Yatran (typewriter)

Yatran (Russian: Ятрань) was an electromechanical typewriter manufactured in the Soviet Union at the Kirovograd Typewriter Plant (Production Association Pishmash, Пишмаш^[a]), Ukrainian SSR. It was name after the nearby Yatran River. It was a licensed clone of German typewriter Olympia SGE. This typewriter was manufactured with keyboards in other languages of the Soviet Union: Latvian, Lithuanian, Estonian, Ukrainian, Kazakh, etc., as well as with the Braille keyboard for visually impaired people (model МПЭС-1М).^[1][2][3]

Yatran typewriter

Notes

1. The abbreviation Pishmash for "пишущая машинка", 'typewriter', was also used for other Soviet typewriter plants.