Image Orthicon Television Camera for outside broadcasts

"The controls placed below in the rear part of the camera serve for lifting and lowering the camera (when it is installed on a special mount) and for focusing. The positioning of the controls are optimised for use during panning shots."

A Paper was presented at the Brit. I.R.E. television conference at Cambridge in 1959 given by B.A. Berlin of the "State Committee for Radio Electronics, Moscow". It describes the progress of Soviet television cameras and studio equipment and details proposals for the future.
Ref. Brit I.R.E. May 1960 pages 381 to 386.

This camera is similar in appearance to the KT-6 and may well be an early version of the same model.