Get me my borscht and my Kiev!

So I was thinking last night - in USSR, it's seems that each camera was a status symbol... here are the obvious choices that I think fit:

Smena - for university or school students
Kiev (Contax) - for people with money (officially there were no rich people in USSR )
Zenit E - for advanced amateurs
Agat, LOMO LC-A - for teenagers
Leningrad - for local newspaper reporters
Kiev MF SLRs, Salyut - for mid-level professional photographers
Zorki 4 - for university students between Smena and Zenit
FED-S - for officers
Photosnipers - for lonely old ladies who like birds


what else?

You forget obvios: F-21 for old grandmaa. She can not lift anything big and heavy.

haha, no on a serious note, it seems that certain line or model had been either targeted or adapter by a specific demographic, I'm just interested to hear which cameras you think were used by whom that you know of...

Vlad

Smenas was camera of choice and necessity of solders in Soviet arm forces.
As you may imagine cameras was prohibited for privet use on Soviet military bases.
Smena was perfect camera to get around this. It small, light, cheep, easy to conceal, and always ready to use. It very reliable, does not need much maintainist, it could survive hot and cold.
Actually this is how I start collecting cameras: when I was in high school my uncle, officer, give me probably 10 cameras, all in grim conditions, cameras was expropriated as contraband from recruits on his base. All of but one camera was Smena. Most popular was Smena 8M. All of them were dirty and rusty. Uncle told me that many cameras was hidden underground and may survive few generations of recruits before they was taken away.