Universal Electronic Test Chart

[1][2][3] UEIT was developed by N. G. Deryugin and V. A. Minaev at the NII Radio Scientific Research Institute as the successor to the monochrome ТИТ-0249 test card[4] with the informal name of "Colour Prevention Table" (TCP).

[5][6][7] This was the second attempt by the Soviets to create a colour test card, since previous efforts undertaken in 1954 (the ТИТ-0154 test card)[8] in conjunction with the early prototype NIIR/SECAM IV colour television system, were abandoned in favour of regular SECAM III B.

On the golden jubilee year of the October Revolution in 1967, colour broadcasts debuted in both Moscow and Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg).

This new version, called UEIT-2, was introduced in 1971 with several GOST-approved modifications up to 1986, and was used on terrestrial broadcast and on point-to-point links throughout the Soviet Union.

[20][21] The UEIT allowed to adjust image geometry and picture settings such as brightness, contrast and colour saturation.