Go Analogue with these USSR brands

If you really want to go purist with your photography, the only way to do it is to dunk your SLR and your hipster lomo cams into the river and go full on with a Russian SLR brand.  Your options, comrade:

FED.  Named after  Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, founder of the Cheka, the FED is a mass produced Soviet rangefinder camera mass produced from the 30's to the 90's.  Dzerzhinsky is also the name of the workshop that educated indigent kids to copy the Leica.  How can a camera produced for over half a century fail you?  Must be built like a Soviet tank.      

Kiev.  Speaking of Societ tanks, here's one built by the Societ Arsenal Factory in Kiev, Ukraine.  That's a piece of history and quite timely too with the events happening in the Crimea.  Low pricing makes this brand attractive, offering a mid-level camera for budget price.  Among circles it is known that Kievs are a tenths to a fifteenth the price of a Hasselblad, which it can compete toe to toe with in terms of features--its lenses for example are Zeiss designed.

Lomography.  Forget what I said about throwing away that lomo camera.  Apparently Lomography got its roots from Russia as well, founded in the 90's by Viennese students after their discovery of the LOMO PLC manufactured in St. Petersburg.  They deemed image distortions, oversaturation and other effects otherwise noted as fugly as a beautiful way to do photography.  

Zenit.  It's one of the first 35 mm cameras manufactured in the world, originating from both Belarus and Moscow, Russia by KMZ.  KMZ die cast the camera in the 60's allowing for mass production.  Go for the Zenit-E which is one of the most famous classics of this line.  

Zorki.  Also by the KMZ factory, the Zorki represents a line of 35mm cameras made from 1948 to 1978.  It's also one of the better known brands in the industry.  It used to be known as Leica clones, but later on it would build its on name and sport unique features.