Russian/Soviet Boneyard?

For those of you who don't know, there is a massive amount of old American military aircraft stored at Davis-Monthan airbase in Arizona in various stages of salvageability. More info: http://amarcexperience.com/Default.asp

I was wondering if anyone knew if there was a Russian/Soviet equivalent to this? I've seen pictures of old MiGs and such parked at WarPac airfields, but not in the numbers seen in the Boneyard in Arizona. I also have not managed to find a definitive answer on whether such a place exists.


On a slightly related note (as research for a future ASB timeline I have in the works), what are the oldest aircraft that could conceivable be recovered and made flyable from such facilities. I would think that there are definitely a good amount of Phantoms and MiG-21s that could be refurbished, but I'm not sure about older aircraft.
 
I know there's a tank boneyard in the Ukraine somewhere, but I don't know of any for aircraft although I'm sure they exist.
 

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The Soviets used everything until it fell apart. At that point, they sold it to someone.
 
The Soviets used everything until it fell apart. At that point, they sold it to someone.

Not always, this is in the Ukraine:
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A/C sitting around the boneyard who have been sort of preserved could be fixed up relatively quickly - however most have either been partially stripped or even specifically rendered unusable.
 
The Soviets used everything until it fell apart. At that point, they sold it to someone.
Well the Soviets collapsed, Russians have a different philosophy. :p

Anyways, there's a few of these scattered around Russia. Russia's a large nation so there isnt really a single one comparable to America's. Instead they have a ton of graveyards scattered around. Part of the reason is they literally couldnt afford to fly the planes off their old base. There's a lot of them though, just not a single big one.

For example there's a helicopter graveyard off the road to Moscow. And an actual airplane graveyard in Moscow itself (they've turned it into a museum). A huge tank cemetery in Afghanistan (neither Soviets nor Americans could be assed to do anything about it). Another one near Chernobyl (too radioactive to clean up), and LiB mentioned another one somewhere in the Ukraine. Latvia has an airplane graveyard if you go exploring (this is the only one ive found where the equipment is actually in good condition. Looks rather cool instead of depressing). And of course there's lots of them in the Far East. There's also a submarine graveyard in Kola.

So yeah. Not much when compared to America, but its there.

Here's a pic of the one in Moscow.

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I'm pretty sure there're some ekranoplan graveyards dotting the coast of the Caspian Sea. Graveyard might be a bit of an exaggeration though, as I only recall seeing them in ones and twos, really.
 
The artillery museum in St Petersburg is practically a graveyard/artillery park too. Assuming there is anyway of making the equipment work again
 
I used to use Google Earth a lot, and I once came upon a link to a park of discarded Lebed hovercraft. I'll see if I can find where it was. It's not really a graveyard - it looked like a unit's worth of vehicles abandoned in place.

EDIT: ok, something like this (http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/2-gus-3-lebed-2-aist-russian-hovercraft/view/?service=0), on the Caspian sea. Not the exact one though.

Anyone know what this is, from the above link? Looks like a kind of plane, but there are boats under the "wings" so maybe it's just a building with awnings? https://dl.dropbox.com/u/53155197/Forum pics/White thing.jpg
 
That's an ekranoplan, although I can't tell what type. Identifying features are the eight engines, all mounted in the nose, and the high wide tailplane (which has the boats under it on the left hand side).
Ah, thought that might be it but the boats threw me. Thanks.
 
I used to use Google Earth a lot, and I once came upon a link to a park of discarded Lebed hovercraft. I'll see if I can find where it was. It's not really a graveyard - it looked like a unit's worth of vehicles abandoned in place.
Another case of being too much of a pain in the ass to move somewhere else, so just leave it at base.
 
The artillery museum in St Petersburg is practically a graveyard/artillery park too. Assuming there is anyway of making the equipment work again

Hardly. The pieces are nicely displayed, one of each, not just bunch of them thrown on some space and left exposed to elements.
 
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