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                | friendlyrod Brazil
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                      |  Posted - Aug 08 2016 :  02:23:25 AM     
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                      | Hi folkls! I' d like to name all soviet/russian cameras repairing facilities all over the world who still are in business. 
 For the time being, I remember:
 
 1) http://araxfoto.com/
 
 2) http://www.mechanicalcamerarepair.com/
 
 3)Panorama Camera Center (Apparently has no website)
 150 W 25th St  between 7th Ave & Avenue Of The Americas
 Chelsea, NY
 Phone number(212) 563-1651
 Technician name is Fima.  One of several former Arsenal Factory Technician.
 
 Who else could add to this list?
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                |  Damir Zakizanov
 FED-5B Olimpic Edition
 Russia
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                      |  Posted - Aug 08 2016 :  05:43:52 AM     
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                      | One old master lives in my town - in Yoshkar-Ola. He can fix all kind of popular Soviet cameras, and it'll cost only 200-500 rubles! He repaired my Kiev-4AM. He then gathered almost from scratch my Vilia which has only the main part of body and lens. |  
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                |  Vladislav Kern
 Vlad
 USA
 4272 Posts
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                      |  Posted - Aug 08 2016 :  09:47:49 AM       
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                      | Thank you very much for this information, the Panorama camera center is most interesting! 
 Do you know if any of these do mail-based repair? If you send it to them will they send it back?
 
 Thanks,
 Vlad.
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                |  Milo Schekkerman
 Valkir1987
 Netherlands
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                      |  Posted - Aug 08 2016 :  09:52:57 AM       
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                      | quote:One of several former Arsenal Factory Technician.
 
 
 In the Netherlands is a repairman too who was trained by an Arsenal technician. He is retired now and only accepts very few repairs.
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                |  Vladislav Kern
 Vlad
 USA
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                      |  Posted - Aug 08 2016 :  09:53:05 AM       
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                      | I added these to the Resources catalog under Camera Repair. Damir, do you have more info on your repairman to add their contact into our database? 
 Thanks,
 Vlad
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                |  Vladislav Kern
 Vlad
 USA
 4272 Posts
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                | friendlyrod Brazil
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                      |  Posted - Aug 08 2016 :  5:09:05 PM     
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                      | I came to know by "The Kiev Report" webpage about the existence of a certain Mr. Eddie Smolov, who was a specialized Kiev camera technician in USA.  Does anyone have any information on him? |  
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                | sean perry seany65
 United Kingdom
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                      |  Posted - Oct 06 2016 :  5:14:36 PM     
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                      | Getting a list of FSU camera repairers together is a good idea friendlyrod 
 If we can get a good sized list, then maybe it would be a good idea to organize it into countries? Although it would take quite a while to get enough names to make this worhtwhile.
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