Postal Museums

by Anatoly Kiryushkin

Minsk Postal museum
Address: K.Marks 29, Minsk.
Tel. 227-05-31

Contents (in Russian)
The story of museum http://www.beltelecom.by/beltelecom/museum/museum.html
Telegraph http://www.beltelecom.by/beltelecom/museum/telex.html
Telephone http://www.beltelecom.by/beltelecom/museum/phone.html
Post http://www.beltelecom.by/beltelecom/museum/post.html
Radio http://www.beltelecom.by/beltelecom/museum/radio.html

Post and Telegraph setions are illustrated with a some interesting images. A few of them shown below.

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Fragment of 1667 postal treaty between Poland and Moscow.

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Postal bags. End of XIX and beginning of XX century.

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1884 letter box

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Meter mark machine MM-48. Used for franking mail in 1950's

Irkutsk Postal museum

Postal address Sverdlova 37, Irkutsk -11, Russia 664011
Tel. (3952) 242-301
Web-site http://www.east-siberia.ru/museum/comm/ (in Russian)

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Letter box. Beginning of XX century.