The town is home to one of Russia’s largest museums of military hardware. It was founded in 2006 by UMMC under the auspices of the Volga-Urals Military District.
Sergey PoteryaevVerkhnyaya Pyshma is a satellite town of Yekaterinburg in Sverdlovsk Oblast, just 1 km north of the Urals capital.
Sergey PoteryaevSergey Tsatevich, 33, tinsmith; currently restoring a Moskvich-407 car
Sergey PoteryaevThe town is the headquarters of one of Russia’s largest enterprises, Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company (UMMC). The company is the second largest copper producer in Russia.
Sergey PoteryaevFirdus Nurmukhanov, 31, car fitter; currently restoring a spotlight
Sergey PoteryaevMikhail Tropin, 29, car mechanic; currently restoring a T-70 tank
Sergey PoteryaevThe museum is called the “Battle Glory of the Urals.” One of its founding principles is not to house any machinery from Nazi Germany or any of the Axis Powers.
Sergey PoteryaevYuri Gudkov, 46, car mechanic; currently working on the restoration of an OV-type locomotive
Sergey PoteryaevThe workshop, which is presently undergoing restoration, opened about three years ago on the factory site. All in all, such work has been going on for five years.
Sergey PoteryaevIvan Gogoliev, 40, electric and gas welder; periodically works on different pieces of equipment
Sergey PoteryaevThe open-air museum presents a truly breathtaking view, even if in 2012 it counted just 100 items of military hardware.
Sergey PoteryaevSergey Kochnev, 47, tinsmith; currently working on the restoration of an OV-type locomotiveSergey Ulyashin, 50, car mechanic; currently working on the restoration of an OV-type locomotive
Sergey PoteryaevUMMC is headed by Andrei Kozitsyn. It was his idea to set up the museum.
Sergey PoteryaevAlexander Sharipov, 32, car mechanic; currently restoring a pre-war medical passenger car
Sergey PoteryaevThe settlement of Medny Rudnik (as Verkhnyaya Pyshma was named until 1946) was founded in 1854 when development began of a copper ore discovered at the headwaters of the Pyshma river.
Sergey PoteryaevAndrei Vyalov, 28, car mechanic; currently working on the restoration of a ZMS-5
Sergey PoteryaevAlthough the town’s population is just 64,000, the museum attracts as many as 150,000 people annually.
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