The desire for freedom drove millions of people from their homes after 1917, who refused to accept the Bolshevik terror and the country’s totalitarian course. Many Russian and Ukrainian emigrants eventually found a home in what was then Czechoslovakia. The work and fate of nineteen of them – technicians, natural scientists and doctors – will be commemorated in the exhibition New Homeland Czechoslovakia. Emigration from the former Russian Empire in interwar Czechoslovakia. starting on September 6, 2023.
An interesting feature of the exhibition are the exhibits related to the activities of emigrants, for example the Big Ben radio receiver constructed by Sergej Mikhailovich Djaďkov, the first director of our institute (then the Institute of Radio Technology and Electronics of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences). This radio receiver was one of the most luxurious receivers of its time, manufactured and sold in Czechoslovakia.
The exhibition is open from September 6 to November 12, 2023 (Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.) and you can visit it in the Science and Art Gallery at the headquarters of the Czech Academy of Sciences on Národní třída in Prague. Free entry.
