Central Naval Museum, branch "A.S. Popov Museum"

About museum

On April 24, 1906, naval mine officers dedicated an evening in memory of Alexander Stepanovich Popov at the Mine Officers' Class. At this event an exhibition of instruments created by Popov and his students was presented; it was later accepted into the Navy's training division and became the basis of the A. S. Popov Memorial Cabinet. In 2017 the exhibition was moved to the Italian Palace, where one can see models of the world's first radio receiver and a lightning recorder, as well as dozens of physical, measuring, tele- and radio-instruments. The museum's first hall displays materials on X-ray technology, including an X-ray apparatus that was manufactured within the walls of the Mine Officers' Class in February 1896. These devices were installed on ships of the Russian fleet and in the Kronstadt naval hospital, where an X-ray diagnostic room was established.