Английская Википедия:A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications
The A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications is a museum of science and technology founded in 1872. It is located in the historic centre of Saint Petersburg, Russia, near Saint Isaac's Square.[1]
History
The museum was opened on 11 September 1872 as the Telegraph Museum. The head of the Telegraph Department of Russia Carl Luders proclaimed the foundation of this museum:[1]
In 1884, the post office branch was added and the museum was transformed into the Postal and Telegraph Museum.[2]
In 1945, the museum was named after the Russian scientist and inventor Alexander Stepanovich Popov.[1]
By the late 1970s, the museum housed more than 4 million stamps, stamped envelopes, and postcards.[2]
Nowadays, the museum is a leading institution in its field in the Russian Federation. As such, it provides consulting supervision for other telecommunications museums.[1]
Collections
The museum archives and collections include over 8 million items including:[1]
- documents and items related to the history of post, telegraph and telephone, radio and broadcasting, space communication, and modern means of telecommunications,
- 15,000 apparatuses and technical pieces,
- 50,000 archival documents,
- vast collections of stamps and postal stationery, including 8 million items of the Russian National Collection of Philately,Шаблон:Citation needed
- 50,000 books and periodicals of the specialised research library.[1]
Address
The museum is situated at the address: 7 Pochtamtskaya Street, Saint Petersburg, 190000, Russia.[1]
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View of the museum
at Pochtamtskaya Street -
Main museum entrance
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1972 USSR stamp commemorating the 100th anniversary of the museum
See also
References
External links
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- Technology museums in Russia
- Cultural heritage monuments of federal significance in Saint Petersburg
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