Since 1709 began to gather their collections Naval Museum in St. Petersburg.It was then that Peter I ordered to establish a model of camera.This phrase has Dutch roots: model-kammer - room models.Thus, ship models and drawings found their permanent home in a kind of storeroom for the samples.Reservists exhibits regularly updated on the basis of the legislative acts.
1722 marked the release of the "Regulations on the management of the shipyard and the Admiralty."It says that the master who starts to build a ship, you must do one polumodel on the board, and the other with the drawing to transfer to the Admiralty Board.Such models of the XVIII century has survived eighty.
accelerated development of the shipbuilding business has led to the fact that instead of finished models provide theoretical figures.The practical significance of the collection assembled is reduced to zero, and in 1805 model camera is converted into "Maritime Museum".In 1908 receives the name of Peter the Great's current naval museum.Petersburg, the same in 1908: Museum celebrates its 200th anniversary.Greatly expanded and reorganized its exhibition space.In 1924, the Sea Museum was renamed the Central.This name is preserved until now.And today, the Naval Museum in St. Petersburg has the same title.Underneath it is known all around the world.
During the existence of the city of 2 times - in 1720 and in 1991 (after the collapse of the Soviet Union) received the name of St. Petersburg.Naval Museum does not change their name and now, changing only its registration: in 2011 it was transferred to the building of the former Kryukov (Marine) barracks.He is the subject of maritime heritage and one of the oldest attractions in Russia.Naval Museum (St. Petersburg), is also the largest repository of objects related to the history of the world fleet.
exposition of the central hall
history of the Russian Navy, from the birth to the October Revolution of 1917, is presented in the central hall.It is the largest of all the halls at the disposal of the Naval Museum in St. Petersburg.
There is small boat of Peter I, models of sailing ships and battleships 18-20 centuries.Among the rarities in the hall, it can be called ancient canoe and a submarine.It is in the history of the construction of the submarines - the first equipped with an electric motor.Also, a significant place is allocated to the objects and materials that clearly tell about the participation of the Russian fleet in the events that took place in 1917, as well as in the First World War.
Materials Navy Civil War
period represented by this exposition, covering the years 1918-1922.Everything here speaks of the heroic deed of sailors during the Civil War and how it reflects the foreign intervention.Here are war relics and ship models.Namely: the torpedo tube from the submarine "Panther", which sank in 1919, a British destroyer, and 75-mm cannon from the ship "Admiral Zavoiko" ("Red Pennant").Among the models, you can see detailed miniature replica of the submarine "Mackerel" mock destroyer "Gabriel" and others.
Rooms Soviet Navy 1922-1941 biennium.
Exploring Materials Hall of the period, you can learn how to develop the fleet in the period after the Civil War.Special attention should be given to the first model in the Soviet shipbuilding cruiser named "Kirov".Some stands of the hall can be seen imprinted in pictures the story of the restoration of the fleet by the Repairers workers and divers.A significant part of the exhibition tells about the events of 1939-1940., Which took place during the Finnish War.On display are personal belongings of participants in the events of those years, and the original documents.
Halls Navy WWII period
From exposure, tells of the initial period of the Great Patriotic War, we can learn interesting facts about the defense of Moscow and Leningrad, as well as the heroic participation of the Baltic Fleet in the battles of 1941-1942.Also, the hall exhibits inform visitors about the release of the blockade of Leningrad including naval artillery forces.It is told as was released Crimea, Northern Norway and the Soviet Arctic.In the halls of the Navy during the Second World you can see some of the models of military aircraft and ships, military technical equipment.
Hall of Victory 1945
Naval Museum in St. Petersburg gathered under its vaults unique exhibits in the Hall of Victory.There are many Russian flags and banners, captured weapons and awards.The defeat of imperialist Japan participated and Amur Flotilla ships of the Pacific Fleet.In its windows Naval Museum in St. Petersburg | ship models of military formations as evidence of the immediate characters of those events.Particular attention is given to acts which the crew of the submarine S-13, Flood desyatipalubny German cruise ship "Wilhelm Gustloff".In isssledovaniyah naval historians of the sinking ship of this size it is rightly referred to as one of the most major disasters.
Heritage Museum of St. Petersburg
first public museums of Russia was opened in St. Petersburg.Getting laid Kunstkamera, founded in 1714 by Peter the Great as "Room of Dreams."Within 4 years Assembly wonders grown so much that Kunstcamera moved to a building constructed for it and was open to the public.In St. Petersburg has one of the world's largest cultural, historical and art museums - the Hermitage, the collection consists of more than three million units of the world culture and art from the Stone Age to the present century.
Today, St. Petersburg has more than 200 museums and branches belonging to them.Peter Museums include military history, literature, art, the palace and park reserves, historical, ethnographic and archaeological, and many other themed exhibition places.All of them are annually visited by thousands of tourists.A lot of foreign visitors: because St. Petersburg is a "window to Europe" is "hacked" by Peter I. It is from this city began the active development of the Russian Empire as a world power.
