Ministry of the Electronics Industry (Soviet Union)

The Ministry of the Electronics Industry (Minelektronprom; Russian: Министерство электронной промышленности) 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]

List of ministers

Source:[3][4]

  • Aleksandr Shokin (2.10.1965 - 18.11.1985)
  • Vladislav Kolesnikov (18.11.1985 - 24.8.1991)
gollark: They all run PotatOS™.
gollark: I had a big chest of unused computers from an abandoned piece of computer production and potatOS installation automation operation.
gollark: There are about six of them.
gollark: Kerbals are immortal, so you don't *really* have to return them.
gollark: There aren't literal transistors, you can just implement digital logic using torches and repeaters and stuff.

References
  1. 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.
  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.
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