I have started taking photographs back in Russia more that 30 years ago, in my childhood. It was "Zenit B", soviet-made SLR. I remember the day my father took me with him to "Sport tovary" ("Sport goods") store to buy the camera.

It was a beautiful camera considering the time and the place (Small rural town Yelabuga, Russia, 500 miles East from Moscow, 1967 or 1968?). Here is how it looked like (please take a look at the image).

All-manual and all-metal SLR with dim view finder and 50mm/f:3.5 "Industar" M42 lens. No meter (I've gotten "Leningrad" meter from my father). I spent summer taking pictures, developing film and printing. There were no commercial photo services available at the time, well, you could go to the "Photoservice" and they would take a picture of you with a big wooden viewcamera, but in most cases refuse to develop your own 35mm film or print pictures from it.

Here is another shot from the same roll

The shutter went out of order in 2000 after more then 30 years of sporadical use and I left the camera in Russia in my parent's house. Bye-bye, Zenit!

PS this is my son and wife on the top of Sokol mountain in Crimea, Ukraine (500 m). We were walking for several hours and they've gotten really tired.