"Polar express" or "my First SLR"

Here is my first ("one and (not)only") SLR, - bought with my own money which i earned working at my mom's working place during summer's between school holidays (and probably some other pocket and birthday money savings).

I think i was about 15 years old when i purchased it, - so it could be 1984.
Back in those days (in USSR) even cameras like these were not around in shops for long before they were bought out - as many other similar valuable things (like bicycles for example).
With this camera it was a Start of my more serious journey in photography. I loved every bit of it. Waited with expectation every film roll which i finished shooting, lets say, during a period of 2 weeks, depending on events and Season outside.

This camera have been my companion for many years, - seventeen to be precise. It is still in working condition and never failed me mechanically, although ... there was some fault with sides of frame exposure later (fault with small strip of frame).

But anyway - this camera traveled with me for some Great trips.
One of them is most memorable for me as a teenager - first ever trip behind the "Iron curtain" - dance tour to Sweden in 1986. We gave concerts for 5 weeks all around Sweden. I probably could write quite a lot about that adventure.... so i better stop. Here is one very dear picture of me from that time.

Back to my Zenit camera. 
It also proved itself in freezing weather (minus 40 C ) of Siberian winter. This probably could be my most extreme and exotic pictures i ever shot with the guy from Siberian tribe. He used to live like this itself - in tepee, but this particular image shows a family he knew and brought us to see them. 
This area of Russia was closed in Soviet times, meaning only classified people (with permissions) could visit that town (Salekhard). No tourists could go there. In that area outside the town, - particularly were we went to meet that family was also a place where former Soviet Gulag was located. Those political prisoners were building railway to practically nowhere - to North Pole (Stalin's idea). As i was writing i thought of "Polar express", but yes....
Basically it was way to kill those people and that railway was literally built on human bones.
When railway later was dismantled somebody had an idea to leave one section (i think the last one) of railway line as a monument to commemorate those who died there.