Description of the attraction
Memorial Museum of the Hero of the USSR N. F. Gastello was opened in 1976 in a small classroom at school # 33, where the future hero was trained. The following year, the museum was certified.
In mid-1980, the Memorial Museum was awarded the title of Honored School Museum. The total exposition area of the memorial museum is 47 square meters, while on this area there are more than 500 exhibits that have been collected as a result of long and painstaking work not only of teachers, but also of school students.
The museum funds have a unique collection of authentic materials that exactly characterize the family life of Gastello in the city of Murom, and also represent the tools with which Nikolai Frantsevich worked in the workshops. In addition, there are photographs, notes of people who remembered him during his lifetime, and exhibits found by search groups.
For the 85th anniversary of the school, the second hall of the museum was opened, telling about the Hero of the USSR, pilot of naval aviation Evgeny Ivanovich Frantsev and the history of the school.
The third hall of the museum is called "Long-Range Russian Aviation". It collected material about the 207th bomber regiment, and Gastello also served in it. It is known that in the same regiment he met with the pilots of Engels' aviation, who visited not only Moore, but also school number 33, while leaving as a gift a model of a modern aircraft of the TU-160 brand. Today, the memorial museum has about 120 various exhibits, of which 72 are photographs, and 14 items belong to the collection of the Engels open-air aviation museum.
The museum offers guided tours in German, Russian and English. Each of the excursions corresponds to a certain age of visitors, for example, "The childhood of Gastello N." intended for pupils in grades 1-4, "Hobbies of Gastello N." for children in grades 5-7.
In the spring of 2005, the museum underwent a large-scale reconstruction, after which it became the winner of the regional competition of school museums, as well as the Laureate of the All-Russian competition.
Nikolay Frantsevich Gastello was born on April 23, 1908 in the city of Moscow, in a small family of a simple worker; by nationality he was a Belarusian. For some period of time, he worked as a mechanic at a steam locomotive plant, after which he worked at a state plant of mechanical construction machines.
From 1930 to 1932, N. F. Gastello lived in the village of Khlebnikovo. In the spring of 1932, according to a special set, he was drafted into the Red Army detachment. The next year he graduated from the famous Luhansk Aviation Military School for training pilots. In the period from 1934 to 1939 he served in an aviation bomber brigade in the city of Rostov-on-Don.
It is worth noting that Nikolai Frantsevich was a participant in it from the very first day of the Great Patriotic War, because he spent his first combat sortie on June 22, 1941 at 5:00 am. During the first days of the war, his regiment suffered huge losses. The planes and pilots who remained on June 24 were formed into 2 squadrons. It was at this moment that Nikolai Gastello became the commander of the formed squadron.
