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Svema

Ukraine

Svema (Russian: Свема, Светочувствительные материалы, lit. 'Light-sensitive Materials') was a major Soviet-era state-owned manufacturer of photographic film, magnetic tapes and cassettes, based in Shostka, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. The manufacturing was started in 1931, at the time, in Ukrainian SSR, USSR. Svema had a registered trade mark and formerly was referred as "NPO Svema" of the Shostka Chemical Plant. They made black-and-white photographic film, photographic paper, B&W motion picture film until 2010s, colour photographic and motion picture film until 1995 and magnetic tapes until 2014.

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Films and chemistry are filtered on their production status. Cameras and lenses have none recorded — no source states whether a body or a lens is still made — so those sections only drop what is known to have ended.

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