The Ministry of the Electronics Industry (Minelektronprom; , MEI) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union.
Established in 1961 as State Committee for Electronics Technology, it became a ministry in 1965. Its primary responsibility is for research, development, and production of electronic and electrical devices, including solid-state and miniature electronic components and devices. 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. MEI role as a political body was mostly replaced by a state-owned Rostec which was founded in 2007.
List of ministers Source: (2.10.1965 - 18.11.1985) Vladislav Kolesnikov (18.11.1985 - 24.8.1991)
Industry There was a range of different organizations, companies, and research centers during soviet times that were directly subjected to the ministry with many being active by the end of 2010, including:
SPA «Scientific center» Moscow/Zelenograd based: Angstrem (company) Mikron Group
NPP Istok (based in Minsk, Belarus)
Kazan, Tatarstan Republic:
Others:
Plant of Radio Measurement Devices (Vilnius)
(Latvia) (Ukraine) Elta Plant (Elets, Russia) (produced cathode ray tubes) Ritm Plant (Belgorod, Russia) (Smolensk, Russia) Photon (Tashkent, Uzbekistan) Quartz Corp. (Kaliningrad, Russia) Donskoi plant of radio components (Tula, Russia) SPA Pozitron (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
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