Guest from the Future
“Guest from the Future” is a Soviet science fiction film created in 1984. The director of this project was Pavel Arsenyev, and the main...
Audio equipment made in USSR
Once, as a child, I went to the Melodiya store to look at all the musical equipment on sale. Melodiya is a record store...
Shortage in the USSR
In the USSR, shortages were particularly noticeable in the period from the 1970s to the 1980s. This was caused by possibly ineffective economic planning....
Accident in Gorky in Sormovo
More than half a century ago, the Krasnoye Sormovo plant manufactured submarines, including nuclear ones. This was known to residents of Nizhny Novgorod, but...
Cassettes
the Unsplash License They say (on the Internet) that in 1967 the first cassette tapes for tape recorders appeared in the Soviet Union. Well, I...
The game Renju, although Japanese, comes from childhood in the USSR
At school, in grades 7-8, we won a board game called Renju at some competition. During all breaks (and during lessons, to be honest)...
Ice cream and soda whenever you want
In the USSR, ice cream and soda were always available everywhere. In every store, on every corner, you could find an ice cream kiosk...
Photography in the USSR
Nowadays, taking a photo is easy – you just need to press a button on your smartphone. If you need better quality, you can...