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 Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

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, near

Saint Isaac's Square Saint Isaac's Square or Isaakiyevskaya Ploshchad (russian: Исаа́киевская пло́щадь), known as Vorovsky Square (russian: Площадь Воровского) between 1923 and 1944, in Saint Petersburg, Russia is a major city ...

History

The museum was opened on 11 September 1872 as the

Telegraph Telegraphy is the long-distance transmission of messages where the sender uses symbolic codes, known to the recipient, rather than a physical exchange of an object bearing the message. Thus flag semaphore is a method of telegraphy, whereas p ...

Museum. The head of the Telegraph Department of Russia Carl Luders proclaimed the foundation of this museum: In 1884, the post office branch was added and the museum was transformed into the Postal and Telegraph Museum. In 1945, the museum was named after the Russian scientist and inventor

Alexander Stepanovich Popov Alexander Stepanovich Popov (sometimes spelled Popoff; russian: Алекса́ндр Степа́нович Попо́в; – ) was a Russian physicist, who was one of the first persons to invent a radio receiving device. declassified 8 Janua ...

. By the late 1970s, the museum housed more than 4 million

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, stamped envelopes, and

postcard A postcard or post card is a piece of thick paper or thin cardboard, typically rectangular, intended for writing and mailing without an envelope. Non-rectangular shapes may also be used but are rare. There are novelty exceptions, such as wood ...

s. Nowadays, the museum is a leading institution in its field in the

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. As such, it provides consulting supervision for other

telecommunications Telecommunication is the transmission of information by various types of technologies over wire, radio, optical, or other electromagnetic systems. It has its origin in the desire of humans for communication over a distance greater than that fe ...

museums.

Collections

The museum archives and collections include over 8 million items including: * documents and items related to the history of post, telegraph and

telephone A telephone is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly. A telephone converts sound, typically and most efficiently the human voice, into e ...

, radio and

broadcasting Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum ( radio waves), in a one-to-many model. Broadcasting beg ...

, space communication, and modern means of telecommunications, * 15,000 apparatuses and technical pieces, * 50,000 archival documents, * vast collections of stamps and

postal stationery A piece of postal stationery is a stationery item, such as a stamped envelope, letter sheet, postal card, lettercard, aerogram or wrapper, with an imprinted stamp or inscription indicating that a specific rate of postage or related serv ...

, including 8 million items of the Russian National Collection of Philately, * 50,000 books and periodicals of the specialised

research library A research library is a library which contains an in-depth collection of material on one or several subjects.(Young, 1983; p. 188) A research library will generally include an in-depth selection of materials on a particular topic or set of to ...

Address

The museum is situated at the address: 7 Pochtamtskaya Street, Saint Petersburg, 190000, Russia. File:Communication museum.JPG, View of the museum
at Pochtamtskaya Street File:Information tablet on Communication museum.JPG, Main museum entrance File:Stamp Soviet Union 1960 CPA 2421.jpg, 1960

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stamp celebrating

Radio Day Radio Day (russian: День радио, ''Den' Radio''), Communications Workers' Day (as it is officially known in Russia) or Radio and Television Day ( bg, Ден на радиото и телевизията, as it is known in Bulgaria) is a ...

and showing the museum building File:1972 CPA 4169.jpg, 1972 USSR stamp commemorating the 100th anniversary of the museum

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* {{Authority control Museums established in 1872 Science museums in Saint Petersburg Telecommunications museums Postal museums Philatelic museums Postal history of Russia 1872 establishments in the Russian Empire

Communications Communication (from la, communicare, meaning "to share" or "to be in relation with") is usually defined as the transmission of information. The term may also refer to the message communicated through such transmissions or the field of inquir ...

Cultural heritage monuments of federal significance in Saint Petersburg

History

Collections

Address

See also

References

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