merlin
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The Radio Museum in Pereslavl-Zalessky
This was a fascinating museum we visited on our last day, the owner who is in his 70s, has collected and restored to full working order a large collection of radio receivers, and record players from all over the world, plus a few early TV sets. He was a radio engineer during Soviet times working on various projects.
He obviously loves his collection and the fact that everything there is working is an amazing achievement, he has even built a radio transmitter in the grounds which plays recorded programmes, because there are no Russian radio stations broadcasting on the old frequencies these radios use.
I was particularly interested because I was a radio/television engineer from the 1950s to the 1970s, so everything was familiar, we could only communicate through Lisa as a translator, but he came across as a friendly kindly soul....
Here are some photos of his collection and a video, we were there for a couple of hours in the end listening to a lot of radios
His previous job....
This tape/record player was actually playing when I took this photo, very high quality too!
This one is being currently repaired...
A video of one of his radiograms..
