paveletsky Station (Museum of Lenin's funeral train after renovation, 12th February 2012)

• Victory Park

• A Moscow Miscellany Part 1 (updated 1st August 2012)

• A Moscow Miscellany Part 2 (updated 12th August 2012)

• A Russian Steam Miscellany (updated 8th October 2014)

• Moscow Retro (Steam) Train 2010/11 (updated 24th September 2012)

• Podmoskovnaya Depot, Moscow 2010-2013 (updated 24th June 2013)

• The Kratovo Children’s Railway (13th June 2012)

• Kazanski Station and the Golden Eagle Trans-Siberian Express (24th September 2012)

• Kievski Station Locomotive Depot (1st August 2012)

• Serp and Molot Factory Steam Locomotive P24-7 (updated 3rd January 2013)

• Shcherbinka Depot and Test Track (12th August 2012)

• 175 Years of Russian Railways at Shcherbinka Depot and Test Track (12th September 2012)

• The Moscow Polytechnical Museum, 2012 (18th September 2012)

• Leningradski and Yaroslavski Stations, Moscow (3rd January 2013)

• Moscow Retro Steam Trip to the Space Village / Star City (13th March 2013)

• Podmoskovnaya Depot, Moscow, August 2013 (6th September 2013)

• Podmoskovnaya Depot, Moscow, 9th April and 13th June 2014 (16th June 2014)

• Podmoskovnaya Depot, Moscow, July/August 2014 (11th August 2014)

• 180 years of Russian Steam (10th August 2014)

• Surviving Portable Engines in the former Soviet Union (14th August 2014)

• P36 120 formerly at Belorusski Voxhall / Railway Station (29th August 2014)

• Farewell to Podmoskovnaya Depot, October 2014 (updated 31st May 2018)

• VE Day in Moscow, 2015 (and 2017) (11th May 2017)