Martin Antonenko
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Soviet Television Starts!
"Attention! This is Moscow. Beginning of the first television program."
With these simple words, the era of television began in the Soviet Union on April 29, 1931.
The screen of the receiving device was only 7 x 8 centimeters ...:
The transfer itself only took a little less than a minute.
"You can see a woman in a green dress with green hair and green lipstick in a small room," as an eyewitness later explained .. Here is the original picture ...:
The woman was no more green than her dress, hair or lipstick, of course! Rather, the technicians had to make improvements in the light spectral range.
In April 1932, the Leningrad "Comintern" plant began producing the first Soviet television sets.
The "TV B-2" had a screen size of only 3 x 4 centimeters and was the subject of many jokes.
For example, it was referred to as a "mailbox with a movable postage stamp".
Irregular television broadcasts (announced in the newspaper!)...
Began in December 1934 and could be received in Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Tomsk and Leningrad.
The broadcasts were interrupted by the German attack on the Soviet Union.
The first post-war broadcast was then broadcast on May 7, 1945.
And in December 1945 the first regular broadcasts began in Europe - twice a week.
Since the television in the house was still a miracle - and priceless for the common man! !
Five years later there were just 50,000 television sets in the entire huge Soviet Union...
... after all, the screens had become larger by now ...
Today there are statistically 1.4 TV receivers in every household in the successor states of the Soviet Union ...
"Attention! This is Moscow. Beginning of the first television program."
With these simple words, the era of television began in the Soviet Union on April 29, 1931.
The screen of the receiving device was only 7 x 8 centimeters ...:
The transfer itself only took a little less than a minute.
"You can see a woman in a green dress with green hair and green lipstick in a small room," as an eyewitness later explained .. Here is the original picture ...:
The woman was no more green than her dress, hair or lipstick, of course! Rather, the technicians had to make improvements in the light spectral range.
In April 1932, the Leningrad "Comintern" plant began producing the first Soviet television sets.
The "TV B-2" had a screen size of only 3 x 4 centimeters and was the subject of many jokes.
For example, it was referred to as a "mailbox with a movable postage stamp".
Irregular television broadcasts (announced in the newspaper!)...
Began in December 1934 and could be received in Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Tomsk and Leningrad.
The broadcasts were interrupted by the German attack on the Soviet Union.
The first post-war broadcast was then broadcast on May 7, 1945.
And in December 1945 the first regular broadcasts began in Europe - twice a week.
Since the television in the house was still a miracle - and priceless for the common man! !
Five years later there were just 50,000 television sets in the entire huge Soviet Union...
... after all, the screens had become larger by now ...
Today there are statistically 1.4 TV receivers in every household in the successor states of the Soviet Union ...
