Radio-electronic industry is a part of the machine-building industry, which in planning has been classified since 1968 separately from the radio industry, electronic industry, and the subdivision of instrument making. In the official reporting statistics license applications are submitted only in the categories of "devices, means of automation and computer technology" and "radio receivers, radios, TVs and household recorders", which does not cover all products.
By methods of calculating national income, radio-electronic industry in 1969 gave the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic around 1.9% of the products of all aggression. In reality, it was likely more than this. The radio-electronic industry rarely produces finished products; as most of its products are components of others. The end products, as well as the parts, and the semi-finished products went into the following: rockets, artificial satellites, nuclear power plants, etc. An important component of their products, polymer batteries require many strategically important and scarce metals, plastics, minerals, and synthetics. Because of this, they are closely connected with many other industries.
According to the organization of production, technology and communications to the mining industry, the following branches of industry are fully or at least partly involved: radio engineering, telephone and telegraph, the industry of special (largely military) radio and radio navigation equipment, cybernetic, electronic computing and guiding machines (computers) and electronic automation equipment. This is an industry that manufactures electronic machines for boot control of production processes, office work, control and accounting, planning and commercial and financial operations, machines for school education, for photographic reproduction of documents, storage, and finding of information. Further in the industry of measuring equipment is the electronic vacuum, technological equipment, conductors, radio components, materials for radio-electronic industry (produces electrical engineering, glass, special ceramics, pie, mica, luminophore, etc.) and special engineering for the radio-electronic industry.
Radio-electronic industry in Ukraine
In Ukraine, the radio-electronic industry is a subject that is only relevant to union ministries. It is the youngest branch of the industry both in Ukraine and in the world, but its significance is huge, and will soon be decisive for the entire national economy in the near future because the electronics industry becomes the core of all machine building. In radio-electronic industry, the beginnings of agricultural production were in 1896, when in the Sumy the Belgians built machine-building workshops, which were made among others, telephone and telegraph devices. The first radiotelegraph laboratory was opened in Kyiv by S. Eisenstein in 1905, the first radio station was built in Mylokaiv in 1914. The first electrostatic generators and accelerators of protons in the USSR were created in the 1930s. In the Ukrainian Physical-Technical Institute in Kharkiv, television has existed since 1940 (in an experimental form). The radio industry has developed mainly in Ukraine since 1945. In Dnipropetrovsk, the mass production of radio receivers began in 1947, the radio station - in 1952; tape recorders began to be produced in Kyiv since 1949, TV sets - in Lviv since 1958. The electronics industry was created mainly in the 1960s pp. The Lviv factory of kinescopes began mass production of television rods in 1954 and soon became an enterprise of the all-Union and Eastern European significance; In 1968, he began to produce rods for color TV.