Elektrit

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Elektrit Radiotechnical Society (Polish Towarzystwo Radiotechniczne „Elektrit”) was the biggest private-run company in Wilno before World War II. With over 1100 workers, the society produced approximately 50 thousand radio receivers yearly. Large part of the production was exported abroad, mostly to Sweden, Germany, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. The yearly turnover exceeded 1 million US dollars.

As one of the two major Polish radio producers and the only one in the area annexed by the Soviet Union after the invasion in 1939, the firm was nationalized and then dissolved. Its property was dismantled and transported to Minsk, where the "Viacheslav Molotov" Radio Factory was set up. A large group of the engineers and skilled workers were also arrested and forcibly resettled in Minsk as forced labourers.