1965 YUNOST 202
Shirtpocket radio, thermoplastic cabinet
4 1/2 x 2 1/2 x 1 3/16 inches / 114 x 63.5 x 30 mm
MW, four transistors
Superheterodyne circuit
One 9V battery?
Manufactured at First Moscow Instrument-Making Plant, Moscow
I got this set on eBay from a seller in Ukraine. Surprisingly, there's no info on this set on the invaluable Russian historical radio site, narod.ru, so I'm showing here what the eBay seller wrote:
YUNOST Vintage Soviet Radio Receiver (since 1965) made in USSR
The Yunost radio receiver from the set was produced in 1965 by the First Moscow Instrument-Making Plant. The Yunost radio receiver was developed by the Central Revolutionary Committee of the USSR together with the Design Bureau of the Moscow Instrument-Making Plant and is a set of parts, assemblies and elements, including a case, from which you can assemble a radio receiver operating in the MW band. The price of the set was 12 rubles. (later reduced). The tuned receiver had the following parameters: Range of received waves 200...550 m. Sensitivity in the range of ~ 7 mV/m. Selectivity 7...10 dB. Nominal output power 130, maximum 200 mW. The dimensions of the Yunost receiver are 114x65x32 mm. The body of the receiver had a combined floral scheme of several colors. On some cases on the front panel there is a letter “B” instead of the “MPZ” logo, but it was not possible to determine what it meant.
So this is a kit radio -- see the chassis photos below. This unit came to me with only its cabinet, speaker, tuning capacitor and tuning knob, and an empty circuit board -- no components on the board, and no volume knob. Its cabinet seems very familiar, and I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out it was made in Japan or that the Russian manufacturer copied a cabinet mold from a Japanese set -- its dimensions are nearly identical to several Sharp and Toshiba sets.
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