Radiola is a household electronic device in which there is both a radio receiver and player. The device received its name from the name of the American company ‘Radiola’, which produced electronics. In the USSR, the first radiola was produced in 1938, it was manufactured at the Alexandrovskiy Radio Factory. It was called SVG-K - an all-wave superheterodyne radio receiver with a gramophone electric player console.
In 1963, at the A.S. Popov factory in Riga a new version of radiola was released. It was called ‘Rigonda’. The name ‘Rigonda’ is taken from the novel ‘The Lost Homeland’ by Vilis Latsis. The novel contains the fictional island of Rigonda - a play on the word Riga. Radiola ‘Rigonda’ served as the pioneer to the later generation of Soviet-made household radio lamp receivers.
The radiola series ``Rigonda-102'' was supposed to be released from 1968, but for various reasons the release was postponed. At the beginning of its production, the radiola was closer to the base model in its design, with the radio fabric gradually replaced and the frame of the tuning scale changed. The radio was placed in a wooden case; it could fit both on the surface of furniture and on its own four legs.
In 1963, at the A.S. Popov factory in Riga a new version of radiola was released. It was called ‘Rigonda’. The name ‘Rigonda’ is taken from the novel ‘The Lost Homeland’ by Vilis Latsis. The novel contains the fictional island of Rigonda - a play on the word Riga. Radiola ‘Rigonda’ served as the pioneer to the later generation of Soviet-made household radio lamp receivers.
The radiola series ``Rigonda-102'' was supposed to be released from 1968, but for various reasons the release was postponed. At the beginning of its production, the radiola was closer to the base model in its design, with the radio fabric gradually replaced and the frame of the tuning scale changed. The radio was placed in a wooden case; it could fit both on the surface of furniture and on its own four legs.
Radiola received signals from radio stations broadcasting at different frequencies. The first radio station in the territory of Bashkiria was put into operation on November 7, 1927, and on August 1 of the following year, regular broadcasting of the Bashkir Radio Committee began. With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, in 1941, the country’s main radio station RV-1 was evacuated to Ufa from Noginsk. The radio studio, from where the broadcasting was carried out directly, was set up on the fifth floor of the Main Post Office at the intersection of Lenin and Stalin streets, especially built for this purpose. Outside of its staff no one knew that the radio studio was operating in the center of the capital of Bashkiria. But the building was carefully guarded around the clock.
It was decided that the equipment itself would be installed in the village of Glumilino, where 4 high-rise masts were re-mounted at the highest point of the surroundings. The station broadcast not only in the territory of the USSR, but also in Eastern and Western Europe.
It was decided that the equipment itself would be installed in the village of Glumilino, where 4 high-rise masts were re-mounted at the highest point of the surroundings. The station broadcast not only in the territory of the USSR, but also in Eastern and Western Europe.
