USSR ELECTRONIC AND PRECISION EQUIPMENT

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USSR ELECTRONIC AND PRECISION EQUIPMENT
Table of Contents
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I.
Items of Special Interest
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A.
Meetings and Conferences
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B.
Institutes
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C.
Plants
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I).
Shortages and Deficiencies
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II.
Local Production and Organization
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A.
Moscow
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B.
Azerbaydzhan SSR
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C.
Armenian SSR
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D.
Estonian SSR
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E.
Latvian SSR
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F.
Lithuanian SSR
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G.
Ukrainian SSR
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H.
Belorussian SSR
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Kirgiz SSR
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J.
Uzbek SSR
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III.
Electronic Equipment
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A.
General
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B.
Sound Recording
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C.
Prices
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D.
Radios
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E.
Radio-Phonographs
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F.
Television
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G.
TUbts and Bulbs
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H.
Semiconductors
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I.
Components
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J.
Communications Equipment
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IV. Computers
V. Instruments
A. General Industrial Instrumentation
B. Instruments for the Petroleum, Gas, and Chemical
Industries
C. Electrical Instruments
D. Geophysical Instruments
E. Other Instruments
F. Plant Information
VI. Precision Equipment
A. Cameras
B. Watchmaking
C. Other Equipment
VII. Electrical Products
A. Wire and Cable
B. Rotating Machinery
C. Control Apparatus
D. Ultrasonic Equipment
E. Welding Machines
F. Other Products
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I. ITEMS OF SPECIAL INTEREST
A- Meetings and Conferences
On 7 May1959, ameeting dedicated to Radio Day was held in the
Hall of Columns in Moscow. The meeting was opened by N. D. Psurtsev,
Minister of Communications USSR. Speeches were also made by G. P. Kazan-
skiy, deputy chairman of the State Committee for Radioelactronics of the
Council of Ministers USSR; D. I. Ohesnokov, chairman of the State Com-
mittee for Radio Broadcasting and Television of the Council of Ministers
USSR, V. I. Siforov, chairman of the Scientific and Technical Society of
Radio engineering and Electrical Communicatioas imeni A. S. Popov and
Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences USSR; and I. T. Akulinchev,
an amateur designer and inventor. (Moscow, Komsomol'skaya Pravda, 8 May 59)
On 7 May 1959, meeting in honor of Radio Day was held in the House of
Culture imeni A. M. Gortkiy in Leningrad, Prof S. A. Drobov spoke on "The
USSR, the Motherland of Radio," N. N. Posnov, Candidate of Technical
Sciences and director of the Leningrad Computing Center of the Academy of
Sciences and the Leningradskiy Sovnarkhoz, spoke on the future use of
electronic computers in the national economy. (Leningradskaya Pravda,
8 may 59)
A republic conference on mechanization and automation of production
processes at industrial and transport enterprises of the Kazakh SSR is
now in session in Alma-Ata.
Speakers have included V. A. Gogosov, chairman of the State Scientific
and Technical Committee of the Council of Ministers Kazakh SSR, and S. P.
Krasivskiy, chief specialist of the State Scientific and Technical Com-
mittee of the Council of Ministers USSR, who discussed automation. I. G.
Grinman and G. Blyakh, scientific workers of the Institute of Nuclear
Physics of the Academy of Sciences Kazakh SSR spoke on automatio control
with the use of radioactive isotopes, and on chemical control. (Alma-Ata,
Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, 16 Apr 59)
B. Institutes -
According to D. D. Aksenov, director of the Institute of Aircraft
Instrument Making, his institute has entered into an agreement with the
Leningradskiy Sovnarkhoz whereby ten different enterprises, mainly in
Moskovskiy Rayon, Leningrad, would be made available to students of the
institute for the new work-and-study schedule as specified in the resolu-
tions of the 20th Congress of the CPSU. (Leningradskaya Pravda, 2 Apr 59)
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The institute of Scales and Instruments and the Special Desiga Bureau
for Testing Machines of the Moscow City Sovnarkhoz have been combined into
the Scientific Research and Design Institute of Testing Machines, Instru-
ments, and Eqnipment for Measuring Mass. The Moscow Experimental (Eksperi-
mentalinyy) Testing Machine and Scales Plant will be put under the juris-
diction of the new institute and will be converted into an experimental.
(opytnyy) plant. The sovnarkhoz has reaolved to free this plant from the
manufacture of extraneous products. (Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva, 10 Mar 59)
The Chair of Technology of Radio Equipment Production is the newest
chair under the Radio Engineering Faculty of the [Leningrad) Electrical
Engineering Institute [LETI?]. This chair prepares specialists of a new
type: radio engineers, designers, and technologists for work directly in
production.
Fedor Yefremovich Yevteyev is head of the Chair of Technology of Radio
Equipment Production. (Leningradskaya Pravda, 15 Mar 59)
C. Plants
The Riga Elektro Electrical Engineering Products Plant (zavod
elektrotekhnicheskikh izdeliy "Elektro") has a personnel Office at ulitsa
A. Deglava 60, Riga. (Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 26 Mar 59)
[Comment: This appears to be a new plant.]
An instrument making plant is in operation in Tartu. Diesels, steam
locomotives, sea-going ships, blast furnaces, and radio relay lines require
the instruments made by this plant, which is the only plant of it kind in
the USSR, (Tallin, Sovetskaya Estoniya, 3 Mar 59)
The Kursk Storage Battery Plant (Kurskiy akkumulyatornyy zavod) i3
one of the newest enterprises in the city, but it has already become the
main supplier of batteries for traction equipment used in coal mines,
mostly in the Donbass, as well as for trucks and for automatic blocking
systems of railroads.
In 4 years, the plant has doubled its output of storage batteries.
V. Gayntsev is chief engineer of the plant. (Moscow, PrOmyshlenno-
Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta, 8 Mar 59)
A new electrical instrument plant has gone into operation in the
settlement of Kazan-Bulag, which is located in the foothills far from the
rayon center of Kasum-Ismailovo in the Azerbaydzhan SSR. The plant has
already manufactured its first products: low-voltage starting eqnipment.
The plant has seven shops: tool shop, automatic turret lathe shop, assembly
shop, initial processing shop, heat-treatment shop, carpenter shop, and
metal-plating shop. The metal-plating shop is the first silver-plating
shop in the Azerbaydzhan SSR.
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According to plant director M. A. Yelisuyskiy, the plant has already
concluded a number of agreements for supplying instruments to enterprises
of many USSR cities. It has already shipped instruments to Rostov, Kuyby-
shev, Penza, and other cities. (Baku, Bakinskiy Rabochiy,-5 Apr 59)
The Trostyanets Electrical Engineering Plant (Elektrotekhnieheekly
zavod v Trostyantse) is located in Trostyanets, a small rayon center of
Sumskaya.Oblast. It is near the Smorodino railroad station of the rail.-
road between Kiev and Khartkov. Construction of the plant began 2 years'
ago; its first products were manufactured in January 1959
For the time being, the plant produces only UE-2A electric irons.
In 1960, however, it expects to begin the production of a new type of
electric steam iron with a heat regulator, and high-amperage knife switches.
In the immediate future, it will begin to produce pickups for radio-
phonographs. (Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy? 10 Apr 59)
The Vyru Gas Analyzer Plant (Vyruskly zavod gazoanalizatorov) has
been in existence for only 100 days. Its walls are still being put up and
equipment is being installed. Nevertheless, by the end of 1959, it is sup-
posed to produce 500 automatic gas analyzers of two types. One type will
determine the oxygen content in the atmosphere. The other will measure and
indicate the hydrogen content in, for example, the cooling system of turbo-
generators. (Tallin, Sovetskaya Estoniya, 11 Apr 59)
During the Seven-Year Plan, three large enterprises, a sugar mill, a
mineral fertilizer plant, and an electrical equipment plant will be con-
structed in Kedaynyay. Recently the Kedaynyay Electrical Equipment Plant
manufactured its first products. These first products, which are still not
the basic types the plant will produce, consist of plugs, receptacles, dis-
tribution boxes, and other articles, which are sent daily to various cities
of the Lithuanian SSR. Preparations are now being made to begin produrtion
of magnetic starters.
Sakalis is director of the plant. Besides the old machine tools'al-
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ready installed in the plant, new high-production single-design equipment
is being installed from the Moscow Krasnyy Proletariy Plant and from plants
in Orenburg, Vil'nyus, Vitebsk, Khmelfnitskiy, Leninakan, and other cities.
The plant is supposed to master the production of P-6 magnetic
starters. In the USSR, such starters have been produced only on an experi-
mental scale by the Khartkov Electrical Engineering Plant. Rimantas Shtuy-
kis, chief engineer of the Kedaynyay Plant, recently went to the Kharglov
plant for training. (Vil'nyus, Sovetskaya Litva, 11 Apr 59)
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A new plant within 1.5 km of Tyuri Secondary School No 1 in Paydee-
skiy Rayon is being equipped for the production of micronoWee electric
motors. This plant will have modern equipment and will employ the latest
technological processes in the manufacture of parts and aesembly of micro-
power electric motors. (Tallin, Sovetskaya Estoniya, 18 Apr 59)
D. Shortages and Deficiencies
Instrument-making plants are much too slow in putting miniature in-
etruments into production. Thus, the planning and actual putting into
operation of thermal electric power stations is delayed, and their con-
struction becomes more expensive.
The plans for thermal control, regulation, and automatics of the
Tom'-Usinskaya and Angrenskaya GRES [State Regional Electric Power Stations]
were based on the broad application of miniature instruments. Since most
such instruments were not available, it was necessary either to use no mini-
ature instruments or to plan for the installation of temporary control panels,
both very expensive and time consuming measures.
Why cannot our plants begin the production of miniature instruments?
Perhaps power engineers are silent and do not express their needs to instru-
ment makers? Absolutely not The problem of miniature instruments has been
thrashed out for many years in newspapers and periodicals and at scientific
and technical conferences, without any result so far. Our comrade instrument
makers should have begun the production of all types of miniature insteuments
and supplied such instruments to Soviet power engineers long ago. -- Engr
V. Sukhov (moscow, Promyshlenno-Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta, 27 Mar 59)
Although the Riga Radio Plant imeni Popov was able to begin mass pro-
duction of the Festival' luxury-class radio receiver, it was unable to
fulfill its plan because of a shortage of 18-core type KVShD cable. The
"monkey wrench in the machinery" in this case happened to be the Podol'sk
Cable Plant, which was supposed to have begun the production of such cable
2 years ago and should have begun supplying it regularly to Latvian enter-
prises during the fourth quarter of 1957. However, the Podol'sk plant re-
fused to supply this cable and caused difficulties for the Plant imeni Popov.
On 24 April 1959, Vasilenko, deputy chairman of Gosplan USSR, ordered
the Podol'sk Cable Plant to ship 100 km of multicore cable to the Latvian
Sovnarkhoz. Even so, the Plant imeni Popov did not get its cable. Trips
to Gosplan USSR, and conversations with Chernichkin, a member of Gosplan,
and Pavlov, Chief Specialist for Cable Products, were all in vain.
"There isn't any wire! We can't give you any!" Chernichkin stated
tersely. When he was confronted with the fact that the requirements of
the Riga Radio Plant imeni Popov constituted only 0.5 percent of the annual
output of the Podol'sk Cable Plant, he condescended, saying: "All right!
We'll see you get some!" However, as soon as representatives of the Latvian
Sovnarkhoz left MOSCOW, Chernichkin adopted a new "wise decision":
"So you want cable, don't you? So make it yourself!"
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Behold yon radio plant, wholly ill-suited for cable production, forced
to organize its own manufacture of KVShD cable. Chernichkin does not care
that this Riga-made cable is going to cost eight times as much as that
made at the Posol'sk plant. -- B. Firsov, chief of Production Division,
Administration of Radio and Electrical Engineering and Metalworking Industry
of Latvian Sovnarkhoz (Moscow, Promyshlenno-Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta, 17 May 59)
Such simple photographic accessories as lens hoods are not available
for the Industar-2, Industar-4, Industar-24, and Triplet-22 lenses, and for
the YUpiter-3, Yupiter-9, and YUpiter-11 interchangeable lenses, nor can any
be found for the Gelios-40, which is so designed as to make its use fre-
quently essential. Lens hoods are sometimes available for FED lenses and
for the Yupiter-8, but these are of such poor quality as to be virtually
useless. -- Editorial reply to complaint from reader (406cow, Sovetskoye
Foto, May 59, p 86)
The Prokop!yevsk Elektromashina Plant produces defective :Bur= vacuum
cleaners. Rayev-is director of this plant. (Moscow, Sovetskaya Rossiya,
31 Mar 59)
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II. LOCAL PRODUCTION AND ORGANIZATION
A. Moscow
The electrical indastry of Moscow embraces any diverse enterprisea
producing up to 1,500 type-sizes of machines, 6,500 types of cable products,
and more than 3,500 type-sizes of electrical apparatuses. Moscow enter-
prises produce all kinds of electric machines for industry, construction, -
and power engineering, and also many consumer goods such aswaShing 'machines,
tape redorders, electric irons, appliance transformers, and table lamps.
The Seven-Year Plan will see a 50-percent increase in the output of
the **COW electrical industry. The output of electric motors will rise by
66.9 percent over 1958; crane electric motors, by 57 percent; mobile gene-
rating units, by 64 percent; and power transformers,- by almost 43 percent.
The production of certain extremely complex wire and cable will be'innreased
sharply.
Cooperation and specialization of plants will be stressed during the
Seven-Year Plan. The Moscow Transformer Plant will specialize in the pro-
duction of power transformers of all sizes. The Moskabelt Plant Will pre-
duce mainly nonferrous rolled metal, armored cable, long-distance communi-
cationa cable, copper winding wire, and enameled vire, The Correct speciali-
zation of the Dinamo Plant will enable it to produce more crane: electric
motors, especially DC types.
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Although an extensive program has been outlined., planning organizations
are slow in solving specialization problems. The proportion Of small- .
series products in coming years will be increased, not degreased, to the
detriment of the development and production of improved designs of elec-
trical egnipment. ?
Specialization according to products-list alone has now become insuf-
ficient. .The main emphasis has been placed on the develOpment of other forms
and methods, tamely, specialization according to techriological principles
within each economic region.
The poor work of plant design bureaus and especially of planning and
design organizations of Gosplan USSR has been a serious stumbling block in
specialization. These organizations make insufficient efforts to standardize
products.
The successfull fulfillment of the Seven-Year Plan by the electriaal
industry of Moscow will depend mainly on the over-all mechanization and
automation of production processes, the modernization and renovation of
equipment, and the introduction of advanced technology.
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. The future development of the electrical industry depends greatly on
other branches of the national economy; especially the chemical, metal-
lurgical) light, and paper industries. These industries still do not sat-
isfy the electrical iniUstry's needs. The electrical industry still has
to use winding wire with cotton and silk insulation, which requires a sub-
stantial amount of natural silk and high count eotton yarn. Electrical
hardboard and impregnated cotton yarn ns to be used for slot insulation
of electric machines. Thus, machines must be heavier, larger, and costlier
than if more modern materials were used.
a , New insulation and magnetic materials are contemplated for use in new
designs of machines and power transformers. The production of the new
series of electric. motors will save about 30,000 tons of hot-rolled metal,
65,000 tons of iron, 3,000 tons of copper, 1,000 tons of high-count cotton
yarn, and about 500,000 rUbles in production cost However, these savings
cannot be realized because of the shortage of synthetic film and enamel
paint. Type "Vinifleks" [vinyl plastic] varnish, which is produced in small
quantities is still of by quality.
New series of power transformers designed at the Moscow Transformer
Plant are high in their electric power qualities; their weight'and size are
25-30 percent lower than ordinary types It is contemplated to use colds
rolled transformer steel with low specific losses to make these transformers,
but the USSR metallurgical andustry does not supply such metal, and the pal-
try amount of cold-rolled transformer steel it does supply has high losses.
New types of high-voltage power cables need multilayer high-voltage
cable paper, which is still unavailable. High-strength heat-resistant
enamel wires are needed to take the place of winding wires with cotton and
silk insulation. We await new synthetic electrical insulation materials
from the chemical industry, especially type "lavsan" insulation, "terilen"
and "orlon" synthetic fibers, covering lacquers based on cellalose esters
and ethers, etc. The paper industry should organize the production of
multilayer high-voltage paper and shrinkproof electrical hardboard.
The development of high-production esnipment is very important to
the development of the electrical industry. USSR enterprises process
hundreds of thousands of tons of thin sheet steel, which is pressed on
universal presses. Many thousands of workers are occupied in these opera-
tions. Many workers are also used for the manual winding of electric ma-
chine armatures. The development of automatic presses for electric steel,
automatic stator-winding machines, automatic lines for machining commonly
used parts, high-speed insulating machine, continuous presses, and other
egnipment should be included in the plans of the machine and machine tcol
building industries.
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Until recently, little attention has been given to the development of
a scientific research and experimental base. The recently organized
"Orgelektroprom" Technological Institute in Khar'kov cannot satisfy the
needs of the entire USSR electrical industry. It is time to. organize'
tebhnological institutes and laboratories in a number of large centers of
the electrical industry, including Moscow. The scientific and experimental
facilities at such enterprises as the Moscow Dinamo Plant, the Plant imeni
Vladimir Il'ith, and the Moskabell Plant should be increased. -- A. Pekshev,
chief, AdMinistratiOn of Electrical Engineering Industry, Moscow City Sovnar-
khoz (Moscow, MOskovskaya Pravda, 26 Mar 59)
B. Azerbaydzhan SSR
The Batumi Electrical Engineering Plant (Batumskiy elektrotekhniche-
skiy zavod) has begun the production of washing machines. During the second
quarter of 1959 it will produce 50 washing machines; by the end of 1959,
it will have produced 1,500.
The Batumi Electrical Machiner3r Plant is an enterprise of a branch of
industry that is new to the Georgian SSR: electrical engineering and in-
strument making. Recently, the Administration of Machine Building and Elec-
trical Engineering Industry of the Georgian Sovnarkhoz was divided into the
Administration of Machine Building Industry and the Administration of Elec-
trical Engineering and Instrument Making Industry.
. The Administration of Electrical Engineering and Instrument Making
Industry, is supposed to improve the administration of new enterprises and
to "put them on their own feet."
G. S. Bolkvadze, chief of the Administration of the Electrical Engi-
neering and Instrument Making Industry, says the following about his Organi-
zation's activities:
"Twenty-six plants have been put under the administration's Jurisdic-
tion, including the Tbilisi Electric Locomotive Building Plant imeni V. I.
Lenin) the Kutaisi Electric Drill and Electric Pump Plant, three plants in
Batumi, two in Staliniri, two in Poti, and plants in. Kaspi, Zestafoni, and
other cities.
"During the Seven-Year Plan, 22 electrical engineering and instrument
making plants are to go into operation in'Georgia. Of this number, 18 are
already in existence. Two of the 18 were formed by consolidation of other
enternriees, and 14 are completely new. Four of the 18 were founded out of
existing enterprises.
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"The first products manufactured by the new plants are electric weld-
ing units, electric trucks, speedometers, vibrating machines, and mica
strip insulation. By the second quarter of 1959, all 18 plants will be
mamufactUring new produets, including electric motors and equipment for
towr'branes, laboratory ,transformers. enameled vire, and differettiel
pressure relaies Othetoonsumer goods besides vashing machines are to be
At present present the administration is busy ensuring that its enterprises
get the technical documents for the manufacture of new products and. is
striving to accelerate the installation of equipment and the manufacture
of accessOries. Enterprises of MOSCOW, Leningrad, and Kharikov are giv-
ing substantial aid to this new branch of industry in Georgia." (Tbilisi,
Zarya Vostoka, 24 Apr 59)
C Armenian SSR
Until 1943, there were no instrument-making plants in Armenia. The
first such plant vas the Yerevan Elektrotochpribor Plant, which slickly
began the mass production of type M-24 electrical measuring instruments;
these have found much use in many branches of the national economy. In-
struments made by this plant are shipped to many USSR enterprises where
they amused as component assemblies of important eqniPment made by these
enterprises. The Elektrotochpribor Plant is the basic USSR supplier of
current finders, high-voltage indicators, and snap-around amprobes.
In 1957, two new instrument plants were founded. The Yerevan Instru-
ment Making Plant has begun the mass production of millivoltmeteraand
current-ratio meters, which it supplies to all economic regions of the
USSR. Many of these products are also sent to foreign countrles. During
the first quarter of 1959, the plant began the series production of thermal
instrument packages which are used on diesels and diesel locamottves asd
the productibn and supply of certain types of marine instruments for the
shipbuilding industry.
The Leninakan Instrument Making Plant, which was based on the Pokhpat
Artel, specializes in the production of instruments for measuring viscosity
and moisture content and for regulating industrial processes.
In 1958, the construction of the first stage of the Kirovaken Avtomatika
Instrument Making Plant vas completed, and preparations were made for the
production of complex electronic instruments. Since January 1959, the plant
has been prOducing miniature electronic instruments for the measurement and
automatic regulation of temperature and pressure at thermal electric power
stations and at other important installations.
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The new Scientific Research Institute of Mathematical Machines is
completing the development of new high-speed mathematical maChints, , The
"Avtomatika" Independent Design Bureau has submitted new designs :of elec-
trical performing mechanisms for industrial production. The "Prompribor"
Independent Design Bureau has designed several new types of electronic
moisture meters.
In 1965, instrument making enterprises Of the Armenian SO will have
an output approximately seven times that of 1958. During the Seven-Year
Plan, five instrument-making plants will be reconstructed and greatly ex-
panded, and the: construction of two new enterprises will be completed.
Armenian instrument-making plants will produce mainly instrument packages
for the automatic regulation of pressure, temperature, moisture, and
viscosity, in addition to the previously mentioned instruments. ?
New enterprises for the production of precision industrial and watch
jewels, semiconductor rectifiers and products, ferrites, permanent magnets,
and, micropewer electric motors will be constructed during the Seven-Year
Plan. These items are needed for the production of instruments, automation
equipment, and electronic computers. The first stages of most of these
enterprises will go into operation in 1959.
During the third quarter of 1959, the Bevan Performing Mechanisms Plant
will begin the series production of new electrical performing mechanisms
designed by the Kirovakan "Avtomatika" Independent Design Bureau.
The Yerevan Electrical Metal-Ceramics and Semiconductor Plant went
into operation in April l959 and, began producing permanent magnets for
instruments, It is getting ready to produce terminals and other instrument
components by the powder metallurgy method. The plant is now making prepa-
rations for manufacturing its own semiconductor materials during the second
half of 1959.
At the end of May 1959, the construction of the first stage of the
Arzni Precision industrial Jewel Plant will be finished. It will make
jewels for instruments and watches out of synthetic corundum, vhidh the
Kirovakan Chemical Plant is preparing to produce in 1959. The Arzni plant
will also produce sapphire needles for long-play records,
A month ago, the first Ow of the leninakAn Micropower Electric
Motor plant went into operatien. This plant has already produced its
first consignment of micropower electric motors with built-in reducers, ,
which are designed mainly for drive mechanisms of instruments and automation
eqnipment. .7,- G. Cholkhyan, chief, Administration of Electrical Engineering
Industry and Instrument Making, Armenian Sovnarkhoz (Yerevan,. Kommunist,
15 1443r 59)
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D. Estonian SSR
The output of instruments and automation equipment by instrument
making enterprises of the Estonian SSR will increase to 3.2 times the
current level by the end of the Seven-Year Plan. During this period,
14 new instrument making and machine building plants will be built in
Tallin, Tartu, Vyru, Yykhvi, Rakvere, Tyuri, Narva, and other cities and
settlements of the Estonian SSR. When these plants are put into operation,
Estonia will be producing high-voltage lightning arresters, special pro-
tective apparatus for high-voltage transmission lines, and high-voltage
disconnecting switches.
The Vyru Gas Analyzer Plant is being pat into operation and will
produce instruments for determining the composition of gas. Oscillo-
graphs will be manufactured in Rakvere, and X-ray machines and fluorescent
lamps will be produced in Tartu. The Tallin Mercury Rectifier Plant is
becoming the largest instrument building enterprise in Estonia. The pro-
duction of semiconductor products and measuring instruments which employ
radioactive isotopes is increasing.
Existing enterprises are being extensively mechanized and automated.
-- Ye. Kravets, deputy chief, Administration of Machine Building, Estonian
Sovnarkhoz (Tallin, Sovetskaya Estoniya, 27 Mar 59)
During the first quarter of 1959, 3,800 radio receivers were produced
In the Estonian SSR. (Tallin, Sovetskaya Estoniya, 16 Apr 59)
E. Latvian SSR
According to Ya. I. Limburg, chief of the Administration of Radio and
Electrical Engineering and Metalworking Industry of the Latvian Sovnarkhoz,
enterprises of his administration mastered the production of 42 type-
designations of consumer goods in 1958.
He states that 76 type-designations will be put into production in
1959, when the output value of consumer goods will reach 742 million rubles.
(Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 6 Mar 59)
F. Lithuanian SSR
During the first quarter of 1959, enterprises of the Lithuanian SSR
produced 2,500 electric welding units, 4,000 electric welding transformers,
4.5 million rubles' worth of electrical installation products, and 501,000
electric meters. This represents a 34-percent increase in the production
Of electric meters over the same period of 1958. (Vilinyus, Sovetskaya
Litva, 17 Apr 59)
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G. UlEatTl_i Alt SR
During the first quarter of 1959, 491 electric motors of over 100 kw
in power, 143,000 electric motors of 100 kw or less in power, 65,700 radio
receivers and television sets, and 72,700 cameras were produced in the
Ukrainian SSR.
The production of radio receivers and television sets was only 77 per-
cent of the amount produced during the same quarter of 1958. (Kiev,
Rabochaya Gazeta, 16 Apr 59)
H. Belorussian SSR
In 1965, about 6,500 watches, 2,159 cameras, and more than 1,700 radio
receivers, radio-phonographs, and television sets will be produced daily in
the Belorussian SSR. In 1958, 1,456 watches and 270 cameras were produced
daily in the Belorussian SSR. (Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 19 Mhy 59)
[Comment: No indication of the existence of an optical plant produc-
ing cameras has been given previously in available publications.1
I. Kir&iz SSR
During the first quarter of 1959, enterprises of the Kirgiz SSR pro-
duced 9,177 electric motors and 93,000 magnetic starters. (Frunze, Sovet-
skaya Kirgiziya, 18 Apr 59)
J. Uzbek SSR
During the first quarter of 1959, 1,104 km of armored cable were pro-
duced in the Uzbek SSR. (Tashkent, Pravda Vostoka, 19 Apr 59)
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IIIi ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT
.1\. General
-teen 1949 and 1953, an average of 357,000 radio receivers and
television sets were sent to the trade network of consumer cooperatives
for sale to the rural populace and to koikhozes. Between 1954 and 1958,
the nuMber of radios and television sets distributed in this fashion
was increased to an average of 1,340,000 per year. (Moscow, Sovetskaya
Torgovlya, Apr 59, p 11)
USSR industrial production of radioelectronic equipment was 18 times
as high in 1957 WS it was in 1948. (Moscow, lzmeritelottagraTekhnikat
May 59, p 1)
B. Sound Recording
The further development of sound recording and reproduction techniques
in the fields of both broadcasting and reproduction by means of records
and magnetic tapes must be accomplished through mastery of high-quality
stereophonic reproduction.
At the end of 19581 a meeting of radio specialists adopteda
resolution concerning the universal introduction of stereophonic methods
of sound recording and reproduction.
GDRZ (State House of Radio Broadcasting and Sound Recording), which
does a considerable amount Of musical and literary recording, plans to
make extensive use of stereophonic methods. The best recordings are to
be demonstrated at the exposition in New York in the summer of 1959.
EXperimental work devoted to stereophonic recOrding on a production
basis was started at the end of 1957. The first experiments were conducted
according to the traditional two-channel system of separating the signal
into left and right channels, using equipment developed And manufactured
at an experimental plant of the State Committee on Radio Broadcasting and
Television on order from GDRZ. The results of this experiment were considered
highly successful by specialists and musicians.
In accordance with technical specifications worked out by GDRZ,
the experimental plant of the State Committee on Radio Broadcasting
and Television has manufactured a small consignment of stationary stereophonic
magnetic tape recorders, and the Scientific Research Institute of Radio
Broadcast Reception and Acoustics has made the studio equipment and-loud-
speaker units. This apparatus is currently installed in a special room
and has started recording on a production basis. It is designed for operation
according to both the traditional two-channel system and the so-called
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The compatible system adopted in many countries permits the use of
the same tapes or rebords for both stereophonic reproduction with special
equipment and for ordinary single-channel reproduction with any double-
track tape recorder or phonograph.
The use of this system for the production Of master recordings in
GDRZ Will permit the creation of a recording library stocked with original
recordings on Universal magnetic tapes suitable for both single-channel
and Stereophonic reproduction. An MEZ-41 stereophonic tape recorder
developed for this purpose uses a 6.35-mm Type-2 ferromagnetic tape
With a uniform frequency response from 30 to 15,000 cycles at 38.1 cm/sec,
and from 4Q to 12,00p cycles at 19.05 cm/sec. At 38.1 cm/Sec, the
,nonlinear distortion factor does not exceed 2.8 percent and the noise level
ls,no. greater than 55 decibels. At 19.05 cm/sec, the nonlinear distortion
factor does not exceed 3 percent and the noise level is no greater than
53 decibels The stereophonic recording control panel, (which operates
in the 30715,000 cycle band, produces a nonlinear distortion of less
t4an 0.8 percent at the rated input and output levels. The noise level
Of the panel at the input is less than 118 decibels with normal amplification.
V.Sher, chief engineer, GDRZ (Moscow, Radio, May 59, p 9)
.Spalis tape recorders are assembled in Assembly Shop No 5 (1) of the
Vil'nyus El'fa Plant. (Virnyus, SovetskayaLitva, 15 Nay 59)
(1) Photo .available in source, p 1, bottom
C. Prices
The MG-8 NP portable table-model tape recorder receives its power from
a regular house circuit. It is designed for single-track recording at a
speed of 15.05 cm/sed and for reproducing the sound and music from a
microphone, a wired-radio line, a radio receiver, or a phonograph record.
The recorder measures 535 x 440 x 360 tm. It sells for 3.680 rubles retail.
The MEZ-15 console tape recorder, which receives power from a regular
house circuit, is designed for single-track recording at a speed of 76.2
cm/sec, for the reproduction of speech and music from a wired-radio line,
and for transmitting the same onto the line. It measures 848 x 500 x 900
mm and sells for 9,000 rubles, a temporary price until 1960.
The Reporter-2 (M-30) portable tape recorder is designed for single-
track recording at 19.05 cm/sec and for playback. This recorder is
supplied by 150-MANMTse,3ch and 15-RMNTs-1.2ch dry batteries. It measures
300 x 230 x 118 narn weighs 8.1%, and sells for 4,175 rubles, a temporary
price until 1960.
Tle Yauta (UMP-2) combination tape recorder and record player is a
portable set with a tape- speed of 19.05 cm/sec for ordinary recording and
843 em/sec for speech recording, and a turntable speed of 78 and 33 rpt.
It sells for 1,800 rubles, which price is in effect until i January 1960.
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The KA-7 control unit for audio volume control of MEZ-15 tape
recorders, radio broadcasting lines, etc. has a rated output of 5 watts,
lmeasures 700 x 400 x 980 mm, and sells for 1,430 rubles,
The Dnipro-58 Class-3 three-band radio receiver in a fine wood cabinet
sells for 375 rubles.
The Dnipro-58 Class-3 three-band radio-phonograph sells for 600 rubies.
The UKV-Ye NI0.208.001 radio-frequency Ultrashort-wave unit equipped
with a 6N3P tube is designed for radios and radio-phonographs based on
standardized subassemblies, such as the Baykal, Vostok-5Y, NUromets, and
Oktaya. It sells for 72.50 rubles. (Moscow, Byulleten' Roznichnykh Tsen,
No 14, Mai 59, pp 24-27) '
The Central Trade Base of Posyitorg [All-Union Mail Order Office] of
the Ministry of Trade RSFSR has the following articles for sale:r
Rodina-52 battery radio with batteries and
antenna 575 rubles
Rodina-52 battery radio with a:TEGK-2-2
thermoelectric generator and an antenna 724 rubies
Rodina-52 battery radio with antenna
TEGK-2-2 thermoelectric generator for a Rodina-52
radio receiver
TEGK-2-2 thermoelectric generator for IsEra,
Nov', and B-2 radio receivers
459 rubles
265 rubles
272 rubles
The prices indicated above include all shipping costs to the }4cIdr.rian
SSR.
Orders may be sent to Aviamotornaya Ulitsa No 50/3, Moscow, Ye-126
-- Advertisement (Kishinev, Sovetskaya Moldaviya, 11 Mar 59)
The Novosibirsk Base of Posyltorg of the Ministry of Trade RSFSR has
the following items for sale to citizens of Frunzenskaya Oblast:
Rodina-52 battery radio with galvanic batteries 580 rubies
Batteries for Rodina-52, Iskra, Voronezh, and Nov'
radio receivers; these are shipped in sets consist-
.ing of two Energiya anode batteries and one Ekran
filament battery (price per set)
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Set of batteries for the Rodina-47 radio receiver,
consisting of two Druzhba anode batteries, and
two Deviz filament batteries (price per set)
176 rubles
Batteries for Tula and Zarya radio receivers 46 rubles
Costs of shipping and packing are included in the above,prices.
Send Orders to the Mail Order Base at Ulitsa S. Razina 52, Novosibirsk.
(Frunze, Sovetskaya Kirgiziya, 25 Mar 59)
[Comment: It appears from the above that steps have been taken to
alleviate the shortage of batteries mentioned in Soviet newspapers and
periodicals during the past year.]
The Rostov Base of Posyltorg of the Ministry of Trade RSFSR has the
following articles on sale:
Muromets radio phonograph 1,092 rubles
RG-3 "Yubileynyy" electric phonograph 378 rubles
El'fa electric record player 199 rubles
Dry batteries for Rodina-52, Iskra,
, Voronezh, and Nov' radio receivers 116 rubies
Dry batteries for Rodina-47 radio
receiver ' 15 rubles
Galvanic batteries for Tula and Zarya
radio receivers 42 rubles
The above prices include packing and shipping costs. All orders
are to be sent to No 88/3, Uiitsa Moskovskaya, Rostov-na-Donu.
Advertisement (Yerevan, Kommunist, 18 Mar 59)
The Rostov Base of Posyltorg of the Ministry of Trade USSR has the
following articles on sale:
Oktava seven-tube, five-band four-speaker
radio - 1,546.00 rubles
Muromets seven-tube five-band radio-phonograph 1,092.00 rubles
Ural-57 six-tube four-band radio phonograph 1,039.00 rubles
Kazan'-57 portable four-tube two-band radio-
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Strela radio receiver for 110-270 and 220
volts AC
Rodina-52 battery radio with battery set and
outdoor antenna kit
The above prices include packing and shipping costs.
to be Sent to Ulitsa Moskovskaya No 88/3, Rostov-na-Donu.
. (Yerevan, Kommunist, 15 Apr 59)
D. Radios
262.00, rubles
575.00 rubles
All orders are
-- Advertisement
A new radio transmitter designed by the Leningrad Electrical
Engineering Institute imeni V. I. Ultyanov (Lenin) on order for Soviet
meteorologists weighs only i40 grams. It is designed for sending signals
from any kind of sonde from the upper layers of the atmosphere to
observers below..
?The transmitter utilizes miniature tubes and transistors, consumes
0.25 watt, and is supplied by a small battery. Prolonged testing has
shown that it is operationally reliable. (Yerevan, Kommunist, 19 May 59)
Designers have developed a pocket radio receiver which they named
the Raduga. The carrying case of the new radio is the sane size as a cigar
case. Its loudspeaker offers good audio qualities for indoor listening.
A magnetic antenna is installed in its carrying case. It is supplied tj
small flashlight batteries or by a storage battery.
The first model of the pocket radio is being tested in the laboratory
of the Moscow Krasnyy Oktyabr' Plant. It was developed by I. Andreye'7,
plant chief designer; I. Lasitsyn, laboratory chief; V. Savel'yev, a
technician; and other specialists. (Moscow, Moskovskaya Pravda, 7 May 59)
The Minsk Radio Plant has developed the new Sel'skiy radio receiver,
which can operate for 2 months using two flashlight batteries as power
sources. The Sel'skiy is a transistor set with a high sensitivity and
can receive many more stations than older sets could. The plant will
begin its series production during the fourth quarter of 1959. (Riga,
Sovetskaya Latviya, 31 Mar 59)
Festival' radio receivers are assembled on a conveyer (2) at the
Riga Plant imeni Popov, (Moscow, Promyshlenno-Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta,
15 Nar 59)
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E. Radio-Phonographs
The Riga Radio Plant imeni Popov is making a Spidola console radio-
phonograph, which will be sent to the industrial exposition in New York.
The plant is also making Festival' and Sakta radio-phonographs and a
stereophonic sound unit for shipment to New York. (Riga, Sovetskaya
Latviya, i4 Mar 59)
The Riga Radio Plant imeni Popov has produced a Teyka stereophonic
radio-phonograph, which consists of two 4-watt amplifiers connected to
two separate acoustical systems. The radio receiver of this set is based
on printed circuits and receives seven wave bands, including an ultrashort
wave band. It utilizes miniature tubes and has very high sensi-
tivity and selectivity. (Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 26 Mar 59)
The experimental shop of the Riga Radio Plant imeni Popov has
manufactured a new console radio-phonograph called the Laymdota. An
interesting innovation embodied in this set is an automatic record
changer which plays up to ten records of different sizes without interrup-
tion. The high-class radio has seven wave bands, remote control, and an
automatic precision tuning device. It has a tone control consisting of
three registers for "voice," "jazz," and "music." It has seven speakers:
three for the higher frequencies and two each for the medium and law
frequencies. (Moscow, Komsomol'skaya Pravda, 6 May 59)
Araz radio-phanographs made in Azerbaydzhan are on sale in department
stores. Soon the Baku Radio Plant will begin producing Baku-58 radio- '
phonographs. (Baku, Bakinskiy Rabochiy. 15 Mar 59)
Ten years ago, the Baku Radio Plant began to prepare for the production
of radio equipment. Its first radio receivers did not meet the requirements
of radio listeners, but as the years went by, its products and operations
improved. Now it can solve any complex technical problem.
At present, the plant produces sraz radio-phonographs and Kasply
wired-radio loudspeakers, which are as good as any made by leading
USSR plants. Its designers and technologists have expended great efforts
in designing the Baku-58 radio-phonograph, which has been accepted by the
All-Union Chamber of Commerce. These radio-phonographs have already been
put into production, and soon residents of the Azerbaydzhan SSR will be
able to acquire them.
The Baku-58 has an ultrashort wave band, keyboard bandswitches, and
four speakers.
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In the near future, the plant is to begin the maSs production of
television sets. --'E. Karakhanov, director of BakU Radio Plant,
Ministry of LocalIndustry, Azerbaydzhan SSR (Baku, Bakinskiy Rabochiy,
7 WILY 59)
Recently, the Berdsk Radio Plant shipped a new Novosibirsk radio
phonograph to New York for exhibition at the Soviet Exhibition of
Science, Technology, and Culture. (Moscow, Sovetskaya Rossiya, 28 Mar
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F. Television
Enterprises of the Administration of Radio Engineering Industry,
leningradskiy Sovnarkhoz, have finished making an/experimental model
of a small mobile television station which is installed in a bus. The
new station has an engineer control room, a studio room, -am4 auxiliary
facilities. Its two cameras outfitted with cables can operate up to
120 metersfrom the mobile station, which itself has an operating
radius of 20 km from the main television station.
The new small mobile station was designed under the leadership of
Engr lu. L, Leviz, and is suite different from the currently used
PTS-3 mobile television station. The new station is simpler and costs
only 'half as much as previously made stations. Two operators a. director,
a monitor man, three technicians, and one engineer are needed to run the
station.
The PTS-2, which is the name of the new station, is designed for
work with both large and small television centers for extrastudio broad-
casts. The first PTS-2 is being sent for experimental operation to the
Leningrad Television Center. (Leningradskaya Pravda, 28 Mar 59)
The PTU-0M1, PTU-2M, and PTU-4 industrial television units were
designed in 1957, Over-all testing has shown them to have the qualities
necessary in modern units of this type. Preparations are now being made
for their industrial series production.
(Source gives descriptions of the above-mentioned.equipment. (Mos-
cow, Byulleten' Tekhniko-Ekonomicheskoy Informatsii, No 4, 1959, p 35)
The Leningrad Electrical Engineering Institute of Communications
is completing assembly of equipment for transmitting color television
programs from the studios of the institute's television center. (Mos-
cow, Izvestiya, 31 Mar 59)
The Southern Mining and Ore Concentration Combine in Krivoy Rog
is being outfitted with industrial television units. The first PTU-3
television unit has been installed in the "Promploshchadka" railroad
dispatcher's station. It is used for keeping check on switching and
train formation. (Kiev, Rabochaya Gazeta, 11 Apr. 59)
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During the Seven-Year Plan, the USSR radio industry will Supply
various radio receivers and television sets to the trade networks It
will also produce the Latviya, Ametist, and Akvamarin high-class radio
receivers; Oktava, Kometa, Druzhba, Volna, and Planeta radio receivers
and radio-phonographs; Kristall, Rubin, Almaz and Topaz. radiophono7
graphs; Voskhod and Syurpriz transistor radios; and many other products,
of which were exhibited at the Brussels Fair And won grand prizes
there.
At present, the basic types of television sets produced are the
Znamya-58, Rubin-102, Temp-3, and L'vov-21 which have type 4311-2B
picture tubes with 270 x 360-mm screens.
The television set which will go into use on the broadest mass scale
is the Zaryaa which has a metal cabinet and 210 x 280-mm screen.
The production of the Moskva projection television set will continue.
The Minsk Radio Plant is producing the Belarus'-1i. combination re-
ceiver, which has a 210 x 280-mm television screen, and also has a radio
receiver and a record player.
,Automatic adjustment of sensitivity, brightness, and line frequency;
remote control; and keyboard control are being utilized more and more in
contemporary models of television sets.
The Almaz-202 combination set has been put into industrial production.
This set consists of a television set with a 330 x screen, a Lyuks
radio receiver, and a Yauza tape recorder-record player. The Kristall-
104 combination set has also been put into industrial production.
The L'vov Television Plant expects by the end of 1959 to begin the
production of the Ukraine television set, which has a smoked-glass alu-
minized picture tube with a deflection angle of 110 degrees.
Plants and institutes are at work developing all-transistor television
sets, such as the first USSR all-transistor set that was exhibited in
Brussels. Work is in progress on the development of a flat picture tube.
.The current Seven-Year Plan will see the introduction of color tele-
ViO.Q11 and a higher level of development in this field. 7'"0. Sincherko,
Deputy Minister of Communications, Ukrainian SSR (Kiev, Rabochaya Gazeta,
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A group of Leningrad engineers has developed the new 14-tube Kom-
sonolets television set, which is designed for mass consumer use. This
set, which is based on the latest electronics achievements, consists of
GiX independent functional blocks, which can be replaced quickly in
case of breakdown and can be used for making other kinds of television
sets. This is the first USSR television set to be fullybuiltwithnted
circuits produced by the etching method out of foil-covered "getinaks"
laminated plastic.
The Komsomolets has a high sensitivity equal to that of the best
television sets. It has a 285 x 215-mm screen and can operate from a
127 or 220-volt circuit, utilizing only 130 watts.
The new set has two knobs, volume and brightness control, on its
front panels, and four other controls on the side panels for regulating
line and frame frequency, frame size, and contrast. It receives 12
channels and weighs only 16 kg.
The Council of Experts of the Pavilion of Best Models of Consumer
Goads of the All-Union Chamber of Commerce has approved the Komsomolets
for production. The first experimental consignment of these sets will
be manufactured in 1959. (Leningradskaya Pravda, 12 May 59)
The Leningrad Plant imeni Kozitskiy has begun the production of
the first consignment of USSR-made color television sets. The new sets
are designed for 12 channels and have a 470 x 355-mm screen, the largest
of any USSR television set. The compatible color system used in the
set makes it capable of receiving either color or black-and-white broad-
casts. (Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 25 May 59)
The Leningrad Plant imeni Kozitskiy has produced nine new types of
television sets for exhibition in New York. All of the sets receive
12 channels. The Simfoniya and Chempion are the most interesting sets.
The Simfoniya has a screen measuring almost 0.5 meter. It is equipped
with a tape reeorder for stereophonic sound recording. (Leningradskaya
Pravda, 3 Apr 59)
The Leningrad Plant imeni Kozitskiy has produced many original
television sets for exhibition in New York: the Simfoniya, Admiral,
Chempion? Astra, Signal, Volna, Salyut, Spartak, and Druzhba. (Mos-
cow, Trud, 5 Apr 59)
. The production of Rubin-102 (3), Rubin-202, AImaz102, and Kristall-
101 television sets has been organized at the Moscow TelevisionEquipment
Kant. (Moscow,- Vechernyaya Moskva, 12 Mar 59)
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? The Moscow-Television Equipment Plant produces thousands of modern
television sets, including the Rubin, Rubin-102, Rubin-201, and A3maz-
102. Rubin-102 sets are assembled on a conveyer (4). (Moscow, Sovet-
skaya Rossiya, 15 Mar 59)
(4) Photo available in source, p 2, top
The Krasnoyarsk Television Plant produced 5,000 television sets in
1956, 30,000 in 1957, and 6o,000 in 1958. The plant developed the Yenisey
television set to replace the Avangard. However, the Yenisey itself is
not satisfactory because it has only five channels. Consequently, plant
designers have developed the new Yenisey-2 twelve-channel television set,
which will have a picture tube with a deflection angle of 110 degrees.
Rudoy is chief technologist of the plant.
In 1959, the plant is supposed to raise its output of Yenisey tele-
vision sett to 100,000. (Moscow, Promyshlenno-Ekonamicheskaya Gazeta,
15 Apr 59)
During 1959, the Krasnoyarsk Television Plant will produce 100,000
new Yenisey television sets. (Moscow, Triad, 15 Mar 59)
G. Tubes and Bulbs
The Moscow Electric Bulb Plant has fulfilled its first quarter 1959
plan ahead of schedule and produced several million rubles worth of
above-plan products, including a large number of television picture tubes.
The plant has a conveyer for filling television picture tubes (5) in the
chemical department 'df its television picture tube shop. (Moscow, Moskuv-
skaya Pravda, 5 Apr 59)
(5) Photo available in source, p 2, lower right
The:Moscow Electric Bulb Plant produces picture tubes for Rubin,
Rekord, Start, Kristall, and other television sets. In 1959, it will
begin production of new picture tubes with deflection angles Of 110
degrees. The bell of the tube is more slanted, and the neck is shorter
than that of presently made tubes. The new compact size will help de-
crease the weight and size of the television receiver. The screen size
is 53-cm diagonal length.
The new picture tube will be used in type Yantar television sets.
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The Saransk Eleetric Bulb Plant, which went into operation durIng
the 20th Congress of the CPSU, has already produced 100 million small
light bulbs. The 1959 output of the plant is 11 times that of 1956.
By the end of the Seven-Year Plan, the plant will be producing about
200 million light bulbs per year. (Moscow, Sovetskaya Rossiya, 15 May
59)
During the last Five-Year Plan, Saransk (capital of the MordoVskaya
ASSR) became a large industrial center. Electrical engineering enter-
prises such as the Mercury Rectifier Platt and the Electric Bulb? Plant
were founded.
Recently, a new line for making fluorescent lamp starters (6) was
put into operation at the Saransk Electric Bulb Plant. Most of the
complex processes needed for making these starters have been automated
(Moscow, Promyshlenno-Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta, 15 May 59)
(6) Photo showing the exhausting and sealing section of the automatic
line available in source, p 3, top
A dummy model of a new television picture tube with a 550 x 700-mm
screen has been made in the laboratory of the Design Bureau of the L'vov
Electric Bulb Plant. USSR industry has never before produced television
sets with this size screen.
The new picture tube as an aluminized screen. This tube, the "76-
LK" uses a 110-degree deflection angle, which makes it possible to rc-
duce the size of the television set.
In 1959, the Livov Electric Bulb Plant will produce more than 375,000
picture tubes of various types.
Workers of the laboratory are developing a flat television pictur-
tube. They have also developed several models of picture tubes for
color sets. (Kiev, Rabochaya Gazeta, 11 Apr 59)
The Moscow Daylight Lamp Plant has 290 workers and 37 engineers and
technicians, not including office personnel. The plant is located in
Kalininskiy Rayon, Moscow. Mirkin is plant director. (Moscow, Moskov-
skaya Pravda, 29 Mar 59)
Tashkent Television Workshop No 24 is purchasing burned-out 11.0LKB
and 43LK2B picture tubes for 12 rubles apiece. It is also purchasing
all transformers and focusing-deflection systems of KVN, Avangard, Ek
ran, Luch, and Temp-2 television sets for 10 percent of their list
price. (Tashkent, Pravda Vostoka, 3 Apr 59)
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H. Semiconductors
In recent years, USSR industry has been very successful in producing
semiconductors. It produces semiconductors with frequencies up to 100 mc
in large series, and produces those with frequencies up to 500 mc on an
experimental basis.
Formerly, semiconductors were inferior to tubes in noise evel and
temperature stability. Now, however, they can be used on a broad scale
in radio broadcasting equipment, especially radio redeivers.
The Use of semiconductors with threshold frequencies exceeding the
highest operating frequency in the high-frequency stages of a receiver
precludes the need for measuring and selecting the semiconductors during
Production of the receiver.
The advantages of semiconductors are more evident in battery powered
sets, especially portable ones, and are therefore most often Used in these
sets.
Some radio plants have already started, or are completing prepara-
tions for, series production of two-wave band sets based on semiconductors,
such as the Voskhod table model for rural areas, the Progress pertable
model, the Syurpriz pocket radio, and the Rodina-59 combination receiver.
These sets operate in the long and medium wave bands. One of the plants
of the Leningradskiy Sovnarkhoz is currently preparing for production of
a new short-wave receiver based on semiconductors for use in rural wired-
radio centers. Many of the above-mentioned sets were developed by the IRPA
(Scientific Research Institute of Radio Broadcast Reception and Acoustics).
,IRPA has also developed a low-powered wired-radio unit for use by geo-
logical expeditions, etc. in the Far North; this unit is going into pro-
duction at the same plant of the Leningradskiy Sovnarkhoz.
The control figures of the Seven-Year Plan provide for priority de-
velopment of ultrashort-vave FM broadcasting, and ultrashort-wave broad-
casting will be introduced in many parts of the country in the immediate
future. It is therefore imperative and entirely feasible to increase
temass pmddaidonof inexpensive receivers with ultrashort-wave bands.
IRPA is currently developing an ultrashort-wave receiver. With the
aim of more effectively utilizing the small size of the semiconductors,
this receiver, which is equivalent to a first class set, is designed in
the form of a single unit housed in a cabinet about the size of an aver-
age book. The second unit, which houses a two-channel low-frequency
amplifier, a rectifier, and a high-quality acoustical system, is housed
in a cabinet on the floor in the corner of the room. This receiver has
an ordinary circuit. The long and medium wave bands employ a common
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mixer and heterodyne (P403 transistors), two intermediate frequency stnges
based on P402 transistors, and a diode detector. A separate unit consist-
ing of a high-frequency amplifier based on P322 transistors, a mixer, and
a heterodyne (P403 and P322 transistors) is added for the ultrashort-wave
channel. The intermediate frequency stage is common tp all wavebands
but employ different filters (for 465 kc and 8.4 mc). The set also has
an audio frequency preamplifier with a tone control, which employs two
P13 transistors.
Tremendous benefits are promised for the immediate future by the
extensive application of semiconductors in radio receivers. It will be
possible to utilize solar energy, etc. thus solving the problem of power
sources. The use of semiconductors in line-powered sets will considerably
reduce power consumption. The small size and long life of semiconductors
will permit the use of more advanced designs and the development of stand-
ardized interchangeable stages or even of audio-frequency and intermediate-
frequency amplifier units. In combination with printed circuits, such de-
signs will permit the earliest introduction of automation into the produc-
tion of radio receivers. -- B. Semenov, chief engineer, IRPA (Moscow,
Radio, May 59, pp 8-9)
I. Components
Enterprises of the Leningradskiy, GorTkovskiy, Moscow Oblast, Kiyevskiy,
and Kuybyshevskiy sovnarkhozes are engaged in the production of radio com-
ponents. (Moscow) Promyshlenno-Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta, 12 Apr 59)
The Pskov Radio Components Plant (Pskovskiy zavod radiodetaley) has
the following components for sale on a noncash basis:
KTK GOST 7159-51, KPK NIO 46.000, IK GOST 7159-51, and KDS UBO 460.002
TU ceramic capacitors.
GOST 2705-53 octal, UYe 4812010 TU miniature, and PLK-9 NIO 481,002
and PLK-7 NIO 481.001 ceramic tube sockets.
Inquiries should be sent to the division of sales at Ulitsa M. GOf'-
kogo No 1, Pskov. Advertisement (Moscow, Promyshlenno-Ekonomicheskaya
Gazeta, 15 May,59)
1- moust 1958, a group of engineers and technicians met with E. Aya-
Zyant, .nou,director of the newly organized Yerevan Electrical Metal-Ceramics
and Semiconductor Plant: which Ism& based on former motor vehicle repair
shops of the Administration of Highways. These engineers and technicians
[presumably future employees of the plant], were leaving for Moscow, Lenin-
grad, and L'vov, where they were to study powder metallurgy. When they
returned to Yerevan, they could hardly recognize the plant: in place of
the repair shops they saw almost finished shops in which new equipment
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The new plant has already organized the high-frequency casting Of
magnets and has produced its first products It has organized sections
for the production of ferrites, magnets, electrical contacts, and struc-
tural parts. Soon it will manufacture itS. first metal-ceramic-products.
The plant is already getting orders from enterprises of the-electri-
cal industry in Armenia. (Yerevan, Kammunist, 19 Apr 59)
J. Communications Equipment
The Leningrad Krasnaya Zarya Plant of the Leningradskiy SoVnarkhot
produces basic equipment fOr automatic telephone exchanges. Sometimes,
however, it turns out bad equipment, as evidenced by the 42 pieces of
equipment received by the Moscow City Telephone Network, over half of
which were defective.
The plant dispatched a brigade, which used up 357 man-days to cor-
rect the defective equipment, and an additional 157 man-days to recheck
the equipment.
At the end of 1958,. the Moscow City Telephone Network received new
equipment. The 33 pieces of this equipment that were checked this time
turned out to have 178 faults. The plant, without checking on the valid-
ity of the complaints, immediately dispatched abrigade to Moscow, whieh
used more than 700 man-days to correct the defects-
The Spare parts for step-by-step telephone exchanges produced by
the Krasnaya Zarya Plant are not very satisfactory. Tests made on these
Parts showed them to be substandard. Instead of having 4 service life
of 500,000 operating cycles, they withstood only 60,000-320,000 cycles.
Other enterprises, including the Riga .V Plant of the Latvian
SovnarkhoZ, also produce poor communications equipment. Three years
ago this plant developed a new dial which could withstand more than one
million turns. However, the telephone sets that are being series pro-
duced are equipped with dials capable of withstanding only 500,000 turns.
At present, the defects in telephone sets are so bad that they cannot be
Usediby subscribers.. All 15,000 sets shipped by the VE' Plant to the
Moscow City Telephone Network in January and February .1959 had to be :
rejected. Now the management of the VEF has to send a brigade Of special-
ists to Moscow to correct these defects
The production of microtelephone cord, which is produced by the Odessa
Cable Plant in accordance with an All-Union Standard, is unsatisfactory.
Although the standard has been in effect for 5 years, the cord is still
of poor quality.. Although enterprises submit experimental models of new
equipment, they continue producing the old equipment.
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The Krasnaya Zarya plant, the VEF Plant, and the Odessa Cable Plant
should improve the quality of equipment and materials for eity telephone
networks. -- A. Serikov, Chief Engineer, Administration of Moscow City
Telephone Network (Moscow, Promyshlenno7Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta, 4 Mar 59)
The production laboratory of the Moscow Telephone Network has produced
its first models of telephone handsets designed for persons who are hard
of hearing. A special amplifier is installed in an ordinary telephone
handset and 1j controlled by a tumbler switch. The telephone bell can be
replaced by. s signal light.
The amplifier is based on semiconductors. The first models of these
telephones have been installed in Moscow in the homes of hard-of-hearing
persons.
The laboratory is now continuing work on devising new telephones fed.
handicapped persons. (Moscow, Izvestiya, 13 May 59)
A grotp,of Leningrad engineers has developed the first "phototele-
graphicapparatus" in the LIpsR for transmitting written production in-
formation from shop to shop or from division to division within a large
enterprise. This apparatus, known as the "Prizma," utilizes existing
telephone communication lines for transmitting images. A model of the
Prizma Will be on exhibit at the industrial exposition in New York. (Baku,
Bakinskiy Rabochiy, 17 Apr-59)
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IV. COMPUTERS
? Specialists are developing electronic instruments in almost all
Moscow scientific research institutes Many industrial enterprise's,
such as the Moscow First State Bearing Plant and the Moscow Motor
Vehicle Plant imeni Likhachev, and heat and electric. power stations.
are putting electronic Installations into operation on an ever-
increasing scale: An electronic mathematical machine for the automatic
control of an industrial process has already been put into operation at
the Moscow Krasnyy Bogatyr' [Rubber Products] Plant. Recently, experiments
On the Utilization of a mathematical machine for controlling the movements
of a train were carried out in the Moscow area.
Electronic computer technology is especially important in. the
.overall automation of production processes. Moscow radio specialists
play a significant role in this field. Recently, the MN-10 computer was
developed at the Moscow Scientific Research Institute of Computer Machine
Building. It is designed for studying various automatic control systems
and is based completely On semiconductors.
The single-design EIS electronic computer is being operated success-
fully at one of the Moscow scientific research institutes of the petroleum
industry. This machine has made it possible to develop the most efficient
methods for exploiting one of the USSR's richest oil deposits..
The EIS computer can picture an entire oil bed in several hours.
This work would ordinarily take hundreds of people several years to
finish. --A. Grif, senior editor of a division of the periodical Radio
(Moscow, Moskovskaya Pravda, 7 May 59)
During the Seven-Year Plan, it is planned to produce computers for
Controlling processes in the petroleum refining and chemical industrieE,
and in ferrous and nonferrous metallurgy, for automatically controlling
locomotives, for regulating power systems, and for centrally controlling
production processes. Preparations are being made for the series production
of machines which will perform many more operations per second than the
earlier-produced Ural and Strela computers.
? The successful fulfillment of these tasks requires the organized and
intense work of many scientists, engineers, technicians, and workers
engaged in the fields of instrument making, radioelectronics, precision
machine building, and other specialized fields. Physicists working on
semiconductors, solid state physics, low temperature physics, and other
such fields should Join in the development of new extrahigh-speed miniature
machine components. New methods of designing and utilizing computers
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Leningrad could contribute substantially to the solution of these
problems. However, the actual state of affairs is pretty grim. Not a
single universal electronic digital computer has been developed Or produced
in our pity. It is true that the development and study of components of
electronic machines is under way at many Leningrad institutes and design
bureaus. Besides the Several large organizations doing this work, mane
small Scattered groups working along the same lines are often solving the
same problems in a primitive fashion. These operations are Completely
uncoordinated, and there is no kind of Organized mutual exchange .of technical
information.
The Coordinating Scientific and Technical Council for Computer Technology
is no coordinator at all.. Precisely speaking, it is a completely inactive
organization. Unfortunately, the Leningradskiy Sovnarkhoz appears to have
no interest in organizing the production of electronic machines t It
possible to:organize the production of a small series of electronic machines
in Leningrad withont expanding production space and with minimum capital
investment for re-equipment.:
In our opinion, a large scientific research institute should be organized
in Leningrad in which the development of scientific principles of electronic
machines and their components and the programming and utilization of these
machines could be concentrated. Such an institute could work in other
branches of cybernetics, such as the problems of biological cybernetics.
The institute should become the main center of computer technology in
Leningrad and should coordinate the activities of other scientific orgo lza ions
and educational institutions in this field.
In our opinion, it is necessary to begin organizing the production
of a series of electronic machines at Leningrad enterprises. These machines
which are so badly needed in our country, would at first be produced in
small series. At the same time, it is necessary to organize a well-
staffed well-equipped design bureau capable of developing new types of
electronic machines equal to the best models produced abroad. -- Decent
L. Krayzmer, Chairman of Cybernetics Section of House uf. Scientists imEn1
M. Gorikiy, (Leningradskaya Pravda, 12 Apr 59)
The new Scientific Research Institute of Instrument Making and
Automation Equipment of the Georgian Sovnarkhoz is located in the center
of Tbilisi, on the banks of the Kura River. Original mathematical
machines are being created in its laboratories. One of these is an electronic
control computer for regulating the electrical operating schedule ce'
ferroalloy furnaces. This machine has successfully passed production
testing at the Zestafoni Ferroalloys Plant.
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Another computer is designed for determining the weight of individual
types of raw materials used for making up charges for cupola furnaces.
The pane laboratory making this computer has designed another such machine
for computing the most important parameters needed Thr Stabilizing the
heating schedule of a cupola furnace. The machine determines the .consumption
of coke and the intensity of the blast in relation to the required temperature
of the metal and the composition of exhaust gases.
'A computer for automating the calculation of voltage and power losses
In electric power tranOmission lines has also been made. (Moscow,. Izvestiya,
26 Nar 59)
In January 1959, the: experimental model of a control computer was
installed on furnace No 13 of the Zestafoni Ferroalloys Plant. The
computer was developed by TNIISA (Tbilisi Scientific Research Institute
of Instrument -Making and Automation Eqnipment). The installation work was
done under the supervision Of Otar Chachanidzel a project leader, and
scientific associate AlekSandr Gay of the TNIISA.
e The computer was p4t into operation and then approved by a state
commiSsien headed by AeGangiya, chief of the Technical Administration
Of the Georgian Sovnarkhoz. Georgiy Platonovich Zedgenidze, deputy
director of the TNIISA, was present to see the computer accepted.
Plant officials state, nevertheless, that the installation of one
computer is only "a drop in the bucket" as far as their needs are concerned
and that they would like to see their operations completely automated.
The new computer will begin working on a permanent schedule in
September 1959. The TNIISA is making another machine of the same type for
installation at the ZaPorozhLye Ferroalloys Plant. (Tbilisi, Zarya Vostoka,
10 Apr 59)
Scientific associates and engineers of the TNIISA A. Shapiro, G. Kachibaya,
A. Kuchava, D. Gokiyeli, I. Mtvarelidze, and M. Abramiya helped develop
a new computer for calculating cupola furnace charges. This new computer
calculates these furnace charges in 3-4 minutes and prints its results
on a paper tape. If the desired chemical composition of iron cannot be
obtained from the components selected, the machine turns on a signal
light signifying: "No solution available." In such a case, the engineer
has to change the charge formula.
At present, such deficiencies can be determined only after the metal
is poured into molds and a chemical analysis is made.' This leads to
production rejects.
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The computer calculates waste of.certainlements, which raises the
accuracy of its calculations, it also verifies the results of its calcula-
tions, in 30j4.0 seconds. Not only can the machine prove the correctness
Of its calculations:, but it can also show that kinds of deviations from
the reenired chemical composition can leadto errors occurring during the
calculation process. Usuall. these deviations are no more than 172 percent.
Three models of this new computer, produced at an experimental plant,
received a high rating from an interdepartmental commission of the Georgian
Sovnakkhoz. These models are destined for extending testing at the Moscow
Motor Vehicle Plant imeni LA.khaphev, the Kntaisi MhatorVehicie Plant, and
the Tbilisi TsentrOlit Plant.
The institute is working on a control computer fpr weighing.charges
and loading them into cupola furnaces. It is also adjusting another.
computer for calculating the heating schedule of a cupola furnace. During
its operating process) this machine solves complex mathematical problems
and flashes the solution in the form of numbers lighted up on a panel.
It keeps tabs on the amount of coke and blast needed for achieving the
predetermined temperature and completeness of combustion.
. Until now, there were no mathematical functions available that would
make it possible to accurately calculate the heating schedule of a cupola
furnace. Associates of the TRIM, utilizing the graphic funetiens existing
between the parameters of melting, were able to compile mathematical equations
describing the entire process. By Using -these equations, it .Wae
possible to caloulate the parameters of melting.
The testing of the first computer for calculating the heating
schedule of a cupola furnace Was a success. The machine was rated high
by specialists.
At the first stage., this machine will play the part of an "adviser'
to foremen._ The institute is already developing a new machine which will
automatically stabilize the predetermined heating schedule of a cupola
furnace and will exercise control over the coke apportioning device and
the blast regulator. -7 Q. Tvaradze, engineer of TNIISA, worker correspondent
for arya Vostoka (Tbilisi, Zarya Vostoka, 1 May _59)
Anew specialized digital computer has been developed and produced
by 'a group Of -scientific associates of the Institute of Electrical
Communications imeni 14.. A. Bonch-Bruyevich in Leningred. This computer
Is designed for adding trigonometric series It can solve very complex
problems in the fields of radio engineering and electrical communications
very rapidly; Formerly months and even years were required to solve such
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The new computer consists of 500 relays and several thousand semicbnductor
diodes, It also has a selector board for setting up problems, a printing
device, and a recording device. The solution to the problems is recorded
on paper rolls in the form of five-figure numbers and graphs.. The-new
machine uses the decimal system of coding. (Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya,
16 Apr 59)
A small electronic digital computer is being built in the Computer
Laboratory of the Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences Latvian psR.
This computer is designed for solving a broad range of mathematical problems.
(Moscow, Izvestiya, 14 May 59)
A special shop for making high-precision computing machines '(7) has
been. Organized at the Kursk Computing Machine Plant. The VIV-2 mUltikey
Automatic calculating machine, which is made in this shop, can perform
600 operations per hour. (Moscow, Promyshlenno-Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta,
APr 59)
(7) Photo available in source, p 4
Adjustment of the first computing machines to be installed in the
Kazakh SSR is being completed in the Laboratory of Machine Computing
Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences Kazakh SSR (Frunze, Sovetskaya Ergiziyat
3 Apr 59)
During the Seven-Year Plan, the Zaporozh'ye Transformer Plant is slatea
to develop superhigh7power transformers for new power installations of the
USSR. This developmental work involves much complex computing and planning
and research work. Consequently, a Ural electronic computer has been
received by the plant. It will be used for calculating new series and
selecting the best designs and parameters of transformers. Formerly 'About
3 months was required to do the, calculations for a 240,000-kva power
tranSformer.. Now, with the Ural computer, the calculations can be completed
in 10-15 minute's.
The plant has begun installing the Ural computer. An electronic
compUtations laboratory is being organized for complex computation
work. (Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 3 Apr 59)
A Ural electronic computer is installed in the computing center of
the Leningrad State University. This machine is 6 meters long and almost
2 meters high; it has about 2,000 semiconductor diodes, 800 vacuum tubes,
and 830 self-contained units. The Ural has become a necessity in machine
building, physics, and other fields and serves its purposes well. It
was recently used to solve a vital problem in mechanics in 10 hours. Such
a problem would have taken about 15 months with regular calculating
machines.
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The computing center is now being used to solve complex problems for
the shipbuilding industry. Although it has been in existence only-2 years,
the center has been widely used by scientists and by workers of many design
bureaus of Leningrad industrial enterprises.
In 1959, the computing center made computations for the compiling of
the Astronomicheskiy Yezhegpdnik (Astronomical Yearbook) by request of the
Institute of Therotetical Astronomy of the Academy of Sciences USSR. Much
of the work is finished. In several months, itWas possible with electronic
machines to determine the positions of astral bodies for several years in
the future. (Leningradskaya Pravda, 1 Apr 59)
? A laboratory of electronic simulation has been developed at the Moscow
Mining Institute imeni*Stalin. Two electronic simulators have gone into
operation at the laboratory, which will develop schedules for the automatic
control and regulation of mining machinery, and for developing theories
fOr the machines' dynamic stability. (Moscow, Nbskovskaya Pravda, Apr 59)
The installation of an automatic =putter has been completed in the
Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences Latvian SSR. This machine
is designed for solving a broad range of mathematical problems. The new
computing center that has been created at the institute will make it
possible to conduct greater research in atomic physics, magnetism phenomena)
and other important fields in the Latvian SSR. (Yerevan, Kommunist,
20 Apr 59)
The Computing Center of the Academy of Sciences Georgian SSR is devoting
considerable scientific research to the development of new methods for
approximate and numerical solution of mathematical problems. The center
does computing at the request of a number of enterprises and scientific
research institutes in the Georgian SSE and beyond its borders. It recently
did some work for the Institute of Construction of the Academy or Sciences
Georgian SSR on computations connected with experimental work on prestressed
casings (obolochka).
During the Seven-Year Plan, the Computing Center will considerably
expand its operations Problems of mathematical physics, programming, and
simulation are some of the tasks to be undertaken in 1959.
Among the latest equipment with which the center is being supplied
is a Ural electronic digital computer designed to solve various mathematical
problems; the center will also receive two high-speed universal electronic
computers by the end of 1959. It also has a model MPT-11 electronic computer,
which is used for research in processes of automatic regulation and tIcie
solution of certain nonlinear differential equations. (Tbilisi, Zarya
Vostoka, 6 May 59)
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V. INSTRUMENTS
A. General Industrial Instrumentation
The Moscow Fizpribor Plant has the following instruments for Sale:
Type KEP71.2 U electropneumatic programming instrument for regulating
the time of various operations in technological and other processes -
according to preset Schedules, This instrument has 12 electrical or
pneumatic control unitS. The range of duration of operating cycles is
from 3:minutes to 18 hours.- The instrument measures 294X 270 x:I34 mm
and costs 1,290 rubles,
The type ESU-1 electronic level indicator is designed or indicating
deviations of the level of liquid and friable substances frame preset
value, ,The instrument can give out sound or light signals and can turn-
on or off various secondary performing mechanisms. The U-1 measures
192 x 222 x 126 mm and casts 715 rubles.
Jrho type OUK universal controlled Wilson chamber is designed for.
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the study of various physical processes connected with the passing of
ionizing particles through a gas medium. This instrument can be used
In physical laboratories,: scientific research institutes, and higher.
educationalinstitutions, It can be supplied by a 220volt ac or de
circuit, and consumes one kw for so and up to 5 1pr for dc. The UUK con-
sists or three:separate_units measuring 830 x 1,270 x-1,850 mm, 580 x
77Q x.1,250 mm, and 80 x 80x 350 mM.
? The types UR74 and_UR76radioactive level gauges are designed for
the odatinuous remote measurement of the height of the separation line
between two substances of unlike densities without coming into contact
with the measured object. The UR-4 and UR,6 have .a measuring range Of up
to 1,000 mm and cost 9,400 rubles apieee.
The type pZhR-2 radioactive liquid densitometer is designed for the
continuous remote contactless measurement and registration of the density
of various liquids. The 1MR-2 has a measuring range from one gram per
Ou cm to 1.5 grams per cu cm, and costs 12,100 rubles.
The PF-3 instrument for measuring physical quantities is designed,
for testing and adjusting various radio engineering circuits used for
recording physical processes. This -instrument can be used for visual
observation Of physical processes in electronic circuits. It is suppl ed
by a 110., 127-, or 220-volt ac circuit-, and does not consume more
than 400 watts. It costs 10,500 rubles.
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Orders or inquiries should be sent to the Fizpribor Plant at Ulitsa
Bakuninskaya 14, Moscow B-5. -- Advertisement (Moscow, Promyshlenno-
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Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta, 10 Apr 59)
The new DM-7 and DM-8 diaphragm dtfferential manometerS have been
developed at the Moscow Manometr Plant. They can be used at power
stations, chemical plants, and metallurgical plants for measuring flow,
level, pressure, and pressure head of liquids and gases, The DM-7 is
designed for a pressure up to 64 atmospheres and weighs 15 kg, which is
one third the weight of old manometers.
Formerly, differential manometers could be used only for measuring
pressures up to 250 atmospheres. The new DM-8 can measure pressure up
to 600 atmospheres. (Moscow, Moskovskaya Pravda, 29 Mar 59)
The Kirovakan Independent Design Bureau has designed two new
automatic general industrial instruments. The first is the ME K-125,
which is an electrical performing mechanism designed for moving regulating
organs in automatic and remote control systems. The second is a variable-
speed performing mechanism with a magnetic amplifier. Both mechanisa%
have undergone testing at the experimental base of the design bureau and
have been rated high by specialists of the industrial enterprises where
they will be used. (Yerevan, Kommunist, 6 May 59)
M. Sedrakayats is chief engineer of the "Avtomatika" Independent Design
Bureau, which has developed a single series of performing mechanisms for
the automation and remote control of various production processes in the
chemical industry, the metallurgical industry, at state regional electric
power stations, and at heat and electric power stations. The bureau has
already made experimental models of three type-sizes of mechanisms which
are being sent to the Cheboksary [Electrical Performing Mechanisms) and
Seven [Performing Mechanisms] plants for series production.
In 1959, the bureau developed an induction-type linear potentiometer
for contactless automatic systems. It is now developing contactlese
electrical performing mechanisms for variable speeds. The first experimental
models of these will be submitted for production in 1959. (Yerevan,
Kommunist, 1)i. May 59)
Yesterday [5 March 1959?) laboratory tests of the latest telemechanical
apparatus for the remote control of electric power systems were made at
the Leningrad Elektropul't Plant. The apparatus includes the OChB-3
telemetering transmitter, the ChNT-3 receiver, and the UPT-1 direct-current
amplifier, all of which are based on semiconductor devices and because of
this are half the size and weight of earlier apparatus.
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The plant has finished producing an experimental consignment of
PMK-2 milliammeters with round scales measuring more than One square
meter in Surface area, and of totalizers. Both of these new types of tastr47
meilts are used for ?determining the -summary power of electric power stations And can
be used more than 20 meters away from the station. This is the first
time such equipment has 'teen produced in the USSR. Its series production
will begin in 1959.
Products of the Elektropul't Plant are in great demand in the USSR
and abroad. New equipment made in 1959 has been shipped to Chita,
Mongolia, Poland Bulgaria, Rumania, and other friendly countries
At present, the plant is producing electrical equipment for the
Stalingradskaya GES (Hydroelectric Power Station) and for the tanker
Pekin, .which is being built in Leningrad. (Ieningradskaya Pravda,
6 Mar 59)-
? Dedigners at the Moscow Energopribor Plant, in collaboration with
workers of the All-Union Heat Engineering Institute, have developed a
new instrument: a magnetic oxygen gauge for the detection of free oxygen
in furnace gases of electric power stations and for the automatic regu-
lation of the fuel-burning process. (Tashkent, Pravda Vostoka, 16 Apr 59)
B. Instruments for the Petroleum, Gas, and Chemical Industries
During recent years, the Khar'kov Branch of the All-Union Experimental
Design Bureau for Automatics has developed and produced in its workshops
86 type-designations of instruments and automation equipment for the
chemical industry. An experimental model of the PGF-T explosion-proof
portable gas analyzer was made there recently for determining the presence
of combustible gases and fumes of methane, coke gas, hydrogen, gasoline,
divinyl, etc. This is a smaller and more convenient instrument than
previous models, and operates dependably in tropical climates. Series
production of the new instruments has been started. (Riga, Sovetskaya
Latviya, 18 Apr 59)
The Leningrad Branch of the Design Bureau for Automatics of the
Ministry of Construction RSFSR has developed a new instrument which checks
changes in the color of Petroleum products. When this instrument detects
a deviation from the norm, it immediately corrects errors in the production
process.
The instrument underwent successful testing at the Groznyy Petroleum
Refinery.
The Leningrad Branchhas finished developing the first USSR-made
automatic device for determining the viscosity of petroleum products by
utilizing ultrasonics. (Leningradskaya Pravda, 5 Mar 59)
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Groznyy petroleum processing plants will soon receive a new instrument,
an automatic electronic viscosimeter developed by the Chair of Thermotechnics
Of the Groznyy Petroleum Institute in Close dooperation with production
personnel. This new instrument will give precise indications of the
viscosity of a product in flux and will automatically regulate all changes
in the process. It will no longer be necessary for the operator to consult
the laboratory each hour for the results of 's. test sample. (Moscow,
Sovetskaya Rossiya, 27 Mar 59)
In 1959, the Moscow Control and Measuring Instrument Plant will expand
its production of equipment for the over-all automation and Mechanization
of the petroleum and chemical industries.
The plant has pledged to produce an industrial chromatograph before
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1 May. This instrument is used for the continuous automatic control of
the composition of hydrocarbon gases and operates as part of:an automatic
line in oil refineries or petrochemical plants.
The plant is producing the first models of high-precision quartz
gravimeters which are designed for the use of geophysical exploration
parties. (Moscow,,Vechernyaya Moskva, 18 Mar 59)
It now takes up to 48 hours to make a laboratory analysis of gases
at chemical and petroleum refining enterprises.' The Nbsneftekip Plant
[locatiOn nOt given], in collaboration with a design bureau for the
automaton or industrial processes of the Moscow Oblast Sovnarkhoz, has
developed a new instrument for the automatic analysis Of gases (8) during
the Course of industrial processes. The entire analysis takes 6 minutes.
(140scOi0 teninskoye Znamya, 9 Apr 59) .
(8) Photo.ShoWing the instrument for the analysis of gases being
checked available in source, p 2, middle
C. Electrical Instruments
Until recently, oscillographs utilized photographic paper or film for
recording purposes, and such paper or film then rewired developing. In
1959, for the first time in Soviet practice, the Leningrad Vibrator Plant
will produce an experimental model of a new oscillograph which will produce
oscillograns not requiring any photochemical processing; instead they will
develop themselves under light in one minute.
It is intended to develop a unified series of similar instruments for
various purposes on the basis of this oscillograph. One instrument will
be developed in collaboration with designers of the Leningrad Krasnogvardeyets
Plant. It is a single-design mechanocardiograph, which is used for diagnosing
cardiovascular ailments.
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Recently, new gaaJanoMetric amplifiers developed by the Vibrator
Plant underwent testing with highly successful results. The sensitivity
of the new instruments is much higher than that of the best mirror gal- '
vanometer. 'Their series production is being eOnteMplated for 1959,
The Vibrator Plant is preparing to produce instruments for measuring
ac currents from 0,5 to 1.5 cycles per second.. These inStruMents, which
have never been produced in the USSR before, are designed for chedking the
operations of metallurgical furnaces.
? The Leningrad-2 photoelectric exposure meter developed by the Vibrato::
Plant is superior in reliability and sensitivity to its predicessors.
In 1959, the plant will begin the production of 30 nem types of in-
struments. (Leningradskaya Pravda, 15 Mar 59)
The [Leningrad] Vibrator Plant developed the F17 photOelectric ampli-
fier, which is desigaes to be built into various types of apparatus. The
plant began the production of the F17 in 1957. This instrument consists
of a galvanometer, a light source, and a photoresistor.
(Source gives additional information on the F17.) (Moscow, Immeritel'-
naya Tekhnika, May 59, p 35)
An exhibit of radio engineering and electronics has opened in the Ttl'in
house of Scientific and Technical Propaganda- The Tallin PUnane RFT Plant
has many new measuring instruments on display there. Among these Is an
original instrument, based on the principle of a memory device, for meusur-
iag electrical resistance. (Tallin, Sovetskaya Estoniya, 31 Mar 59)
The Tallin Punane RET Plant produces electrical measuring instruments,
Its products are shipped to scientific institutes and indUstrial enter-
prises in the entire USSR. Its instruments can also be found in South
America, Morocco, and India.
The plant has already begun the proaucbion of dozens of new electronic
measuring instruments. It produces vacuum tube voltmeters and electronic
direct-reading ohmmeters. During the Seven-Year Plan, its oVer-all output
will rise to 2.3 times the 1958 level and its output of instruments will
rise to 3,- times the 1958 level.
The plant has 70 persons employed in its design bureau. (Tallin,
Sovetskaya Estoniya, 19 Apr 59)
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Every 15 seconds, a finished electric meter rolls off the conveyer
of the Mytishchi Electric Meter Plant. The plant is preparing to pro-
duce new miniature household meters which will be cheaper than currently
produced types. It is installing a unit for the automatic checking of
instruments. When this unit goes into operation, up to one third of the
personnel of the Division of Technical Control will be released for other
work. (Moscow, Izvestiya, 3 Apr 59)
D. Geophysical Instruments
Today the Riga Hydrometeorological Instrument Plant shipped crates
of its products to the Taldy-Kurgan base of Glavselikhozonab [Main Ad-
ministration of Material and Technical Supply for Agriculture?], to Sa-
khalin, and to Arkhangel'sk. The plant ships its products to Peiping,
Murmansk, Finland, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, and Yakutiya. It sends its
hydrometeorological instruments to all parts of the USSR and to various
foreign countries, making a total of 670 consignees.
Radiosondes made by the Riga plant are used by scientists at the
pole of inaCcesibility:in the Antarctic. These instruments determine
the pressure, humidity, and temperatures of the upper atmospheric layers.
The plants high-precision recording instruments) hydrographs, barographs,
hygrographs, and soil thermometers are used in storehouses, production
shops,.kolkhozes, sovkhozes, and any other place where it is necessary
to determine the humidity, temperature, and pressure of the atmosphere.
The plant produces about 30,000 Combination hygrometexaathermomometera
barometer units per year,
Plant designers are developing new instruments based on the, use
of radioactive isotopes. The plant has been producing cloak mechanisms
for aircraft meteorographs, instruments for determining atmospherid
pressure, temperature, and humidity and wind velocity at different ii6rers
under vertical sounding conditions. At the suggestion of a scientific
research institute of hydrometerorological instruments, the plant has
modernized the mechanism for low temperature operations
Until recently a woman's hair was used as a sensitive element for
determining humidity on hygrographs, hygrometers, and radiosondes. Plant
personnel did a great deal of work in replacing this hair with animal
skin membrane, which has raised the sensitivity and reliability of the
instruments.
The plant also makes an instrument for determining the amount of
precipitation. However, this instrument does not always work accurately
during fine freezing rains. Plant designers and workers of the State
Hydrological Institute are now developing a "forced pouring device so
that the instruments can operate unfailingly under any intensity of
rainfall. --'.P. Abolina, chief designer of Riga Hydrometeorological In-
strument Plant (Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 14 Mar 59)
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The Riga Hydrometeorological Instrument Plant is giving serious
attention to automating its control and measuring operations Recently,
a rotary-type unit for checking A-22 radiosondes was put into operation
at th& plant. The radiosonde signals are checked on a special recorder.
Formerly, checking had to be done by ear. (Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya,
17 May 59)
The Leningrad Gidrometpribor Plant has built a wave graph, the
first such instrument ever produced in the USSR. It is used for de-
termining the height and length of ocean waves and can make it pos-
sible to calculate tides more accurately.
? The first experimental model of a wave graph has successfully
undergone testing in the Atlantic aboard the exploratory ship Lomonosov.
The tests were made by V. N. Samorodnitskiy, chief designer of the plant.
The secon0. wave graph has been sent to New York for the exhibit there.
H In 1959, the Gidrometpribor Plant will begin series production of
-wave graphs, (Leningradskaya Pravda, 14 May 59)
Workers of the Leningrad Geologorazvedka Plant have developed a new
instrument, an electronic compensator, which makes it possible to deter-
mine ore, oil, and gold deposits at depths of up to 500 meters. It can
also find minerals under great depths of water.
The compensator was developed by plant designers in collaboration
with the Institute of Machine Studies and Automatics of the Academy of
Sciences Ukrainian SSR. It has successfully passed plant testing and .
will soon be shipped out to geologists of the Crimean expedition. (Lenin-
gradskaya Pravda) 20 Mar 59)
? A new strong simple instrument for measuring soil vibration and
Vibration in engineering installations when blasting operations are taking
place has been developed in the Institute of Physics of the Earth of the
? Academy of Sciences USSR. This instrument, called the "vibrograph of
large displacements," despite its small size, can measure displacement
occurring during vibration down to tenths of a centimeter. It can be
used for studying the effects of explosions at close ranges that were
previously inaccessible. It will be used on a large scale for blasting
work, the construction of hydraulic structures, and other activities.
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The DFS-14 spectrometer, a new instrument for investigating the
physical and optical properties of the atmosphere by spectral analysis,
has been developed by request of the Institute of Physics of the Atmos-
phere of the Academy-of Sciences USSR. -(Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya,
28 Apr 59)
Delektorskiy is chief technologist of the Frunze Physical Instruments
Plant. (Frunze, Sovetskaya Kirgiziya, 18 Apr 59).
E. Other Instruments
The Institute of Electronics Automatics, and Telemechanics of the
Academy of Sciences Georgian SSR, which has been in existence for 2
years, is located in a large building on the right bank of the Kura
River in Tbilisi.
According to V. Chichinadze, deputy director of the institute, it
is developing moisture meters for determining-moisture content of tea
leaves and is finishing research on automating the irrigation installa-
tions of the Gardaban irrigation system. The institute, is also making
a programming device for the model 163 lathe produced by the Tbilisi
Machine Tool Building Plant imeni Kirov.
By mingling the professions of instrument makers and linguists, the
institute has discovered algorythms for the machine translation of Rus-
sian texts into Georgian.
The institute has also developed a miniature radio weighing only
3160 graMe. (Tbilisi, Zarya Vostoka, 29 Mar 59)
A group of engineers and designers, headed by Engr I. Tsitsuashvili?
at the Gori "Avtomatprom" Scientific Research Institute have developed a
new instrument for determining the fat content of milk. This new In-
strument uses a photoelectric method of determining fat content, based on
the fact that the more fat there is in the milk, the less transpareLt it
is, and vice versa.
The new instrument has been tested by the All-Union Scientific Research
Dairy Institute and the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Live-
stock Raising..
By order of Gosplan USSR, in 1959, instrument making plants of the
Georgian SSE are to produce 2,000 of these instruments in an experimental
consignment. If tests at sovkhozes and milk reception points prove their
merit, the instruments will go into mass production in 1960. (Tbilisi,
Zarya Vostokal 14 May 59)
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The type AKSD-57 automatic marine smoke gauge, which is used to warn
of shipboard fire, has been developed by the Independent Design Bureau of
Instruments and Automation Equipment in Tbilisi. Automatic smoke gauges
have been shipped to Nikolayev and Kherson, where they have been installed
on ships of the Black Sea fleet. Yesterday [4 April 1959?] technical docu-
ments on these instruments were sent to China.
The bureau had designed soil testing instruments, which are in wide use
in agriculture. It was first in the USSR to develop an automatic high-
frequency instrument for determining the concentration of acid, salt, and
alkali in solutions. (Tbilisi, Zarya Vostoka, 5 Apr 59)
In 1952-1957, the laboratory of hydromechanization of the TsNIIS (Cen-
tral Scientific Research Institute of Transport Construction) in collabora-
tion with the UTZ (Leningrad Physicotechnical Institute) worked on the
development and production of a gamma-ray consistency meter. During the
same time, the IsNIIS also worked on consistency meters based on other
principles but none of these proved itself as efficient in operation as
the gamma ray meter.
The gamma-ray consistency meter is designed for the continuous measure-
ment of the consistency of pulp in pump-driven pulp pipelines, and Is de-
Signed for long-range operation under normal dredging conditions.
(Source gives additional information on the gamma-ray consistency
meter.) (Moscow, Transportnoye Stroitel'stvo, Feb 59, p 29)
F. Plant Information
The Lenteplopribor Plant has organized the production of a new in-
struthent (9) Por regulating the temperature at 12 points simultaneously.
(Leningradskaya Pravda) 27 Mar 59)
(9) Photo available in source, p 2, bottom
The Leningrad Lenteploprihor Plant is having a new electronic automatic
balancing bridge assembled at the industrial exposition in Moscow. Yester-
day [11 May 1959?] it shipped an EPP electronic potentiometer to the Soviet
exhibit in New York. (Leningradskaya Pravda, 12 May 59)
The Leninakan Instrument Making Plant, which is derived from the
former Pokhpat Artel, receives orders from many USSR cities, including
Moscow, Leningrad), Sverdlovsk, Kaliningrad, Kiev, and Vladivostok. In
1960, more than lb million rubles will be spent for the construction of
new shaps and for acquiring new equipment. By the end of the Seven-Year
Plan, the number of employees at the plant will be 15 times the present
number. (Yerevan, Kommunist, 19 Mar 59)
A conveyer is in operation in assembly section No 9 (10) of the
Yerevan Instrument Making Plant. (Yerevan, Kommunist, 14 May 59)
(10) Photo available in source, p 1
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VI. PRECISION EQUIPMENT
A. Cameras
The Kiyev-Vega camera, or "Malyutka" as it is known in the shops of
the producing plant, was developed in the design bureau of the Kiev Arsenal
Plant imeni Lenin-. Shutter speeds of the Kiyev-Vega are 1/3, 1/60, and
1/200 sec. Tens of thousands of these cameras will be made available to
purchasers by the end of 1959. (Stalinabad, Kommunist Tadzhikistana,
19 May 59)
pix designers from Kiev have created the new KiyevVega (Kyiv-Veha)
camera (11). It is designed to take 20 exposures per cassette of 16-mm.
film with or without perforations, and the frame size is 10 x 14 mm. The
camera measures 80x 43 mm and contains 105 parts.
7 There are two filters for the Industar f3.5/23.,mm lens, which stops
down to f:11. The shutter speeds are 1/3, 1/60 and 1/200 sec.
Ibis camera is known as "Malyutka" in the design bureau and shops of
the producing plant. Tens of thousands of these cameras will be available
by the end of 1959. (Kiev, Rabochaya'Gazetal 7 Apr 59)
1Comment : The "designers" of this camera appear to have '"created"
a-nearly exact duplicate of the Japanese-made Minolta-16 camera. If the
dupliestion is as close as appearance and description would indicate, the
Shutter speeds are probably 1/30, 1/60, and 1/200 (theY are 1/25, 1/50,
and 1/200 for the Minolta-16).)
(11) Photo available in source, p 4, upper center
The new Kiyev-Vega camera developed by Ukrainian designers weighs
only 150 grams. The short focal length of its lens permits this camera
to obtain sharp pictures from a distance of 2 meters to infinity. (Tallin,
Sovetskaya Estoniya, 11 Apr 59)
The two filters for the new Kiyev-Vega 16-mm camera are designated
the MP-17 and the OF-12. (Moscow, Ogonek, No 23, May 59, p 28)
The Council of Experts of the Pavilion for Better Models of Consumer
Goods under the All-Union Chamber of Commerce has approved the new Iskra
folding camera for production.
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This new camera, which uses the 6 x 6-cm format, has an f:3.5/75-mm
Industar-58 lens and a between-the-lens shutter with speeds from 1 bo
1/500 sec. It is equipped with a coupled rangefinder?viewfinder, a
self-timer, flash synchronization) depth-of-field scale, and light-value
scale. It is also equipped with a double-exposure prevention device
coupled with an automatic exposure counter showing the number of frames
already exposed. (Moscow, Sovetskoya Foto, May 59, p 58)
The new Iskra foldinE camera is produced by the Krasnogorsk Machinery
Plant. Mass production of this camera is planned
cow) Novyye Tovary, No 5, 1959, p 1)
. The Rostov Branch of Posyltorg will ship
order
to begin in 1960. (Mos-
the following items by mail
Price in Rubles
Start camera with f:2 lens
2,419
Kiyev-4 camera with f:2 lens
2,319
Kiyev-3A camera with f:2 lens
2,218
Leningrad camera with f:2 lens
2,017
Zenit-S camera with f:3.5 lens
811
Zorkiy-4 camera with f:2 lens
1,515
Zorkiy-5 camera with f:3.5 lens
660
Zorkiy-S camera with f:3.5 lens
610
Moskva-5 camera with f:3.5 lens
530
Sputnik camera with f:4.5 lens
309
Smena camera with f:4.5 lens
148
Lyubitel.-2 camera with f:4.5 lens
158
Yupiter-9 lens for Kiyev camera
476
Yupiter-12 lens for Kiyev camera
455
Yupiter-3 lens for Zorkiy camera
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Price in Rubles
Yupiter-9 lens for Zorkiy camera 476
Yupiter-11 lens for Zorkiy camera 370
Yupiter-12 lens for Zorkiy camera 455
Industar-23U lens for 6-am enlarger
Industar-50U lens for 35-mm enlarger
135
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Prices quoted above include costs of shipping. Advertisement
(Yerevan, Kommunist, 14 Apr 59)
B. Watchmaking
The production of so-called "talking" clocks has begun in the Sverd-
lovsk economic region. These clocks were designed in the USSR and are
much superior to foreign-made types, since they have been built according
to a magnetic principle instead of an optical principle.
? These. automatic clocks have a magnetic drum on which hours and
minutes have been recorded. Each hour and minute has its awn magnetic
channel. The drum rotates and electromagnetic sound pickup. heads move
along the channels, which number 83 in all.
In using these clocks for automatic time telling over the telephone,
30 sets of relays and lines for connecting them to the subscriber are in-
stalled. When the subscriber dials the proper number, he hears the proper
hour and minute. The first two sets of automatic talking clocks have been
produced and will soon be installed in Tashkent and Baku. In 1959, such
apparatus will be sent to Kiev, Alma-Ata, Tallin, Gorikiy, and Kuybyshev.
They are already in operation in Moscow and Leningrad.
In the future, production will begin of equipment which will not
only give time information, but will also inform the subscriber of the
programs at movie theaters, the weather, advertising, and news. (Moscow,
Promyshlenno-Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta, 29 Mar 59)
The Leningrad Electric Timepiece Plant has already produced its
400th printer chronograph. These printer chronographs record time with
precision up to one-hundreth of a second on a special tape. The plant
is developing a new printer chronograph, which would be small enough
to fit in a single carrying case. (Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 7 Mar 59)
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Moscow Timepiece Plant No 1 imeni Kirov has finished assembling an
experimental consignment of the new Signal men's wrist watches. These
new watches have independent clockwork and alarm. mechanisms
The plant is getting ready to series produce the new watches. (1/107
caw, Moskovskaya Pravda, 20 Mar 59)
By the end of the Seven-Year Plan, the Uglich Timepiece Plant will
be producing a large quantity of ladies' wristwatches. Recently, a shop
(12) where Volga wristwatches are Series-produced was put into operation
at the plant. (Moscow; Sovetskaya Rossiya, 29 Mar 59)
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The Chistapoll Timepiece Plant is famous for its Kama,1671na? and
Vostok wristwatches. The plant has stopped producing the Kama watches,
and has begun Making Sputnik wriatwatches? Saturn: watches that tell the
time of day and the day of the week, miniature Uran watches, and Raduga
watches. The new watches will soon appear in stores. A large consign-
ment of them was recently sent to the Soviet Exposition in New York.
(Moscow, Izvestiyae 29 Mar 59)
Pttrodvorets Timepiece Plant has begun the production of diamond
cutting tools for the Watchmaking and instrument making industries. The
diamonds used in these cutting tools comes from Yakutia. (Moscow, Izves-
tiya, 16 May 59)
An automatic line for machining men's wristwatch cases has been
built in the machine tool building shop of the Moscow Timepiece Plant
No 2. The line has been given the name of "ZL." (Moscow, Izvestiyal
23 May 59)
C. Other Equipment
Recently, the Orekhovo-Zuyevo Respirator Plant began the series
production of the new DKP-1 medical apparatus (13) which is designed
for individual oxygen therapy for victims of pulmonary and cardiovas-
cular deficiencies, in cases where oxygen or oxygen-enriched air is
needed.. (Moscow) Leninskoye Znamya, 11 Mar 59)
(13) Photo showing the assembly of a DKP-1 apparatus in the plant's
assembly shop available in source, p 2, bottom
The Tula Branch of Posyltorg will ship the following 16-gauge shot-
guns to consumers in the Uzbek SSR:
"BM" Model, custom made, mass produced 856 rubles
Model, with ornamental engraving 632 rubles
Model, standard 464 rubles
The prices quoted include costs of shipping to the Uzbek SSR.
Advertisement (Tashkent, Pravda Vostoka, lo Apr 59)
The A u: vireArwalit Plant has on sale in unlimited quantities type
A-10 GOST 275o 10-ton-capacity truck scales.. The plant s address is
Armavir, Krasnodarskiy Kray. Advertisement (Moscow, Promyshlenno-
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VII. ELECTRICAL PRODUCTS
A. Wire and Cable
In 1958, the Moscow Moskabel' Plant chronically failed to fulfill its
products-list plan, particularly with regard to the supply of lead conduits,
special 'installation wires, cord cable, fixtures, and other products. It
has Tailed to do any better in 1959, and it has been overwhelmed with com-
plaints.
Mukhutdinov, deputy director of the plant, and Zaugol'nikov, chief
of the plant's division of sales, take these complaints in a-matter-of-
fact mood as an everyday occurrence-.
Despite rush work, and a state of caltanuous frenzy in the power. Cable
shop, it fails to fulfill its. plan. Orations in the plant as a whole are
unsatisfactory. (Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva, 18 May 59)
Recently, new production buildings with more than 22,500 sq of floor-
space have been constructed at the Podol'sk Cable Plant, and 260 units of
new industrial and metal-cutting equipment have been installed. The
plant has mastered the prodnction of more than 50 new types of products.
A unit for, preparing drawing emulsion by -ultrasonic. methods has been
designed, produced, and put into operation at the plant. The plant also
has a new tinning department (14) in its drawing shop. (Moscow, Lepinskoye
Znamya, 6 Mar 59)-
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The personnel office of the Podol'sk Mikroprovod Plant is located at
Domodedovskoye Shosse 2, Podol'sk, Moskovskaya Oblast. (Moscow, Leninskoye
Znamya, 4 Apr 59)
The Podol'sk Mikroprovod Plant draws a 3-km strand of wire out of a
drop of molten metal weighing only 1.5-2 grams. It uses LGZ-10 high-
frequency units for drawing microwire 6 microns in gauge out of manganin
wire. The manganin wire, enclosed in glass tubing, is melted in a magnetic
field. The molten. drop that forms at the end of the wire is drawn and
wound Upon a cylinder, and is turned into glass-insulated microwire.
The mass utilization of LGZ-10 high-frequency units will make it pos-
sible to simplify the process. of making microwire, and to accelerate it
and make it less costly. Wire made of copper, silver, and iron is now
being made this way in Leningrad. (Moscow, Znaniye-Sila? May 59, p 31)
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The Kiev Ukrkabell Plant has pledged that it will produce its third
unit for applying polyvinyl Chloride insulation on installation wire. in
1959. It has also pledged to equip six modernized furnaces for varnish-
ing installation Wire with fiber insulation. .(Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy,
17 Mar 59)
TWo cable plants, the Zestafoni Gruzkabel' Plant and the Staliniri
Emal'proyod Plant are under construction in the Georgian SSR.
The GrUzkabel Plant will make wire and cable with rubber and plastic
insulation'. The Emal'provod Plant will produce enameled wire needed by
electrical engineering and instrument making plants.
Both plants are readying themselves for the manufacture of these new
products.
Because of the organization of a cable industry in the Georgian SSR,
a Division of Cable Technology and Electrical Insulation Materials along
with the laboratories it needs, is being organized under the Scientific
Research Electrical Engineering Institute of the Georgian Sovnarkhoz.
The institute will cooperate with plants in improving production and the
quality of wire and cable. -- K. Gubiyev, Chief of the Division of Cable
Technology and Electrical Insulation Materials of the Scientific Research
Electrical Engineering Institute of the Georgian Sovnarkhoz (Tbilisi,
&rya Vostoka, 16 Apr 59)
During the Seven-Year Plan, 30 million rubles in state funds will
be used by the Bendery Moldavkabel' Plant for reconstruction of its facil-
ities, for the construction of new production and residential facilities,
and for the acquisition of equipment. In 1958-1959, the plant will in-
stall 5 million rubles' worth of equipment. In 1959, the foundation of
the main production building with a 12,000-sq-m floorspacewill be -laid,
The plant grounds will encompass 20 hectares, or more than four times as
much land as now. (Kishinev, Sovetskaya Noldaviya, 31 Mar 59)
The Panevezhis Cable Products Plant is being built by members of
the Komsomol. Construction of the enameling and wire drawing shops is
nearing completion. Equipment will be tested in these shops in May, and
then the largest cable plant in the Baltic region will be put into opera-
tion. (Vilinyus, Sovetskaya Litve, 14 Apr 59)
B. Rotating Machinery
The Kharikov Control and Measuring Instrument Plant has developed
new miniature electric motots? which can be used in .automatic recording
instruments. Five Such motors can fit in the palm of a man's hand.
Wile such amotor weighs only 140 grams, it can be used to lift a 5-kg
load,
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The new motors are extremly Simple in deSigx1.4nd in manufactute.
They utilize little metal and are based mainly On cheap new materials-.
The rotor has no steel core Or cOpper windings. Instead, a ting Of
pressed and baked ferric oxide, barium oxide, and a binding substance
Is installed on a thin axis with a capron tushing. The ring undergoes
Magnetization.
The other parts of the motor are just as simple. The motor itself
weighs only half as much as its predecessor produced at the plant; in
addition, it develops seven times as much power, and is considerably
note vear!-resistant.
The plant has produced the first conaignment of the new motors.
(Moscow,. Promyshlento-Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta, 11 Mar 59)
The VP0h-150 contactless rotating frequency converter has been devel-
oped by the [Konotop?] graanyy Metallist Plant in collaboration with the
Moscow Power .Engineering Institute. The new contactless frequency con-
verter will enable the plant to convert to the production of SVCh-2 drills,
which have a weight of 8.7 kg per unit of power, while sgR,p drills now
In series production have 16.25 kg per unit of power. _(ldsciiw,
Promyehlenno7Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta, 15 May 59)
C. Control Apparatus
The Kharkov glectrical Machinery Plant imeni Stalin has started pto-_-
duCtion of a new type of station for automatically controlling various
produttion.processes. These stations do not have the heavy, bulky, and
difficult-to-produce asbestos-cement insulating shields :found on previously
produce. models. The frames of these stations now Consist of fine lattie-
work to which the electric relays, contacts, automatic circuit breakers,
and instruments are attached. The stations are 25 percent lighter that
previous models, and labor consumption in their assembly is 15 percent
less. They are easier to service after installation.- .
The first industrial consignment of this new type of control station
has been produced and shipped out to the Donbass Uglepererabotka Trust
for installation at coal-processing plants. (Moscow, Promyshlehno-
Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta, 27 Mar 59)
The Kiev Relay and Automatics Plant will soon begin the production
of relay units 'for the automatic control of hydraulic presses used. in
pressing plastics. The units ieveloped by a group of plant 'designers,
can control temperature and time in an industrial procesa. (Moscow, Iz-
vtstiya, 27 Nay 59)
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? The Kemerovo KUzbasselektromptor Plant produces the folloWing tes
of explosion-proof equipment:
PMV1331, PMVR14411 PLAYR1441/1, P101357A,:PNVR 1451, 1101365.q);
11011365-A, and PRV1031 explosion-proof starters', which have magnetic
and manual voltages up to 660 Volts, 50 cycles, and are designed for
running squirrel-cage motors.
It also produces the series PN700 and :PR700 high-reliability
explosion-proof starters, which have oil-filled elements and are Used
for Stationary installations with Voltages up to 500 volts!' They can
also be made in versions suitable for tropical operation, in which case
the letter "T" is-addedto their type-designation. They are not suitable
for frequent switching; because their contacts wear out too quickly in
the oil. The plant does not supply the oil for, filling the starters.
(Source gives additional information.on,these magnetic starters.)
(Moscow, Promyshlennaya Epergetikal May 59, PP 62-63)
D. Ultrasonic Equipment
The Leningrad High-Frequency Installations Plant has produced a new
series of machines for the ultrasonic processing of materials; for clean-
ing and. degreasing parts, and for improving electroplating processes.
These machine can process hard and brittle materials, porcelain, glass,
and various ceramic products. During 1959, the plant will begin the pro-
duction of five more new types of high-frequency machines. (Tashkent,
Pravda Vostoka, 24 Apr 59)
The Leningrad Electrical Machinery Plant has produced its first ten
ultrasonic units for preventing crust formation in boilers. (Leningrad-
skaya Pravda, 12 Apr 59)
E. Welding Machines
The S1KM,-3 universal capacitor seam-welding machine has been devel-
oped. by. the Laboratory of Electrothermy of the Institute of Electrical
Engineering, Academy of Sciences USSR, and the Chair of Electron and Ion
Devices of the Kiev Polytechnic Institute. Machines such as this one
. have never before been industrially produced. The ShK1473 welds, cross-
wise,.lengthwise, and circular seams in ferrous and nonferrous metals,
nickel, nichrome, tantalum) various alloys, and stainless steel from
.05 to .7 mm in thickness. The wide ranges of thicknesses and the variety
of metals it can weld give it a considerable advSntage for use: in:instru- ?
mgnt making, Vacuum tube manufacture, and other branches of industry.
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Several of these machines are already in Operation at inairument-
making plants.
The laboratory of Electrothermy has also developed the first TKM-8
semiautomatic capacitor machine for the spot welding of metal from .05
to .6 mm thick. (Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 15 May 59)
The Scientific Research Institute of Electric Welding Equipment has
produced five new machines for exhibition at the 1959 All-Union Industrial
Exposition. One of these is the MSIK-3-2 (15)/ the first miniature elec-
tric welding machite?,Which has a power of 3kia and is used for the seam
welding of extra-thin steel and brass sheets from ,03 to .2 mm in thick-
ness. (Leningradskaya Pravda, 17 May 59)
05) Photo available in source, p 2
F. Other Products
The Yoshkar-Ola Electrical Instrument Plant is selling type ATS-
30/0.5 natural air-cooled, three-phase, star-connected autotransformers
with powers from 57.5 to 112 kw. The transformers areIlugged in a, 380-
volt 50-cycIe circuit.
? Inquiries should be sent to the plant in Yoshkar-Ola, MarlySkaya
ASSE. Advertibemeht (Nbscow, Promyshlenno-Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta,
15 Apr 59)
The new Ustl-Kamenogorsk Capacitor Plant has manufactUred: its first
consignment of electrical capacitors. Yesterday [21 April 19591] it
shipped them to enterprises in EUdnyy Altay. (Moscow, Izvestiya, 22 Apr
59)
'The [Baku] Kishlinskiy Machine Building Plant of the Azerbaydzhan
Sovnarkhoz is the first USSR plant to begin the series production of room
air conditioners. It is producing the Azerbaydzhan room air conditioner
which can cool a room to plus 20 degrees Centigrade when, the outdoo1!
temperature is 40 degreet. It uses freon gas as a coolant, and consumes,
a maximum of kwhHof POWer.
,
Therew air conditioner, Which weighs 85 kg, will soon go on sale.
(Baku, Bakinskiy, Rab0011Y, 13. MAY 59)
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Recently, a universal intermittent conveyer line (16)'for.the siMnl-
taneous assembly. of several different types of electrical equipment for
autOmatic lines and unit-type machine tools has been put into operation
at the Mdecowlow-Voltage Equipment Plant. This line is 164 meters long,,
(Moscow, Izvestiyal 16 May 59)-
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the line available in source, p 21 top
The expansion of city and. highway construction has brought about an
increased demand for automatic signal switching devices for traffic signal
lights, The Voronezhskiy Sovnarkhoz has organized a section for the Pro-
duction of automatic traffic light switches at the. [Voronezh?) Electrical
Repair Plant. (Moscow, Za Rulem, Mar 59, p 4)
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