What TV shows did children grow up watching in the USSR?
As is well known, there was no Internet in the USSR. There were no social networks, YouTubes, or TikToks. And the main way of...
Category: Leisure
Bard movement
The bard movement was a cultural phenomenon that emerged in the USSR in the 1960s. Bards were authors and performers of songs with original...
Computer Orion-128
In 1990, a friend and I learned from the Radio magazine about the possibility of assembling a pretty decent Orion-128 computer ourselves, which was...
Postage stamps
The USSR had a long tradition of issuing postage stamps, which often reproduced images of prominent figures, landmarks, cultural and historical monuments, animals and...
Amateur radio in the USSR
Amateur radio was very popular in the USSR. Amateur radio enthusiasts are not those who like to listen to the radio. They are those...
Games in the USSR
There were many different games and amusements in the USSR, some of them are still popular. Here are some examples: 1. What? Where? When?...
Filmstrips
Filmstrips are projections of images on a screen through a filmstrip projector. In the USSR, filmstrips were very popular in the 60s and 70s...
Toys made in the USSR
Toys made in the USSR were popular all over the world. They were made of various materials such as wood, metal, plastic, textile and...