* Hello, friends! By choosing this offer, you will be able to independently inspect the exposition of the Museum of the History of Radio Engineering of the USSR, immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the Soviet period, and see domestic radio equipment created in Leningrad and Moscow, the Ukrainian and Byelorussian SSR, and the Soviet Baltic States. Opening hours: on weekends from 14.00 to 19.00. Entrance from Petrovskaya street under the arch to the courtyard (see signs). Currently, the museum has more than a thousand items in its collection. Among them there are exclusive items: the first post-war receiver manufactured by the Riga VEF plant, the first mass-produced KVN-49 and Leningrad T-2 televisions, the monumental MIR receiver, a unique automated remote-controlled lamp "Festival" and many other unique exhibits that can be used to trace the history of technology development. in our country. Ilya Shkurko, director of the Museum of Radio Engineering, emphasizes its special role: "The museum was created not only to be nostalgic, but also so that the younger generation would know that Russia is the birthplace of radio, television, sputnik and lunokhod." Indeed, the mass production of radio equipment "for home" began after the Great Patriotic War. The exhibition will feature one of the most "age–related" exhibits, the VEF Super M-557 lamp receiver, manufactured by the VEF plant since 1945. The unit is made in a rounded wooden case and is equipped with a large round illuminated tuning scale on which the wavelength, frequency and city names are marked. The optical indicator, the "magic eye", allows you to make precise adjustments to the desired station. Only 167,665 such receivers were produced. The best electronics of the Soviet Union are represented by the brands Corvette, Brig, Caravella produced by the Kirovsky Ladoga plant. These are unique vertical turntables-Caravella-203 and Corvette-248 electric recorders, Corvette-003 and Corvette-038 turntables with a "nano-technological" dynamic damping system. They are able to play records even in conditions of sea rolling!