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In December 1935 some American newspapers reported that Amtorg, the Soviet trading corporation, had ordered $2,000,000 worth of radio equipment and machinery for shipment to the Soviet Union . The news was remarkable, as the United States did not recognize the Soviet Republic for a very long time and had made that only in 1933. So in previous years the USSR contacted mainly with the West European companies when stocking up with electronic equipment. One more curious fact was that the purchase had been approved by the U.S. army and navy and the State Department. The equipment was to be made in the Radio Corporation of America plants in Camden and Harrison, New Jersey. The RCA manufactured a complete television system, including the transmitter, control rooms, cameras, and receivers. The RCA transmitting system was installed at the Moscow TV center for completely electronic translation of television programs. Besides the RCA plants delivered three technologic lines for radio valves production. The technologic lines were installed at plants in Leningrad and in the suburb of Moscow. Business got over political discrepancies: the USSR needed facilities of the well-known corporation for the aims of industrialization, while in conditions of the recession the RCA needed solvent customers for their production.