I have a faint memory of buying an early pocket sized transistor radio which was affordable and Russian made and a Zenit camera at around the same time. Bit worrying now come to think of it, it was from a guy who worked at RR but I don't think he was Russian.
The Zenit was OK, but the lenses on the Zorki 4 were superb, especially the 50 mm F2.
Back in the day (1980s)I bought second hand an £850 zoom by Angenieux for a manual nikon.
It was pretty much the best zoom available at that time.
Today a plasticky piece of autofuck-us Nikon s*it with VR outperforms it at todays price of less than £200....
Russia seems to have a different take on some things to the West. Particularly in science.
Back in the 1980s, when I worked for British Gas, one of our team was on almost permanent secondment to the Russian energy supplier (as one of the worlds experts in pipeline dynamics). I had a chance to meet him at a do somewhere, and he said that the Russians were convinced that there was a layer of trapped methane beneath the Earth's crust, which he found amusing.
I sometimes wonder if they were referring to shale gas ?
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