[Arran]

Peter;
I still have the Chaika, it's pretty much all there, but probably needs the capacitors replaced by now, and possibly the phonograph cartridge. It's sort of an oddity in that one corner of the dial, written in English is "Made in USSR Sample" so it may have been a demonstration model for a trade fair, or may have been on display at Expo 67 in Montreal in the USSR pavilion, but I have no proof of either other then the age of the set. One issue that it does have is that the mechanism that holds the lid up for the phonograph section is broken, and always has been since i've owned it.
The other Soviet radio I have is the Octava, which has issues, no speakers, the tuning capacitor was seized up, and the dial scale had peeling paint. I really need to pull that one out of storage and have a look at it, I haven't looked at in 25 year or more. An odd coincidence with the Octava is that the factory that produced it was apparent called ZIL, like the factory that manufactured Soviet era limousines and trucks.
Regards
Arran