Soviet television

From some old Australian newspapers, some 1950s articles on the television of the former Soviet Union.

Description of programming and resolution
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/212468509

UK and Soviet TV exchanging sports films
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/212476107

Goal for nation-wide TV network
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/50554311

Description of programming, info on how the shows were viewed
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/49612578

Mentions of British plays on Soviet television (see section "Shakespeare on TV")
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/236260004

Note: There was at least one major Soviet film director who started in 1950s TV, but his name escapes me (his first work, a TV movie, is wrongly listed as a theatrical release on IMDb). 

I'd be curious as to how much Soviet TV of the 1950s survives in the archives.