[Rover]

It does cost a lot to set up a limited production line of re-makes of ancient lenses, though... It is not like it is really easy to make optical elements.  So, the price is not so weird in most cases. But whether it is worth it to you, that is a valid question for sure.

Fair enough, but I was under the impression that they placed the order on a pre-existing factory - probably in Russia (the same KMZ that makes Zenitar lenses - a recent writeup on the future KMZ lenses has implied as much).

Not that I have any faith in the domestic optical manufacturing - most of the times I'm fairly positive about domestic production, but fine optics is clearly not the forte of my country (as I may have said before).