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People outside the Soviet Union who used a TVRO satellite television could receive Soviet broadcasts. [citation needed] Broadcasts were time-shifted for the Soviet Union's many time zones. The national television channels were only on the air for part of the day, giving room in the schedule to time-shift.
Fixed Togo, Ireland and North Yemen were neutral, Sandinista Nicaragua was USSR-aligned, but not officially socialist. 08:27, 11 August 2013 940 × 477 (2.28 MB)
Telecommunication network of the Soviet Union (Data between 1923 - 1948) Radio stations in the Soviet Union, 1947 "Networking" can be traced to the spread of mail and journalism in Russia, and information transfer by technical means came to Russia with the telegraph and radio (besides, an 1837 sci-fi novel Year 4338, by the MTS 19th-century Russian philosopher Vladimir Odoevsky, contains ...
The satirical TV series Second City Television did a 1980 episode consisting of skits centered around a Russian satellite signal overriding the SCTV satellite and causing Russian TV to be broadcast on SCTV's signal, with Soviet Central Television satirized as 'CCCP1' (Three CP One) and 'CCCP2' (Three CP Two) and containing further satires of ...
20 February – Zurab Yevloyev, former Russian professional football player [3] 4 May – Mikhail Tsvetkov, Russian high jumper; 12 June – Denys Monastyrsky, Ukrainian politician (died 2023) 22 June – Ilya Bryzgalov, former Russian ice hockey player; 20 September – Vladimir Karpets, Russian cyclist
The telephone numbering plan of the USSR was a set of telephone area codes, numbers and dialing rules, which operated in the Soviet Union until the 1990s. After the collapse of the USSR, many newly independent republics implemented their own numbering plans. However, many of the principles of the Soviet numbering plan still remain.
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The Soviet Union set up the great space race that would lead to international technological, political, cultural, and scientific exploration. [15] The Soviet domestic satellite system was also known as Orbita - in 1990 there were 90 Orbita satellites, supplying programming to 900 main transmitters and over 4,000 relay stations.