Automotive museums in Russia

Created: October, 2004
Last updated: 16 August, 2006

Polytechnical Museum

3/4 Novaya Ploschad, 10100 Moscow

Fax: +095 7 925 1290

National technical museum, including a room for transport with Russian made cars (e.g. Russo-Balt from 1911) and motorcycles.

Moskvitch Factory Museum

M42a, Volgogradski Prospekt, Moscow

Phone: +095 7 77 84 44

Former factory museum of AZLK (Moskvitch) factory which was almost auctioned off in 2002 when AZLK went bankrupt. It includes many prototypes.

GAZ Factory Museum

Prospect Lenina 95, Personnel Training Building, 603004 Nizhny Novgorod

Phone: +095 83 12 56 14 38 & -10 70. Fax: -98 50 10

Open: Mon-Sat 8 -11.30, 12.30 - 16h

Displaying: GAZ made cars and commercial vehicles

AMO ZIL Factory Museum

Avtozavodskaya Str 23, 109280 Moscow

Not far from the main entrance there is a small collection of the cars and lorries made by the factory which is sometimes open.

VAZ Factory Museum

Yuzhnoe sosse 36, 445633 Togliatti

Ph: +7 8482 377 086

Adjacent to main entrance, it is open daily from 9 to 5.

Izh Factory Museum

Izhevsk

It seems this is an appointment-only collection.

Museum of Antique Cars and Motorcycles

Krasnodarskaya str vladenie 58, Moscow

After years of hiding, by 2005 the museum at least got a proper building, so many of the gems are now visible.

Taxi museum

OAO Linko, 109472 Moscow, ul. Taskentskaya No 28

Ph: +7 095 372 85 10

Small collection which includes some rarities. Report in Russian, published in 2000: www.automobili.ru

Mosfilm

1 Mosfilmovskaya str, 119858 Moscow

Ph: +7 095 143 9225

In-house collection of Russian movie company.

Mosgortrans

Rausshkaya nad, no 22/21

Ph: +7 095 953 00 61

In-house collection of Moscow public transport company with buses, tramways etc.

Additionally there's also a page about Museums in Russia

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