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      🖼 Cryptography Museum

      Ботаническая ул., 25, стр. 4

      Russia's first cryptography museum, in the building of the former "Marfino sharashka" written about by Solzhenitsyn.

      Cryptography Museum
      © Leokand · CC BY-SA 4.0
      • The building was built in 1885 for a children's shelter named in honor of the coronation of Alexander III and Maria Feodorovna.
      • In 1946 Special Prison No. 16 opened here, where imprisoned scientists worked, among them Lev Kopelev and Dmitry Panin.
      • From 1952 the building housed a research institute for cipher equipment, and for decades it was off-limits.
      • The museum opened on 21 December 2021.
      • The exhibition runs in reverse order: from the digital era back to ancient ciphers like Atbash.
      • The exhibition has more than 120 multimedia installations, and the collection has more than 5,000 items, including Soviet cipher machines.
      • A separate hall, "The Building's Memory", shows finds made during renovation and declassified documents.

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      • All day with kids: skyscrapers, ciphers and the metro

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