What is "mashpriborintorg"

Federal State Unitary Enterprise Foreign Economic Association Mashpriborintorg also known as V/O Mashpriborintorg was a Soviet era export conglomerate. During the late 1950s and 1960s and 1970s, it exported millions of units of photographic and cinematic equipment to about 74 countries worldwide. According to the USSR Ministry of Foreign Trade magazine issued 1996 Mashpriborintorg of the State of the Russian Federation for Defence Branches of Industry is "a leading exporter and importer of electronic and communications equipment for the civilian and special designation". Mashpriborintorg, Stankoimport, Avtopromimport, Tekmashimport and Tekhnopromimport are the top companies of the Soviet/Russian trade system.