The Museum for Railway Technology Novosibirsk ( Russian: Новосибирский музей железнодорожной техники, ''Nowosibirski musei schelesnodoroschnoi techniki'') is a

railway museum A railway museum is a museum that explores the history of all aspects of rail related transportation, including: locomotives ( steam, diesel, and electric), railway cars, trams, and railway signalling equipment. They may also operate historic e ...

Novosibirsk Novosibirsk (, also ; rus, Новосиби́рск, p=nəvəsʲɪˈbʲirsk, a=ru-Новосибирск.ogg) is the largest city and administrative centre of Novosibirsk Oblast and Siberian Federal District in Russia. As of the Russian Census ...

. It was formally opened in 2000 near to Sejatel railway station (станцией Сеятель), at the Novosibirsk– Berdsk line and is the second largest transport museum in Russia after the Central Railway Museum in

St Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

History

Nikolai Akulinin was the founder of the museum. He worked from 1946 to 1955 at the North Caucasus Railway and since 1955 at various railway in

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. After getting retired in 1984, he started to work on the collection of the museum for several years, storing the relevant exhibits on the circular track of the All-Russian Railway Research Institute. In 1998 the West Siberian Railway endorsed the establishment of a museum. Preparatory work lasted until 2000, when the museum was formally inaugurated on 4 August 2000 during the celebrations of the Railway Day. Contrary to his wish, it was named after Nikolai Akulininas, who was also its first director.Новосибирский музей железнодорожной техники им. Н. А. Акулинина. (Russian for: Museum for Railway Technology. N. A. Akulinina).
Retrieved 31 Mai 2012 and 18 November 2017. Entrance to Novosibirsk Railway Museum

The open-air museum presents 17 steam locomotives, 15 diesel locomotives, 12 electro locomotives, carriages and

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from the 19th and 20th century, mainly from Russian and Soviet production. In addition, some locomotives from the United States,

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are exhibited. The museum has also a collection of mainly Soviet cars, and since 2006 some foreign classic cars from. The museum has also an educational obligation: It organises seminars and conferences, which cover a wide variety of railway related topics.Музей железнодорожной техники в Новосибирске отмечает 10 лет со дня открытия (Russian for: Museum for Railway Technology Novosibirsk celebrates 10th anniversary.) Retrieved 31 May 2012 and 18 November 2017.
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Exhibits

Steam locomotives

Steam locomotives П36 (097), 9П (-2), Ea (N3078), L (-3993), L (N013), LW (040), SO (N17-508), Su (213-42), FD20 (588), Em (725-12), Er (789-91) and a replica made in 2002 of the first steam locomotive built by

Yefim and Miron Cherepanov Yefim Alekseyevich Cherepanov (russian: Ефи́м Алексе́евич Черепа́нов; 1774 – 1842), and his son Miron Yefimovich Cherepanov (russian: Миро́н Ефи́мович Черепа́нов; 1803 – 1849) were Russian in ...

in 1833–1834.

Diesel locomotives

Diesel locomotives LTS M62 (500), ТЭМ2 (2110), CzME3 (-5452), CzS3 (-73), TE10L, TE10M (-2670), 2TE116 (-037), TGM23b (1026), TGM1 (2925), TGM4 (1676), TGK (8626), TE2 (289), TEM2 (1768), TEM15 (-016), TEP60 (-1195), TEP80 (-0001), TE3 (-7376), TE7 (-096), TEP10 (082), CzME2 (-508), CzS2 (-039) and CzS4 (-023)

Electric locomotives

Electric locomotives WL22m (N 1932), WL23 (501), WL80c (005), WL80c (1066-2), WL8 (-1232), WL10 (271) and WL60k (-649)

Carriages

Leon Trotsky Lev Davidovich Bronstein. ( – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky; uk, link= no, Лев Давидович Троцький; also transliterated ''Lyev'', ''Trotski'', ''Trotskij'', ''Trockij'' and ''Trotzky''. (), was a Russian ...

's private carriage, hospital carriages, luggage carriages, prison carriages, tank cars including those for spirits, cooling cars, garbage cars, grain cars, cars for transporting liquid metal, fire engines and snow plows.

References

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