This bay in Safonovo village under a northern Russian city of Murmansk is a place of the first aircraft seadrome that appeared in 1936. Today it's a location of the Museum of Northern Fleet Aviation.
It was reopened last year after reconstruction, now it has a new hangar for aircrafts which is a good historical exposition.
On the image above is a Be-6 monument in the bay.
At the entrance to Safonovo one can see a monument to a legendary commander of the 2nd guard group B.F. Safonov, who was given a title of the Soviet Hero twice.
At the museum itself is a monument to the fallen in WWII.
The history of the Museum of the Northern Fleet Aviation goes back to 1976. The initiative of its creation belongs to aviators. It was built, repaired and filled with exhibits by pilots, engineers and aircraft technicians.
MiG-15 monument standing at the museum.
People are coming for an excursion too.
The museum has three halls: of military time, memorial one and of the after-war period.
The exposition has photo materials and documents revealing the history of the Northern Fleet aviation, that dates back to 1936.
Personal belongings of aviators-veterans, 53 Soviet Heroes among them, seem to be utterly interesting.
Photographs, documents, personal stuff of Northern Fleet fighters, models of aircrafts from different times...
In present days six pilots of marine aviation are honored to have the title of the Hero of the Russian Federation.
Real remains of bombs and crashed German aircrafts.
This handmade table is a present to Safonov from England.
Model of aircraft-carrying heavy cruiser "Kuznetsov".
Next to the main building is a house-museum of Yuri Gagarin - this is exactly where Yura, the first cosmonaut, lived with his family while being an ordinary militaryman. The house was brought here in 1983 from Korzunovo village.
Memorial rooms and interiors were recreated from memory of Yuri's wife.
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