A. S. Popov Radio Museum

About museum

The idea to open a museum here first arose in 1949 with Margarita Vladimirovna Gulyaeva, the grand-niece of Alexander Stepanovich Popov. The initiative was supported by the head of the Sverdlovsk radio club, Fedor Pavlovich Kislitsyn. The radio club team managed to convince the public and city authorities of the need for a museum, but the museum was opened only in 1986.

One of the rooms in the Levitsky family's house has been preserved as a memorial thanks to the characteristic furniture and items donated to the museum by Popov's relatives. After becoming acquainted with the scientist's biography, the visitor will find themselves in the museum 'laboratory' and will see the operating principles of Hertz's vibrator (oscillator), Tesla's transformer, an electrophorus, Morse's telegraph apparatus, Alexander Popov's 1895 receiver and no less notable inventions of his predecessors. The following halls present the history of the development of radio engineering in the Soviet Union — from the Revolution to the early 1990s. In the display cases and on the shelves are iconic and rare receivers, radiolas and televisions, pagers that have fallen out of use and the first mobile phones. A separate section is devoted to the role of radio communications during the Great Patriotic War, including the work of announcer Yuri Levitan in wartime Sverdlovsk. You can see the legendary black loudspeaker 'Rekord', partisan radio stations and other symbols of the era.