Ministry of the Electronics Industry (Soviet Union)

The Ministry of the Electronics Industry (Minelektronprom; Russian: Министерство электронной промышленности, MEI) 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] MEI role as a political body was mostly replaced by a state-owned Rostec which was founded in 2007.

  1. ^ a b 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. doi:10.1016/S0065-2458(08)60535-5. ISBN 9780120121298.