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.[1] 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]

  • Alexander S. Shokin (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:


Kazan, Tatarstan Republic:

  • Ltd Elecon

Others:

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

References

  1. 1 2 Directory of Soviet officials. National organizations. National Foreign Assessment Center. February 1989. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ "Governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1917-1964". Archived from the original on 28 November 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  4. ↑ "Governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1964-1991". Archived from the original on 28 November 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2017.
  5. ↑ "Завод Эльта в Ельце". Елец форум (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-05-22.


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