FED Cameras in Collection
FED
1934-55 FED 1
FED2
1955-70 Fed 2
Fed
1962-63 Fed 3

(type a)
FED 3b
1963-72 Fed 3b

FED 4b
1969-70 Fed 4B

FED 5B
1975-90 Fed 5B


The FED derived its name from Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky's initials, the founder of the Soviet Secret Police. The FED was made in Kharkov, Ukraine at a Youth Rehabilitation Commune. FED was the first successful Leica copy first made in 1934, only two years after Leitz introduced the Leica II.


Zorki-Zenit Cameras in Collection
Zorki
1948 Zorki 1
Zenit
1953 Zenit

Zorki 3
1954-55 Zorki 3
Zorki 2c
1955-60 Zorki 2C

zorki 3c
1955-56 Zorki 3C

1959 Zorki 5
1959 Zorki 5

(type 2)
Zorki 6
1959-66 Zorki 6

Zorki 4K
1972-78 Zorki 4K


KMZ "Krasnogorsk Mekanicheski Zavod" or Krasnogorsk Mechanical Factory is in a suburb of Moscow and is named after the suburb. Both Zorki and Zenit brands were made there through the 1990's.


Miscellaneous
Kiev III
1947 - 52 Kiev III
Kiev II
1947-55  Kiev II
GOMZ
1964 GOMZ Leningrad