at the spring international fair in lepzig in 1974 , not only watches from the minsk luch factory wererded a gold medal. the minsk refrigerator plant also took home a gold medal; it was the minsk-12 model. in principle, our brand minsk refrigerators, they were already beginning to gain authority in europe. in minsk, we also used such a device, it was called semi-automatic defrosting. previously, in order for a single-chamber refrigerator to be removed, someone would open it there, unplug it from the network. years since minsk began produce refrigerators when, in 1962 , the first minsk-1 refrigerator rolled off the assembly line of a plant in the belarusian capital. the need for such products in the ussr was enormous. in the early sixties, only four out of 100 soviet families had a refrigerator. in 1970-43. today, many still remember the saratov refrigerator, which was super popular in the ussr, with a small volume of only 85 liters, single-chamber, an almost inescapable dream of a soviet person, it was almost impossible to buy it, it was produced in small volumes, like the moskovsky re