Since 1948, the 325th Aviation Repair Plant (325th ARP) is located at the Taganrog-Central air base.

This happened according to the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, signed in 1990.

Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Stoyanov and the commander of the base, Colonel Alexander Kornienko, appealed to the command of the 4th Air Army with the proposal to keep at least one exemplar of each type of aircraft entering the dismantlement, removing their engines and airborne systems.

According to the idea of Stoyanov, the rescued machines were to become a base for the Taganrog Museum of Aviation.

The commander of the 4th Air Army Vladimir Sergeyevich Mikhaylov approved their idea.