Exhibition 'Nizhny Novgorod Radio Laboratory'

About exhibition

The "Nizhny Novgorod Radio Laboratory" museum was opened on Radio Day, May 7, 1974, in the historic building on the high bank of the Volga where the famous Nizhny Novgorod Radio Laboratory operated from 1918 to 1928. The exhibition presents unique museum items – a collection of radio tubes of various power ratings, shortwave receivers, and transmitters. These are material testimonies to the activities of the Nizhny Novgorod Radio Laboratory, often called the cradle of Russian radio engineering and radio communications. Among the museum's exhibits are instruments recognized by the expert council of the Polytechnic Museum as monuments of science and technology of the first category. These include the only preserved authentic example in Russia of the first domestic electronic vacuum radio tube "Babushka" and the amateur two-tube television set "B-2", representing the first generation of television receivers with mechanical image scanning. Collections of radio-technical devices for consumer and special purposes include loudspeakers, vacuum-tube (valve), crystal-detector, and transistor receivers, black-and-white and color televisions, studio and consumer tape recorders, voice data recorders ("black boxes"), and portable radio transceivers. Multimedia complexes help immerse visitors in the exhibition theme, and you can try your hand as a shortwave radio operator using the simulator-trainer "Radiodali". Detailed audio and textual information is provided via audio guides and QR codes.