Ministry of the Electronics Industry (Soviet Union) explained

The Ministry of the Electronics Industry (Minelektronprom; Russian: Министерство электронной промышленности, MEI) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union.

Established in 1961 as State Committee for Electronics Technology, it became a ministry in 1965. Its primary responsibility is for research, development, and production of electronic and electrical devices, including solid-state and miniature electronic components and devices.^[1] The Ministry of the Electronics Industry was the monopolistic producer of electronic components for military and civilian applications in the Soviet Union. It produced a wide variety of electronic appliances, most of them under the Electronika brand.^[2] MEI role as a political body was mostly replaced by a state-owned Rostec which was founded in 2007.

List of ministers

Source:^{[3] [4]}

• (2.10.1965 - 18.11.1985)
• Vladislav Kolesnikov (18.11.1985 - 24.8.1991)

Industry

There was a range of different organizations, companies, and research centers during soviet times that were directly subjected to the ministry with many being active by the end of 2010, including:

• SPA «Scientific center»
  • Moscow/Zelenograd based:
    • Angstrem (company)
    • Mikron Group
      • • NPP Istok
  • (based in Minsk, Belarus)

Kazan, Tatarstan Republic:

Others:

• Plant of Radio Measurement Devices (Vilnius)
• (Latvia)
• (Ukraine)
• Elta Plant (Elets, Russia) (produced cathode ray tubes)^[5]
• Ritm Plant (Belgorod, Russia)
• (Smolensk, Russia)
• Photon (Tashkent, Uzbekistan)
• Quartz Corp. (Kaliningrad, Russia)
• Donskoi plant of radio components (Tula, Russia)
• SPA Pozitron (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)

Notes and References

1. Book: Directory of Soviet officials. National organizations. February 1989. National Foreign Assessment Center. 19 November 2017.
2. Judy. Richard W.. Clough. Robert W.. Soviet Computers in the 1980s: A Review of the Hardware. Advances in Computers. 1989. 29. 251–330. 10.1016/S0065-2458(08)60535-5 . 9780120121298 .
3. Web site: Governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1917-1964. 28 November 2017. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20171128144410/http://www.kolumbus.fi/taglarsson/dokumentit/sov.htm. 28 November 2017.
4. Web site: Governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1964-1991. 28 November 2017. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20171128142837/http://www.kolumbus.fi/taglarsson/dokumentit/sov1.htm. 28 November 2017.
5. Web site: Завод Эльта в Ельце . 2023-05-22 . Елец форум . ru-RU.