Russian goods

Axe_meister

Russia is a global superpower but oddly enough from and export point of view outside of gas/vodka/photography/Space/Military I really can't think of anything else on the market that is Russian. So how can they sustain themselves economically?
The only Russian thing I have is a 50 year old Leningrad 8 light meter.
So what Russian goods do you have at home?

Reverend

They export fake news

joeyowen

Chelsea FC?


Not sure I have much at all to be honest

skunkwerx

Just a couple of ak47's and an old mail order bride.

ICBM

Axe_meister said:

Russia is a global superpower but oddly enough from and export point of view outside of gas/vodka/photography/Space/Military I really can't think of anything else on the market that is Russian. So how can they sustain themselves economically?

There's your answer - it's one of the world's two (by far) largest producers, currently only exceeded by the USA. And oil - it's currently the world's largest producer, just ahead of Saudi Arabia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_natural_gas_production

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_production

They do have a small electronics industry too - you may even have some of their valves...

Sporky

I don't think I have anything Russian here, but their oil and gas exports are enormous. From Wiki - "As of 2012 the oil-and-gas sector accounted for 16% of GDP, 52% of federal budget revenues and over 70% of total exports."

Sambostar

They have Sambo, Faberge and Gorky Park.

HAL9000

I'd have bought one of those Russian dolls but they're just so full of themselves...

Heartfeltdawn

Valves. And that's pretty much it for me. 

ThorpyFX

valves and some old transistors

Antique_Guitars

A lot of military exports to all your favourite war torn countries :-P 

57Deluxe

They do a pretty good job at these too..

https://www.russiancupid.com/en/landing/russianbrides?&ovchn=GGL&ovcpn=English+UK&ovcrn=russian brides&ovtac=PPC&mkwid=sFU7cmyum_dc&pcrid=140189164451&pkw=russian brides&pmt=e&plc=&gclid=Cj0KEQiAxeTFBRCGmIq_7rGt_r8BEiQANdPqUhcoNivk512mpe160tXjUCbvnuLvPP8ia9xoLYIdQlIaAji38P8HAQ

ESchap

At home, Valves and military spec PIO capacitors

I also do some work with a Russian Pharmaceutical firm.  Most of their exports go to the far east and south America.

lasermonkey

In my last job as a laser engineer, we tried some Russian, ex-military stock Alexandrite rods, as they were cheap.
The optical coatings rubbed off with the usual ispropanol/lens tissue. Literally one swipe and they're useless. These were from a laser rangefinder, IIRC. Easily the worst laser optics I've encountered by a long shot.
At home, I have a few valves and germanium semiconductors. The Russians were pretty good at Ge semis.

thermionic

ECC83s, a Vostok Amphibia watch, an old vinyl record of the Red Army Ensemble that used to belong to my grandfather and some old USSR metal badges (pinned to the sleeve pocket of my MA-1 jacket in the 80s!)

thermionic

lasermonkey said:

The optical coatings rubbed off with the usual ispropanol/lens tissue. Literally one swipe and they're useless. These were from a laser rangefinder, IIRC. Easily the worst laser optics I've encountered by a long shot.
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Reminds me of when I was a PhD student, I did a lot of laser spectroscopy in a lab full of optical tables. One of my colleagues wanted to clean a beamsplitting cube, get some fingerprints off it. He thought he'd go one better than isopropanol and left the cube in a beaker of acetone... He came back to find he was the owner of two prisms in a weak solution of optical cement. We never let him hear the end of this.

jellyroll

Me!   Well, to be more precise my great grandparents were born to Russian immigrants (this was pre Brexit ). And my first camera was a Zenit

vasselmeyer

There's my wife...had her 23 years and still working so far.

Antique_Guitars

@thermionic +1 on vostok amphibia watches, great stuff 

robgilmo

Gas, which is why Syria is getting the shit kicked out of it.

blobb

I've got one of these....do I win £5?

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc23/blobb1/R0013066.jpg