SHORTCOMINGS NOTED IN USSR RADIO, ELECTRICAL PRODUCTS

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• Publication Date: January 13, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY USSR
CLASSIFICATION CONFIiEIITIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
DATE OF
INFORMATION
PUBLISHED goods DATE DIST. /3 Jan 1954
Daily newspaper, monthly periodical
WHERE
PUBLISHED Moscow NO. OF PAGES 4
DATE
PUBLISHED Oct-29 Nov 1953
SUBJECT Economic; Technological - Radio and electrical
HCW industries, consumer
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OUTLINE 1952-1956 OUTPUT OF RADIOS, ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES -- Moscow, Pravda,
29 Nov 53
The Ministry of Electric Power Stations and Electrical Industry is now pro-
ducing 12 times as many radio receivers and dozens of times as many television
sets as were produced in 1940. However, the electrical industry is still lag-
ging in the production of consumer' goods. The variety of types of radio sets,
radiophonographs, and television sets is still too limited. The quality of cari-
nets and the acoustical quaiinies of loud-speakers and radio receivers still fail
to meet the demands of consumers. The industry is not producing enough first-
clas:, and second-class radio receivers.
The vacuum tube industry has not yet organized the mass production of large-
screen cathode-ray tubes, which in turn holds up the output of modern television
receivers. The industry has yet to produce portable battery-operated radio re-
ceivers, concert radiophonographs, sound recorders and reprodu.ers and dish-
washers for everyday use. The industry should increase the variety of types of
automatic record changers, radio receivers with attachments for tape and wire
recording, and high-quality dynamic speakers. The quality of washing machines
must be improved.
Workers of the electrical and radio industries should eliminate shortcomings,
improve the quality of electrical and radio products, and see that the planned in-
crease in production is achieved. In 1954, enterprises of the Ministry of Electric
Power Stations and Electrical Industry are to produce 2.8 million radio receivers
and television sets, 1.3 million loud-speakers, 75,000 vacuum cleaners, 1.5 million
electric irons, 1.5 million electric hot plates, 30,000 floor polishers, and other
products. Planned 1955 production for ministry enterprises has been set at
3,350,000 radio receivers, up to 450,000 television sets, up to 150,000 vacuum
cleaners, and up to 2,230,000 electric hot plates. The 1955 output of washing
marlines, electric recorri plsvers, and electric motors for sewing machines will
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be increased considerably as compexed with 1950. The output of electrical equip-
ment for home refrigerators will be increased 600 percent. Planned 1956 output
of radio receivers and television sets will be five times that of 1950.
In 1954 and 1955, the ministry will also increase the variety of types of
products and. improve their quality. The output of Class i and Class II receivers
(Mir, Belarus', Rodina, and others) will account for 35 percent of radio-receiver
production, as compared with 18 percent in 1953? More than 20 new types of radio
receivers, radiophonographs, television sets, and record players will be developed
and some of the radiophonographs will be equipped with tape recorders.
In 1953, the ministry completed development of new television receivers: the
Avangard, Sever, Svet, Temp, and Volna models. The pictures on these sets will be
four to five times as large as the picture on the KVIT-49 set. At the same time,
the number of tubes in the new sets will not exceed 17-2n: that is, the new sets
will have about half as many tubes as the T-2 set nroducpd in 1952 and 1953. The
new television sets are simpler to operate, use less electric Dower, and are more
reliable than earlier sets. The life o^ picture tubes has been increased con-
siderably. Television antennas which will serve 50 individual receivers have been
developed and will be produced.
Among the new consumer items that have been developed are washing machines
with capacities of 2.5 and 1.5 kilograms of dry wash, electric stoves with heat-
ing racks, table hot plates with two or three temperature settings, all-purpose
kitchen appliances, air-sealed heating stoves, hair dryers, electric shavers, etc.
The output of electric irons with automatic temperature regulators is being in-
creased. In 1954, up to 9 million frosted and 3 million clear glass electric
light bulbs will be produced. The output of special purpose bulbs (blue and ruby
colored) for medical use will be increased considerably.
The Urozhay radio transmitter and receiver must be redesigned. New trans-
mitters and receivers will use ultrashort waves for interference-free communi-
cations.
Many plants of the Ministry of Electric Power Stations and Electrical In-
dustry are already producing consumer goods. In 1954, the number of enterprises
producing electrical and radio products will increase 30 percent.
The production costs of a number of electrical and radio products are still
high and at some plants exceed the established retail price of the product. As
a result, some enterprises are losing large sums of money. For example, the pro-
duction cost of a Mir radio receiver made by the Riga VEF Plant is considerably
greater than the retail price, the production cost of television sets made by the
Aleksandrov Radio Plant is considerably more than the retail price, and the pro-
duction cost of washing machines made by the Riga REZ Plant is several times as
much as the retail price.
Analysis of a mass-produced radio receiver showed that 75 percent of its pro-
duction cost went into radio components, subassemblies, and tubes. Thus, pro-
duction costs can be reduced by producing low-cost, standard, semifabricated parts
and materials at specialized plants. This will only be possible if a.:cillary
plants producing radio parts and electric-vacuum instruments mechanize and auto-
matize their operations.
Production sections that are bottlenecks should be put on a three-shift basis.
The reject rate should be reduced, especially in the vacuum tube industry, where
it is particularly high.
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The Ministry of Consumer Goods Industry USSR should supply the radio industry
with a wider variety of decorative fabrics of various colors and shades.
The Ministry of Chemical Industry does not supply sufficient quantities of
varicolored molding powders and nitro lacquers to the electrical and _adio indus-
tries. There is a need for chemical products for finishing cabinets. The chemical
industry is not supplying sufficient quantities of luminescent coatings for picture
tubes or of other chemicals used in the production of vacuum-tube instruments and
radio?parts.
The Ministry of Timber and Paper Industry USSR should increase the supply of
walnut, Karelian birch, mahogany, and plane wood, and also increase the supply of
special types of paper and cardboard.
The Ministry of Metallurgical Industry should assure the supply of stock
sizes of calibrated aluminum strip, transformer iron strip, and chromium steel;
should increase the output of nichrome wire for heating appliances; and should
organize the production of wire for sound recording.
Special optically clear glass without bubbles or flaws is needed to make
cathode-ray tubes, but the Ministry of Construction Materials Industr' USSR is
not supplying enough of this glass to meet the needs of the radio industry.
The aid of the machine-building ministries is especially needed now in the
critical task of developing and building automatic equipment for the mass produc-
tion of television receiving tubes 400-500 millimeters in diameter. Mechanized
equipmen for making high-quality electric vacuum-tube instruments and radio parr,:
at low cost must also be developed.
The Ministry of Electric Power Stations and Electrical Industry must i:crease
the output of control, measuring, and testing equipment and of spare parts to meet
the needs of the expanding network of electrical and radio repair bases and shops.__
G. Kazanskiy, Deputy Minister oi' Electric Power Stations and Electrical Industry
USSR
INDUSTRY PRODUCES FAULTY RECEIVERS, TUBES -- Moscow, Radio, Oct 53
The Rekord radio receiver is poorly designed and has been marketed for a
number of years in spite of major defects. Work on the improvement of this re-
ceiver has moved along very slowly.
Defects in the Riga-6 receiver produced by the Riga Plant imeni A. S. Popov
(formerly the Riga Radiotekhnika Plant) were pointed out in this periodical over
a year ago. Dirin'sh, director of the plant, has not yet informed the editors of
Radio that he is taking steps to improve this receiver.
Readers of this periodical complain that good battery-operated radios are un-
available. Of the two battery sets produced, the Rodina-52 is too expensive and
the Tula does not provide adequate reception. The minieture tubes of the Tula
receiver burn out very rapidly. The Neva receiver is poorly designed and the cabi-
net of the Moskvich receiver is flimsy and is frequently broken in transit. The
selenium rectifiers of t': Moskvich receiver frequently go out of order. The
tuning cables of the Urt. radiophonograph are not reliable. The cabinet of the
Rekord radiophonograph is carelessly put together.
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The Central _epartment Store in Moscow receives more radios than other stores.
It received 1,650 first-class receivers and 7,420 second-class receivers in the
first 6 months of 1953 -- only enough to fill 40-50 percent of its orders. The
industry should organize the output of a greater variety of radios and start pro-
duction of portable radios.
The vacuum-tube industry is turning out low-quality miniature tubes or bat-
tery sets) which do not last for even the guarantee period. dign-voltage cathode
tubes are low in quality and bring many complaints. There has been little expan-
sion of the variety of types of radio tubes in recent years.
The output of loud-speakers and untrashort-wage receivers must be increased.
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