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The Siberian Research Institute of Aviation is named after S. A. Chaplygin and is the largest research centre of aviation science in the east of Russia. Its specialists are occupied with fundamentals, searching and application research, tests of air and space equipment and they provide various research and technical services. Here they assemble the An-2, the A-57, the Su-26 and the Su-27, and carry and carried out fatigue tests of more then 200 types of aircrafts, including the supersonic Tu-144, the aerospace vehicle Buran, the Tu-204, and the Su-27.

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The Siberian Research Institute Of Aviation

Put a helmet on Photo by Vadim Mahorov

The institute is the biggest in the country for static and endurance tests of full-size airframes. Its dimensions are impressive: 120 × 86 × 25 m, area of the reinforced floor — 10 000 m2. Photo by Vadim Mahorov

Aft portion of Su-27SM with disassembled horizontal and vertical tail units. Photo by Vadim Mahorov

Su-27SM Photo by Vadim Mahorov

Su-33 Photo by Vadim Mahorov

Su-33. It flew for the fist time in 1987. Photo by Vadim Mahorov

Su-33 Photo by Vadim Mahorov

Metal heaven over Su-33 Photo by Vadim Mahorov

Under the protection panels is a Tu-204 plane Photo by Vadim Mahorov

Reinforced ceiling is a true masterpiece Photo by Vadim Mahorov

Here they also keep sacred relics: a vertical fin of an aircarft spacecraft Buran and a transportation container (green one, to the left) for transportation of a manned space-craft L-3 lander – competitor of an America Apollo Photo by Vadim Mahorov

Photo by Vadim Mahorov

Il-78 endurance stand Photo by Vadim Mahorov

Photo by Vadim Mahorov

Fighting trainer Su-27UB. Its first flight was done in 1985. Photo by Vadim Mahorov

Su-27UB in the company of a multi-mission transport single-engine airplane SM-92T (“Super Finist” and another Su-27SM (on top to the right) Photo by Vadim Mahorov