received and sent here today the central telegraph was built according to the project of the architect ivan reborg in 1929, the five-story building was a mechanical palace of communications daily, processed here. about two million telegrams a day in 1941 from a photo from the front, yuri levitan read from here, and during the war years the central telegraph was one of the main goals the german luftwaffe and defended the central telegraph office with heroic reinforcements of female employees, mostly female employees, because the main male population nevertheless went to the front. yes and that's just employees. uh, they went out onto the roof and dropped all these high-explosive incendiary bombs, and only thanks to this it was possible to save the wooden beams on the roof and the telegraph building itself, in which about 5,000 typists continued to work around the clock in several shifts. the rear of the central telegraph office was not only a communications center. here were apartments. for staff. library, dining room, laundry, viewers call from the stage. and even if today such a building would be