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The portable radio receiver "VEF Transistor-17" was developed and experimentally produced in 1967 by the Riga State Electrotechnical Plant "VEF".
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The radio was also planned to be produced in an export version, which had nine bands, instead of eight in the version for the USSR.
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The All-Union Chamber of Commerce in 1967 approved samples of models of portable transistor radio receivers of the second class "VEF-12" and "VEF Transistor-17".
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Both radios were launched in October 1967, but this was an experimental release.
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As a result of successful tests, the VEF-12 radio receiver from November 1967 was put on the assembly line and produced in small batches, and from 1968 it was launched into mass production.
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The documentation for the VEF Transistor-17 radio receiver was transferred to the Minsk Radio Plant, where, after minor modernization, it began to be produced in 1969, but already under the Ocean brand.
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The VEF Transistor-17 radio receiver, like the VEF-12 radio receiver, was created in the SKB at the Popov Radio Plant in Riga.
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Both are brothers of the famous VEF-Spidola and VEF Spidola-10 radio sets.
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These radios in their years were very popular not only in the USSR, but also far beyond its borders.
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