Portable reel-to-reel tape recorder "Mriya".
Reel-to-reel tape recorders, portable.Reel-to-reel tape recorders, portableSince the beginning of 1967, the portable reel-to-reel tape recorder "Mriya" has been produced by the Kiev plant "Communist" and the Zaporozhye plant of mobile power plants. The portable reel-to-reel tape recorder "Mriya" in translation from the Ukrainian "Dream", in fact, became the pink dream of young people, the late sixties of the 20th century. It was as unusual in design, size, weight, economy, sound quality and reliability in operation as the tape recorder, so much the most popular. There was a bike that the "Mriya" tape recorder is a copy of the Japanese model, which one is not known exactly. Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan, a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU, in 1966 brought from Japan a small, cute, neat tape recorder and demanded to make the same, only ours, Soviet. You can easily believe in a bike, such an unpretentious commercial espionage flourished in the USSR for many years. Despite the rather high cost of the tape recorder (220 rubles), the demand for it always exceeded supply. The "Mriya" tape recorder has become legendary for its time, leaving far behind almost all existing domestic portable reel-to-reel tape recorders by most indicators. "Mriya" did not become the only masterpiece of the plant, the second "Dream" was the portable cassette tape recorders "Spring-305/306", which also became legendary for the early seventies, but that's another story ...
