Mashpriborintorg (Машприборинторг), Moscow

Große russische Exportfirma für Telekommunikation, Radios, Fernsehen und Fototechnik ohne eigene Produktion.

Hier listen wir diejenigen Modelle, die nur das MPI-Logo besitzen. Ein Hersteller, wenn bekannt, wird in das Bemerkungsfeld eingetragen.

Mashpriborintor was a sales organization working to distribute and sell Soviet technology products throughout the world. While they did not have their own production (products always came from one of the many USSR factories and mostly had similiar if not identical domestic counterparts) their logo is prominently featured on the back of those products.

Here we list those products that only have the MPI logo. A manufacturer, if known, is entered in the remarks.

See also the export labels / brands Comix and Vega.

Mashpriborintorg was founded in the Soviet Union 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.

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 USSR. 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 Moscow Olympics. During the period between 1960-1980 it was the main exporter of Smena and Zenit cameras to the West. It also exported precision microscopes to Japanese companies such as Sony, Sumitomo, Canon and Toshiba.]

In 1991 it reorganised. In September 2004 by decree No. 1009 of the President of the Russian Federation it was included in the list of strategic Russian companies which made it exempt from corporatization.