USSR ELECTRONIC AND PRECISION EQUIPMENT

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USSR ELECTRONIC AND PRECISION EQUIPMENT
Table of Contents
I. Items of Special Interest
A. Plants
B. Batteries
C. Tungsten Filament Drawing Machine
A. Scientific Research Institute for the
Automation of Production Processes in
the Chemical Industry and Nonferrous
! tallurgy
B. Central Scientific Research Institute
Ifor Over-All Automation
C. Branch of the All-Union Scientific
Research Institute of the Electrical
Industry at the Armelektro Plant
D. All-Union Scientific Research Institute
of Electrical Measuring Instruments
III. Local Production and Organization 7
1. Moscow City
2. Moskovskaya Oblast
3. Leningrad
4. Yaroslavl'
B. Ukrainian SSR
C. Transcaucasus Republics
D. Baltic Republics
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IV.
Electronic Equipment
A.
Plant Information
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B.
Prices
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C.
Radios
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D.
Television
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E.
Anti-Interference Research
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F.
Microphone
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G.
Telephone Equipment
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V.
Computers
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A.
Electrical Instruments
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B.
Geophysical Apparatus
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C.
Industrial Instrumentation
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D.
Pipeline Instruments
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VII.
Precision Machinery
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A.
Cameras and Lenses
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B.
Motion-Picture Equipment
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C.
Watchmaking Industry
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D.
Test Equipment
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E.
Firearms
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A.
Cable
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B.
Fixtures
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C.
Switching Apparatus
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D.
Other Equipment
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I. ITEM OF SPECIAL INTEREST
A. Plants
The following were among a large number of plants which made pro-
posals for new type classifications or for expansion or revision of old
type classifications of gauges and measures:
"Krasnyy Gidropress" Plant [Taganrog Plant imeni Molotov?]
Tambov Avtotraktorodetal' Plant ;zavod "Avtotraktorodetal'," Tambov)
Revda OMV Plant (zavod OMV, Revda) [expansion of name not known]
Revda OTsM Plant (zavod OTsM, Revda) [Plant for the Processing of
Nonferrous Metals?]
Yaroslavl' Cable Plant (Yaroslavskiy kabel'nyy zavod)
Poltava Turbine Machinery Plant (Poltavskiy turbomekhanicheskiy
zavod)
Stalingrad Medical Equipment Plant (Stalingradskiy zavod meditsinskogo
oborudovniya)
Minsk Spare Parts Plant (Minskiy zavod zapasnykh chantey)
(Moscow, Izmeritel'naya Tekhnika, Apr 59, pp 12-16)
[Comment: Reference to the above plants has not previously been observed
in available publications. A Revda Plant for the Processing of Nonferrous
Metals is mentioned in Bolshaya Sovetskaya Entsiklopediya, Vol 36, p 169.]
On the northern outskirts of the city of Ordzhonikidze, in an area
where there had been nothing but wilderness, a building is going up.
This Is the building of a new enterprise, the "Gazoapparat" [Gas Apparatus]
Plant. This plant has the latest equipment and a convenient conveyer. All
processes are mechanized and automated. In the near future, it will produce
at least 100,000 gas stoves, mis water heaters, and gas meters, which are needed
for setting up gas systems in the North Caucasus. (Moscow, Trud, 30 Jan 59)
The Saratov Gas Apparatus Plant has started production of small gas-
burning prinus stoves consisting of it 4-liter metal gas-bottle with a mixer
and burner and choice of three grilles. The bottle holds 1.5 kg of liquid
gas, which is good for 25-27 hours of burning. These primes stoves will
soon be available for purchase. (Moscow, Trud, 26 Feb 59)
[Comment: This may be a new plant.]
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The Krasnyy Oktyabr' Physical Electrical Instruments Plant Zavod
fizelektropriborov "Krasnyy Oktyabr'" is located in Odessa. (Moscow,
Izobretatel' i Ratsionalizator, Apr 59, p 44)
B. Batteries
Storage batteries normally last about a year or for approxmtely
70,000-80,000 km. However, there are instances when these batteries
with good care have been used in motor vehicles more than 2 years and
for 120,000-135,000 km without repair. The following precautions
should be heeded to extend the service life of storage batteries:
The driver should not overload the battery and should use the
starter only when he is sure that the engine crankshaft can turn easily.
A decrease in the air temperature of up to 2.5 degrees lowers the
battery's capacity by approximately 30 percent. Therefore, in the winter
only a hard crank should be used to start the engine.
If there are slight indications of decreased battery capacity and the
motor vehicle has not run 30,000-1+0,000 km, the plates should be removed
from the cells. The cells should be cleaned, the plates checked, and
defective plates replaced.
If proper precautionary measures are observed, the service life
of storage batteries can be extended considerably. ( Moscow, Put' i
Putevoye Khozyaystvo, Apr 59, p 28)
C. Tungsten Filament Drawing Machine
A new six-wire machine (1) for drawing tungsten filament has been
installed in the refractory metals shop of the Moscow Electric Bulb
Plant. Itjs are sixth the size of existing machines and has electrical
heating and precision measuring equipment.
The machine occupies one sixth the production space of similar machines,
permits increased labor productivity, and improves the quality of very fine
tungsten filament used in the manufacture of vacuum tubes. (Moscow, Nauka
i Zhizn', Feb 59, p 68)
(1) Photo available in source, p 68
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A. Scientific Research Institute for the Automation of Production
Processes in the Chemical Industry and Nonferrous Metallurgy
NIIAvtomatika (Scientific Research Institute for the Automation of
Production Processes in the Chemical Industry and Nonferrous Metallurgy)
of Glavniiproyekt [Main Administration of Scientific Research and Plan-
ning Institutes] of Gosplan USSR needs specialists in the following fields
for steady employment: theory of automatic regulation; theory of relay
circuits; industrial electronics; computer techniques; telemechanics; and
automatic instruments for analyzing the composition of gases and liquids.
.It also needs process engineers for organic and inorganic chemistry, and
engineers with experience in working on scientific and technical information.
The institute also needs a chief of the Planning Division, who would
be acquainted with planning at scientific research and planning institutes.
Applications should be sent to the management of NIIAvtomatika at
proyezd Kirova 7, Kirovakan, Armenian SSR. -- Advertisement (Moscow,
Vechernyaya Moskva, 19 Jan 59)
In 1956, the Kirovakan NIIAvtomatika, the Kirovakan "Avtomatika"
Independent Design Bureau, and the Kirovakan "Avtomatika" Independent
Design Bureau, and the Kirovakan "Avtomatika" Plant were founded simul-
taneously. The existence of these three organizations made it possible
to study the needs of industry for instruments and automation equipment
on a large scale. However, for a number of reasons, each organization
began to develop independently. Now, they are almost completely severed
from one.another.
During the past 2 years or so, NIIAvtomatika has acquired sufficient
know-how to provide orders not only for the design bureau and the plant,
but also for a number of existing instrument making enterprises and for
enterprises under construction in the Armenian SSR. The institute has
already developed six instruments, which will be exhibited at the
Exposition on the Achievements of the National Economy of the USSR in
Moscow.
Although at first it had been planned that NIIAvtomatika was to
work on the automation of processes in the chemical and the nonferrous
metallurgical industry, it is evident now that such specialization is
artificial. Besides work in the above fields, the institute is already
working out the problems of automating processes in the mining and food
industries. The achievements in one field can be transferred to another,
since often the same equipment can serve for many different purposes.
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By right, the institute's scope should be expanded so as to include
automation in all branches of industry. It is also necessary to organize
a large installation organization for introducing automation equipment in
industry. Such an organization could be put under the NIIAvtomatika in
Kirovakan on the basis of the existing small experimental adjustment divi-
sion of the institute. -- 0. Arutyunov, Deputy Director for Scientific
Work and Chief Engineer of NIIAvtomatika, and N. Kolosov, Deputy Chief
Engineer (Yerevan, Komriunist, l4+ Feb 59)
TsNIIKA (Central Scientific Research Institute for Over-All Automa-
tion) is to be one of the main organizers and implementers of a large
portion of the program for over-all automation of industry during the
Seven-Year Plan.
TsNIIKA and workers of chemical plants, and planning, design, and
installation organizations have the capacity to effect over-all automation
in as short'a time as possible.
In 1958, the institute did research at some plants for partial auto-
mation of the most complex sections and individual pieces of equipment in
the manufacture of ammonia.
The institute's proposal for developing within the next 3 years the
first completely automated ammonia synthesis process has been supported
by the Stalinogorsk Chemical Combine and the Dneprodzerzhinsk Nitrogen
Fertilizer Plant.
AU ammonia synthesis processes will be regulated automatically with
the use of dozens of high-precision pneumatic devices. Electronic computers
will be used to control the process and to analyze its technical and
economic data. Besides this, the process will be checked with industrial
television units.
The introduction of a fully automated system at only one medium-
capacity nitrogen fertilizer plant will bring about a saving of about
8 million rubles per year.
The institute has already begun working on the over-all automation
of a boiler-turbine-generator unit at the Khar'kovskaya GRES [State
Regional Electric Power Station]. The unit will also be controlled with
an electronic computer.
At the beginning of 1960, it is intended to finish the installation
of an experimental system for the over-all automation of unit-type electric
power stations, and after testing, to organize the series production of
equipment for such systems. The over-all automation of a unit with an
output of 300,000-kw would make possible an annual saving of up to 6.5
million rubles. (Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva, 19 Feb 59)
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C. Branch of the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of the Electrical
Industry at the Armelektro Plant
FNIIA (Branch of the AU-Union Scientific Research Institute of the
Electrical Industry at the Arme.lektro Plant) aids many plants in Yerevan,
including the Elektrotochpribor Plant, the Compressor Plant, the Cable
Plant, the Electric Bulb Plant, and the Electrical Engineering Plant.
This branch institute was organized in June 1956 at the Yerevan Armelek-
tro Plant imeni Lenin. During its first year of existence, the institute
mainly aided the Armelektro Plant in the development of new products and
did research on the manufacture of medium-size electric machines.
In June 1957, when the reorganization of industry and construction
took place, FNIIA was transferred to the Administration of Electrical
Engineering Industry and Instrument Making of the Armenian Sovnarkhoz.
Since then, its scope of activities has broadened considerably. It now
helps other enterprises of the administration in working out problems of
all-union importance.
Five divisions and sections, located at enterprises most closely
concerned with their activities, have been created under the FNIIA. For
example, the Small Electric Motor Section of the Electric Machine Division
is located at the Yerevan Electrical Engineering Plant; the Division of In-
struments and Industrial Electronics, at the Elektrotochpribor Plant; and
the Division of Gas Turbine Installations, at the Yerevan Compressor Plant.
The headquarters of the institute, nevertheless, is at the Armelektro
Plant, where one of the leading divisions, the Division of Electric Machines,
is at work. Chief of this division is N. Movsesyan, Candidate of Technical
Sciences.
In 1958, the institute developed a single series of synchronous
generators with mechanical rectifiers and automatic voltage regulators,
and submitted it to the Armelektro Plant for production. The plant is
mass-producing five type-sizes of this series.
In 1958, K. Alikhanyan, chief of the Small Electric Motor Section, and
others developed a motor for new automatic vending machines. This motor
was put into series production at the Yerevan Electric Motor Plant
[formerly the Yerevan Electrical Repair Plant].
The Armelektro Plant is now series-producing the DES diesel-generating
units, which have new generators and control panels. The institute, in
collaboration with the Yerevan Cable Plant, has developed, produced, and
successfully tested an experimental consignment of installation wire
without cotton yarn. It also collaborated with the Yerevan Compressor
Plant, with substantial help from a Leningrad Plant, to design the new
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DK-1 free-piston engine-driven compressor unit. The institute has proposed
a new method for winding and baking transformer windings and has done much
other work. The FNIIA does scientific and practical work in close liaison
with industrial enterprises.
V. Alekseyevskiy, deputy director in charge of the Scientific Sector
of the FNIIA, mentioned that in 1959 and subsequent years, this institute
will develop new improved electric machines, apparatus, and instruments
and new winding and installation wire and cable. It will also work on the
automation of a number of industrial processes at the Armelektro Plant and
on automatic units for controlling the production of transformers and for
controlling the electrolysis process in the aluminum vats of the Yerevan
Kanaz Plant. These are only a few of the projects in store for the FNIIA.
During the Seven-Year Plan, the FNIIA should be expanded significantly
if it is to serve the rapidly developing electrical and instrument making
industries of the Armenian SSR. A large amount of capital construction
is forecast, along with the development of new laboratory and experimental
production facilities. -- G. Tevosyan (Yerevan, Kommunist, 21 Feb 59)
D. All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Electrical Measuring
Instruments
When Engr A. Nigiyan of the YVtishchi Electric Meter Plant decided to
study the effects of mechanical wear in bearings of electric meters, he
was advised by G. Drugov, plant chief engineer, to get in touch with the
VNIIEP (All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Electrical Measuring
Instruments) in Leningrad. However, instead of helping the plant, the insti-
tute sent a survey team to YVtishchi to gather statistics. Kbchev, plant
director, was very much annoyed because the plant's problem was neglected
and the survey teary was eng ged in irrelevant matters. Furthermore, a survey
team from the VNIITIPribor (All-Un.ion Scientific Research Institute of Ther-
mal Power l asuring Instruments) was already busy in the plant collecting
the same statistics demanded of the plant management by VNIIEP. Instead
of pooling their resources and cooperating, the two survey teams went through
the plant duplicating each other's questions.
When the VNIIEP was asked what it intended to do about the plant's
problem, it answered that the problem had been submitted too late and
could not be worked on that year. It used the same excuse to turn down the
plant's request the following year.
The VNIIEP is on the threshold of its tenth anniversary, and no doubt
it will try to dig up all kinds of fine statistics to justify its existence.
However, as far as the Yytishchi plant is concerned, it has not received
a bit of help from the institute. It seems,that the institute is not
interested in having long-lasting meters produced. (Moscow, Promyshlenno.
Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta, 25 Feb 59)
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A. RSFSR
1. Moscow City
In 1958, Moscow enterprises produced 9,360 generators up to 100 kw
in power, a 55-percent increase over 1957; 187,000 electric motors up to
100 kw in power, a 23-percent increase over 1957; 152,000 television sets,
a 2L-percent increase over 1957; and 7,311,000 timepieces, an 11-percent
increase over 1957. (Moscow, Moskovskaya Pravda, 25 Jan 59)
[Comment. Radios were not mentioned in this listing, although
several known enterprises in Moscow do manufacture them.]
2. Moskovskaya Oblast
In 1958, enterprises of Moakovskaya Oblast produced 1,234,000
electric meters and 429,100 cameras, a 13-percent and a 2-percent increase,
respectively, over 1957. (Moscow, Ieninskoye Znamya, 29 Jan 59)
[Comment: The production of radios and television sets was omit-
ted from the listing, although such commodities are produced in Moskov-
skaya Oblast at unidentified plants.]
3. Leningrad
In 1958, enterprises of Leningrad and Iaeningradsksya Oblast pro-
duced 26,000 power circuit breakers, power transformers with a total power
of 213,000 kw, 7,215 units of welding equipment, 1,469 X-ray units, 5,548 km
of armored cable, 7,022 km of marine cable, 1,425,000 timepieces of all types,
690,000 cameras, and 261,000 radio receivers and television sets. The total
power of transformers produced in 1958 was 51 percent higher than in 1957.
The 1958 production of most listed commodities represents a slight gain over
1957. (Ieningradskaya Pravda, 30 Jan 59)
4. Yaroslavl'
During the Seven-Year Plan, enterprises of the Yaroslavskiy
Sovnarkhoz will increase the annual production of Volga wrist watches to
1.5 million; will more than double the output of radio-phonographs and
television sets; and will significantly increase the production of electri-
cal appliances, record players, washing machine motors, and many other
items that are still in short supply. (Moscow, Planovoye Khozyaystvo, Mar 59,
p 82)
[Comment: The wrist watches are probably produced at the Uglich
Timepiece Plant; the radios and television sets, at the Yaroslavl' Radio
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B. Ukrainian SSR
In 1958, enterprises of the Ukrainian SSR produced 2,400 large
electric machines, 619,200 electric motors of all types, power trans-
formers with a total capacity of 12.1 million kva, 269,800 cameras,
285,500 radios and radio-phonographs, and 14,700 television sets.
The 1958 production of large electric machines, radios and radio-phonographs,
and television sets was more than 20 percent higher than in 1957. The
1958 output of the other commodities listed above represented a slight
increase over 1957. (Kiev, Rabochaya Gazeta, 29 Jan 59)
C. Transcaucasus Republics
1. Armenian SSR
Until 191+8, when the Yerevan Elektrotochpribor Plant went into
operation, there were no instrument making plants in the Armenian SSR.
One of the plant's greatest achievements is the development of complex
high-precision instruments for operation in extreme temperatures with, high
atmospheric humidity. Such instruments were made on order for China,
India, Vietnam, and Indonesia.
In 1957 and 1958, several new plants were organized in Armenia,
including some for the production of thermal control instruments, gen-
eral instruments, automation equipment, and performing mechanisms.
The Yerevan Instrument Making Plant has already organized the series
production of pyrometric millivoltmeters and current-ratio meters; the
other enterprises have produced their first industrial models of new
instruments.
The Kirovakan "Avtomatika" Design Bureau and the Leninakan "Prom-
pribor" Design Bureau have made significant contributions toward the deve-
lopment of instrument making.
The output of the instrument making industry of the Armenian SSR
will be 8.7 times as high in 1965 as it was in 1958. During the Seven-
Year Plan, new types of measuring apparatus will be produced, including
panel, portable, and laboratory instruments, automatic recording and
regulating instruments, marine panel instruments of high mechanical strength,
and instruments that give stable readings in any kind of climate.
The Elektrotochpribor Plant alone will produce 39 new types of
products during the Seven-Year Plan. Most of these will be highly sensitive
electrical measuring instruments.
Existing plants will. be expanded and reconstructed and new plants
will be built. For the first time, the production of electrical metal-
ceramic products and semiconductors by powder-metallurgy methods will be
organized in Armenia.
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Steps must be taken to combat the impending shortage of trained
instrument-making specialists. A special faculty or division of pre-
cision machine building and instrument making should be organized at the
Yerevan Polytechnic Institute. -- A. Davidov, Chief Engineer, Yerevan
Elektrotochpribor Plant (Yerevan, Kommunist, 21 Feb 59)
In 1958, enterprises of the Armenian SSR produced 27,228 gene-
rators up to 100 kw in power; 190,925 electric motors up to 100 kw in
power; power transformers with a total power of 2,710,000 kva, 16,434
mobile generating units, and 28,423 incandescent light bulbs. (Yerevan,
Kommunist, 25 Jan 59)
2. Georgian SSR
There are 22 new enterprises of the electrical engineering and
instrument making industries under development in the Georgian SSR.
By 1965, the volume of production of these industries will amount to
1.5 billion rubles, or eight times the 1958 level. -- M. D. Chubinidze,
Chairman, Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Georgian SSR (Tbilisi, Zarya
Vostoka, 24 Feb 59)
3. Azerbaydzhan SSR
In 1958, enterprises of the Azerbaydzhan SSR produced 32,700
radio receivers and television sets, an increase of 16 percent over 1957.
(Baku, Bakinskiy Raboch.iy, 24 Jan 59)
D. Baltic Republics
1. Lithuanian SSR
In 1958, enterprises of the Lithuanian SSR produced 9,600 elec-
tric welding units, 544,000 electric motors up to one kw in power,
17.4 million rubles' worth of electrical installation equipment, and
1,774,000 electric meters. The 544,000 electric motors represented
a 48-percent increase over the number produced in 1957, although the
1958 plan for this commodity was fulfilled only 95 percent. The 1,774,000
electric meters represented a 34-percent increase over the 1957 output.
Other listed items represented slight gains over 1957. (Vil'nyus, Sovet-
skaya Litva, 18 Jan 59)
In 1958, enterprises of the Latvian SSR produced 2,300 sets of
electrical equipment for train lighting purposes, 157 sets of electrical
equipment for motorized car sections of electrified railroads, 7,000
sets of electrical equipment for lift trucks, automatic telephone exchanges
with a total capacity of 140,000 numbers, and 500,000 radio receivers.
The above figures denote a 36-percent increase over 1957 in the production
of lift truck electrical equipment, and small gains in the other com-
modities. (Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 31 Jan 59)
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3? Estonian SSR
The Tartu Instrument Irking Plant is subordinate to the Adminis-
tration of Machine Building, Estonian Sovnarkhoz. The Tallin Elektrometall
Plant is subordinate to the Administration of the Construction Materials
Industry of the sovnarkhoz.
In 1958, enterprises of the Estonian SSR produced 6.6 million
rubles' worth of electrical installation equipment; 14.5 million rubles'
worth of electric light fixtures; 1122.7 million rubles' worth of instru-
ments, automation equipment, and spare parts for same; 14,700 taximeters,
28,700 water meters; and 15,200 radio receivers.
In 1958, industrial enterprises of the republic mastered the pro-
duction of low-noise 10-kw induction electric motors; low-noise 4-7-kw,
three-phase electric motors; and instruments using radioactive isotopes.
(Tallin, Sovetskaya Estoniya, 25 Jan 59)
[Comment: The absence of any figures on the 1958 production of
electric motors and generators is noteworthy.]
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IV. ELECTRONIC EQUI.P~'T
A. Plant Information
The Riga VEF Plant and the Riga Radio Plant imeni Popov receive about
1,000 type-designations of various electrical pants from more than 100 en-
terprises in Voronezh, Saratov, (husk, Petropavlovsk, Odessa, and other
cities. (Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 18 Feb 59)
An evening faculty of the Leningrad Electrical Engineering Institute
imeni V. I. Ultyanov (Lenin), specializing in design and technology of
radio equipment production, has been established at the Leningrad Plant
imeni Kozitskiy. (Leningradskeya Pravda, 20 Feb 59)
The Rodi.na-59 radio-phonograph is made in the Voronezhskiy Sovnarkhoz.
The Tallin Punane RET Plant is the producer of the Estoniya-2 radio-
phonograph. It will produce more than 7.1,000 radio-phonographs in 1959.
Koshkin is chief engineer of the plant.
Preparations for the production of the Topaz projection-type tele-
vision set, which has a 1.2-x-0.9-meter screen, are being made in the
Moscow City Sovnarkhoz.
The Moscow Elektroschetchik Plant is producing indoor television
antennas designed for 12-channel reception. (Moscow, Promyshlenno-Ekonomi-
cheskaya Gazeta, 27 Feb 59)
B. Prices
The following prices have been listed in a prize list for the 1959
`state Lottery of the Estonian SSR:
Prize Price (rubles)
Znamya-58 television set 2,600
Turist portaa;le radio 330
(Tallin, Sovetskaya Estoniya, 1 Feb 59)
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The following items are included in a prize list for the 1959 State
Lottery of the Ukrainian SSR:
Prize
Price (
bl
)
ru
es
Aurora or Daugava radio-phonograph
1,100
Rekord radio-phonograph
495
Kharkov radio receiver
765
Tayga electric phonograph
350
Start television set
1,950
(Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 5 Feb 59)
According to a prize list for the 1959 State Lottery of the Azer-
baydzhan SSR, the price of a MM-Leningrad television set is 850 rubles.
(Baku, Bakinskiy Rabochiy, 10 Feb 59)
Mail Order Store No 4+0 of Riga Manufactured Goods Trade Organization
No 1 of the Ministry of Trade Latvian SSR will ship the following goods
by mail order:
Price (rubles)
VEF-Akkord radio-phonograph, Class 2
1,150
Daugava radio-phonograph, Class 2
1,100
Lyuks radio-phonograph, Class 1
2,300
Daugava radio receiver, Class 2
765
Turist radio receiver, Class 3
330
Festival' radio receiver, high class
2,100
REAR loud-speaker
50
Orders and money should be addressed to: Riga, ulitsa Shkyunyu
dom 16. Shipping costs are to be paid by the purchaser on receipt of the
package.
Mail Order Store No 40 is a branch of Store No 25 of Riga Manufac-
tured Goods Trade Organization No 1. -- Advertisement (Kishinev, Sovet-
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The Almaz-1Q2 and Almaz-103 television sets are 12-channel models with
screens measuring 450 x 340 mm. These sets also receive FM ultrashort-wave
broadcasts and have four dynamic loud-speakers apiece.
Either set sells for 4,000 rubles, equipped with accessories and spare
parts as provided for in the technical specifications. (Moscow, Byulleten'
Roznichnykh Tsen, No 10, Apr 59, p 20)
Experimental models of new modernized Muromets radio receivers have
been assembled at the Murom Radio Plant. These radios can be switched on
and off automatically by built-in clock mechanisms. They are also equipped
with manual controls. (Moscow, Promyshlenno-Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta,
18 Jan 59)
The Moskvich radio receiver and the Kometa, Kama, and. Ural radio-
phonographs, all products of the Sarapul Plant imeni Ordzhonikidze, are
widely known. The one millionth Ural-57 radio-phonograph recently left
the plant's main conveyer.
The Shlyup emergency radio station and the Kometa receiver, both with
the Sarapul plant trademark, on gold medals at the Brussels World's Fair.
The Sarapul plant will start to organize the production of radio-
television-phonograph combination sets during 1959. (Moscow, Komsomol-
skaya Pravda, 20 Feb 59)
The Estoniya-11 high-class 12-tube radio phonograph was developed by
the Tallin Punane-RET Plant and wcn a silver medal at the Brussels World's
Fair. It has an internal directional antenna and eight wave bands, in-
eluding five short-wave spread bands and one ultrashort-wave band. It also
has keyboard switching of wave bands and tone controls. (Moscow, Moskov-
skaya Pravda, 27 Feb 59 )
The new small Nedra-1 explorer's radio (2) was developed at the re-
quest of the Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources Conservation USSR
by a group of radio designers headed by engineers I. Narodnitskiy, Ye. Vy-
shkov, and V. Orlexikova. The first radio went into operation in January
1959.
This radio is intended for use by explorers and prospectors, and is
much smaller than the earlier Urozhay-1 and Urozhay-2, which were used
for this purpose. (Moscow, Sovetskaya Rossiya, 10 Feb 59)
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Although the type ZhR-L+ radio for communication between the yardman
and the yardmaster's office has certain design inadequacies, it has already
become an integral part of railroad station practice. The ZhR-1+ is oper-
ating satisfactorily at the Kupyansk-Sortirovochnyy Station for. recording
trains en route from a place from which information has not been received.
(Moscow, Zheleznodorozhnyy Transport, Apr 59, p 77)
D. Television
The new small Zarya television set has been put into series produc-
tion at a Leningrad plant. It has a 28-x-21-cm screen and uses 12 mini-
ature tubes.
On 7 February 1959, stores of Moskul'ttorg /Moscow City Sales Office
for Educational and Cultural Good received their first consignment of
Zarya.television sets. They will be put on sale very soon. (Moscow,
Vechernyaya Moskva, 7 Feb 59)
The Voronezh Elektrosignal Plant has mastered the production of the
new Voronezh television set, which is an improvement over older types.
(Moscow, Promyshlenno-Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta, 7 Feb 59)
The Sputnik transistor television set, which is small in size and
designed for installation in passenger automobiles, is on display at the
Polytechnic Museum in Moscow. (Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva, 9 Feb 59)
Although television sets made in Lvov did not go on sale until
comparatively recently, the demand for them is increasing constantly.
At present, the Lvov Television Plant is getting ready for the
production of new modernized television sets. It has already built an
experimental working model of a Trembita television set, which has a
43-cm screen and is designed for receiving 12 channels. The plant is
also preparing for the production of L'vov-50 and Lvov-2 television
sets.
These television sets will go on sale in 1959. (Moscow, Trud,
15 Feb 59)
The Moscow Television Equipment Plant has organized the mass pro-
duction of Rubin-102, Rubin-202, and Almaz-102 television sets (3).
The first series of Kristall-101 television receivers has been manufac-
tured. Besides a television receiver, the Kristall-101 has a tape re-
corder, a radio receiver, and a phonograph. (Moscow, Moskovskaya Pravda,
20 Feb 59 )
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E. Anti-Interference Research
A branch of the Scientific Research Institute of the Administration
of the Electrical Industry of the Leningradskiy Sovnarkhoz has organized
an exhibit of new equipment designed for the study and measurement of
radio interference. On display are instruments designed and produced
by the institute during 1958.
Visitors have evinced great interest in a radio interference ana-
lyzer which comprised part of a set of equipment for Soviet stations
cooperating in the program of the International Geophysical Year, and
in an automatic radio interference recording device.
Visitors at the exhibit included representatives of scientific rew-
search societies in Moscow, Leningrad, Gor'kiy, and Minsk. They noted
the need for mass production of this equipment, and discussed the expe-
diency of founding a special experimental plant for its production.
A special institute of radio interference should have been organized
long ago in Leningrad, but the city soviet has procrastinated in the as-
signment of quarters for the institute. (Leningradskaya Pravda, 20 Feb
59)
F. Microphone
During 1958, a central design bureau developed a new unidirectional
capacitor microphone of the cardioid type, in cooperation with the acous-
tical laboratory of IRPA fInstitute of Radiobroadcasting and Acousticg.
(Source gives additional descriptive information on this new micro-
phone.) (Moscow, Tekhnika Kino i Televideniya, Apr 59, p 65)
G. Telephone Equipment
According to A. A. Adeyev, director of the Leningrad Krasnaya Zarya
Plant, the year-to-year increase in the production of telephone equipment
is being considerably outdistanced by the yearly increase in the demand
for this equipment. Adeyev points out the need for placing Leningrad
scientific research institutes and enterprises engaged in the field of
telephone communications under a single management. (Leningradskaya
Pravda, 25 Feb 59)
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V. CONPTPERS
The development of new digital computers for automation and research
purposes is very important. Substantially simple, reliable, economical,
and effective electronic computers must be developed. Such machines must
be produced in large numbers and must be applicable for a multitude of
purposes.
The universal electronic analog computers now in extensive use in
the USSR are too complex and clumsy, and are designed mainly for use in
large computing centers. In addition, much time has to be spent in pro-
graming and adjusting these universal machines. The further development
of computer technology has led to the development of specialized machines.
One of the newest and most promising principles for making computers
is that of digital integration. It is used as a basis for the development
of highly simple and compact digital integrators. These machines are being
used for more and more purposes each year because of their high speed, ac-
curacy, and operating efficiency and because most scientific research prob-
lems can be boiled down to integration and the solution of differential
equations.
Digital integrators can be used on a large scale not only for scien-
tific and engineering calculations and for simulation, but also for auto-
mating various production processes. For example, in the over-all auto-
mation of shops, digital integrators can automatically control dozens,
and even hundreds, of machine tools simultaneously and can also coordinate
their operations. With the use of digital integrators, a machine can
compute the proper shape of the product and can control its precision.
Such a machine can be the size of an ordinary television set, if semi-
conductors, magnetic components, and printed circuits are used.
An integrating machine can automatically control and regulate the
quality of production. The control of the thickness of paper, metal band,
cable, textile yarn, and other products can be reduced to the computation
and statistical analysis of a large number of measurements through the
process of integration. This process is carried out by integrating ma-
chines.
The keeping count of the number of products made by various machine
tools, the systematic loading of blanks on machine tools, the keeping
count of parts on a conveyer, the sorting of products according to certain
indexes, and other such operations are of great importance for the auto-
mation of industry.
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An electronic digital integrating machine can also be used on a
wide scale for automatic control and regulation of various processes,
primarily in the chemical, petroleum, and metallurgical industries and
in the field of power engineering. In such cases it is used as a con-
trol machine, and can effect continuous simultaneous control over many
parameters of an. industrial process. All of this work is done with the
same electronic servoapparatus, which "scans" the entire cycle of auto-
mated operations in sequence at a high speed. This makes it possible
to use a minimum amount of electronic equipment to control a maximum
number of machine tools and units.
To expand the automation of production processes on as large a
scale as possible during the next 7 years, new, more advanced types
of automation equipment based on the utilization of digital computers
must be developed as soon as possible. This means, above all, the
development of modern digital integrating machines. Because they are
simple, cheap, and effective, these machines will come into wide use
as one of the main types of automation equipment.
So far, not enough attention is being given to these machines'
development, despite the fact that their development and manufacture
costs much less than the development of universal computers. .
The development and series production of digital integrators should
be organized in the near future. A really good design and experimental
base must be founded for the production of industrial models of new digi-
tal integrators. Staffs of scientists and engineers working on the fur-
ther development of high-speed digital integrators should be organized
to work alongside staffs engaged in designing universal digital machines.
It would also be a good idea to develop combination machines, which
would considerably raise the speed and effectiveness of the calcula-
tions. -- Prof F. Mayorov, Doctor of Technical Sciences (Moscow, Pravda,
18 Jan 59 )
The Scientific Research Institute of Computer Machine Building has
developed a new electronic machine for the automatic registration of pro-
duction indexes. It is the same general type of machine as the well-
known Mars-300 computer.
The machine stores the minimum and maximum allowable deviations from
the norm. When there is any change in any of the 200 indexes, a signal
lamp goes on the panel and an audio signal is turned on. It takes
this machine less than a minute to scan 200 points of the process. All
data are printed automatically on a special blank. Normal numbers are
printed in black; should something go wrong, the numbers are printed in
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The new machine was developed under the leadership of P. P. Sypchuk,
Candidate of Technical Sciences, and A. N. Ivanov, a laboratory chief.
It has been installed in one of the shops of the Stalinogorsk Chemical
Combine, where it has undergone successful testing. -- Engr Ye. Rad-
zivilov (Moscow, Moskovskaya Pravda, 27 Jan 59)
The Institute of Automatics and Telemechanics of the Academy of
Sciences USSR has developed new designs of very small computing machines
which operate on compressed air alone. Such a computer adds, subtracts,
multiplies, and divides. It can also square, derive square roots, and
solve problems of higher mathematics.
The pneumatic computer is composed of a set of metallic plates, inside
of which are membranes of rubberized linen. When the handle is turned, the
air is distributed in a special way inside the plates and this provides for
the various computing operations.
The new computers are easy to manufacture and very dependable. (Mos-
cow, Nauka i Zhizn', Feb 59, p 73)
Designers at the Tbilisi Scientific Research Institute of Instrtunent
Making and Automation Equipment have developed a new electronic computer
for determining the optimum distribution patterns in power systems. The
machine has been accepted by an interdepartmental commission of the Geor-
gian Sovnarkhoz.
The computer passed its tests superbly. After some improvements are
made on it, it will be submitted for industrial production. (Tbilisi,
.arya Vostoka, 8 Feb 59)
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A. Electrical Instruments
The Kishinev Electrical Measuring Equipment Plant has begun the pro-
duction of 14-channel loop oscillographs. It will produce 1,000 oscillo-
graphs during 1959.
The experimental shop of the Planning and Design Bureau of the Admin-
istration of Light Industry, Kishinevskiy Should be Moldavian] Sovnarkhoz
has begun the production of miniature ultrasonic pulse oscillators, many
of which are used already at enterprises of the knitting, fur, and silk
industries.
At present, the shop is getting ready to produce higher-power oscil-
lators, which would make it possible to eliminate certain manual operations
in the leather-making industry. (Moscow, Promyshlenno-Ekonomicheskaya
Gazeta, 27 Feb 59)
The Krasnodar Electrical Measuring Instrument Plant produces more than
100 types of products. (Moscow, Promyshlenno-Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta,
22 Feb 59)
The Krasnodar Electrical Measuring Instrument Plant has manufactured
the N-370 recorder amperevoltmeter, which weighs 12 kg.
However, a smaller version of the same instrument has been developed
by the plant. The small N-370 weighs only 7 kg and the size has been
reduced by almost half. It was made on the basis of parts and units al-
ready in mass production at the plant. (Krasnodar, Komsomolets Kubani)
18 Apr 59)
B. Geophysical Apparatus
D. Bespalov, an associate of the Main Geophysical Observatory imeni
A. I. Voyenkova, in collaboration with workers of the Leningrad Gidrome-
tpribor Plant, has developed a special remote unit which can measure the
temperature at ten different depths of the soil simultaneously from an
office. The unit includes a panel with measuring instruments connected
by cable to electrical resistance thermometers. Its guaranteed precision
of readings is 0.1 degree. It can measure temperatures where it was
formerly impossible, namely, under the foundations of bui.i.dings, inside
dams, under roadbeds, and other such places. (Leningradskaya Pravda,
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Specialists of "Energolegprom" Electric Power Trust of the Light
Industry of the Leningradskiy Sovnarkhoz have produced a series of port-
able SM- m salinity meters operating on the system devised by Engr V. Mar-
kovskiy. Under field conditions or in stationary installations, these
meters can determine in one minute the salt content in underground waters,
irrigation canals, and lakes; in the waters of heat-exchanger units; in
the soil; and in food products.
A built-in oscillator imparting a sonic signal of 8,000 cycles per
second to the measuring electrodes prevents polarization, which disrupts
the accuracy of the instrument. Current for the instrument is supplied
by a special semiconductor converter. (Moscow, Promyshlenno-Ekonomiche-
skaya Gazeta, 27 Feb 59)
C. Industrial Instrumentation
Workers of the Kiev Institute of Automatics of Gosplan Ukrainian
SSR, under the leadership of M. I. Korobko, Candidate of Technical Sci-
ences, and V. I. Pechuk, Candidate of Technical Sciences, are developing
the instruments and systems for over-all automation which will be used
at the largest installation for the continuous pouring of steel in Europe.
This installation will soon go into operation at the Stalino Metallurgical
Plant.
The institute has also developed a new germanium phototriode, which
is used for converting light signals into electrical signals. This device
can be used for controlling relays used in lost-voltage equipment merely
with the use of a light source one thousandth the strength of a flash-
light battery. The use of this device, which was developed under the
leadership of V. S. Yanovich, Senior Engineer, will simplify telemechanical
systems and raise their reliability. (Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 24 Jan 59)
The Laboratory of Radioactive Methods of the Kharkov KIP Control and
Measuring Instrument Plant has developed transmitters for controlling the
position of objects and has tested them under industrial conditions. These
transmitters are a gamma relay and a contactless density meter.
The plant began series production of gamma relays in April .1959.
The gamma relay and contactless density meter are designed for use in
the cement industry. (Moscow, Tsement, No 1, Jan-Feb 59, pp 13-15)
The Moscow Manometr Plant has a new constant-flow line (4) for as-
sembling potentiometers. (Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva, 7 Feb 59)
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The Kutaisi "Proyektpribor" Special Design Bureau of the Georgian
Sovnarkhoz has designed a type VMI-l macaroni moisture meter. This meter
consists of a measuring circuit and a cylindrical transmitter with a hy-
draulic pump. It determines the moisture content of macaroni ten times
as fast as other methods of analysis.
The instrument looks like a compact case. In front of this case is
a signal lamp, a microammeter scale, a manometer scale, and two control
knobs.
At present the VMI-l moisture meter is undergoing laboratory testing
at the Tbilisi Macaroni Factory. (Tbilisi, Zarya Vostoka, 8 Feb 59)
The Frunze Physical Instrument Plant has produced an experimental
model of a small electronic level indicator, which is designed to determine
the amount of liquid and friable materials in closed tanks. Its novel
design makes it possible to carry out measuring operations at a distance
of 1,500 meters in tanks with pressures up to 80 atmospheres.
The service life of the new instrument is double and its size is one
third that of existing types. It will be put into widespread use in the
chemical, petroleum, food, and other industries.
N. V. Yadovega is chief engineer of the plant. (Ashkhabad, Turkmen-
skaya Iskra, 12 Feb 59)
The Rumb (5) is a new multichannel high-speed electronic recording
instrument designed by workers of the Central Laboratory for Automatics
of the Ministry of Construction RSFSR. This instrument is able to record
more than 40 readings coming out of various transmitters installed on
electric furnaces, open-hearth furnaces, and other installations. In
addition, the instrument automatically punches the information on cards,
which makes it possible to process the data rapidly and to automate the
control of complex industrial processes. (Moscow, Trud, 19 Feb 59)
(5) Photo available in source, p 3, top
The Moscow Fizpribor Plant has finished producing a large consignment
of KEP-12U universal electronic remote control instruments, which are
designed for the automatic control of various mechanisms in power networks
and industrial production. The units of this instrument are adapted for
operation in tropical climes. (Moscow, Promyshlenno-Ekonomicheskaya
Gazeta, 27 Feb 59)
The Moisture Meter Laboratory of the "Proyektpribor" Special Design
Bureau of the Georgian Sovnarkhoz has designed the PVTK-1 electronic
moisture meter (6), which is used for measuring the moisture content of
tobacco leaves.
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This meter has successfully undergone testing at the Tbilisi Tobacco
Factory No 2, where it is in experimental operation. (Moscow, Byulleten'
Tekhniko-Ekonomicheskoy Informatsii, No 3, 1959, pp 57-58)
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D. Pipeline Instruments
In 1957, the laboratory of the Groznyy Electrical Machinery Plant
designed and built experimental electronic instruments for remote control
of the changes in quality of petroleum products and other hydrocarbons
which occur in pipelines, by measuring their dielectric permeability. In
1958, industrial tests of these instruments were made.
A stationary instrument for controlling the quality of petroleum and
other liquid hydrocarbons consists of DTP and DTK capacitance transmitters
installed on the pipe flanges, and an explosionproof SES-1 capacitance
comparator. An SEP-1 portable capacitance comparator can also be used.
The SEP-1 utilizes three 1A1P tubes and one 2PIP tube. Its weight,
including reproducer (reproduktor) and batteries, is 6.5 kg. It measures
24+0 x 220 x 130 mm and its batteries ensure a service life of 180 hr.
The SES-1 comparator has been in experimental round-the-clock opera-
tion at the Groznyy-Trudovaya Pipeline since 15 November 1958. (Moscow,
Byulleten' Tekhniko-Ekonomicheskoy Infonnatsii, No 2, 1959, pp 6-8)
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VII. PRECISION MACHINERY
A. Cameras and Lenses
The 35-M Yunost' camera with T-32 f:3.5/45-mm lens recently became
available for.purchase. (Moscow, Komsomol'skaya Pravda, 10 Feb 59)
The Iskra camera is produced by a plant in the Moscow Oblast Sovnar-
khoz. The Estafeta camera is produced by a plant in the Belorussian
Sovnarkhoz. (Moscow, Promyshlenno-Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta, 27 Feb 59)
[Comment: This is the first noted mention of any production of
cameras in the Belorussian Sovnarkhoz.]
The price of the Estafeta camera with f:1./75-mm lens does not ex-
ceed 400 rubles. (Kiev, Rabochaya Gazeta, 26 Mar 59)
Some of the lenses produced by the Optical Plant (Opticheskiy
zavod) of the Moscow Oblast Sovnarkhoz are inferior in quality to anal-
ogous lenses produced by the Leningrad Lenkinap.Plant. (Moscow, Tekh-
nika Kino i Televideniya) Apr 59, p 95)
B. Motion-Picture Equipment
As early as January 1958, the Leningrad Kinap Plant had developed
and was producing the KZV5-l set of equipment for the reproduction of
four-channel stereophonic magnetic phonograms and ordinary photographic
phonograms in wide-screen theaters with seating capacities of 800-1,000
persons.
(Source gives full description of the KZVS-1 equipment.) (Moscow,
Kinomekhanik, Apr 59, pp 32-37)
Durbig 1958, a central design bureau developed a new f:3/16-mm
motion-picture camera lens with an 82-degree field of view for taking
pictures with a frame size of 16 x22 mtn.- The resolving power of this
lens is 67 lines per mm at the center and 30 lines per mm at the edges
of the field of view.
Also during 1958, a central design bureau designed and manufactured
for use in wide-screen cinematography an f:3.5/40-mm seven-element ana-
stigmatic lens with a 70-degree field of view and a resolving power of
76 lines per mm at the center and 30 lines per mm at the edges of the
field of view. This lens also takes pictures with a frame size of 16 x
22 mm.
Entirely satisfactory results have been obtained from tests of both
these lenses. (Moscow, Tekhnika Kino i Televideniya, Apr 59, p 61)
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During 1958, a central design bureau completed the development and
manufacture of an apparatus for copying [printing] sound from magnetic
tape simultaneously onto three strips of [single] 16-nun or KMP-3 2-x-16-
mm film copy on a mass-production basis.
This apparatus consists of one sound-reproduction [pickup] .device
(7), three devices for copying the sound onto the film (8), a Rotosin
electric shaft-drive system, a type 5GDD-15 speaker, and other compon-
ents.
The frequency range of the sound transmission is 50-10,000 cycles
per second, and the coefficient of tone deviation (detonatsiya) is no
more than 0.1 percent for the soundieproduction device and no more
than 0.2 percent for the copying devices.
The apparatus employs automatic control of the quality of the film
copy by means of comparing it with the original during tie process of
copying. (Moscow, Tekhnika Kino i Televideniya, Apr 59, p 26)
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(8) Photo available in source, p 26, lower right
The Sarmakand Kinap Plant is capable of increasing its output of
25-UZS-1 amplifier units to 400 per year by 1965. This number will
fully satisfy the needs of the Ministry of Culture USSR. (Moscow,
Tekhnika Kino i Televideniya) Mar 59, p 71)
The Leningrad Lenkinap Plant is the producer of the 10-P-29 and
10-P-30 developing machines. (Moscow, Tekhnika Kino i Televideniya,
Mar 59, p 70)
C. Watchmaking Industry
In 1959, Moscow Timepiece Plant No 1 will produce type Signal men's
watches, which can give out audio signals at preset times.
Moscow Timepiece Plant No 3 will begin the production of electric
contact clocks, which will be used for the automatic switching on and
off of radios, televisions, electric irons, reflectors, and other appli-
ances at preset times.
Timepiece Plant No 3 is also getting ready to produce exposure me-
ters for photographic laboratories. It is also building an experimental
model of a universal clock,-which incorporates audio signals and contact
units. Mass production of such clocks is contemplated for 1960. (Mos-
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In 1959, the Penza Timepiece Plant will produce more than 4.3 mil-
lion ladies' wrist watches, and will send 650,000 sets of components
for assembly in Leningrad and Minsk.
The Penza plant is the producer of the Zvezda, Zarya, Kometa, and
Vesna ladies' wrist watches. It is getting ready to produce the new
Sura watches, which will have 16 rubies and will be square in form.
(Moscow, Sovetskaya Rossiya, 8 Feb 50
The Moscow Timepiece Plant No 2 has begun the series production of
single-hand stop watches with gradations of hundredths of seconds. These
split-second stop watches have much more complex and precise mechanisms
than do ordinary second stop watches.
The new split-second stop watches can operate at least 10 minutes
with a single winding. The first consignment has already been produced.
(Moscow, Moskovskaya. Pravda, 14 Feb 59)
Printer chronographs, produced by the Leningrad Electric Timepiece
Plant, record time with a precision of up to 0.01 second, and with the
aid of certain computations, can determine time within 0.0002 second.
These instruments are of inestimable aid to astronomers in their ob-
servations of artificial satellites.
Plant designers are currently developing an instrument which will
be considerably more compact and simple to operate and will occupy only
a single cabinet, whereas two separate boxes are now employed.
The 400th printer chronograph was produced by this plant yesterday
[23 February?]. (Leningradskaya Pravda, 24+ Feb 59)
D. Test Equipment
A high-voltage mercury-rectifier testing unit has been installed at
the Riga REZ Plant. Until now, electrical equipment for electric trains
could be tested only at the laboratories of the All-Union Scientific
Research Institute of the Ministry of Railways. Consequently, the
plant had to send each set of equipment produced to Moscow for testing,
a costly and time-consuming practice.
The new test unit displayed high operational qualities at a load
of 2,000 amp. It can now be used for testing electrical equipment made
at the plant and for solving other scientific and production problems.
The Riga REZ Plant is the first enterprise in the USSR possessing
its own high-voltage testing installations. (Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya,
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The Leningrad Tool Plant has organized the production of type 1VA
stationary apparatus for measuring the amplitude of vibration of bear-
ings in all types of machines with two, four, or more bearings. Such
an apparatus will permit the measurement of double amplitude vibrations
up to 300 microns at frequencies of 10-100 cycles per second and up to
100 microns at frequencies of 10-150 cycles per second. The minimum
measurable value of double amplitude is 10 microns. (Moscow, Promy-
shlenno-Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta, 20 Feb 59)
The first electronic microscales to be produced in the USSR are
being made at the Leningrad Gosmetr Plant. These scales will be used
widely by the chemical industry. They can measure the weight of chem-
ical substances while reaction is taking place. The results are auto-
matically transmitted to a galvanometer.
Such scales can safely measure radioactive and explosive substances,
and can be used to study various chemical oxidation processes, to meas-
ure the density of gases, to record diffusion phenomena, and to measure
the attraction of bodies by magnetic and electrical forces.
The Gosmetr Plant has begun the series production of analytic
microscales for weighing precious metals. Such scales have a maximum
capacity of one gram.
The Gosmetr Plant ships its weight-measuring instruments to China,
Korea, Burma, India, Bulgaria, and Poland. Recently, it shipped consign-
ments of instruments to Albania and Mongolia. (Leningradskaye: Pravda,
27 Feb 59)
The Tula (Armaments] Plant has mastered the production of two new
automatic 5.6-mm rifles, the TOZ-21-1 and the TOZ-21-2 with scope sight.
The magazines of these rifles hold ten cartridges each, and each rifle
is equipped with a safety catch. (Kiev, Rabochaya Gazeta, 26 Mar 59)
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The Bendery Moldavkabelf Plant still has very little equipment and
it cannot get many semifinished goods, yet it produces a variety of prod-
ucts. Among these is a multistrand aluminum wire which is accurately
wound on huge wooden spools. On 19 February, the plant produced 90 km
of aluminum wire, instead of the 51i km established by the norm. During
17 days of February, 126 km of aluminum'wire with rubber insulation were
produced, instead of only 62 km. Today [26 February?], as yesterday,
the plant is producing twice as many of these products as called for
in the plan assignment.
Today the plant completed testing a so-called extrusion press for
applying plastic insulation to wire. It has been calculated that the
machine can insulate up to 200 km of double-strand aluminum wire in
one month. The Moldavkabel Plant is expected to be producing these
machines by the end of the year. During the course of the Seven-Year
Plan, the plant will produce several more extrusion presses with even
greater capacity.
A. Serov is director of the plant and G. Paverman is chief engineer.
During the Seven-Year Plan, the plant's output will increase to
seven times its current level. (Kishinev, Sovetskaya Moldaviya, 26 Feb
59)
The Leningrad Sevkabel' Plant is currently completing the manu-
facture of the first kilometer of high-voltage cable to be used in the
construction of the Stalingradskaya GES (Hydroelectric Power Station).
Dozens of kilometers of power cable have already been manufactured
this year for India and Vietnam, and an order is being filled during the
current quarter for the United Arab Republic.
The plant is developing experimental models of cable with plastic
insulation to replace costly lead. (Leningradskaya Pravda, 26 Feb 59)
B. Fixtures
The Leningrad Elektroarmatura Plant and the Leningrad Household Ap-
pliance Plant, both producers of light fixtures, are subordinate to the
Main Administration of Local Industry of the Leningrad City Executive
Committ"ee
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The Moscow Electric Light Fixtures Plant No 1 is subordinate to the
Administration of Metalworking Industry of the Moscow City Executive Com-
mittee. (Moscow, Byulleten' Roznichnykh Tsen, No 11, Apr 59, pp 31-32)
The Moscow Electric Porcelain Plant, which is subordinate to the Ad-
ministration of Metalworking Industry of the` Moscow City Executive Com-
mittee, is the producer of the MG-92-771 plastic-and-porcelain switch,
which sells for 4.10 rubles.
The Cheremushki Electrical Fixtures Plant is subordinate to the
"Mosobimetallprom" Trust of the Moscow Oblast Council Executive Committee.
(Moscow, Byulleten' Roznichnykh Tsen, No 9, Mar 59, p 33)
The Kazan' Electrical Machinery Plant (Kazanskiy elektromekhaniche-
skiy zavod) produces household light fixtures. (Moscow, Izobretatel' i
Ratsionalizator, Apr 59, p 44)
[Comment: This appears to be a new plant.]
Universal-type light fixtures, for general lighting purposes, are
produced, by the Lugansk Electrical Installation Products Plant (Luganskiy
zavod elektromontazlinykh izdeliy), a plant [unidentified] of the Tul'skiy
Sovnarkhoz, the Gomel Household Appliance Plant (Zavod metallobytovykh
izdeliy), the Khabarovsk Metallist Plant, and the Novosel'tsevskiy Elec-
trical Fixtures Plant (Novosel'tsevskiy elektroarmaturnyy zavod) which
is located near the Lobnya Station of Moskovskaya Oblast. (Moscow,
Svetotekhnika, Apr 59) p 32)
C. Switching Apparatus
The Ul'yanovsk Kontaktor Plant manufactures low-voltage apparatus
for electric power stations, blast and open-hearth furnaces, and mines.
Reconstruction of this plant has recently been undertaken. Older build-
ings are being expanded and:new ones are being constructed. Automatic
lines and special equipment are being designed for the new plant, which
will have Europe's largest laboratory for testing the breaking capacity
of all types of equipment. This plant will become the scientific'cen-
ter for the development of low-voltage equipment.
A. I. Yengovatov is director of the Ul'yanovsk Kontaktor Plant.
(Moscow, Sovetskaya Rossiya, 26 Feb 59)
The [Ul'yanovsk] Kontaktor Plant-is the producer of the PMP-O,rever-
sible-type magnetic starter. (Moscow, Knizhnaya Letopis', No 14, 1959,
p 45)
The Cheboksary Electrical Equipment Plant is one of the leading en-
terprises of the Chuvashskiy Sovnarkhoz. (Moscow, Komsomol'skaya Pravda,
17 Feb 59)
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The Khar'kov Elektrostanok Plant is the producer of the series PV
switches, in sizes I, III, and V.
The Moscow Low-Voltage Equipment Plant is the producer of the RSI-1
and RSI-2 pulse-counting relays. (Moscow, Knizhnaya Letopis', No 18, 1959,
PP 39-40)
D. Other Equipment
The TJst'-Kamenogorsk Capacitor Plant is the first electrical engi-
neering enterprise in East Kazakhstan. According to D. S. Varshavskiy,
chief engineer of the plant, it has begun the production of low-voltage
cosine capacitors for increasing the efficiency of electrical installation.
It will begin the production of capacitors of double the power of the
cosine capacitors, and will also produce high-voltage capacitors.
The plant will supply capacitors of up to 600,000 volts in power for
long-distance transmission lines, and will also make capacitors for high-
frequency telephone communications over high-voltage lines.
The plant is now getting ready to produce capacitors for obtaining
power from high-voltage transmission lines for use in rural areas. (Riga,
Sovetskaya Latviya, 18 Feb 59)
Quite often, the Saratov Electrothermic Equipment Plant ships out
enormous 17-section electric furnaces, which have electric heating devices
measuring 44 meters in length. These furnaces are designed for heat-
treating welding electrodes, and have a productivity of 2 tons/hr.
Charges are loaded automatically in new steel-making furnaces made
by the plant. Recently the plant began the production of vertical draw-
ing furnaces, which will be used in the cable industry for enameling
heavy-gauge copper conductors.
The products of the Saratov plant are in great demand abroad. (Mos-
cow, Izvestiya, 27 Feb 59)
The Leningrad High-Frequency Installations Plant has produced its
first series of machines for the ultrasonic processing of materials, in-
cluding the washing and degreasing of parts and improvement of electro-
plating processes. It is possible with such an ultrasonic machine (9)
to process hard and brittle materials such as porcelain glass, and var-
ious ceramic parts. (Kiev, Rabochaya Gazeta, 22 Mar 59)
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Putyushkin is director of the Moscow Electrical Medical Equipment
Plant. (Moscow, Moskovskaya Pravda, 21 Feb 59)
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