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. At the origins of its establishment and development there stood Nikolai Slavinsky who worked as the first Director of the Museum until 1911.
In 1884-1919, the institution worked as the Postal and Telegraph Museum, while it remained a closed departmental enterprise until 1917. In 1924, it was transformed into the Museum of Public Communications and opened its doors to visitors, and on May 7, 1945, it was reorganized into the A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications.
In 2003, the reconstruction of the building was completed and a new permanent exposition was compiled. Since December 19, 2003, the A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications has been opened to the public.
The postal block provides an image of the building of the Museum; the margins of the block feature 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).
| Paper |
Printing method |
Perforation |
Format of the block |
Format of the stamp |
Edition |
| Chalk surfaced |
Offset + partial varnishing + security system |
Frame 11¾:12 |
105 × 90 mm |
50 × 37 mm |
23 thousand blocks |