Hi Aidas,
I may have a Komsomolets manual at home but I'm not sure. I'm in Azerbaijan at the moment, but will be home in two weeks time and will have a look. If I have one I will send it to you. In fact I have manuals for many cameras and they will be free to any forum members who would like them.
As you know I sold some items on eBay a couple of weeks ago, but I was a little ill at the time and only listed around one third of what I had intended to list. So when I have the opportunity I will list some more.
There are also many items which I am reserving for forum members only, I will not list any of these on eBay, they will be exclusive to forum members. There are many cameras and lenses, but I will make a list when I am home and pass it to Vlad, (assuming he has no objection). In principle what I have available is about forty Fed-1 cameras, these are mainly 1c, 1d, and later, but there are a couple of 1b's and a 1a among them. I also have more than forty Zorki-1 cameras from early to late, these have been in boxes for the past ten years and I never made a note of their serial numbers, so I don't really know what marks I have. There are of course many other cameras such as around ten Fed-2's from early, (no synch) to late (lever wind). I also have quite a few Kiev, II, III, and IV, perhaps forty or so kiev-Vega,Vega-2,Kiev-30, Zorki-2, Zenith-5, Fed-S, etc, etc, but I will need to check and list them all.
I haven't been very active on the forum recently, but this has been due to circumstances and not lack of interest. In fact I am as interested as ever, and will continue collectimg USSR photo equipment, but I am now forced to seriously reduce my collection to only those cameras which I have space to display. When I think about it this is probably a good thing because most of my cameras were just stored in boxes in the roof space of my house, which is a waste. In addition I have a lot of cameras which are duplicated several times over, and it would be selfish of me not to let others have them.
So I will be keeping a much slimmed down collection from what I previously had.
There are also a lot of sundrie items which I will be happy to let forum members have at no cost. These are items such as early filters, film cassettes, old film, literature, etc, etc.
Anyway, I will make a list a couple of weeks from now.
Best wishes, Jim


