Translation for engraving on Kiev III

Hello,

I also own a Kiev III from 1955 where is an additional engraving on the bottom, dated from 1960.
Can anyone please translate it to me?

http://fotos.cconin.de/temp/k55.jpg

Ulrich


http://fotos.cconin.de

Petrenko I.R. (name) - To Dear Vania on 25th anniversary of service in Army from wife Tania...

Hello Vlad,

many thanks :-)

Ulrich

http://fotos.cconin.de

This Vanya started in the Army in 1935 and lived through the Stalin's purges in the 1930's and through the WWII in the 1940's. He was a lucky guy to survive through such rough times. And his wife Tanya loved him.

He surely deserved a nice Kiev III.

Nice said ....

very interesting. I guess this Vanya was a high ranking officer when he received the Kiev III. A Kiev III could cost 200 rubles in early 1950's.

i collect too, many dedicate engraved cameras (i wrote in a french cameras collectors magazine about this practice coming from "Viking period")
so for fun i show you the following one.
this camera (Kiev 15 TEE was found in a street, left in garbages just before Berlin wall fall down , in Lwow city. One guy tell me this camera was in former military museum in Lvov (Lviv).

http://www.ussrphoto.com/UserContent/afgan.jpg

another one on silver plate.

http://www.ussrphoto.com/UserContent/balt.jpg

Very nice Alain, for those who do not read Russian:

1. To General of the Army V.I. Varennikov from fellow servicement in Afghanistan 1982-83
2. To Comrade Colonel Birinovskiy (?) for achievements in battle preparations and excellence in following commander's orders. 1940..

Here's my Zorki 4:

http://www.ussrphoto.com/UserContent/z4_gen2.jpg

Says: To Artillery Major General V.I. Ustinov from Soviet Minister of Defense.

Wow, not any low ranked ones. I should also have some engraved, have to look for my files as it is easier than turning around 200+ cameras...

Smena rules

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<br />i collect too, many dedicate engraved cameras (i wrote in a french cameras collectors magazine about this practice coming from "Viking period")
so for fun i show you the following one.
this camera (Kiev 15 TEE was found in a street, left in garbages just before Berlin wall fall down , in Lwow city. One guy tell me this camera was in former military museum in Lvov (Lviv).

http://www.ussrphoto.com/UserContent/afgan.jpg

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This is for Army General, the highest General rank in the USSR (after that there is a Marshall), like 4 star general in the US. There might be even some traces of him on the web.
So it is quite possible that such camera was in the museum.

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<br /><blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="MS Trebuchet, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by mermoz37</i>
<br />i collect too, many dedicate engraved cameras (i wrote in a french cameras collectors magazine about this practice coming from "Viking period")
so for fun i show you the following one.
this camera (Kiev 15 TEE was found in a street, left in garbages just before Berlin wall fall down , in Lwow city. One guy tell me this camera was in former military museum in Lvov (Lviv).

http://www.ussrphoto.com/UserContent/afgan.jpg

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This is for Army General, the highest General rank in the USSR (after that there is a Marshall), like 4 star general in the US. There might be even some traces of him on the web.
So it is quite possible that such camera was in the museum.
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I found him, quite interesting, look

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Varennikov

He is still alive. he took the wrong side in the 1991 coup against Gorbachev, was arrested then. No wonder they threw his camera away!

More

http://www.valentinvarennikov.ru/

Wow! This camera is probably worth a lot now! [:D]

These are beautiful and meaningful cameras! I collect them too. There is a place in the WIKI where photos and the translations and infromation should be entered. It is "Still Cameras - Presentation and Engraved Cameras".

Let's please add them in there too, as well as in the forum! I will add mine as I get to them also.

Alain,
I hope sometime we can get an English translation ofyour article about engraved presentation cameras .... I would love to read it. Or if you can e-mail me the text in French, at home, I will put it through a computer translation, fix it up a bit, and check with you to make sure the translation is accurate, and when it is, maybe put it on the site!



Regards, Bill

Good idea Bill, I will add it tonight!

Vlad