Kiev's State Aviation Museum

[Berlingo]

Hello,

Last March, I spent one week in Ukraine, I visited Lviv, the Chernobyl exclusion zone and Kiev, here at the Zhuliany airport there is the State Aviation Museum.
That's a great museum, with an exhibition 100% outside and full of Soviet built fighters, bombers, transports...

The pictures...

1)
Tu-142M3 by Simon Schibli Photography, sur Flickr

2)
MiG-25rb by Simon Schibli Photography, sur Flickr

3)
MIG-23ml by Simon Schibli Photography, sur Flickr

4)
Tu-22m-3 by Simon Schibli Photography, sur Flickr

5)
Su-17um by Simon Schibli Photography, sur Flickr

6)
Yak-28U by Simon Schibli Photography, sur Flickr

7)
МiG-29 by Simon Schibli Photography, sur Flickr

8)
Tu-22m-3 by Simon Schibli Photography, sur Flickr

9)
Kamov DB by Simon Schibli Photography, sur Flickr

10)
Tupolev Tu-142M3 by Simon Schibli Photography, sur Flickr

11)
Tupolev Tu-22M by Simon Schibli Photography, sur Flickr

12)
Sukhoi Su-20 by Simon Schibli Photography, sur Flickr

13)
Sukhoi Su-15tm by Simon Schibli Photography, sur Flickr

14)
MiG Alley by Simon Schibli Photography, sur Flickr

15)
Tupolev Tu-142M3 by Simon Schibli Photography, sur Flickr

16)
Tupolev Tu-22M3 by Simon Schibli Photography, sur Flickr

17)
Mil Mi-6a by Simon Schibli Photography, sur Flickr

18)
Antonov An-30 by Simon Schibli Photography, sur Flickr

19)
Yakovlev Yak-38 & Beriev Be-6 by Simon Schibli Photography, sur Flickr

[capercaillie]

What a great collection of aircraft in very good order.

I see Tu22M3 no57 still has its RIAT stickers proudly showing from its visit in 1998 and good to see all Backfire variants preserved, (Vulcan and Victor variants together at Cosford would have been nice ).

Yak-28, MiG-25, Su-15, oh my, looks like a great place to visit.

[Minigill]

I am going in October and this is on the 'what to visit' list

Thanks very much for posting

[habu21]

Amazing collection to see, thanks for posting

[Wrexham Mackem]

They're great pics of an amazing collection.

Unfortunate that they're all sitting outside to deteriorate and crumble in the Ukranian climate. Hopefullly they can get some shelter for at least select few pieces.