Goron Isaak Yevseyevich (1903-1982)

Goron Isaak Yevseyevich (1903, Dvinsk – 1982, Moscow) — specialist in broadcasting and sound recording, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor (1944).

Isaak Goron graduated from the Moscow Higher Technical School in 1922. From 1925 to 1929, he worked as a senior engineer at the Moscow Long-Distance Telephone Exchange, and from 1929 to 1934, he served as head of the Moscow Broadcasting Technical Hub.

He played an active role in developing the country’s first 30-line mechanical television system, which enabled regular broadcasts from the studio on Nikolskaya Street in Moscow starting in 1931.

From 1938, he was Chief Engineer at the State House of Sound Recording, a facility he had helped establish from 1934. In 1946, he was appointed Director of the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Sound Recording.

He oversaw the design and commissioning of major broadcasting infrastructure, including the first automated central control room for the Moscow Broadcasting Hub, and the world’s first system for simultaneous interpretation (developed for the 6th Congress of the Comintern).

His major scientific contributions focused on stereophonic broadcasting systems, as well as the development of the USSR’s first tape recorders, video recorders, and answering machines. He also pioneered the use of ferrography and magnetic flaw detection in industry.

Goron led efforts to restore historical sound recordings, including speeches by V.I. Lenin.

From 1928 to 1982, he taught and conducted research at the Moscow Electrotechnical Institute of Communications, where he headed the Department of Broadcasting and Acoustics.

He authored numerous scientific publications and served on the editorial boards of the journals Radiolyubitel, Elektrosvyaz, and, from 1953, was Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Radiotekhnika.

He was awarded the USSR State Prize (1979) and honoured as a Distinguished Scientist and Engineer of the RSFSR (1966).

Selected works:

Radioveshchanie [Broadcasting]. 2nd ed. Moscow, 1979.