In 1930, he organized the first television laboratory in the USSR, and in 1938, in a few months, he built the most powerful shortwave radio station in the world, the RV-96 (120 kW), according to a project he had developed.
During the war, under his leadership, a medium-wave broadcasting radio station was created with a fantastic power for that time - 1200 kW, the transmissions of which could be received in the occupied territory.
11 was organized as part of the Physical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (FIAN) to solve scientific and engineering problems related to the creation of charged particle accelerators for the Soviet atomic bomb project.
[3] In April 1947, Mints's team, as the "Department of Radio Equipment" (ORLIP), was transferred to the Laboratory of Measuring Instruments of the USSR Academy of Sciences headed by academician Igor Kurchatov.
In February 1951, to conduct top-secret work on the creation of anti-missile defense systems, Mints's team was transferred to the Third Main Directorate as an independent Radio Engineering Laboratory of the USSR Academy of Sciences (RALAN).
The institute was transferred to the Ministry of Radio Industry and moved to a new complex of buildings on 8 Marta Street, built on the territory previously occupied by the Faculty of Animal Husbandry of the Timiryazev Agricultural Academy.
Many graduates from Moscow State University, MEPhI, MAI, and MPEI came, studying in such specialties as systems engineering, computational mathematics, and control theory.