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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-22Last update of repository: 18 July 2019Tsentral'nyi muzei Voenno-vozdushnykh sil—Filial Tsentral'nogo muzeia Vooruzhennykh Sil (Muzei VVS)History The museum was opened in 1960 (founded in 1958) under the auspices of the Iu.A. Gagarin Military Air Force Academy in the village of Monino (Moscow Oblast—38 km. out Gor'kovskoe shosse). Now under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Defense, it has become one of the largest and richest aviation museums in the country, specializing in the history of the air force, military and civil aviation. |