No, we hadn’t made any prior arrangements. We (my russian wife and I and our two young kids) were on holiday at Lake Seligor and on the way back our friend remembered that there was a helicopter museum nearby.
He did all the talking. We were asked to wait at the gate and an officer came up to escort us down to the museum. He soon twigged I wasn’t russian but it didn’t bother him.
I could take all the shots I wanted in the rather crowded museum but he was very twitchy about anything else. They had a Mil-26 opened up for us to clamber onboard with a load of local school kids in it. The moment I opened my mouth was a wonder to behold.
From the museum you could see the assorted dumped helicopters at the northern end of the field but you couldn’t really see the southern ramps.
It would have been possible to take shots outside the base of the choppers in the circuit but we were in a hurry to get back to Moscow as our friend was going back to Lake Seligor that day.
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