Sat rusting away in a field 555 miles east of Moscow, these relics are all that's left of a bygone era of Soviet innovation in military and civilian aircraft.

Among them are some of the former Communist regime's greatest achievements in air travel, that have since been superseded many times and rendered redundant.

Nine thousand of the hulking Cold War wrecks can be seen at the vast plane and helicopter graveyard at Russia's largest aviation museum in Ulyanovsk, in the Middle Volga region.

The Museum of Civil Aviation in Ulyanovsk is the largest aviation museum in Russia. It contains more than 9,000 exhibits including hundreds of originals


Many of the planes were made by Tupolev, the 90-year-old Russian aerospace and defence company headquartered in Basmanny district, Okrug

Each off the exhibits had to make their last flight here, touching down at the Ulyanovsk-Central airport, just a few hundred yards from the museum.

All except one. TB-1, one of the Soviet Union's greatest planes before the regime fell in 1991, was brought here in pieces and re-assembled by the designer.

The TB-1 (ANT-4), was the world's first commercial heavy-metal twin-engine monoplane bomber. The plane was designed in nine months in 1925 and just 212 were built.

Many of the planes were made by Tupolev, the 90-year-old Russian aerospace and defence company headquartered in Basmanny district, Okrug, Moscow.



One of the exhibits that takes pride of place in the museum is the world's first and last Soviet supersonic passenger aircraft, the Tu-144









The Tupolev Tu-144 was a supersonic transport aircraft (SST) and remains one of only two SSTs to enter commercial service










These relics are all that's left of a bygone era of Soviet innovation

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