Tesovo Narrow-Gauge Railway Museum

About museum

The Tesovo Narrow-Gauge Railway Museum is a functioning narrow-gauge railway of the Tesovo transport enterprise that runs through protected areas of old peat-extraction sites once famous in the USSR for their high production volumes. At the height of the peat enterprise's development, the length of the main narrow-gauge tracks reached 200 km; today a 16 km section has been preserved.

The museum has been operating since 2015. The groundwork for its creation was laid in the late 2000s, and its founders are graduates of the Small October Railway. The museum's mission is to search for, preserve, and restore rare pieces of equipment that constitute the USSR's narrow-gauge heritage.

The museum's collection numbers more than 50 exhibits, some of which have been restored and are used on excursions. The "gem" of the collection is the railcar AM1-169, which was restored by the museum over 1.5 years and became the first and only operational railcar of its kind in Russia.

The museum offers both group and individual tours and accepts tourist groups.

Every year, the main station of the Tesovo NG railway hosts the festivals "Forgotten Feat — The Second Shock Army" (in cooperation with the creative association "Forgotten Feat") and its own retro-technology festival "TesovoFest".