Sergey Pavlov

People were always migrating, this is a common need to move, spread out and explore. Therefore, we need to explore space and neighboring planets



Graduated from PSU at the Faculty of Geography, the department of «Biogeocenology and environmental protection.» Worked in Moscow in the IT field. Returned to Perm to develop the Perm Aviation Museum.

Quotes

  • You understand that thousands of people and dozens of factories worked on every plane. If there were captions under each plane, as in the films, a ten-minute video with the names of those who have their hands in its creation would be.
  • I move to reboot, it is always an opportunity to see how it could be otherwise and it is a source of inspiration for me.
  • People need to be open-minded to understand how airplanes work. And somehow kindly give up and think that we need something cooler to move than the plane.

My story

My dad had a dream, and he plunged himself into the flight environment. Of course, he was not a collector as is, but he had money and a little childhood dream of becoming a pilot. He was engaged in metal industry, and in the 90s during the closing of the Bakharevka airport and then of the Airforce school, he realized that if the planes were cut and utilized, no one would ever see their beauty and history. He began to buy them up and save. He built a collection, but in fact, it was kind of a warehouse. Of course, visitors came here, but more just acquaintances.

I then lived in Moscow, at some point I became bored in the IT sphere, where I worked, and I decided to return to save the place in short order and change the format of its existence. Since August 2016, I started doing this: I registered an organization, plunged into legal and tax nuances, figured out how to promote a project, where to get additional funds, developed an interactive tour with real-life stories with the inclusion of some technical details explained in lay terms.

At first, I was not interested, because the plane is beautiful when it is complete and ready to fly and doesn't stand still like a museum. But when you dig into the atmosphere, you begin to understand some moments of the aircraft design and its application, you get inspired by default, and you are surprised that it is possible to tell about very complicated things simply. And it turns out that everything here is so rationally invented! I am inspired by the fact that I did not know anything, and then I read it and figured it out, and much became clear. Managing a private museum is a kit of entirely different tasks, a complex, versatile work.

In general, I tuned in. An ideal dream project is a full-fledged complex, although I haven't yet met this in Russia. A mall and a museum that help each other, providing an influx of people and informative, interesting leisure for the whole family. Now businessmen treat such projects as nonsense, but it seems to me that in the future something will start to change because there must be a spiritual content component in any place.

Interesting locations attract interesting people, and despite our parochialism every weekend people come to us from different cities of Russia. The potential of this place is vast, and a lot of here can be done, but for any permutations and concepts we need money, and now everything is still based on our enthusiasm.