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The following is a rough translation of information from the Moscow
Polytechnic Institute:
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This set was made at the Kozitskogo Radio Plant in Leningrad in
1938. It was designed for reception of 343 line broadcasts from the
Moscow television center. The engineers at Kozitskogo used many of
the features of the American RCA RR-359 set, which was made in 1934.
This was a complex and expensive model using 33 tubes and circular
kinescope about one meter long. Many parts were supplied by RCA. Six
thousand TK-1s were made. |
RCA provided a number of its RR-359 receivers to the USSR in the late
30s, along with broadcast equipment. It is likely that the above
set is one of these sets, and was not made in Russia. However, the
speaker grill and decal are different from the RR-359.
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