Tupolev KNITU–KAI Museum

About museum

The museum's exhibition is dedicated to the history of the university. A large section is devoted to the history of the institute's founding and development, the central part of which is a display dedicated to the organizer of KAI – Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and Lenin Prize laureate Nikolai Guryevich Chetaev. The exhibition reflects the history of the establishment and development of all faculties, and the country's first university department of jet engines.

An important part of the exhibition is dedicated to the present period of the university's life and activities in its status as a National Research Technical University. Alongside teaching and research activities, the museum extensively presents materials on the social life of the staff and students: on the activities of student design bureaus and construction teams, on achievements in sports and in the arts.

One section of the exhibition is dedicated to KNITU–KAI alumni. Among them are the chief designer of the Sukhoi Design Bureau, M.P. Simonov; the chief designer of the Energia–Buran rocket-space system, B.I. Gubanov; the first Prime Minister of Russia, I.S. Silaev; as well as Heroes of the Soviet Union and Russia, Heroes of Socialist Labour, enterprise directors, honored test pilots of the USSR and the Russian Federation, and others.