This directory contains the documentation I received with my Kiev 3A in August 2022. It's in Russian, and I have not yet been able to come up with a
suitable translation.
The documentation includes:
The “passport” for the camera, including a brief description and serial numbers:
The sales receipt, dated 4 March 1958, for 2,224 Soviet Rubles:
Sold by Zentralniy Univermag, Petrovka 2 in Moscow phone number K 5-35-20 on 2
March 1958. Now doesn't that bring things closer? And both here and on the “passport” are
the serial numbers both of the camera and the lens: