1969: An American Visits Soviet Recording Studios

The Soviet equipment I have seen is generally a close cousin to the German equipment of a few years earlier, usually ruggedly but crudely built. In some cases it's obvious they were able to get hold of actual German tooling, just as with the Hasselblad focal plane shutter camera and their version of the early Telefunken scopes and meters.

When reading these articles bear in mind...If you were in the arts in the Soviet Union during this time, you weren't quite as likely to be shot for slight differences of opinion with the commissars as in the Stalin era, but your career was always hanging by a thread and the Gulag was by no means ever out of your thoughts.