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{{Short description|Manufacturing company based in Latvia}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = Valsts elektrotehniskā fabrika (VEF)
| logo = VEF_Logo_old.gif
| image = VEF pārvaldes ēka pēc restaurācijas 2017.jpg
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| image_caption = Street view of the oldest building of VEF in 2017. <Br>Built by architect [[Heinrich Scheel]] in 1899
| type = [[Public company|Public]]
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| foundation = 1919
| defunct = {{End date|1999}}
| location = [[Riga]], [[Latvia]]
| area_served = Interwar Latvia (1918–1940), [[Soviet Union]] (1940–1991), Latvia (1991–1999)
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| industry = [[Electronics]], [[telecommunications]], [[radio receivers]], [[photography]], [[aircraft]]
| products = [[Minox]], [[VEF Spidola]], [[VEF I-11]], etc
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| num_employees = 4000 (1938)<ref>{{Cite web |title=VEF 100 gadi |url=http://www.archiv.org.lv/vef100/?page_id=40 |access-date=2022-12-11 |website=www.archiv.org.lv}}</ref>
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'''VEF''', Latvian acronym for '''Valsts elektrotehniskā fabrika''' (''State Electrotechnical Factory''), was a manufacturer of electrical and electronic products in [[Riga]], [[Latvia]]. It was founded in 1919. Before World War II, it manufactured a large variety of goods, including [[Minox]] — then the world's smallest camera. After the war, it was the leading communication technology producer in the [[Soviet Union]] and the largest factory in the Latvian SSR.<ref name="bedre">{{Cite web |url=http://www.bedre.lv/index.php?id=read&show=225 |title=Ieskats VEF vēsturē |trans-title=A look into VEF's history |first=Normunds |last=Rikards |date=February 4, 2009 |access-date=June 23, 2010}}</ref>