[Role of cooperation of small enterprises in the production of rigid medical endoscopes].

The paper briefly describes the purposes and technical data of rigid endoscopes with grading optic elements designed and produced by 3 small enterprises which have common aims and methods of their fulfillment. It also gives brief characteristics of Russian gradanes used as objectives and translators of optic image. The experience of cooperation of small enterprises shows that not only a very large-scale optic enterprise, but an amalgamation of small enterprises may solve such a difficult problem as design and serial production of thin rigid endoscopes due to cooperation of all those having a required scientific-and-technical potential.