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2010/08/18/
International Mail Art Project «Space Art Mail»
2009/05/29/
At The A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications opens the exhibition of the photography “The science is beautiful!”.
2009/05/21/
The 17-th International festival "Palaces of Saint-Petersburg"

The Apparatus Collection

The Apparatus Collection includes postal materials, devices and apparatuses, representing history of the development of telegraphy, telephony, radio, television, satellite and space communication. The original electromagnetic telegraph device invented by P.L. Schilling, the B.S. Jacobi telegraph recorders, telephones of the P.M. Golubitsky’s, Yu.L. Okhorovich’s, E. Gvozdev’s systems are among the rarities being cared for here. The Museum is justly proud of its unique collection of the devices and appliances used by prof. A.S. Popov in his experimental work. The collection also includes unique transmitting and receiving devices of the first systems of mechano-optical television, a large number of black-and-white and colour electronic TV-sets. Space communication is represented by the first civil communications satellite “Luch-15”, terrestrial receiving devices of the “Ehkran” satellite communication system.