The Ministry of Radio Technology (Minradioprom; ) was a
government ministry
Ministry or department (also less commonly used secretariat, office, or directorate) are designations used by first-level Executive (government), executive bodies in the Machinery of government, machinery of governments that manage a specific se ...
in the
Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...
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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.
In the 1980s it became a major producer of Soviet personal computers, including the
Agat, ES-184x and PKSOxx.
List of ministers
''Source'':
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Valeri Kalmykov (21.1.1954 - 8.4.1974)
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Pjotr Pleshakov (8.4.1974 - 11.9.1987)
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Vladimir Shimko (14.11.1987 - 24.8.1991)
References
External links
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{{Departments of the USSR
Industry in the Soviet Union