Those planning to travel to
Russia may want to read a few reviews about visiting the Russian
Air Force Museum at Monino and other air museums in the Moscow area
or visit the 
Monino home page .
Doug Alberg visited Monino in July 1999.
He has several galleries of his pictures from that visit.
Test Pilot team members Anatoly Kvotchur and M. Tolboev
demonstrate Flankers at Zhukovsky in
September 1993. Photographer: Brian Lockett.
Western tourists are becoming regular visitors to Star
City, the Russian Cosmonauts Training Centre.
Find out about Russian space exploration activities from the
Russians at the Russian Space Forces
page.
Fans of Eastern Block aircraft should check out Alexie
Gretchikine's Russian Aviation Page or the
Roy Cochrun's Russian
Aircraft Resource has pictures from the the Hydro-Aviation
Black Sea Expo'96, which was held in Russia September 24 to 29,
1996.
The Russian Aviation Museum has been put together by
Alexandre Savine who has interests much like mine.
Andrew Juniper hosts the 
where you will find a
collection of profiles of some of the more modern Russian
military aircraft.
Books about
Russian aviation available from 
Korolev : How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive
to Beat America to the Moon by James J. Harford
Mig : Fifty Years of Secret Aircraft Design by R. A. Beliakov
Mig Aircraft Since 1937 by Bill Gunston, Yefim
Gordon (Putnam Aviation Series). Soon to be released.
Okb Sukhoi : A History of the Design Bureau and Its
Aircraft by Vladimir Antonov, Yefim Gordon, Mikolai
Gordyukov, vladim Yakovlev, Vyachaslav Zenkin
Send a message to Brian.
Go to home page of the
Goleta Air and Space Museum.
Edited July 3, 1998.