Grand Maket Rossiya
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| Established | June 8, 2012 |
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| Location | Tsvetochnaja str. 16 Saint Petersburg Russia |
| Public transit access | Moskovskiye Vorota metro station |
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Grand Maket Rossiya is a private museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is a model layout designed on a scale of 1:87. The area of the model is 800 m², i.e., 8611 square feet.[1] In this area collective images of regions of the Russian Federation are represented. It is the largest model layout in Russia and the second largest in the world (after the Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, Germany).[2] The model is located in a two story building built in 1953 in the style of Stalin's empire. The creator and the investor of the project is a Saint Petersburg businessman, Sergey Morozov.[3]
Layout creation
The creation of the layout took 5 years.[4] In those five years it employed over a hundred people. First a wooden frame to be used under the model was made. Then the foundations for the roads and railroads were made. Later, the model wooden ribs were installed and a layer of plaster (11 tons were used) was cast to create the desired shape of the landscape. The design of the surface took one specialist about a month.[5]
Museum opening
The first visitors were allowed in the museum in April 2011.[6] For the next 14 months the museum worked in test mode, only taking visitors on the weekend. The official opening took place on June 8 in 2012.[7]
View
The model presents an image of everyday life in Russia, realized through models. These everyday situations represent different human activities, such as work, leisure, sports, studying, military service, country life, travel, mass celebrations and even an attempt to escape from prison. Ground transportation is represented by various kinds of cars and trucks, trams, buses, trains, agricultural, construction and military equipment. Visitors have an opportunity to set things in motion on the model by pushing interactive buttons placed around the layout.[8]
Technical solutions
The Day/Night system
Every 13 minutes the lighting of the model is changed as day turns gradually into night. The night lighting lasts for 2 minutes. For the first time more than 500 000 LED lights in different colours were used to illuminate the model without creating shadows[9]
Movement of vehicles
The movement of the cars in the model is realistic. The cars and buses stop at traffic lights, bus stops and flashing signals and they change speeds and bypass each other. The electrical energy for the automobiles is obtained remotely from underneath the model, so the cars themselves don't appear to have a power supply. This method for moving cars is used in Grand Maket Rossiya for the first time in the world.[10]
Railway traffic
To optimize the traffic on the layout, it was built in many levels, using more than 2500 meters of rails and 452 switch boxes. The total number of rolling stock is more than 2700, of which 250 are locomotives and 10 are special cleaning trains. The variety of the moving trains is created using two revolver exchangers that store up to 60 trains and dispatch them when needed. On the layout there are also two turntables which can turn the locomotives up to 180 degrees. The largest height difference in the model is 1 meter. This is achieved with over 50 meters of spiral lifts.
Awards
- In 2013 Sergey Morozov won the ´´sobaka.ru´´ top 50 most famous people in Saint Petersburg award in the science/ field.
- In 2014 the museum Grand Maket Rossiya entered the list of top 10 museums in Russia, listed by the users of tourist site TripAdvisor
- In 2014 Sergey Morozov won the business award of ´´Boss of the Year´´ for his nomination in ´´Breakthrough Boss of the Year´´
- In 2014 the museum Grand Maket Russia entered the top 10 most photographed places in Saint Petersburg
References
- ↑ «Grand Maket Russia» // St. Petersburg In Your Pocket. — February - March 2015. — №99. — p.47.
- ↑ Тимофей Кареба «Как инженер-искусствовед создает образ России» // chief-time.ru. — 2014. — Апрель.
- ↑ Т.Скоренко «Люди, которые строят Россию: Макет» // popmech.ru. — 2011. — Октябрь.
- ↑ Евгений Николаев «Гранд Макет Россия» // erazvitie.org. — 2014. — 4 апреля.
- ↑ История проекта с 2008 года / Авт.сост. Морозов С. Б. // — СПб: Сити-пресс, 2013. — 40 с.
- ↑ Панкратова И. Из Петербурга на Урал — за 5 минут // Вечерний Петербург. — 2011. — № 148. — С. 5.
- ↑ Эдуард Тихонравов «Маленькая Россия» // spb.mk.ru. — 2012. — 13 июня.
- ↑ Леонид Данько «Гранд Макет Россия: успешный старт» // sirius-tm.ru. — 2014. — Июнь.
- ↑ Анна Лялякина «Самый большой макет России откроется в Санкт-Петербурге» // marker.ru. — 2012. — 12 января.
- ↑ Наталья Васенкова «Это родинка моя: Как работает Гранд-макет Россия» // the-village.ru. — 2012. — 3 декабря.
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