Elektrit Radiotechnical Society was the biggest private-run company in Wilno (modern Lithuanian Vilnius) in the interwar period

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. With over 1100 workers, the society produced approximately 50 thousand radio receivers annually. A large percentage of the production was exported abroad, mostly to Sweden

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, Germany

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, Czechoslovakia

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 and Yugoslavia

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. The yearly turnover exceeded 1 million US dollars. Elektrit proved to be a very successful company and soon became the leading Radio Company in Poland.

Following the Soviet invasion of Poland

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 in the outbreak of the Second World War, during the Soviet occupation of Vilnius

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, the company was nationalized and then dissolved, and its property dismantled and transported to Minsk, where the "Vyacheslav Molotov" Radio Factory was set up.