A brief overview of the most interesting reports and events held on November 28–29, 2019 at the St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "VI All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference of X-ray Manufacturers" is presented. As a result of the work, a collection of conference materials was released. The central event of the conference was an excursion to the plant of JSC Svetlana-X-ray, where the general director is Ph.D. N. A. Kulikov spoke in detail about the existing production technologies and plans for the future, after which a tour was conducted on all the shops of the enterprise. The conference reports were divided into two areas: “Technical means of medical diagnostics” and “Methods of using technical means of medical diagnostics”, although some reports did not fully comply with the aforementioned topics. The conference organizers consciously took such a step so as not to split the meetings into a large number of sections. The most interesting and informative reports were made on the section “Technical means”. For novice researchers and graduate students of Russian universities, special conditions were created that allowed them to participate in the conference with their own reports. More information about the conference materials can be found on the website http://www.x-ray-conf.ru/, which contains the materials of all previous conferences starting from the first All-Russian Conference of X-ray Equipment Manufacturers held in St. Petersburg on November 21, 2014.

The short essay on the history, which begins in 1964, of the Research Scientific Institute of Introscopy (hereinafter referred to as the Institute) is presented. The main stages of the establishment and development of the Institute are considered. Over the years, dozens of world-famous scientists have worked in the Institute, more than 770 types of diagnostic devices and stationery equipment for all sectors of the national economy have been developed, more than 620 monographs and 3300 scientific articles have beenpublished, more than 5100 copyright certificates and patents for inventions have been registered. The Institute provided significant assistance in the establishment of Departments of Non-Destructive Testing at a number of universities in the Russia/USSR (MPEI, MIREA, etc.) for the training of high-ranking engineers in the field of non-destructive testing and introscopy. The devices and equipment invented and designed at the Institute were mass-produced at many enterprises in the Russia/USSR (Elektrotochpribor factory, Volna Production Association, Introscope JSC (Chisinau), Aktyubrentgen JSC factory (Aktobe), Tochpribor KhPO (Kharkov), Veda Production Association (Kiev), SKB Gazpriboravtomatika (Moscow), Kontrolpribor plant (Moscow),Sevkavrentgen plant (Maisky).