A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications

A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications
	The museum building
	Location within Saint Petersburg
Established	11 September 1872;149 years ago
Location	Saint Petersburg, Russia
Coordinates	59°55′57″N30°18′07″E / 59.932581°N 30.301967°E Coordinates: 59°55′57″N30°18′07″E / 59.932581°N 30.301967°E
Type	postal & telecommunications museum
Key holdings	Russian National Collection of Philately
Collections	stamps, documents, devices
Director	Alexander I. Burdin (as of 2015)
Website	www.rustelecom-museum.ru

Last updated August 01, 2022

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]

…For the purpose of familiarisation of all the telegraph workers and other interested persons with all innovations and improvements in the field of telegraphy, it is proposed to organise a permanent museum in Saint Petersburg, based on objects presented at the Moscow Polytechnic Exhibition…

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,^{[ 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]

View of the museum
at Pochtamtskaya Street
Main museum entrance
1960 USSR stamp celebrating Radio Day and showing the museum building
1972 USSR stamp commemorating the 100th anniversary of the museum

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References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "About museum". About. Saint Petersburg, Russia: The A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications. Archived from the original on 2015-05-23. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
1 2 Владинец Н. И. [Vladinets, N. I.] (1977). "Филателия" [Philately]. In Прохоров, А. М. (ed.). Большая советская энциклопедия: в 30 т. (1970–1979)[ The Great Soviet Encyclopedia ] (in Russian). Vol. 27 (Ульяновск – Франкфорт) (3rd ed.). М. [Moscow]: Советская энциклопедия [Soviet Encyclopedia]. Retrieved 2015-06-08.

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[museum-1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "About museum". About. Saint Petersburg, Russia: The A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications. Archived from the original on 2015-05-23. Retrieved 2015-05-31.

[GSE-2] 1 2 Владинец Н. И. [Vladinets, N. I.] (1977). "Филателия" [Philately]. In Прохоров, А. М. (ed.). Большая советская энциклопедия: в 30 т. (1970–1979)[ The Great Soviet Encyclopedia ] (in Russian). Vol. 27 (Ульяновск – Франкфорт) (3rd ed.). М. [Moscow]: Советская энциклопедия [Soviet Encyclopedia]. Retrieved 2015-06-08.

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