TK-1
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.