A.S. Popov Memorial Museum (LETI)

The laboratory museum is located in the building of the 1st building. Professor ETI A. S. Popov actively participated in equipping his own study and laboratory. Today, authentic documents and devices are stored here ^[1] .

• Address: st. Prof. Popova, house 5, building 1. Phone: +7 (812) 234-5900

The memorial museum-apartment is located in a former residential building of the teaching staff (project of academician of architecture A.N. Vekshinsky at the beginning of the XX century) ^[1] .

• Address: st. Prof. Popova, house 5, building D, apt. 33. Phone: +7 (812) 234-5900

• 1948 , June 25 - the opening date of the museum in the old educational building of LETI .

The museum combines the memorial museum-laboratory of a professor of physics in the academic building of the university and the memorial apartment in a residential building, which received its first visitors on May 7, 1967. The memorial apartment contains collections of original documents and photographs made by Popov himself — an excellent photographer, personal belongings of family members, a collection paintings - the work of the sister of A. S. Popov, Augusta Stepanovna Kapustina and his son Alexander Alexandrovich Popov, pieces of furniture of that time - the real atmosphere of the apartment. The museum-laboratory presents the physical instruments preserved at the institute with which A.S. Popov worked, laboratory equipment, experimental equipment for the wireless telegraph manufactured by the Kronstadt workshops, and the equipment of serial ship radio stations from E. Ducrethe. The museum’s archive contains the scientist’s personal archive, his business correspondence with colleagues, correspondence with his wife, documents confirming the priority of the Russian scientist in inventing radio, collected scientific and technical literature from the initial period of the development of radio engineering, the formation of the first Russian scientific schools (until the 1940s. ) ^[2] .

The organizer and first director of the museum was the youngest daughter of a scientist Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation, an honorary member of NTORES them. A.S. Popova, Ekaterina Alexandrovna Popova-Kyandskaya (1899-1976). For many years, the museum was run by her daughter Ekaterina Georgievna Kyandskaya (1934-1994), also an honorary member of the NTORES im. A. S. Popova. The eldest daughter of the scientist R. A. Popov, his granddaughter M. V. Andreev (1921-1995), greatly assisted in the formation of the museum collection.

Since 1998, the scientific secretary at the A. Popov Memorial Museum has been working as an academic secretary. A.S. Popova Viktor Alexandrovich Urvalov , in the framework of this work, about 100 articles on outstanding figures in physics, radio electronics and telecommunications for encyclopedic publications were prepared. Within the framework of the museum and NTORES, work was carried out to find ways to revive the A. Popov Scientific Prize ^[3] .

The museum has a collective short-wave amateur radio station. Her callsign is RK1B ^{[4] [5]} .

• Central Museum of Communications named after A.S. Popov
• Radio Museum RKK

• Museum official page