There are multiple types of museums, which each one of them has different purposes. Some of them are for entertainment only, such as fine art museums that have the goal of treating the eyes and provide the need for beauty; there are also educational museums, in which you’ll learn about stuff, such as technological museums that exhibits the modern devices and their benefits; you can learn about the history and culture of a place inside the cultural museums as well as story of people in biographical museums. As you can see, the information you’ll gain depends on where you’ll visit.
One of the popular types of museums in the world is the War and military museums. Most people would like to know about the history of great wars in the world, especially the second world war; some people are interested in military technology and weaponry, and some want to see how magnificent military vehicles have worked.
Russia is one of the magnificent countries in the world, which many tourists have chosen as their travel destination. One of the most significant cities on the tour to Russia is the city of St. Petersburg, which has lots of museums and ancient places. The number of museums in the St. Petersburg tour is so high that many tourists don’t have enough time to visit most of them. That’s why you need to learn about the St. Petersburg attractive places before you begin your travel to Russia, so you can determine which one of those museums are more valuable to visit for you.
We at the Star Travel Company would suggest you visit our weblog to learn about Russia attractive places; you can also see our tips and pieces on advice on how to travel to Russia, including the best places to try Russian cuisine, the best places you should visit on your tour to Russia, and where are the best places to shop in Russia; one of the services we give in our weblog is to introduce some of the less known attractive places in Russia to people who have decided to go deep on their Russia tour, such as small museums in St. Petersburg that are not included on St. Petersburg tour by default and you need to inform your Russia tour management about your interest. One of the magnificent small museums in St. Petersburg is the celebrated C-189 Submarine that has turned to a museum in the early 2000s.
The C-189 submarine was part of 613 class, which were the first and most massive class of submarines that built after the second world war. The C-189 was in service for less than half a century from 1951 to the 1990s and was one of the most excellent submarines of the Soviet navy. After a flourishing time in the Russian Navi, it was parted from the navy in 1990 and transferred Merchant harbor of the port of Kronstadt. In 1998, the C-189 sank due to malfunctioning bottom-outboard attachments, which had resulted in the compartments of the boat to be filled with water. In 2003, a group of navy vets had suggested a plan to the executives to rescue the submarine and turn it to a naval museum with help from the authorities, but the committee had declined their proposal. In 2005, the same group of vets, which had the financial support of the people, have recovered the submarine.
The C-189 went under essential restoration and repair, immediately after lifting from the water; then it moved to its current location on the Neva River. The submarine went under renovation from 2007 for more than two years. Though there were lots of technical challenges, the reconstruction team was able to restore most of the interior and attached the original equipment of the submarine to the C-189. The C-189 Submarine Museum has let people board the submarine since the middle of 2010.
The C-189 is the third floating museum in St. Petersburg after Cruiser Aurora and icebreaker Krasin that you can visit on your travel to Russia. Among the things that you can see in this submarine, we can point out to the living quarters, which include the dining hall, the bathroom, and sleeping rooms; the engine room, which you can find all the equipment that used to navigate the submarine under the water, including the still-working periscope that you can see the surrounding area through it; the place where the torpedoes were loaded and eventually fired is one of the exciting places for people to visit on their trip to Russia. You can touch most of the things inside this floating museum as long as the museum guides, which mostly are vet submariners, are around you.
The C-189 Submarine Museum includes in the war and military museums, and since many people would love to see how a submarines work, we recommend this small museum to our tourists, who have decided to visit St. Petersburg as part of their Russia Tour plans. We also recommend that if you like military and war museums, you can also check out the Artillery Museum as well as the Cruiser Aurora Museum and Central Naval Museum on your tour to St. Petersburg.
If you have plans to visit Moscow on your tour to Russia, we can also recommend The Great Patriotic War Museum, which is about the second world war and the story of Soviet citizens during the most horrific war in the world.
