USSR ELECTRONIC AND PRECISION EQUIPMENT

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USSR.
ELECTRONIC AND PRECISION
EQUIPMENT
Number 14
13 October 1959
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USSR ELECTRONIC AND PRECISION EQUIPMENT
Table of Contents
I.
Items of Special Interest
T-
A.
Status of USSR Automation
1
B.
Production of Industrial Equipment
at Institute
1
C.
Shortages and Deficiencies
1
D.
New Plants
3
E.
Personalities
4
II.
Loc
al P
roduction and Organization
A.
RSFSR
1.
General 5
2.
Moskovskaya Oblast 5
3.
Leningrad 5
B. Ukrainian SSR
C. Belorussian SSR
D. Lithuanian SSR
E. Latvian SSR
F. Estonian SSR
G. Azerbaydzhan SSR
H. Armenian SSR
I. Tadzhik SSR
J. Kirgiz SSR
III.
Electronic Equipment
9
A.
Tubes
9
B.
Components
9
C.
Television
12
D.
Radios and Combination Sets
13
E.
Telephone Equipment
16
F.
Tape Recorders
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IV. Computers
V. Instruments
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A.
General
21
B.
Industrial Controls
22
C
Electrica and Electronic Instruments
26
D.
Geophysical Equipment
27
E.
Instrument Repair
27
VI.
Precision Equipment
28
A.
Cameras and Lenses
28
B.
Scales
30
C.
Hearing Aids,
31
D.
Theater Sound Equipment
31
VII.
Electrical Products
32
A.
Rotating Machinery
32
B.
Switches and Other Line Apparatus
32
C.
Mercury Rectifiers
33
D.
Power Capacitors
33
E.
Wire'and Cable
34+
F.
Batteries
34+
G.
Insulation
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I. ITEW CF SPECIAL INTEREST
A. Status'gf USSR Automation
Many difficulties in the introduction of automation have yet to be
eliminated in the USSR. Both in the organization of all-around scientific
research and in the production of automation equipment.we still lag behind
the US, only because the conditions necessary for automation (the produc-
tion facilities, the development of science, and the personnel) were de-
veloped later in our'country. It will take some time yet to overcome this
lag. 'However, in a planned economy with a continuous rapid growth of our
personnel and the level of our science, we possess in reality unlimited
capabilities for solving any kind of technical problem. An"ex'ample of
this is the launching of artificial satellites and the. development of
intercontinental rockets, where extremely complex automatic equipment and
instruments have played a considerable part. (Moscow, Kommunist, No 9,
Jun 59, p 17)
B. Production of Industrial Equipment at'Institute
Instruments with the producer's designation "LPI" are not made in
any factory or plant, but rather, in the Lvov Polytechnic Institute.
Many automatic units made by the Chair of Machine Building Technology,
Machine Tools, and Tools of the L'vov Polytechnic Institute are used in
the shops of the (L'vov] Tool Plant.
. A group of scientific associates of the institute are designing an
automatic line for assembling the electro-optical systems of television
picture tubes, which will be installed at the Lvov Electric Bulb Plant.
(Moscow, Trud, 18 Jul 59)
C. Shortages and Deficiencies
In Leningrad, a large center of the instrument-making industry, no
enterprises manufacture square parts for instruments. (Ieningradskay ,
Pravda, 7 Jul 59)
To fulfill the new tasks of the June Plenum of the Central Committee
CPSU, the Kiev Tochelektropribor Plant needs to expand,its shops and lab-
oratories, which are provided with obsolete equipment and occupy crowded
premises. The plant considers that now is the time to expand its labora-
tories and hire new personnel in order to create a branch of the Scientific
Research Institute of Instrument Maki ng... -Much help in this task could be
obtained from the Electrical Engineering Faculty of the Kiev Polytechnic
Institute and the Institute of Electrical Engineering of the Academy of
Sciences Ukrainian SSR, which have been aiding the'plant for a long time.
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Nobody can deny that new high-quality materials are needed for new
instruments. ,However, it is difficult to obtain modern magnetic alleys
and insulation materials for making: experimental models, also there is a
shortage of polyvinyl chloride, nylon, and phenol powders. It is the duty
of'the Kiyevskiy Sovnarkhoz to help.the plant meet its goals. (Moscow,
Promyshlenno-Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta, 29 Jul 59)
A complaint might be registered against instrument making plants.
Sugar refineries do not have such instruments as density meters, lime
milk, syrup, and molasses flow meters. It is time to develop and man-
ufacture them. (Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 29 May 59)
What motivates Rosglavelektrosnabsbyt [Main Administration for the
Supply and Sale of Electrical .Products of the R'SR? ] in its met.od of
distr.buting products? This question was brought up in a letter from
Desyaterik, chief of the Supply Division of the Mednogorsk Uralelektro
motor,:Plant of the Orenburgskiy Sovnarkhoz.
When the plant needed PELBO wire .7-1.0 mm in,gauge, Rosglavelek-
trosnabsbyt selected the Kuybyshev Cable Plant for Order No 1-59-768 the
Leningrad Sevkabel' Plant fpr Order No 1-59-80], and the Rybinsk Cable
Plant for Order No 19-59-788.
The Madnogorsk Plant received the first order without too much
.trouble, since Kuybyshev is not too far away. But it experienced dif-
ficulty with the other two orders, since both Rybinsk and Leningrad are
about 2,000 km from Mednogorsk.
The Mednogorsk plant had been receiving PM cable from the Berdyansk
Cable Plant. However, according to order No 29-57-29, it was to begin
procuring this cable from Khabarovsk. The plant had to hire a plane to
fly in the cable in order to meet the production plan. Thus 5,983 rubles
had to be spent to bring in cable worth only 2,647 rubles..
P&-dno$ordc plant personnel would not be surprised if one of these
days cable plants turned up on Vrangel' Island or on the Kamchatka.Pen-
insula. (Moscow, Promyshlenno-Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta, 15 Jul 59)
A letter from Fireov, chief of the Production Division of the
Administration of Radio and Electrigal Engineering and M;talworking In-
dustry, Latvian Sovnarkhoz, was published in the 17 May 1959 issue of
Promyshlenno-Ekonomicheskaya!Gazeta. He indicated in the letter that
the output opt Festival' high-class radio receivers, at the Riga Radio
Plant imeni Popov was being disrupted because the Pod.ol'skkabel' plant 't
had failed to supply 18-conductor cable for quite a long time, although
the latter plant had received an order for such cable.
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According to D. Chernichkin, a member of Gosplan USSR, the Division
of Electrical Engineering and Instrument Making Industry of Gosplan USSR
has studied Firsov's letter "Soyuzglavelektro" of Gosplan USSR has'there-
fore allotted 117 km of 18-conductor cable for the Riga Radio P}ant during
1959. Of the 117 km, 48 km will come from the Podol'skkabel' Plant and
the rest from othercable industry enterprises. (Moscow, Pron7shlenno-
Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta, 12 Jul 59)
D. New Plants
The Tallin.Radio Engineering Plant imeni Kh. Pegel'man (Tallinskiy
radiotekhnicheskiy zavod imeni Kh. Pegel'mana) has the following' articles
on sale on credit: types FS-KO, FS-Kl, FS-K2, FS-AO, FS-Al, and FS-Alf
photoresistors; also nonlinear semiconductor resistors rated for 5, 20,
or 50, volts; from ,7 to 30 milliamperes plus or minus 20 percent; and
for nonlinear factors from 1.5 to'l..5.
Send enquiries to the plant at Pyarnuskoye Shosse 14+2, Tallin, Es-
tonian SSR. -- Advertisement (Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva, 10 Jul 59)
The izhevsk Radio Plant (Izhevskiy radiozavod) is one of the newest
enterprises of the Udmurtskaya ASSR'. It produces Volna radio receivers
and has begun the development of small radio-phonographs based on printed
circuits. Engineers and production workers are'doing extensive work in
the utilization of plastics and in the mechanization and automation of
production processes. About 80 percent. of the workers and other employes
are graduates of secondary schools and special edhicational''institutions.
(Moscow, Pravda, 4 Aug 59)
The Mozyr' Cable Plant (Mozyrskiy kabel'nyy zavod), which is subor-
dinate to the Administration of Electrical Engineering Industry and.In-
strument Making of the Belorussian Sovnar&hoz, is a new enterprise and
has not yet begun operation. However, the administration is having this
plant equipped with old machinery, such. as extrusion presses and anneal-
ing furnaces. It-stands to reason that an enterprise equipped with museum
pieces will not satisfy the needs of its consumers..
Borushko is chief of the Administration of Electrical Engineering
Industry and Instrument Making. (Moscow, Izvestiya, 7 Aug 59)
The Purmanskiy Electrical Machinery Plant in Pyl'tsama, Estonian SSR,
which was organized in the buildings of a former WS, will soon be ready
for operation. Soon this new enterprise will begin: the production of
high-voltage 6- and 10-kv disconnecting switches, which are badly needed
for the electrification of agriculture In the republic.
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The creation of this new enterprise is an example of the efficient
use of existing production space;- In a few months.., the Risti Metal Pro-
ducts Plant, also organized on the basis of a former MPS, will turn out
its first products. (Moscow, Pravda, 18 Aug 59)
Personalities
P. B. Borodin is deputy chairman of the State Committee for Automa-
tion and Machine Building of the Council of Ministers USSR. (Moscow,
Sovetskaya Pechat'J Jul 59, P 1)
B. Grigor'yev is chief engineer of the Scientific Research Institute
of Aircraft Technology. (Moscow, Izobretatel' i Ratsionalizator, Jul 59,
p 2)
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RSFSR
During the first half of 1959, enterprises of the RSFSR produced
l,900 large electric machines, 6,600 electric motors Over 100 In power,
624,000 electric motors up to 100 kw in power 51.9 million vacuum tubes,
and'power transformers with a total power'of 8.3 million kva. (Moscow,
Sovetskaya Rossiya,, 15 Jul 59)
2. Noskovskaya Oblast
During the first half of 1959, enterprises of Moskovskaya Oblast
produced 663,000 electric meters and 225,300 cameras. (Moscow, Ieninskoye
Znamya, 23 Jul 59)
3.. Leningrad
During the first half of 1959, enterprises of Leningrad ..axed''.
Leningradskaya Oblast-produced 12,200 power circuit breakers, power trans-
formers with a total power of 113,000-kw, 4+,06+ electric welding machines,
703 X-ray units, 2,863 km of armored cable, 3,868.km of marine cable,
359,600 cameras, and 758,000 timepieces. (Ieningradskaya Pravda, 21 Ju1 59)
B. Ukrainian SSR
During the first half of 1959, enterprises of the Ukrainian SSR
produced 1,393 large electric machines, 1,001 electric motors over 100
kw in power, 291,000 electric motors under 100 kw in power, 1+,200 tape
recorders, 111,000 radio receivers, 15,100 television sets, and 1+5,000
cameras.
The above figures represent. moderate percentage increases over the, first
half of 1958, except for a 30-percent decrease in the production of radios
and a more than tripled output of television sets. (Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy,
19 Jul.59)
C. Belorussian SSR
During the Seven-Year Plan, construction will be completed of the
! nsk Timepiece Plant, the Borisov Motor Vehicle and Tractor Electrical
Equipment Plant, the Gomel' Instrument Making Plant, the Lida Electrical
Installation Equipment Plant, and the Gomel' and Mozyr' aluminum and
steel-aluminum electric wire plants. The output of the Minsk Electrical
Engineering Plant will be expanded considerably. (Minsk, Kommunist Belo-
-russii, No 4, Apr 59, p 33)
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D. Lithuanian SSR
In a .958, 3.9 million radio receivers and one million television sets
were produced by USSR industry. USSR radio receivers and television
sets are of as good quality as the best models made in the capitalist
countries of Europe and in the US.
During the years of Soviet rule, a highly developed radio industry
was re-established in the Lithuanian SSR. In 1958, Lithuanian industry
.produced 1,700 radio receivers. B the end of 1965, the production of
radio receivers will reach 50,000. During this same time, the production
of tape recorders will rise from 15,600 to 70,000.
A-television equipment plant with a capacity of 100,000 television
sets'per year will be constructed in Vi1'nyus. (Vil'nyus, Sovetskaya
Litva, 5 Aug 59)
During the first half of 1959, enterprises of the Lithuanian SSR
have produced 5,100 electric welding units, 8,200 electric welding
transformers, 345,600 electric motors under one kw in power, 3,900 elec-
tric motors from one to 100 kw in power, and 976,400 electric meters.
The above figures represent small or moderate increases over the
first half of 1958, except for a 52-percent in in the production
of electric motors under one kw in power. (Vil'nyus, Sovetskaya Litva,
19 Jul 59)
E. Latvian SSR
During the first half of 1959, enterprises of the Latvian SSR pro-
duced 1,300 sets of train lighting equipment, 108 sets of electrical
equipment for motor cars of electrified railroads, 3,700 sets of elec-
trical equipment for lift trucks automatic telephone equipment with a ca-
pacity of 74,000 numbers, 255,000 telephone sets, and 260,000 radio re-
ceivers. (Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 25 Jul 59)
F. Estonian SSR
The Tallin Volta Plant, the Tallin Eesti Kaab_iEl' Plant, the Tallin
Punane RET Plant, the Tallin' Radio Engineering Plant imeni Kh. Pegel'man
(Tallinskiy radiotekhnicheskiy zavod imeni Kh. Pegel'mana), and the Tartu
Instrument Making Plant are all subordinate to the Administration of Machine
Building of the Estonian Sovnarkhoz.
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During the first half of 1959, enterprises of the Estonian SSR pro-
duced 7.6 million rubles' worth of illumination engineering equipment;
5.1 million rubles/ worth of electrical installation equipment; 12.5 km
of installation wire; 55 million rubles' worth of instruments, automation
equipment, and spare parts for them; and 7,400 radio-phonographs.
During the first half of 1959, the Tallin Eesti Kaabel' Plant mas-
tered the production of rubber-insulated cable with polyvinyl chloride
covering, and aluminum conductors;'the Punane RET Plant began the produc-
tion of high-class radio-phonographs with two extension. loud-speakers;
the Tallin Radio Engineering Plant imeni Kh. Pegel'man began the produc-
tion of new semiconductor devices; and the,Tallin Experimental Control
and Measuring Equipment Plant began the production of automatic radio-
active~positioning level gauges.
At the same time, the Tartu Instrument Mating Plant failed to begin
the production of modernized TRK-57 thermal, relays and RDK-57 pressure
relays. The Tallin Experimental Control and Measuring Instrument Plant
failed to begin the production of contactless weight meters for the textile
industry and instruments for measuring the thickness of cold-rolled metal.
(Tallin, Sovetskaya Estoniya, 25 Jul 59)
G. Azerbaydzhan SSR
During the first half of 1959, enterprises of the Azerbaydzhan SSR
produced 56,800 electric motors up to 100 kw in power; 12 million rubles'
worth. of instruments, automation equipment, and instrument spare parts;
and 21,100 radio receivers and television sets.
The production of electric motors was 26 percent over the first-
half of 1958; that of instruments, automation equipment, and spare parts
was-78 percent over the first half of 1958; that of radios and television
sets was 48 percent over the first half of 1958.
The Baku Electrical Machine Building Plant and the Kazan-gulag Elec-
trical Equipment Plant tKazanbulagskiy elektroapparatnyy zavod] of the
Administration of Machine Building, Azerbaydzhan Sovnarkhoz, failed to
fulfill their gross production plans,. as did the Electrical Machinery
Plant [Elektromekhanicheskiy zavod] of the Idnistry of Local Industry
Azerbaydzhan SSR. (Baku, Bakinskiy Rabochiy, 29 Jul 59)
H. Armenian SSR
During the first half of 1959, enterprises of the Armenian SSR pro-
duced 13,908 generators up to 100 kw in power, 95,652 electric motors,.up
to 100 kw in power, 8,125 mobile'generating units, power transformers with
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a total power of 1,333,000 kva, 18,016 electric light bulbs, 8,794 km of
lighting cord, 39,129 km of installation wire, bare wire made from 3,103
tons of copper, and 6+6,000 alarm clocks.
The above figures represent slight'increases over the first half of
1958, except for small reductions in the production of mobile generating
units and alarm clocks and a 138-percent gain over 1958 in the production
of bare copper wire. (Yerevan, Kommunist, 28 Jul 59)
Workers of the Tadzhik SSR have made the following pledges for, the
Seven-Year Plana to organize in the republic,, beginning in 1959, with-
out additional capital investment over the Seven-Year Plan level, the pro-
duction of new electrical products, namely, power transformers, cable pro-
ducts, light bulbs, installation products, glass insulators, electrical
porcelain, low- and high-voltage switchgear, washing machines, electrical
trade equipment, metal products for electrical equipment, and irons. In
1965, 350 million rubles' worth of these products will be manufactured.
(Stalinabad,Kommunist Tac zhikistana, 23 Jul 59)
[Comment. As far as is known, the present production of electrical
products in the Tadzhik SSR is negligible.]
J. Kirgiz SSR
Ihiring the first half of 1959, enterprises of the Kirgiz SSR produced
193,000 magnetic starters. (Frunze, Sovetskaya Kirgiziya,,22 Jul 59)
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A. Tubes
For 13 years, a radio station of the Ministry of Communication has
been operating successfully with high-power dismountable tubes in its
output stage. This practice has lowered the statiion's operating costs.
If it had utilized regular sealed gibes, it would have used up at last
four hundred 100-kw radio tubes during those 13 years. The cost of these
tubes, including transportation expenses, would have amounted to about
one million rubles.
Three types of dismountable tubes are used in the USSR: the RG-500,
the-20-S-300, and the RGM-500. Dismountable tubes can operate for 20-30
years in a transmitter circuit.. The tubes are usually electronic units
which have to be exhausted continuously while in operation.
Despit the obvious economic superiority of dismountable tubes, they
are not widely used because neither the Main Radio Administration of the
Ministry of Communications USSR nor. the State Committee for Radioelee-
tronics of the Council of Ministers USSR pays sufficient attention to
the development, production, and utilization of such tubes. The ~xist-
ing situation should be remedied in the next year or two. (Moscow, Vest-
nik Svyazi, Jun 59, pp 9-10)
A type 531K4+Ts color television picture tube (1) has been developed
in the color picture tube laboratory of the Moscow Electric Bulb Plant.
(Mscow, Vechernyaya Mosk.a,5 Aug 59)
(1) Photo showing the screen of the new picture tube after testing
available in source, p 2, center
B. Components
Capacitors, resistors, switches, tubes, semiconductors, and relays
are needed in almost any branch of industry. Therefore, much attention
is being paid to increased output and to the mechnization and automation
of the production of these radio components.
Design and design-technological bureaus or divisions have been or-
ganized at many plants for working out the over-all mechanization of com-
ponents production. Although these plants have not been operating thus
for very long, they have achieved notable successes. For example, a radio
parts plant of the Moscow Oblast Sovnarkhoz (Pavlovskiy Posed Radio Com-
ponents. Plant) has fully mechanized lines for the production of mica,
glass-enamel, and plastic-film capacitors.
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Over-all mechanization and automation of the production of radio com-
ponents significantly raise the basic technical and economic indexes of
shops and enterprises. For example, constant-flow mechanized lines for
the production of type ILT resistors have increased their output 1.6 per-
cent; lines for making metal and paper capacitors have more than tripled
their output per square meter of production space.
However, this advanced technology is being introduced into production
very slowly. Sometimes, machines take years and years to develop. The
trouble stems from the fact that the machine-tool and tool industry does
not develop industrial equipment for mass and large-series productioni)of
radio components.
Workers of radio plants themselves must develop such machines, al-
though they lack know-how, equipment, and facilities. Various small de-
signs groups and divisions operating independently have arisen at radio
component manufacturing plants. For example, mechanization of the pro-
duction of resistors is handled in Nbscow, Leningrad, Gor'kiy, and Voro-
nezh; and mechanization of the production of electrolytic capacitors takes
place in Leningrad, Voronezh, and Novosibirsk. This work is dispersed
within individual economic regions and amounts to a waste of manpower and
equipment.
Over-all mechanization and automation of the production of various
radio components, especially the development of automatic lines, should
be handled by the design groups of leading machine tools plants. It is
much easire to standardize machine parts in large design bureaus, which
would also be-'able to produce experimental models and even small-series
products. Design bureaus-at radio component plants should specialize
in the development of individual processes, such as electrical measuring,
heat treatment, vacuum, assembly, and welding processes. All of this
would help to unify the designs of radio components and to utilize
mechanization and automation know-how more advantageously.
It is highly important that material and technical supply be improved
for organizations engaged in automation and mechanization of radio com-
ponent production.
It would be best to organize stores and warehouses for the sale of
standardized machine units, automatic systems components, and other parts
such as reducers, control knobs, regulating valves, small electric motors,
and pneumatic and hydraulic drive systems in such large industrial centers,
as Moscow, Leningrad,; and Novosibirsk. Planning organs could obtain what
they need from such stores. Since special laboratory equipment is..used_
for a fixed period and than becomes of little or no use, it would be wise
to develop,equipment leasing bases in large cities, where for example,
ultrasonic generators, soldering irons, and machine tools could be leased.
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Operations of the special design bureaus are being hampered because
they are subject to too many masters. On one hand, they are subordinate
directly to the directors of the plants where they are located, who often
use them for purposes other than those the bureaus should fulfill. On the
other, they are subject to the administrations of radio engineering indus-
try of the sovnarkhozes where they are located. In addition, they are
"under the care of" the State Cornidttee for Rad oelectronics. Project.
plans (tematicheckiy plan) have to be coordinated with all of these organ-
izations. Often, the opinions of these leading organs are divergent. For
this reason, for example, a design bureau serving the radio industry of
Leningrad did not have its 1959 project plan approved until May 1959.
-- Engr. N. Kashin, Leningrad (Moscow, Promyshlenno-Ekonomicheskaya
Gazeta, 28 Jun 59)
On 28 June 1959, an article by Engr N. Kashin of Leningrad about the
laggard introduction of constant-flow mechanized lines and automatic lines
in the production of radio components by the radio industry was published
in Pr?on7shlenno-Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta.
In answer to this article, K. Martyushov, chief ,of the Seventh Admin-
istration of the State Committee for Radioelectronics of the Council of
Ministers USSR, informed the editorial board that the committee has
worked out a single plan for 2-3 years, wherein each special design bureau
and plant is given a specified amount of work in the planning and implemen-
tation of the plans for mechanization and automation equipment.
Recently a resolution was adopted concerning the establishment of
plants specializing in the production of nonstandard industrial instru-
ments for the radio industry, especially for enterprises engaged in the
production of radio components. Individual types of equipment and lines
will be built according to existing designs and according to new develop-
ments. (Moscow, Promyshlenno-Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta, 29 Jul 59)
At present, selenium rectifier wafers 15 mm or over in size are
produced in only square or rectangular shapes. The production of round
types was terminated as of 1 January 1959.
Only two diameters of selenium rectifier wafers are produced in
round shapes: 5 and 7.2 mm. (2scow, Radio, Jun 59, p 59)
The Novosibirsk Radio Components Plant mass-produces a large variety
of products, including type PM fuses and type KE capacitors. (Moscow,
Partiynaya Zhiz n', No 13, Jul 59, pp 37-38)
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C. Television
The Electrical Engineering Institute of dommunications imeni M. A.
Bonch-Bruyevich is participating directly in the further development of
television. Its laboratory of industrial television has created a' unit
for power stations, which allows a dispatcher continuously to observe
boiler operations. The unit consists of three television cameras and a
receiver unit, which the dispatcher uses to control the operations of the
boilers.
The laboratory has also developed an experimental television unit
for. studying oil wells, which is undergoing testing in oil fields of the
Tatarskaya ASSR and has thus far operated successfully.
The Vorkutugol' Combine asked the institute to make equipment for
studying coal beds in the northern coal fields. The institute developed
a television unit which can be used for this purpose..
The institute's laboratories are developing color and three-dimen-
sional television systems. This work was begun 10 years ago. The first
experimental unit was used to demonstrate the particularities of three-
dimensional television reception. A unit for industrial purposes was
built on the basis of these experiments.
It is important at present to-cut down the width of the transmitted
frequency. band. Usually a certain spectrum of'frequencies must be used
for transmitting television video. Since three=dimensional television re-
quires that information be transmitted twice at the same time, the spec-
trum has to be doubled. At present, a special. camera is being developed
for the transmission of three-dimensional video. A three-dimensional
color television receiver is also being developed.'
Scientists are thinking of automating the operations of television
centers and of developing a system of automatic controls for these opera-
tions.
Ultrasonic television is an interesting field of radioelectronics.
It can be used to see where the. human eye has hitherto been unable to
penetrate.
The electrical engineering institute and the Leningrad Institute of
Motion-Picture Engineers have collaborated in the development of a tele-
vision system for making motion-picture films by an electronic method.
The idea consists in; using a television camera to take' the shots and us-
ing the screen-of a special iconoscope to record the images directly on
film. PT .:'S ,Eoq,, Honored Worker of Science and Technology, `Professor,
Doctor-of Technical Sciences (Leningradskaya Pravda, 25 Jul 59)
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The Chair of Television headed by P. V. Shmakov of the Leningrad
Electrical Engineering Institute of Communications has'-'de'veloped an in-
dustrial dispatcher ' television unit for the remote' observation` of instru-
ment readings at power stations This unit was developed in collabora-
tion with workers of Hydroelectric Power Station No 2 of Lenenergo
[Ieningrad Regional Electric Power Administration].
The television unit utilizes four transmitter cameras using M6lot-1
tubes; an intermediate stand with an auxiliary screen; and a receiver
unit.
Recently, the Chair of Television developed the equipment of a studio
camera which operates on the scanning beam principle. This equipment is
designed for small color television studios and can also be used success-
fully ;or';._.blaok-and~hi'te;,c; t~~ns;missiol from small studios. (Moscow,
Promyshlenno-Ekonomicheskaya Gazet,.29 Jul 59)
The Sputnik-2 all-transistor television set, which was developed in
a Moscow institute, can be powered by a 12-volt storage battery. The
set's input is only 13.2 watts, as compared with 105 watts for the. most
economical series-produced television set. The Sputnik-2 weighs a little
over 7 kg, as compared with the 16-kg-weight of the lightest mass-produced
television set.
The new television set has a 200-x=150-mm screen and has. the same
sensitivity as an ordinary set. (Kishinev, Sovetskaya Moldaviya, 12 Jul
59)
The 12-channel Znamya-59 television set, which has a screen measur-
ing 340 x 255 mm and is mounted in a table-model varnished wood cabinet,
sells for 2,600 rubles. This price includes spare parts provided for in
the specifications.
The 12-channel Topaz projection-type television-set retails for
8,000 rubles. This price includes accessories and spare parts provided
for in the specifications. (Moscow, Byulleten' Roznichnykh Tsen, No 20,
Jul 59, p 36)
Radios and Combination Sets
The design bureau of the Voronezh Radio Plant (Voronezhskiy radio-
zavod) has developed the Rodina-59 Class-2 superheterodyne radio receiver,
which is designed mainly for operation in rural areas and can be powered
by batteries or by AC current. The set has both semiconductors and tubes.
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The frequency converter and heterodyne stage of the Rodina-59 are
based on one type p-29 battery triode-heptode tube. The two intermediate-
frequency stages use 1K2P tubes. The detector stage utilizes a D2Ye ger-
manium diode. The other stages use type P13 semiconductors. Two of.them
are used in the first audio amplifier circuit and. two in the second audio
amplifier circuit. A P13A triode is used in.,the voltage converter unit.
The set receives stations in the long-, medium-, and short-nave bands.
Its intermediate frequency is 465 kc. It can be powered from a conven-
tional set of batteries with voltages of 1.2; 6, of 60 volts; from low-
power dry cells or storage batteries with voltages of 1.2 or 6. volts; or
from an AC circuit with voltages of 220 or 127 volts. (Moscaw,"Radio,
Jun 59, P 5)
A group of engineers of the Riga VEF Plant under the leadership of
Robert Fridrikhson have finished developing the new Latviya radio-phono-
graph, which will replace the Akkord. The new set will have a superior
sound system and will employ a rotating ferrite antenna for its long
and median -wave bards . , An internal dipole antenna will serve to bring in
local FM ultrashort-wave-stations. The set will,have keyboard controls
and will play 33,., 45-, and 78-rpm records.
In contrast to currently produced radios, the Iatviya gill employ.-
a unit system for its chassis. The units will have printed circuits
and all the components can be soldered simultaneously to the circuits by
the dip soldering method. Therefore, the plant's new technology shop is
getting ready to put into operation an automatic line for making printed
circuits: The completely new design of the Iatviya will make it possible
to mechanize many assembly operations. It is expected that the series
production of this radio-phonograph will begin in 1960.
Besides developing the above-named models, the plant expects to re.-
place the I}ruks-2 radio-phonograph, with a better model. The new,'model
will be of a..console type, with a four-speed record player, which can
also be used for playing stereophonic records.
In the future, plant designers will work on radio.equipment,using
semiconductors and designed for semiautomatic production. The increased
consumer demand for television sets has made plant designers think-about
developing combination sets with television receivers. -- B. Kostanyants,
Chief Designer, Riga VEF Plant (Riga, Sovetskaya Iatviya, 10 Jul 59.)
The Ntinsk Radio Plant is being aided by the IRPA (Scientific Research
Institute of Radiobroadcast Reception and Acoustics)in the development.
of a radio receiver for rural areas,. which,will soon be finished. This
receiver will have long- and medium-wave bands. Its output power will be
about .4-.5 watts, but its input power 'will be only .85-9-watts. Type
Saturn flashlight batteries will power the set.
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The use of good audio frequency circuits and a two-speaker sound
system enhances the set's audio quality.
Plant designers are also developing the Belarus'-5 television combi-
nation set. Although they have not finished their current projects, they
are already planning new developments, including television sets utilizing
picture tubes with deflection angles of 110 degrees, console television
sets with tape-recorder attachments, and new radio-phonographs. -- V.
Puanpyanskiy, Chief Engineer, Minsk Radio Plant (Moscow, Radio, Jun 59, p 5)
The Minsk Radio Plant has already begun series production of Be~arus-"-5
combination :te3,6Visioh-radio-phonographs. (Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiya,
19 Jul 59)
The. Minsk Radio Plant has begun series production of the new Belarus?t-5
combination television-radi-o'-phonograph. T'he_,: first consignment of
these sets has been turned over to the trade network.
The.Belarus'-5 sets are produced in the television shop (2) of
the plant. (Stalinabad, Kommunist Tadzhikstana, 6 Aug 59)
. (2) Photo showing the Belarus'-5 sets on a warm-up conveyer avail-
able in source, p 4
The Rostov Mail Order Base of the Ministry of Trade RSFSR has the
following radio-phonographs on sale: Oktava, 1,296 rubles; Ural-57)91+5
rubles; and Muromets, 995 rubles.
The above prices including packing and shipping costs. -- Advertise-
ment (Yerevan, Kommunist, 9 Jul 59)
The Dayna Radio-Phonograph is produced within the Administration of
Instrument Making of the Lithuanian Sovnarkhoz. (Moscow, Knizhnaya Lctopis',
No 33, 1959, p 46)
Enterprises of the Lithuanian Sovnarkhoz have produced the first
models of combination radio-tape recorders. These combinations have
seven-tube receivers with keyboard controls and four loud-speakers,
which produce a stereophonic effect. The, tape recorder- is mounted
at the top, where the record turntable is usually located on a r,dio-
phonograph. Recordings can be made through a microphone or directly
from the radio receiver.
It is expected that the series production of the radio-tape recorder
combinations will begin in August 1959. "(Moscow, Sovetskaya Torgovlya,.
11 Jul 59)
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E. Telephone Equipment
At present, the Riga VEF Plant produces step-bp-step automatic tele-
phone exchanges, which utilize complex electromechanical devices. However,
designers of the plant, in collaboration with the Leningrad
Institute of Communications Equipment (Lcningradskiy nauchno- Scientific Re-
search issledovatel'skiy institut tekhriiki svyazi), are to begin the development
and production of new types of crossbar automatic telephone exchanges
during the Seven-Year Plan.
The new exchanges are being developed in two variants: the ATS-K
40/80, for rural communications and the UATS-K 100/2000 for industrial
enterprises and institutions. The exchanges are being designed so that
they can be"utilized as extension city substations.
The new exchanges will utilize modern contactiess connections., based
on the use of ferrites?and semiconductors.
It is expected that'the production of the at-ossbar exahanges?.will
begin in 1963.
In preparing for the production of crossbar exchanges, we should also
develop high-capacity city telephone exchanges of the table type [stolovay
tip] with automated tntrastation connections. Such equipment will make
it possible to carry on uninterrupted telephone communications between
different cities. The table-type station is being developed by a design
.group headed'by Vasiliy Poietayenko. Designers promise to finish the
work in time to organize the production of these stations in'1962.
Besides the abovethe plant is to begin the production of other
modern equipment, including automatic' telegraph relay equipment, which
has already been developed and should be put into production by the end
of 1959.
-The plant is hampered in its production of telephone handsets be-
cause it does not have the special pressure casting machines needed for
making plastic parts.. This is the fault of the Latvian Sovnarkhoz, wh4:ch
failed to supply the necessary equipment on time.
Another impediment is the Permskiy Sovnarkhoz, which,supplies poor
quality telephone and microphone capsules, and in meager quantities at
that. The Odessa Cable Plant, which has developed good stretch-cord for
telephones, is not bothering to produce it.
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Although a Faculty of Electrical Communications exists at the Riga
Polytechnic Institute, its first specialists will not graduate for 3 years.
The sovnarkhoz.must see about supplying the personnel. needed by the Riga
V.E ` Plant in the meantime. -- V. Kostanyants, Chief Engineer, Riga VEF
Plant (Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 10 Jul 59)
F. TaRe.Recorders
The Vil`nyys El'fa Electrical Engineering Plant has developed and is
now producing-the new El;fa-l0 (Spalis) tape recorder for individual use.
It is designed'for types 2 or SN tapes. Its tape speed' is 190.5 mm/sec,
and it is intended for work with reels having a capacity of 360 meters.
The Spalis utd.lizes the'two-track recording method.. Switching from
one track to the other is accomplished by transferring the full reel.
from the right to the left side. The recorder measures 410 x 300 x 175 mm,
is powered from a 127- or 220-volt circuit, and requires no more than 75
watts input for any type of operation.
(Source gives detailed information abut the E1'fa-10 recorder.)
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A completely automatic traffic light controlled by an electronic
analog computer unit has been installed on one of the intersections of
Nevskly P.rospekt in Leningrad. This is the first time cybernetic machin-
ery has been put into use for traffic regulation purposes in the USSR.
Electronic machines are being,'used on an ever-increasing scale in
the USER.' Recently,'the Leningrad Institute of Precision Mechanics and
Optics developed a machine for making complex calculations involved in
the computation of /Various optical 'systems . An analog computer developed
at the Electrical Engineering Institute of Communications imeni M. A.
Bonch-Bruyevich adds trigonometric tables in several mi'artes and computes
complex problems in the field of radio communications and electrical: engi-
neering. The Scientific Research Institute of Urban and Rural Telephone
Communications has devised a machine for computing and designing several
hundreds of connection circuits needed in the development of automatic
telephone exchanges. (Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 17 Jul 59)
The TsNIIKA (Central Scientific Research Institute of Over-All Auto-
mation) has begun the development ofb, control computer for the over-all
automation of a boiler-turbogenerator unit.
The TsNIIKA is developing equipment based on control computers for
complete automation of units at the Zmeyevskaya GRES [State Regional
Electric Power Station] of Khar'kovenergo [I ar'kov Regional Electric
Power Administration?]. (Moscow, Kommunist,`No 9, Jun 59, p 21)
In 1958, an original digital machine for automatic registration and
signaling, the MARS-300, was produced. This machine was developed by the
Design Bureau for Biophysical Apparatus. It can control. temperature,
flow vacuum, and a number of other parameters simultaneously at 300 points.
The information comes out in digital form on a special tape and also in
the form of signals on a simulation diagram.! (Moscow, Kommunist, No 9,
Jun 59, p 29)
A group of Soviet engineers headed by Yu. N. Belikov of a scientific
research institute have developed an electronic interpolator called the'',
Stanok. This machine can make computations for the machining of parts
with complex three-dimensional configurations at very high speeds in
accordance with blueprints. The computation results are recorded on mag-
netic or punched tape that shows which part and what configuration three-
dimensional-milling' machine is supposed to machine. The machine tool in
turn has a small input unit in which the tape is inserted to provide a pro-
gram for the automatic machining of the part.
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The interpolator and input unit have been successfully tested and
approved by a technical conference of representatives of leading USSR
scientific research institutes working in the field of electronics and by
a state interdepartmental commission, and it has been recommended that
they be produced for industrial use. (Baku, Bakinskiy Rabochiy, 8 Jul 59)
The first USSR system for the digital programed control of a heavy
lathe has been developed by designers tLt the Kh.artkov Electrical Machinery
Plant. These designers, in collaboration with the Kharkov Polytechnic
Institute, have already made the necessary laboratory studies. (kiev,
Pravda Ukrainy, 9 Jul 59)
Moscow scientists headed by V. A. Trapeznikov, Corresponding Member
of the Academy 'cif Sciences USSR, and B. Ya. Kogan, Candidate of Technical
Sciences, have developed the EMJ-8 electronic analog unit, a high-pre-
cision machine intended for use by scientists in checking out new automa-
tion systems.
Because of the great volume of automation activity in metallurgy,
machine building, power engineering and construction, the industrial
series-production of the EMJ-8 analog unit has been started. (Baku,
Bakinskiy Rabochiy, 1 Aug 59)
Viktor Semenovich Petrov is the director of the Moscow Computing
and Analyzing Machine Plant (zavod schetno-analiticheskikh mashie).
The largest shop in the plant is the tabulator shop. Recently, a semi-
conductor shop was organized at the plant. (Moscow, Moskovskaya Pravda,
11 Jul 59)
The Kursk Schetmash Plant is subordinate to the Kurskiy Sovnarkhoz.
Kormilitsya.is chief mechanic of the plant. (Moscow, Pravda, 7 Aug 59)
A computing center has been organized at the Tartu State University.
A Ural electronic computer is being acquired by the center, which will
do work for scientific institutes and plants located in Tartu.
Utilization of the new computer will help promote research work in
mathematics, especially in cybernetics and computer mathematics. (Tallin,
Sovetskaya Estoniya, 5 Jul 59)
Recently, the personnel of the Computing Center of the Institute of
Mechanics and Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences Azerbaydzhan SSR fin-
ished assembling and adjusting a continuous electronic computer (3). Azer-
baydzhan scholars learned how to put such a machine into operation at
the Computing Center of. the Academy of Sciences Ukrainian SSR. This machine
can solve the future current distribution in the.Azenergo [Azerbaydzhan
SSR.Regional Electric Power Administration?], one of the largest power
systems in the USSR. It can also solve problems connected with determin-
ing wave resistance against bodies submerged in liquids.
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This analog can also be used as a automatic computer or integrator
for determining differential and, algebraic' equations4"-td- tbi*'YAh degree
inclusively, and it solves such equations very rapidly.
The machine is highly practical. All variables and their derivatives
are observed visually and. are registered by pointer instruments, which are
copnected to the appropriate output circuits. The graphic solution is
photographed on an oscillograph. -- F. Nagiyeva, Senior Engineer, Com-
puting Center of the Institute, of Mechanics and Mathematics, Academy of
Sciences Azerbaydzhan,SSR (Baku, Bakinskiy Rabochiy, 29 Jul 59)
(3) Photo available in source, p 4
The machine computing station of the1Statistical Administration of
the Armenian SSR was founded about 2 years ago, but began operations only
recently. The station, iihiabi. i6_headed b 'L5~1 Tula. 'an, _.is' equ. p d with
high-dapacit;y- card,pwaches -,-.vsrifi-ers7iia.s.orte.rs, and tabulators.
The new station has mechanized all of the work of the Armenian SSR
Statistical Administration and part of the computing,and calculating
activities of the Streetcar and Trolley Bus Administration, Shoe Factory
No 1, a planning institute, and other enterprises. At present, workers
of the station have begun mechanizing the' greater part of the computing
work of the Yerevan Silk Combine i"meni V. I. Lenin, and the "Armzhilgrazh-
danproyekt" Planning Institute [for Civilian Housing of the Armenian SSR?]
During the first half of 1959, the station has performed about 8 million
additions, 1.2 million calculations, and many other operations and has
cut computing costs to a fraction of their former size. (Yerevan,
Kosmaunist, 2 Aug 59)
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V. INSTRUMENTS
A. General
The following measures and measuring instruments have been approved
bythe Committee on Standards, Measures, and.Fbasuring Instruments, on
the basis of state tests, :'c?' use in the USSR:
Y BR-58 lever-type resistance box produced in the L'vovskiy,Sovnarkhoz.
M-216 panel microammeter produced in the Omskiy Sovnarkhoz.
M-220 panel microammeter produced in the Omskiy Sovnarkhoz.
F-505 portable electronic voltmeter produced in.the Kiyevskiy Sov-
narkhoz.
TSh-2 bail-type hardness tester produced in the Ivanovskiy Sovnarkhoz.
TP-10 thermomet?eesfor oil separators produced in the Moscow Oblast
Sovnarkhoz.
P-316 single DC"' bridge produced in the Krasnodarskiy Sovnarkhoz.
P114 and P114/1 portable calibrated shunts produced in the leningrad-
skiy Sovnarkhoz.
V80 and V81 miniature oscillator frequency meter produced in the
Belorussian Sovnarkhoz.
TK-2 hardness tester produced in the Ivanovskiy Sovnarkhoz.
DR-O and DR-0.5 Class-III prototype expansion dynamometers produced
in the Latvian Sovnarkhoz.
IZV-21 vertical optical range finder produced in the Leningradskiy
Sovnarkhoz.
DO-2 dioptrimeter produced in the Moscow Oblast Sovnarkhoz.
FEK-N-57 Photoelectric colorimeter-nephelometer produced in the
Moscow Oblast Sovnarkhoz.
R-517 nonreactive resistance box produced in the Kiyevskiy Sovnar-
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VM-20 seminitcroanalytic..scales produced in the Leningradskiy Sov-
narkhoz. (Moscow, Izmeritel'naya Tekhnika, Jun 59) p 76)
B. Industrial Controls
S. V. Andreyev, Candidate of Technical Sciences, and A. N.Trushinskiy,
a young engineer, both of the laboratory of Biophysics of the All-Union
Institute for Plant Care, have successfully developed two new semiconduc-
tor instruments: a temperature regulator andaa humidity. regulator. The
new instruments are designed for regulating and maintaining artificial
climate in special rooms, and also for production purposes. (Leningrad-
skaya Pravda, 17 Jul 59)
0. P. Nikptin and D. L. Leshchinskiy, scientific associates of the
Leningrad'Technological Institute imeni I~ensovet, have developed gamma?
j nization instrument for measuring the thickness of strips of rolled
plate glass. The instrument transmitter has a special cooling device,
which enables it to be installed directly in the rolling area. Formerly,,
the glass was measured in a solidified form at least'130 meters from
the furnace. Thee new instrument automatically determines the thickness
of the hot glass and records this information.
The new instruments has already been installed on the conveyer of the
Gus' Khrustal'nyy Glass Plant imeni Dzerzhinskiy., In the near future,
such instruments will be installed in all polished-glass plants. (Ieni$
gradskayaPravda, 19 Jul 59)
The Moscow Fizpribor Plant is the producer of the type IU-i level
indicator, which is designed for measuring the variation of the level of
current-conducting liquids within the limits of 2 meters. Transmitters
with vinyl plastic insulation are used for temperatures up to 60 degrees
centigrade; for higher temperatures up to 80 degrees centigrade, poly-
ethylene has to be used. The, maximum pressure under which the instrument
can work is 25 atmospheres.
A type M-340 secondary indicating instrument installed on the con-
trol panel is included with the SU-1. (Yerevan, Kommunist, 5 Jul 59)
Designers at the Khar'kov Teploavtomat Plant have developed a new
electronic-hydraulic system for regulating the pressure and flow of
liquids and gases at enterprises 'of various branches of industry. The
plant is getting ready to series-produce the equipment of this system.
(Xiev, Pravda Ukrainy) 9 Jul 59)
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The Special Design Bureau for Analytic Instrument Making of the
Academy of Sciences USSR develops instruments for controlling complex
chemical processes.
A new model of a mass spectrometer, which has been developed for oil
refineries, gives information continuously and automatically on the composi-
tion of the gases obtained during the refining process. Formerly it took
several hours to carry out such an analysis. The first two instruments
of this type will be installed at the Moscow Oil Refinery in July 1959.
The bureau has developed the first Soviet gas analyzer, which will
be used to control the amount of oxygen utilized in the chemical process
of making polyethlene plastic. This instrument was tested recently at
the Leningrad Okhta Chemical Combine. (Leningradtkaya Pravda, 16 Jul 59)
The Tallin Experimental Control and Measuring Instrument Plant has
developed a new instrument, the ITU-495 universal thickness gauge, which
is used for measuring the thickness of sheet metal without coming into
contact with the measured object. This instrument is-based on radioactive
isotopes and can measure sheet steel from .05 to one mm and from .03 tb
$ mm in thickness. Therefore, it is now possible to measure the thinnest
sheets and bands of high-grade steel by the constant-flow method. (Tallin,
Sovetskaya Estoniya, 30 Jul 59)
The Moscow Tizpribor Plant, in collaboration with NIITeplopribor
[Scientific Research Institute of Thermal Power Engineering.Instrument
Making] and the Institute of Automatics and Telemechanicp of the Academy
of Sciences, has begun the development of automation equipment which
would provide for the construction of many automatic plants.
Pavel Paviovich Benediktov is director of the Tizpribor Plant where
he has worked for 12 years. K. P. Tyutnev is chief engineer, M. I. Zhutov-
skiy is chief designer] V. V. Poverennyy is chief of production, and V. G.
Nazarov is chief technologist. (Moscow, Izvestiya, 2 Aug 59)
Although the buildings of the Kazan' Teplokontrol' Plant were erected
not long ago, they are full of dirt, and parts are piled up on the floors.
There is a mad-rush atmosphere throughout the shops, where one continu-
ously hears quarreling, cursiing, and swearing. This external lack of
order is merely a symptom of more serious internal shortcomings.
The plant, which was constructed 10 years ago, produces apportion-
ing measuring,:, and control instruments designed for chemical plants,
petroleum refineries, oil fields, and thermal electric power stations.
However, the instruments it produces fail to meet the level of modern
technology.
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The policy of the Teplokontrol' Plant's management is well illus-
trated by the history of the TG-410 and TG-610recorder manometric thermnm-
eters and the DPES differential manometers. These instruments are primi-
tive in design, do not give stable readings, and often break down.
The Committee on Standards, Measures, and Measuring Instruments of
the Council of Ministers USSR forbade their production as of 1 July 1957.
L kin, former Deputy Minister of Instrument Making [and Automation Equip-
ment] USSR, agreed with the committee's decision. It looked as though
the plant would have to radically improve these instruments. Quite the
opposite was the case.
The plant management felt that if they took time to make improve-
ments, they would have to lower their production of instruments for a
certain time. Consequently, they got permission to continue the produc-
tion of old-instruments until 1 January 1958, and for some reason, the
committee agreed to lift its ban.
At the end of 1958, Ryumin, deputy chairman of the Tatarskiy Sovnar
khoz, and Solov'yev, director of the Teplokontrol' Plant, submitted a
new request to continue the production of the obsolete instruments until
1 January 1959. At the same time, they promised that the instruments
would be improved, so the officials of the committee gave their consent
again.
Now, the same people have obtained permission to produce obsolete
instruments until 1 July 1960. The plant management is selling out-and-
out., rejects to its consumers. In 1957 and 1958, 33.2 percent of all
tested type DP instruments were rejected. During the past 6 months, the
rejects among these instruments have climbed to 61.3,percent.
Not along ago, the Tatar State Control Laboratory for Measuring Equip-
ment forbade the Teplokontrol' plant to ship type 01t-DP-410 differential
manometer-flow meters, No 732 through 737, to the Omsk Synthetic Materials
Plant. These instruments were of poor quality; however, despite the ban,
they were sent on to the Omsk plant.
The control laboratory then informed the Tatarskiy Sovnarkhoz that
the management of the Teplokontrol' plant chronically shipped poor-quality,
partially-equipped, and below-standard instruments. Ryumin, deputy chair-
man of the sovnarkhoz, answered that the sovnarkhoz could not agree with
the laboratory's unfounded and purposeless decisions on the state testing
of the differential. manometers produced at the Teplokontrol' plant, and
recommended that the laboratory limit itself to control tests only.
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Plant Director Solov'yev, Chief Engineer Makhon'ko, and Deputy Chief
Engineer Yegorov, are not interested in improving production, but only in
fulfilling the quantitative aspects of the plan. Consequently, most shops
and work positions do not have blueprints and some parts are produced by
memory or by eye. The director has closed down the experimental shop
and has'converted it to the production of obsolete instruments. -- Kh
Bayleyev, Chief, Control Laboratory for Dbasuring Equipment; I. Parpura,
Engineer (Moscow, Izvestiya, 2 Aug 59)
The Tallin Measuring Instrument Plant (Tallinskiy Zavod izmeritel'Wkh
priborov) was organized in 1957 as a result of the merger of three small
enterprises. The plant was then producing a large variety of products,
including scales, water meters, iron drums, and central heating boilers,
and for this reason it had great difficulties. For a long time, it failed
to fulfill the state. plan and-Vas.;a technically backward enterprise.
The situation did. not bother the former Ministry of Local and Shale-
Chemical Industry Estonian SSR, to which the plant was subordinate. The
plant's production structure was expanded even further, to include the
production of such articles as children's bicycles, large-size toy auto-
mobiles, and insecticide spray guns.
After the reorganization of industry and the creation of the
Estonian Sovnarkhoz, the plant was made subordinate to the Administration
of'Nlachine Building, which helped it to overcome its technical back-
wardness and to gradually free itself from the manufacture of extraneous
products.
The plant has improved considerably in the last few years, but its
production space is not being used fully and it works on only one shift.
According to the plan, the plant produces mainly water meters, heat-
ing gauges, and control equipment for checking automobile ignition systems.
However, there is, insufficient demand for such equipment. Some of the
products are obsolete, such as the water meters., which had been produced
in Estonia at the former Khelios Plant in their present form.
The plant makes obsolete control apparatus for automobiles, which
was formerly made by the Tartu AGE Plant.
Gosplan Estonian SSR and the Estonian Sovnarkhoz do not have to
sell the 1ant's products. The plant itself must write to all the sov-
narkhozes in the country and look for purchasers. It cannot figure out
to whom it will sell ignition instruments in August.
This is all well known to the Administration of Machine Building of
the Estionian Sovnarkhoz. Plant workers would like to produce something
more necessary to the national economy. Plant designers have developed
an improved heating gauge, but this alone does not solve all the problems.
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At one time, the Administration of Machine Building had decided that
the plant would produce thermal valves, which are needed by the national
economy; however, these will soon be produced by a plant in Tartu
In the fall of 1958, the plant and the Tallin Polytechnic Institute
began the development of a universal high-temperature chromatograph. It
was thought that at long last the plant would start specializing in the
production of analytical equipment for the chemical industry. However,
the plant was informed in May 1959 that by 1960 it was to begin the pro-
duction of ultrasonic cleaning apparatus. Technical documents were
ordered, but nothing further has been done. For .reas,ons beyond its
control, the problem of specialization of the plant remains unsolved.
-- A. Sork, Chief Technologist Tallin Measuring Instrument Plant; E.
Erin, Deputy Secretary of the Plant's Primary Plant Organization; Yu.
Olivson, Chairman of the Plant Trade Union Committee (Tallin, Sovetskaya
Estoniya, 5 Jul 59)
C. Electrical and Electronic Instruments
The Vil'nyus Electric Meter Plant is one of the most important elec-
trical instrument making plants in the USSR. In 1950 it produced 20,000
electric meters, and in 1958, 1.7 million meters. In 1959 it will make
more than 1.9 million meters. (Vil'nyus, Sovetskaya Litva, 7 Jul 59)
The type SO-OM electric meters, which are rated for either 5 or 10
amp and 127 or 220 volts AC and have a precision class of 2.0, retail
for 170 rubles apiece. (Moscow, Byulleten' Roznichnykh Tsen, No 2,
Jul 59, p 39)
During the Seven-Year Plan, the Tallin Punane RET Plant will
install two conveyers for assembling instruments and radio receivers,
and five belt conveyers. It will also put four belt conveyers into
operation for intersection transport and will install two conveyer
drying lines and a universal press line for producing small-series
parts.,
By the end of 1964, it will develop and produce at least 30 new
improved electronic measuring instruments, which are badly needed. for
the automation of production processes in various branches of the
national economy. (Tallin, Sovetskaya Estoniya, 10 Jul'59)
The [Moscow] Energopribor Plant is the producer of the ER-III-54
(E-III-51) electronic regulating instrument and the PV-53L-T electrical
second meter. (Moscow, Knizhnaya Ietopis', No 20, 1959, pp 38, 119)
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D. Geophysical Equipment
A new original electrical prospecting instrument has been developed
at the Institute of Automatics and Electrometry of the Siberian Branch
of the Academy of Sciences. USSR, Novosibirsk. This new light instrument
weighs 1.5 kg together with its power source. It is more accurate and
sensitive than older, heavier types. It can be used for Iocatiixg coal,
ores, water, and other underground materials. (Riga, Sovetskaya Latiriya,
5 Jul 59)
The Moscow Neftepribor Plant has begun the series production of a
new type of bus-mounted seismic research station; it records signals on
magnetic tape, which can then be transcribed onto paper bands. Earlier
stations had equipment that recorded signals on photographic paper.
Experimental models of the new stations have been tested successfu2'.:y
in Saratovskaya and Penzenskaya oblasts. Today 131 Ju.Iy 1959?] a new
seismic research station was shipped to the Tyumen Geological Administra-
tion. (Moscow, Vexhernyaya Moskva, 31 Jul 59)
The Mosneftekip Plant is located in the settlement of Kapotnya in
the city'of Iyubertsy, Moskovskaya Oblast. --Advertisement (Moscow,
Moskovskaya Pravda, 9 Jul 59)
E. Instrument Repair
The Riga Etalon Experimental Measuring Instrument Plant (Rizhskiy
eksperimental'nyy zavod izmeritel'nykh priborov "Etalon"`) is accepting
the following instruments for repair: manometers; manometric vacuum
raters; vacuum meters; manometric thermometers up to 120 degrees con-
tigrade; Rockwell, Brinell, and Vickers hardness testers; disruptive
testing machines; and refractometers.
Applications should be made at 'ulitsa Skarnyu 8, Riga. -- Advertise-
ment (Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 31 Jul 59)
(Comment: The address of this plant was formerly given as iZlitsa
Shkyunu 8, Riga.]
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VI. PRECISION EQUIPMENT
A. Cameras and Irenses
The Yupiter-6 f: 2.8/180-m dans.f&2en~t and Start cameras is designed
primarily for portrait work. The size of the image it produces is 3.6 times
that'produced by a normal [5O-mm] lens. It focuses from 2 meters to in-
finity and has a depth-of-field scale, a present diaphragm stop,;and a
tripod socket.
The Telemar-22 f:5.6/200-mm lens for Zenit and Start cameras also
has a preset diaphragm stop and produces a negative image which is four
times the size of one produced by a normal lens. It focuses from 2.5
meters to infinity.
The Tair-il f:2.8/133-mm lens for FED and Zorkiy cameras focuses
from 1.5 meters to infinity. (Moscow, Novyye Tovary, No 8, 1959, p 5)
The full measurements of the Kiyev-Vega 16-mm camera are 83 x 43.5
x 21-.5 mm [as compared with 77 x 30 x 20 mm for.the Japanese Minolta-16
of which it is a copy]. The shutter speeds of the Kiy v-Vega are 1/30,
1/602 and 1/200 sec. The lens is an Ihdustar-M'f:3;,5/23--mm, which has a
resolving power of 50-55 lines per mm at a focusing range of 4-7 meters.
The exposure counter of this camera automatically indicates the number
of exposures remaining after each picture is taken. (Moscow, Novyye
Tovary, No 7, 1959, p 6)
[Comment: None of the available ;sources, describing this camera
have yet made any mention of synchronization for flash, yet every illus-
tration shows clearly that the Kiyev-Vega camera has the same flash con-
tact as the Minolta-16.]
Whereas in 1955 the offices of Posyltorg (All-Union Mail Order Office]
shipped out only 31 types of photographic equipment, including only five
types of cameras, they shipped out 95 types of equipment, including 11
types of cameras, in 1958.
During 1959, Posyltorg is expected to sell 13. 8 mullion rubles'
worth of photographic equipment, as compared with 6. 6 million rubles'
worth in 1955. (Moscow, Sovetskoye Foto, Jul 59, p 73)
N. Chesnokov, member of Gosplan USSR, has informed the editors that
materials published in Sovetskoye Foto,Moscow, December 1958, [see USSR
Electronic and Precision Equipment, No 7, 20 March 1959, pp 8-91 have
been reviewed in Gosplan USSR, which has recommended to Gosplan RSFSR
and Gosplan Ukrainian SSR that they take measures to:nincrease the produc-
tion of photographic accessories with the aim of satisfying popular demand.
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During recent years, the Krasnogorsk Machinery Plant has displayed
its cameras and lenses at 21 different international fairs and exhibitions,
including those in London, Sofia, New York, Paris, Tokyo, Brussels, and
Milan. Among the countries to which this plant exports its products are
China, Burma, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, India, and Mallya.
The plant has manufactured an experimental, model of the new Yunkor
camera, which will soon go into series production. This camera has a
plastic body and will give 12 exposures of the'6 x 6 size or 16 exposures
of the 4.5 x 6 size per roll of film. It will be a good camera for
beginners, since it is very inexpensive.
Photography enthusiasts will also be very pleased with the new Zorkiy-
7 [35-mm] camera, which.will have a Yupiter-8 lens interchangeable with
a variety of other lenses, combined range-viewfinder. window with'bright-
line projected field frare,self-timer, and hinged back. It will take up
to three exposures per; sear>Ad.
Among the new cameras which will appear for sale during the Seven-
Year Plan are the Zorkiy-6, Moskva-6, Nartsiss, Start-2, Mir, and Zenit-
3.
The plant will also increase its output of lenses. During 1958, it
produced 60,000 more lenses than during 1957. Labor productivity has
been increased 25 percent. (Moscow, Leninskoye Znamya, 2 Jun 59)
During 1959, the Krasnogorsk Machinery Plant will produce such new
cameras as the Zorkiy-6, the Mir, and the Drug.
Among the dozens of new types of cameras to be produced by this
plant during the Seven-Year Plan will be one with a fully automatic
exposure process. (Moscow, Ieninskoye Znamya,:19 Jul 59)
The Krasnogorsk Machinery Plant will produce the well-made but inex-
pensive Mir camera, which is a simplified model of the Zorkiy-type camera.
The Mir is a 35-mm camera with a focal-plane shutter calibrated in
speeds of 1/30, 1/60, 1/125, 1/250, 1/500,and B. It is equipped with
either.,am?.Iiidustar-26M F:2.8/50-mm lens or an inexpensive Industar-50 f:
3.5/50-mm lens. The combined range-viewfinder has a base of 39 mm and
plus-or minus 2.5 diopters compensation. The image as seen through the
viewfinder is 1.15 times natural size. This camera will accept either
standard cassettes or the double cylinder disassembling type. It is also
equipped with a self timer and a synchrocontact. It will accept lenses
made for the Zorkiy cameras. (Moscow, NOvyye Tovary, No 8, 1959, p 1i)
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B. Scales
According to Al'bitskiy, director of the Orekhovo-Zuyevo Pribordetalf
Plant, his enterprise has been producing type LT conveyer scales for 5
years. At the end of 1958, the plant received newly designed type LTM
automatic mechanized conveyer.' scales, which were developed by the NIKIMP
[Scientific' Research and Design Institute for Testing Machines, Instruments,
and Equipment for Measuring Mass]. The new model is better than the old;
it weighe at a higher speed and has a wider. conveyer belt. It.also has
a remote reading apparatus. In addition 250 kg less metal is required to
manufacture it.
The plant,expects to produce experimental models of the scales in
August 1959. During the first half of 1960, the plant will make all the
industrial accessories, and thus finish all preparations for series-produc-
ing the scales. In .Tune 1960, it will stop production of the old'model
and begin mass production of the new LTM conveyer. scales.
This means that it will take the plant a whole year to begin series
produc tio'n of the'new model, after making an experimental model. Accord-
ing to'Allbitskiy, the conversion to production of the, new scales does not
eaata l,any great difficulties; all that is needed is that accessories be
designed,and manufacturing methods be worked out. These tasks have been
entrusted to the VNIITIPribor [All-Union Scientific Research Technological
Institute of Instrument. Making] -- so says Al'bitskiy.
Sokolovskiy, director of the VNIITIPribor, says that he has no
knowledge of being entrusted with any such tasks and that the institute
cannot help out the Pribordetall Plant because it is overloaded with
urgent work.
It appears that the plant has postponed the production of industrial
accessories until the first half of 1960. However, it could finish its
preparatory work in time to get the new model into series`production at
the beginning of 1960.
The Administration of Electrical Engineering Industry and Instrument
Making of the-Moscow Oblast Sovnarkhoz has a strange attitude toward this
matter. It was not until 4 July 1959, a delay of 6 months, that Blagushin
chief engiheer of the administration, began to look for a planning insti-
tute to plant the industrial accessories for the new conveyer scales.
The Pribordetall Plant is not hurrying. Only two machinists are
working on the experimental model of the new product. Can one expect it
to go into production soon? -- Moscow, Leninskoye Znamya, 1 Aug 59
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C. Hearing Aids
Designers'at the Moscow Hearing Apparatus Plant have developed origi-
nal hearing aids installed in eyeglass frames. About 20,000 of these will
be produced in 1559. The plant has also begun series production of hear-
ing aids installed in ladies' hair ornaments. This kind of hearing aid,
along with power sources weighs only about 55 grams.
The new hearing aids have been put on sale in the specialized store
of "Soyuzmedinstrumenttorg" at Frunzenskaya Naberezbnaya, No 1, Moscow.
(Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva, 6 Jul 59)
D. Theater Sound Equipment
The Central Design Bureau of the Ministry of Culture RSFSR has finished
the laboratory testing of two new sets of sound equipment for wide-screen
theaters. The Leningrad Kinap Plant has begun to make production models
of this equipment.
The new sound equipment is smaller than earlier-produced types and
uses only half as much electric power. It is also much cheaper to manu-
facture. It is assembled according to the unit principle, which makes mass
production possible. (Leningradskaya Pravda, 9 Jul 59)
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A. Rotating Machinery
Armenian plants have begun to produce small high-precision machine
tools and miniature electric motors.
The Leninakan Mikroelektrodvigatell Plant has produced the first series
of inicropower electric motors equipped with built-in reduction units and
having powers up to 10 watts and a speed of 10 rpm. These motors will be
used extensively in thermal regulation equipment, in cybernetic devices,
in automatic constant-flow lines, in instrument making, and for various
other industrial purposes. (Moscow, Promyshlenno-Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta,
29 May 59)
The KharIkov Elektrostanok Plant has been producing type TMG-30P
modernized DC tachometric generators since the middle of 1959. These gen-
erators, which have permanent magnets, are designed for use as speed
transmitters in circuits where wide ranges of speed regulation are needed.
The generators have outputs of 20 kw, voltages of 250 volts, armature cur-
rents of .087 amp speeds of 4,000 rpm, and load reactances of 2,650 ohms.
The plant also produces type TG-30 tachometric generators rated for
30 kw, 460 volts, 4,000 rpm, and 8,333 ohms, which have independent 110-
volt excitation systems. (Moscow, Promyshlennaya Energetika, Jul 59, p 57)
B. Switches and Other Line Apparatus
The Yerevan Electrical Equipment Plant (Elektroapparatnyy zavod) is
producing multiple circuit breaker switches for 220 volts, 25 amp in two-
and three-pole versions; multiple throwover switches: and type PE-113 volt-
meter and pushbutton starters. (Moscow, Promyshlennaya Energetika, Jul 59
p 57)
The Yerevan Electrical Equipment Plant has a conveyer for the assembly
of type PV 3-25 multiple switches (4). (Yerevan, Kommunist, 30 Jul 59)
(4) Photo available in source, p 3, bottom, left
The Cheboksary Electrical Equipment plant began the production of
types BPT-100 and BPN-100 feeder units in 1959? These units are designed
for supplying power to protective and automatic equipment operating on
DC, rated for 110 volts, and used in AC circuits. (Moscow, Promyshlennaya
Energetika, Jul 59, p 57)
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The Ufa Electrical Equipment Plant of the Bashkirskiy Sovnarkhoz began
the series production of series VU static suppressor units in 1959. These
units are designed to suppress radio static caused by elevator electrical
equipment. (Moscow, PromyshfLennaya Energetika, Jul 59, p 62)
C. Mercury Rectifiers
It is planned that in 1959 the Tallin Mercury Rectifier Plant will
begin the production of mercury rectifiers in units along with electrical
equipment for electric locomotives. (Moscow, Promyshlennaya Energetika,
Jul 59, p 57)
The Tallin Mercury Rectifier Plant, which was founded in 1959 on
the basis of the Railroad Car Repair Plant imeni M. I. Kalinin, is having
new equipment installed in its old buildings. A new mercury rectifier
shop has been built and an engineering building is under construction.
The plant will make rectifiers for main-line electric locomotives.
(Tallin, Sovetskaya Estoniya, 21 Jul 59)
On 21 July 1959, the Tallin Mercury Rectifier Plant imeni M. I.
Kalinin produced its first consignment of ignitron valves for mercury rec-
tifiers. (Tallin, Sovetskaya Estoniya, 23 Jul 59)
D. Power Capacitors
The Ust'-Kamenogorsk Capacitor Plant is the No 2 plant in the Soviet
Union (after the Serpukhov plant) responsible for the production of indus-
trial stationary capacitors. Its products are very important in the USSR
national economy. Cosine capacitors used for increasing power efficiency
are of great significance.
The plant's annual production of capacitors will be sufficient for
all the large power stations several thousands of kw in capacity that will
go into operation. The cost of the capacitors is only a fraction of the
cost of generators of equivalent power.
The Ust'-Kamenogorsk plant will also produce communications capacitors,
which will make it possible to have high-frequency communications circuits
on electric power transmission lines.
Special pulse capacitors are used in scientific research institutes.
A number of capacitors are used in units for working metals.
The plant is being constructed by the most modern methods possible
and is highly efficient in appearance. It will, have air conditioning
wherever needed for storing materials or for processes. The area occupied
by control and measuring installations amounts to almost half of the plant's
production area. Its first products will be manufactured in 1959. (Alma-
Ata, Narodnoye Khozyaystvo Kazakhstana, May 59, p 95)
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E. Wire and Cable
The Scientific Research Institute of the Cable Industry has.developed
power cables which are filled with very heavy oil and can be laid on vertical
routes with unlimited variations in level. Production of these cables,
which are rated for 6 and 10 kv, has been started at that Moscow Moskabel'
Plant. (Moscow, Promyshlennaya Energetika, Jul 59, P 62)
The Tallin Eesti Kaa'el' Plant pledges to put a new production build-
ing equipped with high-production machinery into operation in 1960. Dur-
ing the Seven-Year Plan, it will begin production of installation and light-
ing wire with plastic insulation, enameled wire with high-durability PEM
enamel, and enameled aluminum wire. (Tallin, Sovetskaya Estoniya, 10 Jul 59)
While the Panevezhis Litkabel' Plant was still under construction,
orders were sent to plants in Penza, Saratov, Alma-Ata, Kiev, and other
USSR cities for machinery for drawing and enameling large- and medium-
gauge wires. When the plant finally went into production, it turned out
its first products, 100 kg of enameled copper wire.
The enterprise operates on a shopless system, which is the most
economical way, according to Petrauskas, plant director.
In 1959, the Litkabel' Plant will supply 300 tons of enameled wire
to the radio and electrical industries of the Lithuanian SSR. By the end
of the Seven-Year Plan, its production space will cover 18,000 sq m. It
will have 12 large sections equipped with hundreds of various automatic
and semiautomatic machines. About 200 engineers and technicians will be
employed there.
During the Seven-Year Plan, in addition to several hundred type-
designations of enameled wire, the plant will begin the production of elec-
tric cord and plastic wire. It will produce enough for the Lithuanian. SSR
and for certain other republics.
The Plant has an enameled wire shop (5). (Vi1'nyus, Sovetskaya Litva,
5 Aug-59)
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F. Batteries
During the first half of 1959, the Klaypeda Sirius Plant's production
was quadruple that of the first half of 1958. It has put the production
of KB flashlight batteries on a single conveyer and has begun installing
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Plant personnel have built a semiautomatic machin4 for producing Saturn
search-light cells, a semiautomatic for welding covers onto flashlight
cells., five new semiautomatics for binding Anodes of cells, apd an automa-
tic labeling machines.
Prior to the June Plenum,of the Central Committee CPSU, a scientific
and technical conference concerning the over-all mechanization and automa-
tion of the production of chemical power soaes was held in Klaypeda. Par-
ticipants included representatives of the Academy of.Sciences Lithuanian
SSR, headed by its president, lMatulis; representatives of the Vil?nyus State
University imeni Kapsukas, Gosplan USSR, Gosplan RSFSR, and various scienti-
fic, research institutes; and guests from China.
At the conference, 22 lectures on urgent problems of over-all mechaniza-
tion and, automation and advanced manufacturing methods for'chemical power
sources were given. A number of lectures concerned the study and analysis
of new systems of chemical power sources.
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The holding of this conference in Klaypeda, where a very large, dry
cell and storage battery plant will be developed during the Seven-Year
Plan, is very significant. Workers of the Sirius Plant heard much valu-
able advice and added to their scientific and technical knowledge.
Not long after the conference, the Sirius Plant received six units
of industrial equipment from other Soviet republics,' including two units
developed by an experimental plant of the All-Union Scientific, Research
Institute of Chemical Power Sources for the production of Saturn and
Kristall dry ce~ls. Representatives of institutes and enterprises of
other Soviet. republics promised to produce 17 additional units of indus-
trial equipment for the. Sirius Plant from 1958 to 1960. Six of these.
units will be automatics.
Although the plait has been aided by other Soviet republics, it has
misgivings about the 'Lithuanian 5ovnarkhoz, which is to blame for delay-
ing the preaaration'of technical' documents for the construction and remod-
eling of production buildings. This delay can seriously hold up the intro-
duction and utilization of modern equipment. -- I. Fabiyonavichyus, Chief
Engineer, Klaypeda Sirius Plant (Vil?nyus, Sovetskaya Litva, 24 Jul 59)
A set of Smena 61+-61/'Ts43/VTs88-7 batteries consisting of an 86-volt
'anode battery, a 1.2-volt. filament battery, and a 7,.8-volt grid battery
(the batteries are air-ziic types utilizing alkaline electrolytes) retails
for 86 rubles'.
The ova rating life of the lset is at least 665 hours, utilizing the
continuous' dharge method of operation. (Mosoow, Byulleten' Roznichnykh
Tsenp, No' 20, Jul 59 p 37)
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G. Insulation
In recent years, the Khot'kovo Elektroizolit Plant has begun the pro-
duction of many new modern insulation materials. Its products can compete
with similar. materials produced by the best capitalist enterprises. The
dielectric strength of. its commutator mica strip is 18 kv/mm, as compared
with 15.9 kv/mm in the US.
The dielectric strength perpendicular to the layers of its textolite
is 5 kv/mm,as compared with 3.2 kv/mm in England. Likewise, dielectric
strength parallel to the layers is .65 kv/mm, as compared with .5 kv/mm
in England.
The plant has raised the dielectric strength of its LKh-0.20 cotton
varnished fabric to 36 kv/mm, or 6 kv/mm higher than fabric made by the
best foreign (French) firms.
However' the "getinaks" of various types made by the plant has higher
dielectric losses and lower dielectric strength than that made by the most
famous English firms. Our textolite has lower puncture strength than that
made in England. Our commutator micanite varies more in thickness than
the best types of materials of this type made in the US.
During the next .2-3 years, the plant pledges to increase the average
dielectric strength of its cotton varnished fabric to 4+0 kv/mm and of silk
varnished fabric to 55 kv/mm, and to significantly increase the elasticity
of these materials.
It also intends to increan the resistivit(after drying) of organo-
silicon varnished fabric to 10 instead of 1013.1 to increase the. puncture
strength of silk varnished fabric to 7 kg/cm instead of 6 kg/cm; and to
lower the average tolerance for thickness of commutator micanite to .025
instead of .03 and at certain points to .05 instead of .07.
The plant expects to raise the puncture strength of textolite to 700
kg/sq cm, which will make it possible to lower the sizes and cross-section
areas of panels used in electrical machine building and thereby to save
10 million rubles' worth of textolite per year.
In 1960 the plant is to begin the series production of "getinaks"
with tangential dielectric loss not greater than .02 and dielectric
strength along the layers of not less than 60 kv/mm with a distance of
50 mm between electrodes. This will make it possible to use "getinaks"
in apparatuses operating at high frequencies and to cut the sizes of these
apparatuses by 20 percent.
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The plant asks the Orekhovo-Zuyevo and IvanovD textile combines to
improve the singeing and calendaring of EI fabric and B percale, to develop
methods for the high-quality finishing of EI fabric, and to organize the
output of diagonal-weave fabrics for making insulation of extra-high elas-
ticity.
The Gus' Khrustal'nyy, Merefa, Polotsk, and Berdyansk glass plants
should improve the quality of the oils used in the production of glass
fabrics and should eliminate fuzziness and sagging in the filler fabric.
Chemical plants should improve the quality of their organosilicon varnishes.
Lebedev is director of the Khottkovo plant and V. V. Kudryavtsev is
chief engineer. The plant's activities have been praised by M. P. Ivanov,
deputy chairman of the Moscow Oblast Sovnarkhoz; M. F. Kostrov, director
of the All-Union Electrical Engineering Institute; and V. N. Novikov, First
Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers RSFSR, Chairman of Gosplan
RSFSR.
A mechanized constant-flow line for the production of commutator
micanite is being set up at the plant (6). (Moscow, Leninskoye Znamya
4 Aug 59)
(6) Photo showing a group of men working on the new line available
in source, p 2, bottom, right
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