ИСТИНА

The problem: to use production of the home industry or to acquire equipment for the electronic television broadcasting from abroad arose in the USSR in 1935. On the one hand, the All-Union Institute of television in Leningrad had got promising results in designing the completely electronic system of electronic TV. On the other hand the Soviet Electrical Industry had a treaty with the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and could acquire the electronic transmitting and receiving TV equipment developed by this corporation. The Soviet Government came to a dual decision. The Moscow TV Center got the equipment of the RCA based on 343 lines and 25 frames per sec standard. One of the Soviet plants started manufacturing the TK-1 television sets on the base of American documentation. The Moscow TV Center began to transmit TV programs on March 25th, 1938. At the same time the Leningrad Experimental TV Center was equipped with devices of the domestic production. The transmitting equipment developed by the Institute of television had at that time another working standard (240 lines and 25 frames per sec). The TV broadcasting with this standard started in Leningrad in September 1938. Extra expenses connected with such a parallelism were warranted. The television industry in the USSR continued its development and soon met the international standards.