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On the 1st of October 1931 the Moscow Radio Communication Center started first Russian regular telecasts. Designer of the television transmitter of mechanical type was P. Shmakov with his colleagues in the All-Union Institute of Electrical Engineering. Data of the system - 30 lines, 1260 image elements, 12,5 frames per sec - answered the international standards. Television centers appeared then in Leningrad, Odessa, Tomsk and other cities. Possibilities of transmitting images increased beginning with 1934, when V. Arkhangelsky and I. Dzhigit developed the camera of “direct vision”. Interest to the new technical achievement was great, and the industry of the young Soviet Republic could not satisfy the public’s needs in TV receivers. In previous years the country went through the boom of amateur radio communication that stimulated appearance of thousands radio hams. The enthusiasts burned with the desire to build television receivers by own means. The popular journal “Radio Front” together with experts took the mission to help the amateurs with advises, drawings, etc.