Metal cabinet in
chocolate brown.
Black bakelite knobs. Cream-colored
scale with an image of a Bogatyr, a knight on
horseback, after a painting by Victor M.
Vasnetsov (1848-1926).These
knights often perform in Russian legends and
heroic poems.The radios were
delivered with multiple images, among others an
equestrian statue of the Ukrainian hero Bohdan
Chmelnytsky and an image of the Kremlin.
Made at Муромский завод Радио Измерительные
Приборов (РИП), RIP Radio Plant in Murom, in the
central part of European Russia.
At the upper edge of
the scale is the text "МРТП", which is the
abbreviation of the Russian Scientific Research
Institute of the Radio Industry.
This organization has
made the design of the radio.
An antenna connection
and a gramophone connection are provided at the
rear. The mains voltage is
switched by inserting a cardboard card with a
metal strip attached. The strip has a
thin wire that acts
as a fuse.
Date stamp on the
loudspeaker: March 18, 1954. The permanent
dynamic loudspeaker has a diameter of 10 cm.
The knobs from left
to right: on/off/volume, tuning, wavelength
switch.
Receives medium wave
(200-560 meters) and long wave (800-2000
meters).The intermediate
frequency is 110 Khz.
Listen to the song "У
черного моря" ("At the Black
Sea") composed by Modest Tabachnikov, sung by Leonid Osipovich Utyosov
with
orchestral accompaniment,
recorded in 1951
Adhesive with the
tubing on the back of the back panel