Foreign Economic Association Mashpriborintorg (russian: Внешнеэкономическое объединение Машприборинторг) is a Russian (formerly Soviet) import-export company, dealing in high-tech equipment and machinery. Federal State Unitary Enterprise Foreign Economic Association “MASHPRIBORINTORG” from Mashpriborintorg.com
(English version through Internet Archive) It is currently part of

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. During the late 1950s and 1960s and 1970s, Mashpriborintorg exported millions of units of photographic and cinematic equipment to about 74 countries worldwide.MashPriborIntorg Export magazine from USSR Photo website
Price Guide to Antique and classic Cameras. McKeown. 1987-1988, pp. 306-307 According to the USSR Ministry of Foreign Trade magazine issued 1996 'Mashpriborintorg of the State of the Russian Federation for Defence Branches of Industry' is "a leading exporter and importer of electronic and communications equipment for the civilian and special designation". Mashpriborintorg, Stankoimport, Avtopromimport, Tekmashimport and Tekhnopromimport are the top companies of the Soviet/Russian trade system.

History

Mashpriborintorg was founded in the

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in October 1959 as ''Foreign Economic Association Mashpriborintorg''. In 1991 after the fall of the Soviet Union it was re-registered as ''Federal State Unitary Enterprise "VO" Mashpriborintorg''. Company history from Mashpriborintorg.com
Although it was part of the Soviet Trade Ministry, it is not known if it was under the direct control of the ministry or a separate entity. In the period between 1960-1980 it was one of the largest industry associations of the

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. Between 1960 and 1975 it was the only export company in Russia and had exported nine million radios, radio-record player sets and televisions to over ninety countries worldwide. It participated as a supplier of the 1980

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. During the period between 1960-1980 it was the main exporter of Smena and

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cameras to the West. It also exported precision microscopes to Japanese companies such as

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, Sumitomo,

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and

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. In 1991 it reorganised. In September 2004 by decree No. 1009 of the

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it was included in the list of strategic

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n companies which made it exempt from

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. Mashpriborintorg.com
(Through Internet Archive)

Current activities

Mashpriborintorg currently imports and exports

telecommunications Telecommunication is the transmission of information by various types of technologies over wire, radio, optical, or other electromagnetic systems. It has its origin in the desire of humans for communication over a distance greater than that fe ...

equipment, radios,

television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertisin ...

and acoustic equipment, computers, electronic components, spare parts for civil

aircraft An aircraft is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air. It counters the force of gravity by using either static lift or by using the dynamic lift of an airfoil, or in a few cases the downward thrust from jet engine ...

and

helicopter A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward and laterally. These attributes ...

s, autonomous power systems and products and spare parts for

manufacturing plant A factory, manufacturing plant or a production plant is an Industry (manufacturing), industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with Outline of industrial machinery, machinery, where workers manufacturing, manuf ...

s.Mashpriborintorg information from rusimpex.ru

Branches

Mashpriborintorg is composed of the following

international trade International trade is the exchange of capital, goods, and services across international borders or territories because there is a need or want of goods or services. (see: World economy) In most countries, such trade represents a significant ...

companies and departments: *Mashpriborintorg-Akustika Co. Ltd. dealing with the import and export of home audio equipment. *Mashpriborkom Co. Ltd. dealing with the import of telecommunication facilities including

trunk line In telecommunications, trunking is a technology for providing network access to multiple clients simultaneously by sharing a set of circuits, carriers, channels, or frequencies, instead of providing individual circuits or channels for each clie ...

s. *Mashpriborintorg Signal Co. Ltd. dealing with the import and export of radio and

equipment.

References

External links

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Russian periodical Внешняя торговля (Foreign Trade) by MashpriborintorgWho is who in European Business and Industry Mashpriborintorg Ad in New Scientist 20 Dec 1962
{{Ruselectronics Companies of the Soviet Union Technology companies of Russia Ruselectronics Ministry of Foreign Trade (Soviet Union) Companies based in Moscow