Kiev-4a for a football champion

[Murray Kelly]

Avery touching and personal thread. And from a very turbulent time. If you get in contact w the family be prepared to give up the camera! Maybe we can all 'put in' to recompense you. Must bring back all kinds of memeories for the old fella (I'm the same age! :-( )

Murray
Brisbane, Oz

Last saturday I've been to a camera-show. That's nothing unusual, but I found there a 1962 Kiev 4a. The shutter was stuck, lens scratched and the back was difficult to open, but there was something engraved on the bottom. I couldn't resist, and the price was only about $20. Since I'm not good at reading hand-written cyrillic I had to wait till I come home and have my mother read it.

This is a free translation of the engraving:

To G.S.Khusainov, player of team Spartak Moskva - champion of USSR in football 1962 from ВЦСПС (ВЦСПС = VCSPS)


In 1962 Kiev-4a's were probably valuable presents for players of the winning team. It makes me wonder which modern camera , if given as a present today, would survive 45 years ? 🙄

And an even more interesting question is how this camera found its way to a camera collector in Slovakia (I mean the elder man from whom I bought it)... 😕

BTW: here's some more info about Mr. Khusainov

 

[nzeeman]

here is small interview with Gilya (it is his nick in russia)
http://tribuna.tinet.ru/articles/2007/09/28/article9289/
he likes jazz - louis armstong and ella fitzgerald...
he also seems like a very nice person.

 

[shadowfox]

Avery touching and personal thread. And from a very turbulent time. If you get in contact w the family be prepared to give up the camera! Maybe we can all 'put in' to recompense you. Must bring back all kinds of memeories for the old fella (I'm the same age! :-( )

Murray
Brisbane, Oz

Another way to look at it, is...

an 6x6 black and white portrait of Ondrej and Mr Khusainov together holding the Kiev, printed big and framed...

... I can think of a hundred other worse ways to spend $20 😀

 

[Spyderman]

Another way to look at it, is...

an 6x6 black and white portrait of Ondrej and Mr Khusainov together holding the Kiev, printed big and framed...

... I can think of a hundred other worse ways to spend $20 😀

Nice idea, but I'd need to get to Moscow (or wherever he lives now) first 😉