March 4, 2023

A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications

Russia Post released a souvenir sheet to celebrate 150th Anniversary of the A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications on 30th September 2022 depcting an image of the building of the Museum; the first civilian Luch-15 satellite, a postal troika, the first pair of postage stamps (put into postal circulation on January 1, 1858), and the device for detecting and registering electrical vibrations (A.S. Popov's first receiver of 1895).

The A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications is one of the oldest science and technology museums in the world. It was founded as a Telegraph Museum on the initiative of Karl Lüders, the Director of the Telegraph Department, on September 11, 1872.

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