Established in 1961 as State Committee for Electronics Technology, it became a ministry in 1965.
[1] Its primary responsibility is for research, development, and production of electronic and electrical devices, including solid-state and miniature electronic components and devices.
It produced a wide variety of electronic appliances, most of them under the Electronika brand.
[2] MEI role as a political body was mostly replaced by a state-owned Rostec which was founded in 2007.
Source:[3][4] There was a range of different organizations, companies, and research centers during soviet times that were directly subjected to the ministry with many being active by the end of 2010, including: Kazan, Tatarstan Republic: Others: