THE SOVIET RADIO INDUSTRY IN 1952

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• Publication Date: July 29, 1952
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COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Scientific - Electronics, radio, television
DATE OF
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HOW DA1 E DIST. A9 Jul 1952
PUBLISHED Monthly periodical
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PUBLISHED May 1952
LANGUAGE Russian
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
G. Savellyev
Chief, Tech Adm,
Ministry of Com Equipment Industry
The Soviet radio industry has succesr'ully fulfilled the first postwar
Five-Year Plan. During this Five-tear Plan, the production of radio receivers
of various types was considerably greater than in the prewar years taken to-
gether. The industry produced over eight times as many broadcast receivers in
1951 as in 1940.. A further inerrase in the production of receivers is planned
for 1952.
The organization of :mss production of television receivers made it pos-
sible to more than double the 1950 production in 1951. For the same period, the
production of television picture tubes was increased 260 percent.
In connection with the approval of a GOST for radio broadcast receivers,
the enterprises of the MPSS (Ministry of the Communications Equipment Industry)
did a great deal of work on bringing the basic parameters of their receivers up
to the norms provided by the COST. As a result of this work, the electroscous-
tic characteristics of vat receivers were improved considerably.
Along with the production of first-, second-, and third-class receivers
such as the Latvia, Baltika, .ekord, ARZ, and others, the production of small
radio-phonographs cf the Sekord and Kama types was increased considerably.
The Latvia first-class receiver will be improved in 1952. New ypes of
radio tubes and high-quality parts will be employed in this set, and the addition
of a second speaker will make for better sound reproduction. Its external ap-
pearance also will be improved.
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Last year, one of the radio plants of the MPSS, together with a scient'?ic-
research institute, developed a new type of chassis for the Moskvich receiver.
This chassis, it assembled by the so-called printed-circuit method and reduces
considerably the labor required to assemble radio receivers. The production of
several thousand Moskvich receivers made in this way is planned for ].952.
The Rodina receiver is also undergoing a radical modernization this year.
Miniature tubes are being used in the new models, the Rodina-52. These tubes im-
prove the design and reduce the power drain from the batteries.
The production of the MM-2 economical wired radio centers, which are widely
used in the radiofication of kolkhozes, was begun in 1951. For large kolkhozes,
the MPSS developed a special 10-w .-ural wired radio center last year. This center
is very economical with regard to power consumption and can be supplied from bat-
teries or from the ac line. A new high-quality radio receiver has been developed
for wire broadcasting centers..
Work on the determination of the basic technical methods for utilizing the
ultrashort-wave band for radio broadcasting was begun last year.
The party and government are giving a great deal of attention to the develop-
ment of television in the USSR., The important political and cultural role which
television plays requires the development of a television network.
Last y.ar, the enterprises of the MPSS produced equipment fur the television
center in Kiev, which began operation on the 34th anniversary of the Great Octo-
ber Revolution. A cheap television receiver with a picture tube having stattn
scanning and focusing was developed in 1951.. Use of this tube reduced the weight
and cost of the receiver, cut down the materials used in it, and reduced the in-
terference to radio broadcast reception created by the receiver.
Also in 1951, designers of radio industry enterprises finished the develop-
ment and began the production or an experimental model of a large-screen (dimen-
sions 3 x 4 m) television receives.
One of the serious defects of modern television receivers is the appearance
on the picture-tube screen of the so-called ion spots. Work done last year will
make ?.t possible to begin production very shortly of picture.. tubs- for the KVN-49
television receiver having the so-called ion traps..
In 1952, the development of highly-sensitive television transmitting tubes
of the supert.conoscope. type will be completed, and their production will begin.
These tubes will make possible the deve].opmentctf mobile television pick-up units,
which are of great importance for -future television broadcasting,
The installation of individual outdoor antennas on the. high buildings under
construction in Moscow is practically impossible. This gave rise to the problem
of collective master7antennas for television bro-adcasting. This problem has
now been solved -- such a television antenna., with a wideband smplifier, has been
produced for the Moscow State University building.
In 1951, work continued in one of the scientific-research institutes of the
MPSS on the development of a system of color television based on principles pro-
posed by Soviet engineer Adaniun Zin an article in Radio, No 12, 1951, it was
stated that the CBS system of color television was based on principles first pro-
posed by Adamian in 192 . This work wf I be expanded considerably in 1932.
The enterprises of the MPSS have taken cognizance of the requirements of
the great construction projects o: Communism and are developing equipment for
high-frequency communications and remote control using power transmission lines.
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In 1952, the designers in the vacuum tube industry will complete the devel-
opmgnt of a modernized series of miniature tubes for battery receivers. These
tubes will draw filament current of about 25-30 me and their use will more than
double battery life. In 1952, the vacuua tube industry will completely satisfy
the extensive requirements for radio tubes.
To satisfy the needs of radio amateurs for radio parts, production will be
increased 150 percent in 1952 in comparison with 1951; production of power trans-
formers, elec:rolytic capacitors, resistors, and some other radio parts is to be
doubled.
In 1952, Stalin Prizes were awarded to more than 50 workers of the comman-
icat1ons equipment industry. Included amongtthem were a group of designers
headed by Ye. V. Bukhvalov, who received a Stalin Prize for the development of
a new radio station, and anbther group headed: by V. L. Velikovskiy, who received
a Stalin Prize for the development of new radio equipment.
Stalin Prizes were also awarded to G. G. Borodzok for the development of a
multichannel system of high-frequency telephony, B. A. Bochkarev for outstanding
work in the development of new parts for radio equipment, P. Bogoroditakiy for
the development and organization of mass production of radio parts, and many
others.
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