USSR INCREASES OUTPUT OF RADIOS, PHONOGRAPHS: LACKS SPARE PARTS

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700180039-8
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• Original Classification: C
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 6, 2011
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: April 30, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

LANGUAGE Russian
PUBLISHED 10 Oct-13 Dec 1953
DATE
WHERE
PUBLISHED Weekly, monthly periodicals; daily newspapers
HOW
SUBJECT Economic; Technological - Radio industry
COUNTRY USSR
CLASSIFICATION Cb13~IDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
USSR INCREASES OUTPUT OF RADIOS PHONOGRAPHS; LACKS SPARE PARTS
RADIO INDUSTRY DEVELOPS NEW MODELS -- Moscow, Ogonek, 13 Dec 53
In the next few months, ARZ radio receivers will be available in various
colored cabinets: dark cherry, dark ',lue, and grey with gold.
In 1954-1955, the Iskra battery-operated set will be available to kolkhoz
workers. This set is smaller than the Rodina radio and requires less electric
power.
The Baykal radio, which receives ultrashort-wave broadcasts, is scheduled
for production.
The fou;-;ube portable Dorozhnyy radio is now being tested. This set can
be plugged into standard electrical outlets or operated on its batteries, which
have a 30-hour capacity.
In 1954, radio-phonographs with sound-recording devices will be available,
as will sound-recording attachments for existing sets.
The radio industry needs better veneer for cabinets from the Ministry of
Timber eid Paper Industry, a larger selection of paints from the Ministry of
Chemical Industry, and :a better quality and larger selection of fabrics from
the Ministry of Consumer Goods Industry. -- S. M. Plakhotnik, chief engineer
of a malt administration [of the Radio Industry?], Ministry of Electric Power
4 Stations and Electrical Industry USSR
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ELECTRICAL INDUSTRY BOOSTS OUTPUT OF CONSUMER GOODS -- Minsk, Sovetskaya Belo-
russiya, 14 Nov 53
Chernichkin, deputy minister of Electric Power Stations and Electrical In-
dustry states that most Moscow plants of the ministry are now producing consumer
goods and have exceeded their program for the first 10 months of 1953. In 1954,
ministry plants are to increase their output of consumer goods by more than 60
percent and the output of radio receivers by 2.7 times.
TO PRODUCE MOSKVICH-4 RADIO -- Moscow, Moskovskaya Pravda, 4 Nov 53
In the past, the ba,cow Krasnyy Oktyabr' Plant has received many complaints
about the Moskvich receivers it prodr.ces. Now the plant has developed the
Moskvich-4 radio, which will replace the Moskvich-3 radio the plant now produces.
The plant will turn out the first group of these radios in December and will
mass-produce them at the beginning of 1924. Without taking on additional work-
ers, the plant's assembly sho is now turning out three times as many radio re-
ceivers as it formerly did. This announcement of production of the Moskvich-4
-?eceiver deems to contradict the following reportsa
MOSKVICH-3 RADIO -- Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva, 10 Nov 53
The Moscow Krasnyy Oktyabz' Plant is preparing to mass-produce the Moskvich-3
radio. This Class 3 set has five tubes, receives programs on two wave bands,
and will replace the Class 4 Moskvich receiver formerly produced.
The Orekhovo-Zuyevo Karbolit Plant has prepared the first group
of cabirets for Moskvich-3 radios.
Moscow, Ogonek, 29 Nov 53
The new Moskvich-3 receiver produced by the Moscow Krashyy Oktyabr' Plant
will .3oon be on sale. The set was developed last summer by chief engineer
S. Vasil'yev and engineer M. Ganzburg. The set received a good rating from. the
Leningrad Institute of Radio Reception and Acoustics.
The long-wave band of the set extends from 800 to 2,000 meters, while the
medium-wave band extends from 200 to 500 L.:ters. The set's negative regener-
ative circuit assures accurate tone reproduction.
PRODUCE ABOVE-PLAN RADIOS -- Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 10 Oct 53
The Riga Radio Plant imeni A. S. Popov has fulfilled its plan for the first
9 months of 1953 ahead 3f schedule and turned out more than 4,000 above-plan
Riga-10 and Riga-6 radio receivers. In the first 9 months of 1953, the plant
produced 1 1/2 times as many radio receivers as it did in the corresponding
period of 1952 and reduced production cost of receivers 14 percent.
INCREASE OUTPUT OF UROZHAY RADIOS -- Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 14 Oct 53
In the first 9 months of 1953, the Dnepropetrovsk Radio Plant produced as
many Urozhay mobile radio stations as it did in all of 1952 and saved more than
1 1/2 million rubles by reducing production costs.
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PRODUCES PHONOGRAPHS -- Moscow, Komsomol'skaya Pravda, 18 Nov 53
In 1953, tha new Dnepropetrovsk Phonograph Plant has produced 10,000 phono-
goanhe. The plant has also organized the output of Dnepr dynamic loud-speakers
for rural areas.
FAIL TO DELIVER BAN., SWITCHES -- Moscow, Radio, Dec 53
Tsentrosoyuz (Central Union of Consumers Cooperatives) ordered 12,000 band
switches from Glavelektrosbyt, Ministry of Electric Power Stations and Electri-
cal Industry, but has ytb to receive a single switch. An order for 100,000 de-
tectors has remained unfilled for 2 years.
COMPLETES PLAN EARLY -- Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva, 10 Nov 53
The Central Installation Administration, Trust No 43, Glavelektroradi::stroy
[Main Administration for the Construction of Electrical and Radio Enterprises?],
Ministry of Electric Power Stations and Electrical Industry USSR, has exceeded
its 9-month plan for installation work.
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