Soviet TV

Television in the Soviet Union was owned, controlled and censored by the state. The body governing television in the era of the Soviet Union was the State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting (Государственный комитет по телевидению и радиовещанию СССР) and the USSR Gosteleradio (Гостелерадио СССР), which was responsible for both the Soviet Central Television and the USSR Gostelradio.

Soviet television production was classified into central (USSR Gostelradio and Soviet Central Television (TsT SSSR, Russian: Центральное телевидение Гостелерадио СССР, ЦТ СССР)), republican, and regional broadcasting.

In 1938, television broadcasting began in Moscow and Saint Petersburg under the auspices of the All-Union Committee for Radiofication and Radio Broadcasting at the USSR Sovnarkom (Всесоюзный комитет по радиофикации и радиовещанию при СНК СССР).

On 1 October 1934, Russia's first televisions were produced. They had a 3 × 9 cm screen and a mechanical Raster scan in 30 lines at 12.5 frames per second. On 15 November 1934, Moscow had its first television broadcast. It was a concert. Then, on 15 October 1935, the first film was broadcast.

On 9 March 1938, a first experimental studio television program was broadcast from Shabolovka tower in Moscow. Three weeks later, the first full film, The Great Citizen (Великий гражданин) was broadcast. On 7 June 1938, a television broadcast was trialled in Leningrad.

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