Made in TASSR: KAMAZ toy guns, Idel-001 tape recorder and Tasma tape

Made in TASSR: KAMAZ toy guns, Idel-001 tape recorder and Tasma tape

<p> Many citizens of the capital of Tatarstan remember the KAMAZ toy guns, Idel-001tape recorder, Kazan toy helicopter - these and other items of the Soviet era. The Museum of the social lifestyle offers to the citizens and visitors of Kazan see them and find out other goods produced in the Tatar ASSR. Rustem Valiakhmetov, director of the Museum, told the correspondent of the portal KZN.RU about the most interesting exhibits. </p> <p> <b>People came from all over the Soviet Union to buy Tasma cassettes and tape</b> </p> <p> During the Soviet Union, much attention was paid to the development of radio engineering, almost every republic produced this kind of equipment. For example, the Kazan tape player was produced in the Tatar ASSR-for playing both records and cassettes. </p> <p> The Idel-001 tape recorder was a high-tech device, which many young people wanted to buy. “It was very prestigious and cost a lot”, - said the Director of the Social lifestyle Museum. – It was the time of Beatlemania, and then the hearts of Soviet citizens were captured by disco and rock. Therefore, many people wanted to have such a tape recorder, and it was made in Kazan”. </p> <p> The Tasma plant was famous throughout the Soviet Union. It produced cassettes and coils of audio and photographic film. Experts highly appreciated the quality of sound recordings and photos taken with this product. </p> <p> <b>KAMAZ manufactured not only trucks, but also children's guns</b> </p> <p> Few people know that the famous KAMAZ plant produced not only vehicles, but also pistols for children! The brand of the famous auto plant can be seen on the exhibit, which is stored in the Kazan Museum of Social lifestyle. </p> <p> On a separate stand in the Museum there are pins that were produced in different times in the republic of Tatarstan and, in particular, in Kazan. Some of them are dedicated to the 800th anniversary of the capital of the republic. There are also pins depicting the symbols of the city – the Kazan Kremlin, the Soyembika tower, the Kazan University, and the circus. </p> <p> <b>Celebrities in the city: Yuri Gagarin, Muslim Magomayev and Vladimir Vysotsky</b> </p> <p> During the Soviet period, many famous people visited the republic. For example, the pilot-cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin - his photo taken in the Volga camp near Kazan is presented in the Museum of Social lifestyle. Muslim Magomayev, Alla Pugachova and Vladimir Vysotsky visited the capital of the republic in different years. </p> <p> TASSR was the birthplace of many famous people. For example, the musician Aleksander Dobrynin was born in Tatar ASSR. A record signed by the singer is kept in the Museum. </p> <p> Another native of the Kazan province – an electrical engineer who introduced a number of innovations in the field of magnetic sound and video recording, broadcasting, Aleksander Ponyatov. He founded the Ampex company in America, which produced the first commercial video recorder. One of the devices of this company is now represented in the Museum. </p> <p> Photos that are stored in the Museum help to plunge into the atmosphere of the previous century. They depict students, factory workers, journalists, schoolchildren, and citizens participating in demonstrations. </p> <p> Postcards and books in the Tatar language are also represented in the Museum. </p> <p> Many exhibits dedicated to the 100^th anniversary of the Tatar ASSR are currently represented at the Tatar cultural center in Moscow, as well as in Antalya (Turkey). Earlier, the exhibition has been presented at the State Duma of the Russian Federation. “The history of Kazan and Tatarstan is interesting to many, both in Russia and abroad”, - Rustem Valiakhmetov noted. </p>

2020-08-26T11:31:00+0300