Museum of Russian Submarine Forces Museum of Russian Submarine Forces The A.I. Marinesko Museum of the History of Russian Submarine Forces is a state museum located in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. The museum was named in honor of the Soviet submarine commander Alexander Marinesko, and it's the only municipal museum of Russian submarine forces. The museum was established in 1997. The museum contains many items relevant to the Russian submarine forces, including: models of submarines; personal items, documents and photos of sailors; original equipment from Soviet submarines; items associated with Russian naval traditions; and maps of naval battles. Periodically the museum organizes special exhibitions dedicated to historical
Hermitage Museum art collections of the Hermitage to the general public for years. There are a series of programs that have aired entitled ‘My Hermitage’ that have been particularly successful. All of these programs are organized by the Director of the Hermitage, Professor Mikhail Piotrovsky, and are quite similar to the broadcasts created by Academician Boris Piotrovsky, who is Mikhail’s father. These programs were first broadcast through the Soviet Union’s ‘First’ channel, airing at the height of the museum’s boom. During this time, this channel recorded more than three million visitors every year, mostly from the Soviet Union. Another program created by