The museum dedicated to the humble tractor
(15 Apr 2019) LEADIN:
They're best-known as the reliable backbone of agriculture and construction, but in one Russian city, tractors have their own dedicated museum.
Cheboksary's tractor museum includes a Guinness World Record-winning model, which drove almost 5,800 kilometres across eastern Russia.
STORYLINE:
It's a museum, dedicated to the hulking machinery usually seen in agriculture or construction.
Cheboksary's Scientific and Technical Museum of the History of the Tractor is a one-of-a-kind in Russia.
Its exhibits feature relics from the past as well as modern tractors.
Every day, enthusiasts and volunteers methodically work on their restoration. Experts from Cheboksary's tractor plant help with particularly problematic details.
It is a difficult process, says Leonid Maximov, the museum's deputy director.
But the results of this work bring an incredible euphoria when it all starts working and comes to life again.
The museum intends to promote technical education. Hundreds of children visit the exhibits on a weekly basis.
Alina Grigoryeva once visited with her child and then became interested in tractors herself. She got involved and mastered her tractor driving skills.
Now, together with her colleagues, she demonstrates the tractors in action to audiences.
At first, it was difficult when we were getting used to riding it, she says.
Of course, it is not easy, but after we get used to, we are doing it with pleasure, and we like it.
One of the star artefacts at the museum is a tractor that once held a Guinness World Record.
It covered almost 5,800 kilometers (3,600 miles) from Vladivostok to Novosibirsk.
In 2005, Vasily Fatskievich from Novosibirsk rode this tractor from Novosibirsk to Vladivostok and got into the Guinness Book of Records as the farthest tractor ride, explains museum director Albert Sergeev.
He left on April 25 and arrived back on August 6. This is truly a heroic event. For three full months, he travelled all over Russia.
The current record is held by German Hubert Berger, who travelled over 25,000 kilometres in 2016.
In a separate exhibit hall, there's a collection of 600 tractor machinery models, they're on a scale of 1:42.
There are unique exhibits, including self-propelled models, which were made for top Soviet officials.
The museum is now waiting for the onset of spring, when the snow melts and the working tractors can be demonstrated on the streets.
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The museum dedicated to the humble tractor
(13 Apr 2019) LEADIN:
They're best-known as the reliable backbone of agriculture and construction, but in one Russian city, tractors have their own dedicated museum.
Cheboksary's tractor museum includes a Guinness World Record-winning model, which drove almost 5,800 kilometres across eastern Russia.
STORYLINE:
It's a museum, dedicated to the hulking machinery usually seen in agriculture or construction.
Cheboksary's Scientific and Technical Museum of the History of the Tractor is a one-of-a-kind in Russia.
Its exhibits feature relics from the past as well as modern tractors.
Every day, enthusiasts and volunteers methodically work on their restoration. Experts from Cheboksary's tractor plant help with particularly problematic details.
It is a difficult process, says Leonid Maximov, the museum's deputy director.
But the results of this work bring an incredible euphoria when it all starts working and comes to life again.
The museum intends to promote technical education. Hundreds of children visit the exhibits on a weekly basis.
Alina Grigoryeva once visited with her child and then became interested in tractors herself. She got involved and mastered her tractor driving skills.
Now, together with her colleagues, she demonstrates the tractors in action to audiences.
At first, it was difficult when we were getting used to riding it, she says.
Of course, it is not easy, but after we get used to, we are doing it with pleasure, and we like it.
One of the star artefacts at the museum is a tractor that once held a Guinness World Record.
It covered almost 5,800 kilometers (3,600 miles) from Vladivostok to Novosibirsk.
In 2005, Vasily Fatskievich from Novosibirsk rode this tractor from Novosibirsk to Vladivostok and got into the Guinness Book of Records as the farthest tractor ride, explains museum director Albert Sergeev.
He left on April 25 and arrived back on August 6. This is truly a heroic event. For three full months, he travelled all over Russia.
The current record is held by German Hubert Berger, who travelled over 25,000 kilometres in 2016.
In a separate exhibit hall, there's a collection of 600 tractor machinery models, they're on a scale of 1:42.
There are unique exhibits, including self-propelled models, which were made for top Soviet officials.
The museum is now waiting for the onset of spring, when the snow melts and the working tractors can be demonstrated on the streets.
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