Rezida V. Dautova, Murshida H. Fatihova, History of the World Television: Contribution of Russian Scientists and Kazan University, The Social Sciences, Volume 10,Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1950-1958, ISSN 1818-5800, sscience.2015.1950.1958, (https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2015.1950.1958) Abstract: Television as the most accessible and popular mass medium in the world, plays an important role in the development of human society. The scientists and inventors from different countries improve TV technologies and equipment to make a greater impact on the audience. In the context of globalization and information society the interest in historical origins of any phenomenon is natural. In the history of world, television a special place is occupied by the invention of the first color television system and sound-video recording on a magnet tape which belongs to the Russian inventors Alexander Appolonovich Polumordvinov and Alexander Matveevich Ponyatov whose fate was related with Kazan and Kazan University. This study reveals hitherto unknown important facts from their biographies. The researchers consider archival documents which are introduced into scientific circulation for the first time. Keywords: History of television;color television;sound-video recording on a magnet tape;Kazan University;documents