Heinrich Yushkeavichus Biography

After the Second World War, he went to study at the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute of Communications, which graduated at 23 years old, then worked in the LittsSR Broadcasting Committee, where he created the most modern infrastructure at that time from scratch. At the age of 31, he was already appointed director of the technical center of the International Organization of Broadcasting and Television Intervation in Prague.

And after another five years, Yushkevichyus became, in fact, the head of Soviet television, who directly responsible for the development of color TV in the country. It was he who fought and eventually achieved that the Soviet Union be provided with the most modern equipment to the Olympics and thereby completely translated all the broadcasting of the USSR into color. Own resources from the numerous interviews of Yushkeavicius follows that it was practically impossible to purchase equipment in years.

I had to do a lot ourselves. I even had to connect the forces of the USSR military-industrial complex. And this has already prompted the production of its own magnetic tape, a color film. Of course, they were not the same as their analogues abroad, but still the first steps to eliminate the deficit were taken. In Nalchik, for example, a telemechanical equipment factory was earned with renewed vigor, in the homeland of Yushkevichyus in Shyulya and Kaunas, local factories began to produce a lot of things to work color TV in the country.

True, he was made even before Henry was at the head of Soviet television. The demand for color TVs, which now sold up to eight million pieces per year, grew right away. The broadcasting zones were finally defined, otherwise it turned out that interesting programs in the Far East began at four to five in the morning. With God's help: as the clergymen worked at the Olympics on July 29, for high -quality lighting the Olympics near Ostankino, they built an Olympic television and radio center.

Initially, it was planned to build eight floors there, but stopped at four. In addition, a large number of technical means were required: it needed 70 radio and 20 television studios, the mobile television stations of the TCP for all stadiums. According to the memoirs of Yushkevichiyus, at that time he went to bed at four in the morning, and at eight o’clock he was already at the construction site of the future center.

To get TCP is one thing, another was to teach people to show a variety of sports. The experience of broadcasting large competitions in Soviet television was absent. Therefore, in anticipation of the Moscow Olympiad, they decided this: the Lithuanians will show their second religion - basketball, Kazan gave horse sport, Ukrainians - athletics and so on.

Everyone made pilot issues, brought to Moscow, where foreign experts already acted as critics. The Spartakiad of the peoples of the USSR helped to prepare a lot of the Games - which has become a kind of general rehearsal for all support services involved in the organization of the OI, including television. All of them came to Moscow, and then the little -known then Vladimir Pozner worked in these negotiations as a translator.