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| | My Russian 35mm Cameras |
 | | The similar Zorki rangefinders were first produced in Krasnogorsk, a suburb of Moscow, at a factory named for the location, beginning in 1948. |
 | | Variants could be found with Roman lettering, as well as Cyrillic, and it could also be with or without a viewfinder bezel (as this one is). |
 | | Produced (if my references are correct, for only two years) by the Krasnogorsk factory, at the same time as the Zenit-3, the Kristal introduced several features borrowed from the Zorki 5 and Zorki 6, all in a body heavily influenced by 1940s art deco. |
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