Radio network lamp Zvezda-54 from the II quarter of 1954 The radio receiver network lamp Zvezda-54 from the II quarter of 1954 was produced by the Kharkov plant Kommunar and the Moscow plant Mospribor. The release of the radio was quite a significant event of the mid-fifties in the USSR. The receiver did not fit into the usual line of models of dull and gray receivers and the radiometer in wooden cases, like twins similar to each other and not changing in design for years. The mass media mainly in newspaper and magazine editions of those years very effectively described the appearance of the Zvezda-54 radio receiver as a huge breakthrough in the design of the design, as the latest fad, which gave people hope for the onset of a new, bright life. In fact, everything was much simpler and more prosaic. Radio Star-54 in its external design is a complete copy of the French radio Excelsior-52 of the release of 1952. It is not precisely established how the French receiver got into the IRPA. According to some of it, as a gift brought diplomats who visited France in 1952 on the independence of Austria. According to another version, the radio receiver was specially purchased for copying and release by order of senior management. Another touch related to the release of a radio receiver: In the post-war years, the government of the CCCR made a decision providing for the production by the defense enterprises of the USSR, together with special products, of consumer goods as well. In accordance with this, since 1952, the All-Union Research Institute of Broadcasting Reception and Acoustics named after AS Popov, abbreviated IRPA, together with the Kommunar plant (Kharkov, Ukraine) began the development and preparation of the conveyor for mass production radio Star-54. In 1954, the production of the receiver in parallel was transferred to the plant Mospribor (former bicycle factory). In the third quarter of 1954, the radio was upgraded. The modernization touched the chassis of the model, which became vertical, to facilitate technological processes and expand the color gamut of the case (red and green, there were no other colors). Both versions, modernized and ordinary in cases of two colors, produced both factories in parallel, but many more receivers in the red case were produced. In general, and the model was produced from 1954 to 1959, two plants produced 674.000 receivers '' Star-54 ''. Often confuses the ISH logo on the back cover or in the instructions of the device.