Abram Shenderovich, One Of Creators Of Soviet Colour Television, Native Of Belarus, Dies

He was born in the Belarusian town of Slutsk in 1927.

One of the creators of colour television of the USSR, 96-year-old Abram Shenderovich, passed away in Moscow this morning, reported the 112 telegram channel.

"The ambulance was called to the scientist early in the morning, but the arriving medics stated death," reported the telegram channel.

In his time, Abram Shenderovich was in charge of television in the office of Leonid Brezhnev, chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

Shenderovich was born in the Belarusian town of Slutsk in 1927. He wrote in his memoirs that he lived in Belarus until 1930. Later, his parents moved to the Russian town of Saratov. Already there, NKVD officers came to them - someone denounced his father.

"But we were lucky. When the NKVD officers came to our house, my father was not at home. I remember that after the search, one officer stayed all night in our flat. However, my father did not turn up. The next day we learned from a neighbour that she saw the NKVD officers coming to our house and warned my father when she met him in the street. My father did not go home and left for the Crimea to his relatives. My mother with me and my sister immediately left for the Crimea to my father. We were renting a flat in Saratov, so we left it easily. Having arrived in Simferopol, my father rented a two-room flat from one of the Crimean Tatars," recalled Shenderovich.

In 1950, Shenderovich graduated from the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute, specialising in "radiolocation". He also studied at the Electrotechnical Institute in Tashkent.

In the 1960s, Abram Shenderovich published a book "Amplifiers of Audio Signals in a Television Receiver: Popular Science Edition", in 1970 - "Colour Image Reception and Reproduction in a Television Receiver", and in 1983 he co-authored the manual "Transmission of Television Signals via RRL".