Portable and onboard tape recorder "Saiga".

DESIGNERS: ALEXEI KOLOTUSHKIN, DMITRI AZRIKAN, MARIA KOLOTUSHKINA
ALL-UNION SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TECHNICAL AESTHETICS (VNITE), 1987

In the second half of the 1980s, there was a trend towards smaller electronic equipment, and portable cassette players began to appear. Designers had the task of creating a tape recorder for drivers and tourists, so it had to be durable and small in size - it had to fit into a backpack or be attached to the handlebars of a bicycle. The headphones were foldable, had a special clip-like attachment, and a special compartment in the device's case was allocated for them. The recorder looks solid, reliable and resembles military communication equipment due to the combination of several different shades of green color. The project was not realized and remained at the prototype stage.