IMPROVE RADIO, TELEVISION, RECORDING EQUIPMENT

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 20, 2011
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• Publication Date: September 19, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORI1
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D4Iily newspapers
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IMPROVE RADIO, TELEVISION RECORDING EQUIPMENT
ASK FOR MOhS RADIO TUBES, BETTER TV SETS; WORK .ON COLOR TV -- Moscow, Izvest-
iya, 6 May 51
The USSR is first in the world in the power of its radio stations. The
postwr percent,Fand the r numPlan ber for . rebroadcasting points is rdwar 39
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Over 1,000 kolkhoz broadcasting receiving.units its and hundreds of
thousands of rebroadcasting points Six times as many radio receivers were sold in 1950 as in 1940, but the
Ministry of Communications Equipment Industry has not increased the output
of radio tubes, even though many radios are out of operation because they
lack tubes. The ministry should quickly organize the mass production of
equipment for kolkhoz radio units and produce more loudspeakers and reliable
battery radio sets.
The Ministr' of Electrical Industry_does not produce enough materials
and instruments for building rebroadcasting lines and radio broadcasting and
receiving. units. Local industry and industrialcooperatives do not put out
enough loudspeakers, sockets, plugs,
Moscow has the most powerful television center in the world. The Lenin-
grad television center is in operation, and transmitters are being built in a
number of other cities. Work is being conducted on new types. of television
sets and on color television. This branch of radio technology must be
strengthened and the quality of television sets improved.
CITE GROWTR OF RADIO COMMUNICATION IN UKRAINE -- Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 6 May 51
The USSR leads the world in the clarity of televised images. BritiLh sta-
tiors televise with a definition of 405 lines, Amefican with 525 lines; while
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MASS PRODUCE SMALL RADIO SET -- Tashkent, Pravda Vostoka, 15 Apr 51
The Tula Radio Plant has begun the mass production of the two-tube Tula
receiver. Today, the first consignments of the sets, which are battery
operated and receive short- and long-wave broadcasts, were shipped to
Irkutsk, Voronezh, and other cities.
DOSARM RADIO CLUBS LACK PARTS -- Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 27 Mar 51
DOSARM radio clubs in Brest Oblast have experienced acute shortages
of radio parts. Three months ago, the Dosarm oblast committee appealed
to the Brest Oblast Consumers' Union to put on sale the necessary quanti-
ties of parts for detector nets. Kiselev, chairman of the oblast consumers'
union, requested 380 parts kits for detector sets from Belkooptorg (Belo-
russian Trade Cooperative). Belkooptorg promised to fill the order in 3
days, but the parts have not yet been delivered.
MAKE RADIO PARTS ABOVE PLAN -- Tashkent, Pravda Vostoka, 26 Apr 51
The Tashkent Radio Parts Plant has completed its 4-month program ahead
of time. Plant workers agreed to produce 200,000 ruble's' worth of above-
plan production by the end of April.
PRODUCE IMPROVED RECORDER -- Tashkent, Pravda Vostoka, 6 Apr 51
The Kiev Music Combine is starting the mass output of the Dnepr-3 sound
recorder. This new model, approved for production by -.he All-Union Scientific
Research Institute of Sound Recording, is far superior to the former Dnepr
recorder, which had two recording speeds, one for music and one for speech.
The Dnepr-3 has one speed for both music and speech, and its uninterrupted
.recording time has been increased to one academic hour instead. of the former
18 minutes. A special device prevents accidental tal erasure of recordings, and
the quality of the recordings has been greatly
FACTORY MAKES RECORDING TAPE -- Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 15 Ap 51
The Ministry of Local Industry Ukrainian SSR was directed to organize
the production p sound-recording
Ukrucbkantsprom Trust tLexpansioncunk own7.dhThehresults
ofoe of Paper, tru for th of experiments conducted by Kiev Polytechnic Institute
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task. The production of an inexpensiveferromagnetic
terials has been organized, and the tape has been recommended for use in the
Dnepr recorder.
PHONOGRAPH RECORD PLANT BOOSTS OUTPUT -- Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 10 Apr 51
The Riga Phonograph Record Plant exceeded its first-quarterlistsplan400
124 percent and made 37,000
different record titles this year.
Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 1 May 51
The Riga Phonograph Record plant has received the Transferable Red
Banner of the Committee on Radio Broadcasting under the Co ouncilmakingoftwiceMinistasers
USSR in an all-Union competition. This year, the many records as last year.
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