Memorial Museum of the Hero of the Soviet Union, NF Gastello was opened in 1976 in a small classroom, school №33, which trained the future hero. The following year, the museum has been passported.
In mid-1980 the memorial museum was awarded the title "Honored school museum." The total exhibition area of the Memorial Museum is 47 meters, while in this area has more than 500 exhibits, which are collected as a result of long and hard work, not only teachers, but also students in the school.
Museum fund has a unique collection of authentic materials that exactly describe family life in the town of Gastello Moore, and are tools with which Nicholas Franzevich working in the studio. In addition, there are photos, notes, people remember him in life, and artifacts that have been found by search teams.
By the 85th anniversary of the school was opened on the second hall of the museum, which tells about the Hero of the Soviet Union, Pilot Naval Aviation Yevgeny Frantseva and school history.
The third hall of the museum called "Far Russian aviation." It had collected material about 207 th bomber regiment, and it also took its service Gastello. It is known that in the same regiment he met with pilots Aviation Engels visited not only Moore, but the school №33, while leaving a gift in the model of a modern aircraft TU-160 brand. Today, a memorial museum has about 120 wide variety of exhibits, 72 of which are presented photographs and 14 objects are collections of Aviation Museum, located in the open air Engels.
Guided tours in German, English and Russian languages. Each of the excursions corresponds to a certain age rating, for example, "Childhood N. Gastello" designed for students in grades 1-4, "Lifestyle N. Gastello" for children grades 5-7.
In spring 2005, the museum has a large-scale reconstruction, after which he became the winner of the regional competition of school museums, as well as the laureate of the national competition.
Nikolai Gastello born April 23 1908 in Moscow, in a small family of an ordinary worker; he was an ethnic Belarusians. Over a period of time he worked as a mechanic at a locomotive plant, after which he worked at the state plant mechanical construction machinery.
Beginning in 1930 and ending in 1932 years, NF Gastello lived in the village of Khlebnikov. In the spring of 1932, according to a special set, he was drafted into the Red Army detachment. The following year he graduated from the famous Lugansk military aviation training school for pilots. In the period from 1934 to 1939, he served in the aviation bomber crew in the city of Rostov-on-Don.
It is worth noting that Nicholas Franzevich from the first day of World War II it was a party, after the first sortie he spent June 22, 1941 at 5:00 am. During the first days of the war his regiment suffered huge losses. The planes and pilots, who stayed on June 24, were formed in 2 Squadron. It was at that moment Nikolai Gastello became commander of the squadron formed.
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