title: Ministry of Radio Technology (Soviet Union)
text: # Ministry of Radio Technology (Soviet Union)
  
  The Ministry of Radio Technology (Minradioprom; Russian: Министерство радиопромышленности) was a government ministry in the Soviet Union.
  
  Established as Ministry of Radiotechnical Industry in 1954, under present name since 1965; involved in research and production of television sets, radios, tape recorders, computers, radio instruments, and other electronic gear. In the 1980s it became a major producer of Soviet personal computers, including the Agat, ES-184x and PKSOxx.
  
  ## List of ministers
  
  Source:
  
  * Valeri Kalmykov (21.1.1954 - 8.4.1974)
  * Pjotr Pleshakov (8.4.1974 - 11.9.1987)
  * Vladimir Shimko (14.11.1987 - 24.8.1991)
  