PLAN SHARP RISE IN USSR TV, RADIO OUTPUT; DEFECTIVE PICTURE TUBES

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700170138-9
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 1, 2011
• Sequence Number: 138
• Publication Date: March 29, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic; Technological
Television, radio
production
PUBLISHED Monthly periodical, daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED 4 Oct-Dec 1953
LANGUAGE.
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DATE OF
INFORMATION 1953
DATE DIST..aR Mar 1954
NO. OF PAGES 3
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
PLAN SHARP RISE IN USSR TV RADIO OUTPUT;
DEFECTIVE PICTURE TUBES
BUILD MORE, BETTER TV SETS -- Moscow, Moskovskiy Komsomolets, 21 Nov 53
In 1954, the USSR plans to produce 325,000 television sets; in 1955,
760,000 sets; and in 1956, one million sets.
Present sets have 9 x 12 centimeter and 13 x 18 centimeter screens. In
1954, stores of Glavelektrosbyt (Main Administration for the Sale of Electrical
Output) will put on sale the Avangard, Sever, and other new models which have
18 x 24 centimeter screens.
NEW MODELS OF TELEVISION SETS -- Moscow, Komsomol'skaya Pravda, 21 Oct 53
9? Plants of the Ministry of Electric Power Stations and Electrical Industry
will soon be producing the Avangard, Pioner, and two models of the Sever tele-
vision sets. The Avangard is half the size of the Leningrad T-2 set, iS '
lighter than the T-2, and has a larger screen. The new sets are easier to ad-
just and are equipped with picture tubes that are not subject to ion burns.
In 1954, Glavelektrosbyt plans to make thousands of VE-1 rubber-blade
fans available to consumers.
Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva, 22 Oct 53
Two new models of television sets have been developed recently, the
Avangard (TL-1) and the Pioner (TL-2).
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The screen of the Avangard has four times the area of the KVN-49 screen.
The top of the set is raised when it isdn operation, thus providing better
ventilation for the set. The controls and loud-speaker are inside the set.
The 16-tube set is comparatively easy to assemble and simple to operate.
The screen of the low-cost Pioner set is only slightly larger than the
KVN-49 screen. The Pioner weighs half as much as the KVN-49 and is smaller
in over-all size. The Pioner has nine tubes and an electrostatic-deflection
picture tube. Like the Avangard, the Pioner has the loud-speaker inside, and
the lid of the set must be raised to operate it.
INCREASE RADIO, TV 01 ?UT GOALS -- Moscow, Radio, Dec 53
ductionroftraives dio for
and television sets a qualrto a two5times e[the output
at the beginning of the plan period]. The new goals set forth by decrees of
the Council of Ministers USSR and the Central Committee of the CPSU call for
an increase in radio and television receiver production of 4.4 times in 1955
and 5.3 times in 1956 (the output at the beginning of the plan period].
Planned output for 1956 is 4,400,000 radio sets, and one million tele-
vision sets.
K. L..Kurakin and G. P. Kazanskiy, deputy ministers of Electric Power
Stations and Electrical Industry USSR, who direct the radio industry, must
take the proper steps -to increase the output of radio parts and improve the
distribution of radio products.
MINSK PLANT TO PRODUCE TV SETS -- Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 4 Oct 53
In 1953, the Minsk Radio Plant organized the output of a number of new
types of products. In 1954, the plant will start producing television sets.
SELL MORE TELEVISION?SETS -- Leningradskaya Pravda, 18 Oct 53
So far in 1953, Leningrad stores of Glavelektrosbyt have sold 14,500
KVN-49 and T-2 television sets, 3,500 more than in all of 1952.
COMPLAIN OF DEFECTIVE PICTURE TUBES -- Moscow, Moskovskaya Pravda, 17 Nov 53
A reader of Moskovskaya Pravda complained that the picture tube of his
KVN-49 television set went out of order 10 days after he purchased .' the. set.
In a period of 5 months, the picture tube has been replacedsix'times.' These
defective tubes are made by the Zaprudnya Glass Plant.
B. Lyubetskiy, director of the Zaprudnya Glass. Plant states that defects
in the tubes can be attributed to faulty design and to low-quality materials
used in production.
Over a long period of time. the.,Zaprudnya Glass Plant has received low-
grade platinite, which reduced brightness and caused the picture tubes to
break down rapidly. The plant suppl-ing platinite has taken measures to im-
Prove its nredun+_
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The Zaprudnya Glass Plant has obtained new equipmert for testing
picture tubes.and has tightened up inspection procedures. The plant is
preparing to produce a new picture tube with an ion trap, which will
eliminate ion burns and lengthen tube life.
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