One of my favorite sites is the Museum of Soviet Calculators, which is a vast repository of information about the large quantity of calculating machines the Soviet Union turned out during the Cold War. One of the most intriguing pages there is a gallery of logos for Soviet state electronics firms, that happened to have turned out a pocket calculator or two in the course of their operational history. Unfortunately, the quality of the image files found there is very low. So I thought I’d recreate them and publish the files here for your interest.

It’s interesting that all of the logos have a certain aesthetic uniformity, as if they were produced by the same design bureau (for all I know, they were). And it should be a stimulating contrast when I do a post on their Western competitors. Later this week I’ll publish a comparable number of NATO electronics firm logos from the same period (1970s-1980s). There’s already a bit of a direct crossover on this list, as “Unknown VII” is an amusing Russian rip of the famous Commodore logo.

Note: there may be some discrepancies from the actual logos, as the aforementioned source files I was working from are highly compressed, pixelated and loaded with artifacts. If you have better scans of any of these logos, feel free to download the vector and edit it as you see fit. If you drop me an email, I’d be happy to republish them here (irvin [at] techconex.com).

Angstrem: HighRes File: (73kb) Illustrator File: (4.2kb)	Ulianovsk: HighRes File: (59kb) Illustrator File: (4.2kb)
Angstrem II: HighRes File: (24kb) Illustrator File: (2.4kb)	Svetlana: HighRes File: (58kb) Illustrator File: (4.7kb)
Kazan: HighRes File: (50kb) Illustrator File: (3.7kb)	Billur: HighRes File: (26kb) Illustrator File: (3.6kb)
Integral: HighRes File: (63kb) Illustrator File: (4.9kb)	Rodon: HighRes File: (20kb) Illustrator File: (2.6kb)
Unknown I: HighRes File: (55kb) Illustrator File: (3.3kb)	Schetmash: HighRes File: (68kb) Illustrator File: (4.2kb)
Unknown II: HighRes File: (45kb) Illustrator File: (7.3kb)	Elektron Org Technika: HighRes File: (44kb) Illustrator File: (4.7kb)
Unknown III: HighRes File: (76kb) Illustrator File: (6.0kb)	2210: HighRes File: (41kb) Illustrator File: (5.0kb)
Unknown IV: HighRes File: (31kb) Illustrator File: (5.0kb)	Vilnius: HighRes File: (43kb) Illustrator File: (3.2kb)
Unknown V: HighRes File: (19kb) Illustrator File: (3.5kb)	Unknown VI: HighRes File: (37kb) Illustrator File: (3.9kb)
Unknown VII: HighRes File: (37kb) Illustrator File: (2.8kb)	Unknown VIII: HighRes File: (39kb) Illustrator File: (4.3kb)