ST.PETERSBURG. March 11 (Interfax-AVN) - Russia's first museum of under-water weapons is to be opened in St Petersburg on the basis of the Gidropribor main scientific and research institute this year, a spokesman for the administration of the institute told Interfax-Military News Agency on Monday.
The museum is to be set up on the occasion of the 300th Anniversary of St. Petersburg. The Gidropribor institute is the successor of the Central Scientific and Technical Laboratory, Ostekhbyuro Bureau and TsKB-36 Design Bureau, so the backbone of the exposition will be made with torpedo and mine assets developed at the bureaus as well as with trawling and hydroacoustic equipment used to counter hostile submarines. In addition to that, armament of surface ships is to be displayed at the museum, too.
Employees of the institute have already formed an exposition that is to be subsequently enhanced with exhibits and documents provided by the Central Naval Museum, N.G. Kuznetsov Naval Academy and other organizations.