from other enterprises was taken away, and german equipment, old technologies , atse... the plant in oviloeveloping very strongly, production was experiencing new growth, approximately every month there was from 30 to 50%. despite the complexity of the new production, the plant put into operation within 3 years, in 1957 . it was still under construction when its first quite peaceful products were released, more than 25 machines for working with optical devices. for single-lens reflex cameras this was akin to a world record. state union plant of photographic equipment. it was under this name that it was originally designed. what kind of military equipment was created here? even meticulous journalists could not get to the bottom of this; all developments are classified as secret. there was a separate workshop that produced cameras for airplanes, it was a whole direction. the development of aviation without the development of intelligence would be very difficult, because. the cold war began, the americans built a lot of aircraft carriers that patrolled near our borders, they needed to be trac