Ministry of Radio Technology (Soviet Union) explained

The Ministry of Radio Technology (Minradioprom; Russian: Министерство радиопромышленности) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union.

Established as Ministry of Radiotechnical Industry in 1954, under present name since 1965; involved in research and production of television sets, radios, tape recorders, computers, radio instruments, and other electronic gear.^[1] In the 1980s it became a major producer of Soviet personal computers, including the Agat, ES-184x and PKSOxx.^[2]

List of ministers

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• Valeri Kalmykov (21.1.1954 - 8.4.1974)
• Pjotr Pleshakov (8.4.1974 - 11.9.1987)
• Vladimir Shimko (14.11.1987 - 24.8.1991)

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.