Oleg Antonov State Aviation Museum — Attraction in Kyiv

I have just returned from Kyiv in the last week. I was granted the extraordinary opportunity of meeting up with the curator of the Antonov museum, along with the co-founder of the Ukrainian Museum Association.

They want me to relay to the public that the museum is open, but NOT at Antonov Airfield. DO NOT GO TO THE AIRFIELD. It is a secured area, and the guards, while friendly, are quite stern and didn't take kindly to a silly American trying to snap photos!

The CURRENT, OPEN TO THE PUBLIC museum is located at Liubomyra Huzara Ave, 1, Kyiv, Ukraine, 03058, at the National Aviation University. When you arrive, with the display An-26 to your left, walk through the open blue gates leading to the courtyards, and follow the signs...

Situated inside the building for Zhulyany Airport, the State Aviation Museum is a few kilometres southwest of the city centre.

Anyone with an eye for aircraft or Soviet hardware will be in heaven here.

The museum opened in 2003 on the 100th anniversary of the first manned flight.

It’s the second largest museum of its kind in former Soviet countries and has a growing fleet of aircraft, which numbered over 70 at the last count.

You can inspect Ilyushins, Antonovs, Sukhois, Tupolevs, Yakovlevs and of course, aircraft produced by the fabled Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau (MiGs). The size of some of the helicopters may catch you by surprise, like the Mi-24, which is both a gunship and a transport for...

Awesome place. I have been in several avia museums, but this one has definitely the biggest collection of civilian soviet aviation!

There are a lot of opened and well recovered airplanes, including president's plane and a strategic bomber. In every opened airplane there is someone who can tell you the story of the liner and a bunch of interesting things about Ukrainian aviation in general.

Also, the museum is ridiculously cheap. Entrance costs about $2, visiting to airplanes and helicopters about 20-30 cents each.

And the last thing. There's a good place for spotters - in 50 meters a runway strip of the international airport.

So, it's strongly recommended for all who...