Vostok Printed from: USSRPhoto.com Forums Topic: Topic author: Vlad
Subject: Vostok I found this one for sale in Ukraine.. is this a different variation than one in catalog or just has a shutter slapped on top?
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Reply author: nightphoto Hi Vlad,
Reply author: Vlad Thank you Bill for posting it! Yea I figured that it was not an original configuration just wanted to make sure...
Reply author: Luiz Paracampo The logo is still used by Novosibirsky Pribori Zavod.. May be seen at :
Reply author: Zoom
quote: You may see this logo (and the real plant name) there: http://www.zenitcamera.com/qa/qa-logos.html#npz About "Vostok" origin: I don't know who first wrote about "an aviation factory in Tashkent, Uzbekistan"... We must see "Bulletin of the RCCC (C96)" (according J.L. Princelle), but David Tomlinson... you know... :( Of course, this camera produser was NPZ.
Reply author: nightphoto Since Vostok seems to have been made in the years just after World War II, I suspect that possibly the factory NPZ was making aviation instruments or parts during the war, and this is where the information came from. At that time (during the war) probably most factories that had higher technical capability were manufacturing parts for planes, tanks, weapons, and related items or accessories. So, if this is correct about NPZ, and they were making some aviation parts during the war, it might be possible (although not strictly correct) to call the factory an aviation factory ... just in the same way it might be possible to have called Arsenal or LOMO a "camera factory" even though that is just part of their factory and production.
Reply author: RCCCUK I was given the information about the Vostok being produced in Tashkent about ten years ago by a serious Moscow collector. Although I have visited Tashkent, and I found that there was a factory producing aircraft equipment, I could not get any confirmation that the Vostok was manufactured there.
Reply author: nightphoto David,
Reply author: Luiz Paracampo Can someone tell me the exact English translation for the name of the factory, NPZ ? Is it Novosibirsky Pribori Zavod?
Reply author: RCCCUK I've been trying to think of what clues we can use to establish the origins of the Vostok. The camera itself does not seem to have any features common to any other, so there is only the logo to go on. What about the instruction manual? Does anyone have one? I have the passport, shown below. Does this give any clues? Has anyone got an NPZ passport of the 1940s/50s so that we could compare them?
Reply author: nightphoto Thanks for putting up the scans of the passport David. I did not receive anything in the way of paperwork with my camera when I bought it, so this is very interesting.
Reply author: Zoom
quote: Sorry, this is the mistake. quote: This is the plant No. 69 logo. After the War this plant was known as NPZ == Novosibirskiy priborostroitel'niy zavod.
Reply author: Vlad Yes, this passport only has the logo but not the factory name.. just as a sidenote the FKP-2 I've posted from Detlev's archives is also made at NPZ - http://www.ussrphoto.com/Wiki/default.asp?WikiCatID=17&ParentID=1&ContentID=1219&Item=FKP-2+Microfilm+Copier
Reply author: RCCCUK The evidence so far convinces me that the Vostok was indeed manufactured by NPZ. I will alter my Wiki entry accordingly. Thanks for all your help.
Reply author: RCCCUK After quite some time, the origin of the Vostok raises its head again with the entry in the book "1200 Cameras from the USSR", page 586/7. The item states that the Vostok is from an aviation factoty in the name of Ukalova, Tashkent.
Reply author: Zoom
quote: Because this error was published in J.P. Princelle book: page 243 (2nd edition). Because this error was published in your Bulletin of the RCCC (C96). Please, publish this article there...
Reply author: RCCCUK Hi Zoom,
Reply author: Zoom
quote: Thank you. Now it is clear, who had misled all of you. quote: See this logo: Than see this page: http://www.zenitcamera.com/qa/qa-logos.html#npz It is simple... ;) P.S. quote: "Zavod imeni Chkalova" ("Завод имени Чкалова"). Who is this Chkalov see there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valery_Chkalov About that plant see this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tashkent_Aviation_Production_Association
Reply author: RCCCUK Many thanks Zoom,
Reply author: nightphoto
Reply author: mermoz37 I have one too ready to tell you, my data as Bill suggest
Reply author: nightphoto
Reply author: mermoz37 mine is 1948 but no passport , no serial number . Only lense show number: 481498 - Industar 51 (4.5/ 21 cm)
Reply author: mermoz37 In fact, ther is a serial number but delete for some reason....hard to see something but whith a lupe I can read "N0?7?" (may be 5).
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