Museum complex "House of Aviators"

About museum

The museum building was constructed in the 18th century as a cheese dairy on the estate of Baron I. Yu. Frederiks. In the 19th century it housed an agricultural outbuilding and a residential building on the estate of the noble Vsevolozhsky family. From 1930 to 1941 the building served as a holiday home for workers of Leningrad's food industry and acquired the informal name "House of Bakers." In 1941-1942 it housed a rest home for pilots who, after completing difficult combat missions, arrived from various aviation regiments and units. Cultural figures visited the pilots, among them K. I. Shulzhenko, N. K. Cherkasov and others. After the war the building again served as a holiday home for workers of Leningrad's food industry, as the "Snezhok" sports ski base and as the "Berezka" pioneer camp. In 2015 the building was restored and became the cultural heritage site "House of Aviators," where, in 1941-1944, Heroes of the Soviet Union who defended Leningrad lived.