Киев-4 Soviet Transistor Radio Kit Unboxing (1990, Ukraine/USSR) 

It's my first radio in 1986. It's still working & places in my collection!

a better use for this kit would be to have some circuit boards made in china and put together a parts kit, it could be a nice forum project, you could even do a 3d printed case.

Very interesting review, thanks for the video, I'm from Russia.

"Cloth covered wire" could be Litzwire, very many, very fine wires in parallel in an insulation which only touch each other at both ends, maximizing the "Q" of the tuned circuit. Used extensively in the early days of radio, Western nations just switched to building superheterodyne radios in the 1930s.

Judging by the instructions it was meant as a toy/learning aid for hobbyists. This is probably why it's not superheterodyne - to make the circuit simpler and easier to understand. The handwritten notes on the parts list seem to be from the factory. Probably they forgot to mention a few parts when printing the instruction, so they added them by hand. Fun fact - older Soviet resistors didn't have the color bands, instead the value was silkscreened onto the case. It could be tricky to read without magnification on smaller resistors

The price on it is 8 rubles. And the date of manufacture is the right column, second line. So 11th month, and not sure if thats 80 or 90 for the second number.

Nice to see this great kit from the past century unassembled! :) Thanks so much for your video!

Matt - a very, very cool radio kit. The box and documentation makes it special. Thanks for sharing. Best, Don

And I have actually Cosmos-M and Orljonok-M, just those soviet, the smallest radio recievers, superheterodynes at mid wave range. And the mose smallest radio was Rubin, with size of a two match boxes. The first two devises of 1968 and 1973. I only changed capacitors in order to increase the volume. Just adore these radio devices. All the best from Ukraine.

Hiya Matt, thank you very much for posting that, that was a very interesting video. A slight departure from your usual format of showing us all a fully built working radio ergo a pleasant change. I used to have an uncle who would collect all kinds of stuff just because it was Russian in the mistaken belief that the quality was better than was available outside the Eastern block lol Pretty much most of the things he'd collected, Russian watches, radios etc although sturdily made weren't of as good a quality as was widely available at the time 70s-80s over here in UK but he loved those things anyway lol. The video also got me thinking that in the unlikely event that I ever had loads of money it would be a good idea to collect radio sets from each and every country in the world lol Mad lol Anyway I hope you find someone on here who can help you with the translation you were after... Take care bye for now.

Make TRF long wave receiver I with TRF receiver ( 3-V-2) can receive Poļski radio, BBC, Radio Rumania.... samtimes up to 6...7 stations with FM qality in outdoors...

One-handed videos are a torment.

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Nice find! Occasionally I see another of Kiev Radio Works' products over here, the Meridian model. Never in good enough condition to buy though.

Sorry for reviving an old thread, I've assembled such a radio when I was a kid. You should not judge too harshly for the design and everything (like uncalibrated dial), since it's considered and positioned as a toy (a manual even states this in the header). It worked fine however, but batteries were the main issue - you could rarely find it in sales. And they leaked often :(

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Nice kit

Well, back in a day, young people were encouraged to build things by own hands. Matt if you are interested in Polish transistor radios, I can provide one or two as a thank you for your excellent channel. Please contact me to discuss further details.

I have never seen a Soviet consumer merchandise/goods except for the bulky binoculars in pawn shops. The only other thing that I saw was books mostly pictorial type with good quality papers sold very cheap even in India.

The speaker and antenna look kinda impressive for that style of radio. It's too bad you don't want to build it, i would be interested in hearing the sound quality and sensitivity but i fully understand in wanting to keep it untouched. Thanks for the look.

If it is a Ukrainian sourced kit, I'd love to run a Geiger counter over it (Chernobyl)... Great find, and thanks for sharing!

4:02 This maybe an early discrete-component attempt at creating a crkt like the ZN414 IC chip, or a for runner the the Soviet version made with thin film technology in 1969

R is R in cyrilic russian. "reversed" r is "ya"

Do you no of any country or anyone that sells a tube radio kit,I been looking for years but you seem to no what's out there better then most.

Hi matt..i am an electronic enthusiast thanks for sharing that video radio kit..can you make video on tube radio kit...thanks

Hi Matt - Cool kit to have in your collection. Man, you just never know what you can find on Ebay! See ya -- Atco

Thats kinda cool! Maybe find an assembled one so you can dork with it??

0:53 "start 7229 radio(don't know the thing next to radio I guess something like kit or assembly)" "Kiev 4"

Made in my lab.electronic in 1987/88,i live in Romania.In my country in 1980-1990 many radio fromURSS and is verrry selective and good radio.

cool!

In Soviet Union radio listens to you!!

Hello from Russia! Manual written on plain russian.

Time to get a tripod. Assemble it. See howell it works!

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6:47...it looks like there are no transformers at ALL- unless you count the antenna coil-!!

I guess who ever waited in line to buy that kit would be only listening to a local propaganda station. Useless to tune to Radio Liberty, Voice of America, BBC, or Radio Free Europe.

Where can I purchase online?

Very wasteful design. I think they hope that fancy rod antenna will give it the performance rather than a superhet design. You would be fine if not many stations around and they are not too far away. You would get great sound and poor selectivity.

Glory to Ucraine!

Never compare this crap to Heathkit...lol

Da! Eees good for news of glorious revolution to the peoples!

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