Just as I shot this close-up of its water gun and pipework, my guide told me that this firefighter was involved in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and badly contaminated. It's supposedly clean now, unlike some helicopters left at Chernobyl. At this time on display without its bort number.

Pre-production example of the Tu-22M Backfire bomber.

The BB-1 short-range bomber was redesignated Su-2 in 1940. This is a replica.

Dumped towards the rear of the museum grounds at Monino.

High-tech Farmer - radar, Alkali missiles and no guns on this interceptor version of the MiG-19.

It's a war machine, but the Su-25 looks like a big toy plane to me.

The Li-2VP had a dorsal gun turret but it is not original on this airframe.

Formerly CCCP-48986. Fitted with a dorsal turret to represent a a Li-2VP.

Replica of the other shturmovik, the Su-2. 800 examples were built and used at the front.

One C-46, 43-47271, was delivered to the Soviet Union before Lend-Lease supplies ceased. It flew from Alaska to Moscow in May 1945, and was used for transport flights to eastern Germany in 1946. Photo from: Axis & Allies Paintworks

This is a test and development prototype with the manufacturer's designation T8-15 and the code 15 blue. It was used for the testing of the new R195 engine. However, for the Paris Air Show this was replaced by a standard R95Sh engine because the R195 was still secret, and the code was changed to 301 blue which actually was the Le Bourget exhibit code. In 1990 it was converted to a Su-25BM prototype (Sukhoi designation T8BM-2). It later went to the Central Aerodrome Museum at Moscow-Khodynka and when that closed in 2003 it went to the Museum of Technology of Vadim Zadorozhny in Arkhangelskoye.

Welzow is now closed (for decades) only a small part of the former airfield and a taxitrack is in use for sportsaircraft and is named Spremberg. The main runways is covered with solar pannels