Ministry of the Electronics Industry (Soviet Union)

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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. 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. MEI role as a political body was mostly replaced by a state-owned Rostec which was founded in 2007.

List of ministers

Source:

Alexander S. Shokin [ru] (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:
- NPP Istok
- Integral [ru] (based in Minsk, Belarus)

Kazan, Tatarstan Republic:

Ltd Elecon [ru]

Others:

Plant of Radio Measurement Devices (Vilnius)

Alpha [ru] (Latvia)
Connector Plant [ru] (Ukraine)
Elta Plant (Elets, Russia) (produced cathode ray tubes)
Ritm Plant (Belgorod, Russia)
Smolensk plant of radio components [ru] (Smolensk, Russia)
Photon (Tashkent, Uzbekistan)
Quartz Corp. (Kaliningrad, Russia)
Donskoi plant of radio components (Tula, Russia)
SPA Pozitron (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)

References

^ Directory of Soviet officials. National organizations. National Foreign Assessment Center. February 1989. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
Judy, Richard W.; Clough, Robert W. (1989). "Soviet Computers in the 1980s: A Review of the Hardware". Advances in Computers. 29: 251–330. doi:10.1016/S0065-2458(08)60535-5. ISBN 9780120121298.
"Governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1917-1964". Archived from the original on 28 November 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
"Governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1964-1991". Archived from the original on 28 November 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
"Завод Эльта в Ельце". Елец форум (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-05-22.

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