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Russian tubes - Classification of various brands?

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Kagliostro

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I like russian tubes and if I find it at HamFest I get it

one question arrived to my mind

there is a classify that tell you which brand are better and which are lower quality ?

This are some of the russian brand

can someone make a ranking ?

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REFLECTOR plant
made in Russia (Saratov city)

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RFT plant
made in Germany

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Voskhod plant, ROCKET logo,
made in Russia (Kaluga city)

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ORZJEP plant,
made in Russia (Orel city)

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Anod plant,
made in Russia (Diatkovo city)

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Novosibirsk plant,
made in Russia

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SVETLANA plant,
made in Russia (St. Petersburg)

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Ulyanovsk plant,
made in Russia

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MELZ plant,
made in Russia (Moscow city)

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Oktyabr plant,
made in USSR (Vinniza city, Ukraine)

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FOTON plant,
made in USSR (Tashkent city)

Thanks

K
 
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Kagliostro

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Thanks for the replay

Someone knows how to recognize tubes that are military grade ?

this is what I know

EB = Long Life - 5000 Hours

ER = Long Life - 10000 Hours

K = Shock Resistant

VI = Military Equipment (but I don't know more)

I = ??? I don't Know

IR = High Durable

DR = 10000 - 20000 Hours

What means the OTK stamp ?

I'm sure there are other things to know about russian tubes

Someone has further info to share ?

Thanks

K
 
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AleksGit

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Joined 2011
Kagliostro said:
Thanks for the replay

Someone knows how to recognize tubes that are military grade ?

I know EB version is a long life tube and K version is a shock resistent tube

but I'm sure there are other things to know about russian tubes

Thanks

K
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В165П ВП-military acceptance

1512 - 6П9
1515 - 6П6С, 6Ф6С, 6Ф6М1
1527 - 2Ц2С
1539 - 6Н1П
1556 - 6Н17Б
1557 - 6Х7Б
1559 - 6Н16Б
1564 - 6С3Б
1570 - 6Ж5Б
1571 - 6Ж10Б
1578 - 6Н8С
special series
 

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toriversen

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OTK stands for Otdyel Tekhnicheskovo Kontrolya, "department of technical control" most of products in the Soviet Union carried this stamp. If an item has this stamp, it meets the minimum quality standards.
From the 1950's quality controllers where inserted in most Soviet industrial companies to test and check production, but not all companies had OTK controllers, and not every item leaving the factory was stamped.
 
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oleg___g

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E (russian E) - long life (5000h and more)
D (russian Д) - ultra long life (10000h and more)
V (russian B) - vibration proof, high reliability
I (russian И) - for impuls mode (high emission of catode)
K (russian K) - vibration proof
R (russian P) - vibration and radiation (nuclear reliability) proof

so 'EV' (rus EB) is 'long life' + 'vibration proof, high reliability' etc

also stamps:
ОТК - standard quality
ВП - military
ОС - ultra stable parameters
 
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irribeo

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Book describes multiple phantom factories under same name in Soviet Union. So did the Ukraine (=ussr) factory exist ? Book also describes no further investigation of all these phantom factories took place. That probably means the phantom factories still are listed as factories.
 
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