Items from the USSR and their names. Antique things from the USSR. Fitness classes with the Zarya pedometer
Retro (also retro style; retro style from the Latin Retro “back”, “turned to the past”, “retrospective”) is a fairly abstract art-historical term used to describe various categories antique things that have some cultural and/or material value, and, as a rule, are rarely found in modern Everyday life with its deliberate practicality and desire to get rid of “extra” details.
Let's take a step back in time and remember some really wonderful things! In this antique 1941 section you can recall things from the USSR that we used and that surrounded us.
In the post-war period in the USSR there was an interesting rich life with simple toys, similar to communist attributes. People, for the most part with selfless faith in the happy bright future of developed socialism, rejoiced even in little things... Now the antique 1941 USSR goods presented in our catalog often evoke a smile, nostalgia and good memories.
Buy things from the USSR
On our website Antik1941 you can buy real Soviet vintage items with a quality mark.
Various retro and vintage goods are widely represented: ashtrays and cigarette cases, abacus and calculators, cameras and measuring instruments, cabinet busts and clocks, antique piggy banks and boxes, and many other household items: boxes, hangers, corkscrews, locks, coasters, cutlery, children's Christmas tree toys.
Original souvenirs of the 80 Olympics
Especially worth noting are the souvenirs of the 1980 Olympics, such as porcelain figurines with an Olympic bear. After all, if you think about it, more than a decade has passed since then! Products from the past are like instant travel back in time. They bear signs of another era, recall long-past events, revive forgotten experiences and special feelings. For many, Soviet times are carefree childhood, hot youth, exciting youth.
Most of the lots presented are items in excellent condition, a considerable number of which are real rarities.
Soviet porcelain is a great love not only for real collectors, but also for lovers of the VINTAGE style, people who understand exclusive, truly high-quality and rare things. Connoisseurs of antiquity especially appreciate porcelain, made in the USSR by the hands of famous craftsmen. Soviet porcelain They are collected not only in Russia and the CIS countries, but throughout the world. Things, household and interior items made in Soviet times, today are of interest to many people as historical objects. After all, antiques reflect the history of the country and a bygone era...
A Minsk resident collected a collection of Soviet items worth $15,000 at his dacha: “We are not nostalgic for the USSR, we just remember our childhood”
It all happened very accidentally. Six years ago Denis bought a dacha. Forgotten Soviet artifacts were an appendage to it. The man thought about it. Then I bought myself several beer glasses from the 80s, and a little later I found one rare one - from the 50s, the so-called Nikulinsky. From glasses he switched to beer taps, tape recorders, filmoscopes, and paraphernalia of the Soviet police. Latest project Denis - restored Soviet machine gun sparkling water from his childhood.
- It's probably due to age,- Denis laughs and shows the machine gun.
Schoolchildren really don’t understand. Students, in principle, too. These have ceased to be actively used since the end of 1991. They were mainly placed in public gathering places - GUM, TSUM, cinemas and other popular establishments. You come up, wash the glass, throw in a penny and drink. If you have a 3-kopeck coin in your pocket, you can afford soda with syrup.
- For some time after the collapse of the USSR in the former Soviet republics they worked on tokens. Now they have started making them stylized as Soviet ones with bill acceptors. But this, of course, is not the same coat. Similar machines were produced in Kyiv and Moscow, if I’m not mistaken. My sample is Ukrainian. And yes, this is a reusable cut glass. People did not disdain and did not get sick.
The gut, of course, is not completely natural. Lacks modern details. Purchased machine gun. Denis spent about $250 on it. True, this is not the first try. There were three more before this one. All four units are now on site.
- On “Online” there is a thematic thread “Our childhood”. People aged 35+ actively communicate there. When I started talking about the soda machine, I found a user under the nickname globba - a man with golden hands who persuaded me to get into it. We fiddled around for three weeks together, but we managed.
Children from the countryside gathered to look at the new contraption in Uncle Denis’s yard. At first they didn’t understand what it was at all. Then they asked me to explain. Uncle Denis taught them how to use a machine gun - queues began to form around it.
- Does this taste better to you than drinks like Fanta?
- For me these are different things. Fanta appeared in the USSR for the 1980 Olympics. And it was also sold in vending machines. There were no such people in Minsk. I remember my father and I came to Moscow. In the building of the Belorussky railway station, my dad says to me: “Denis, you’re about to try something like this, it’s unrealistic.” delicious drink. Keep 15 kopecks." So you understand? Five times more expensive than Soviet sparkling water. At the Belorussky station there were two machines with the inscription “Fanta”. I didn't even know what it was. But yes, it was amazingly delicious for me then. It's 1981. It seems to me that Fanta and Pepsi have not changed since then. Same taste. And Soviet drinks - Tarragon, Baikal, Buratino - have become worse. Previously, they were made from natural ingredients. The shelf life was 7 days. And now it’s unclear how much. Beer is the same story. Crafting is fashionable now. And in my youth, it turns out that everything was craft.
Denis laughs. He wears elements of the uniform of Soviet traffic cops. Belt, leggings - 70s. Helmet - 80's. Made in Estonia. After the acquisition, the collector liked to play pranks on his neighbors, summer residents, by going out onto the village road. Some actually stopped and showed documents until they realized what was happening.
- I have been working in the stock market of the Republic of Belarus for 25 years. For 10 years he worked in the government body that regulated the securities market. Then he worked in a professional securities market participant. I invest part of the money I earn into my collection. These things must be saved for the future. This is our story.
Many things are now rising in price. Taking this into account, the value of the collection is approximately $15,000.
- It’s like with securities, you need to know what to invest in,- the collector laughs. - True, I had no calculations. As a result, the flashing lights from the GDR, which I bought for $10-15, have now become much more expensive. Because in Russia there has become a fashion for creating replicas of police and traffic police cars of the USSR. As a result, the cost of a flasher can now reach up to $100, or even more. But I don't make money from this. This is a hobby. For myself.
Man shows lines license plates Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the BSSR. He says that with the introduction of new white and black numbers in the USSR, the MIM series became only a police series in 1980.
- At the night of museums on May 19, with another of our forum members m141170, we transferred things related to the Soviet police for temporary exhibition to the museum of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus. Why did the prices for these things increase? There is a fashion for Soviet cars in the Russian Federation. And now almost every district police department wants to install such a retro car in front of their building. I have been studying USSR police transport for many years. Especially coloring books. For a long time I searched for Soviet GOSTs, which established the rules for painting. They were nowhere to be found on the Internet. As a result, I found the originals from 1953 and 1957 in Russian archives. Requested copies, paid something like $50.
The USSR is, of course, not Ancient Rome or Egypt, but many things produced in that era deserve our attention and genuine admiration. And we won’t even talk about the legendary Tu-144 or the world’s first lunar rover, developed in the Soviet Union. Let's talk about simpler, everyday things. No doubt many of you still remember them.
ZAZ 965 or simply “Humpbacked”
The first batch of Soviet Cossacks was released in 1960. The car immediately became a people's favorite. In addition, he became a real “movie star” and appeared in such films as “Queen of the Gas Station” and “Three Plus Two.”
Mechanical wristwatch Rocket 3031
General production wristwatch was the pride of the country. Best models exported for sale and also donated important people on business trips abroad. Rocket 3031 was the most complex mechanical wristwatch model in the USSR. Dual calendar function, self-winding and alarm clock - at that time such “stuffing” was a real rarity.
Condensed milk
The design of a can of condensed milk set the trend for many years to come. Many modern manufacturers still copy the legendary packaging.
Coffee
Soviet coffee was produced in high-quality tin cans. Today's giants, like Neskafe or Jacobs, never dreamed of such luxury.
Chocolate
The legendary “Alenka”, “The Seagull”, “Pushkin’s Fairy Tales” - nostalgia definitely has its own taste...
Christmas decorations
Despite the fact that today there is huge selection Christmas decorations, many still prefer the good old Soviet toys. They are incomparable!
Faceted glass
It is not known for certain who actually came up with the design of the iconic glass. Many believe that this is the merit of the Soviet architect Vera Mukhina. The faceted glass is so strong that you can literally crack nuts with it. Have you tried it?
Kids toys
Children's toys, no match for today's ones, were practically indestructible. They were successfully passed down in families from generation to generation.
"Volga" GAZ-21
The birth of the legendary Volga GAZ-21 occurred in 1956. Having experienced overseas influence, the Volga is still the original version of the Soviet automobile industry. By the way, it was she who introduced Soviet citizens to the automatic transmission. Although such an innovation did not take root in the Union at that time.
Washing machine EAYA
EAYA resembles more an alien from science fiction films than modern models washing machines. It appeared in the distant 50s of the last century. Surprisingly, with a total cost of 1,600 rubles, it was sold to citizens for only 600. How was this possible?
String bag
A truly iconic thing in the Soviet Union.
Electronic game “Well, wait a minute!”
The most important gaming gadget of Soviet teenagers in the 80s. There's no arguing with that.
Camera “Zenit-E”
The legendary Zenit-E camera began to be produced in 1965. Over twenty years of production, the total production of models amounted to 8 million units. This is an absolute world record among analog SLR cameras.
TV “Yunost-406 D”
The iconic portable TV “Yunost-406 D” was the property of almost every Soviet family. He weighed only 9 kg, so he could easily be taken with him to the dacha or to the recreation center.
Soviet service
The notorious “fish” filled the cupboards of all Soviet citizens. Admit it, your parents also had such a set.
Baby strollers
Baby strollers, like everything else in the Secular Union, were made to last. They were not afraid of either wind, rain or snow.
Kefir packaging
Nowadays kefir is sold in plastic and cardboard; in the USSR, the product was bottled only in glass containers.
Soviet enamel
Soviet enamel cookware was in no way inferior in quality to its Western European counterparts, but the difference in price was striking. It’s no wonder that many tourists from Czechoslovakia and Poland stocked up on dishes in the USSR.
Vacuum cleaner “Chaika”
In the Soviet Union, this vacuum cleaner quickly won the love of the masses (even though it was practically a copy of the Dutch Remoco SZ49 vacuum cleaner), as it was reliable and easy to use. Some even managed to use it as a hair dryer.
Carpets
The carpet was practically a member of the family. He warmed the wall to the citizens of the USSR for decades. The best carpets were brought from Turkmenistan and Armenia.
Let's start with what no Soviet person could do without! Matches!
This product of the Balabanovsky experimental factory at the price of 1 kopeck per box truly was and remains a product not even of the first, but of the highest necessity, although... Of course there are lighters, and the stove already knows how to light itself, and sometimes at night, without finding matches and lighters, I light a cigarette from her! And this trick is not entirely safe... But all it takes is a match... By the way, the now common disposable lighters were terribly valued, even empty ones were not lost in the USSR - a valve was cut into them and reused. There were two reasons - firstly, Soviet gas lighters worked worse than modern Chinese ones, and secondly, it was simply “fashionable”...
Here's another essential product. By the way, when any cataclysm occurs, Matches and Needles instantly become in terrible short supply. This is by the way, don’t take it as alarmism...
Of course, you can tell me: “What about salt?” and you'll be absolutely right, I just have
there is no photograph of a pack of salt from those years for 7 kopecks. - stone PO 10 - "extra" - per pack! Matches, Needles and Salt!
There is a similar modern one: the one on the left...
but then, after she took all my pockets, I started living the old fashioned way - with change in my pockets!
So, "Coin Box"
And now Another item, without which a normal Soviet person would not go shopping.
This is Avoska! True, I didn’t like it and tried in every possible way to replace it with plastic bags...
A universal stick - a lifesaver when shopping. IN inoperative practically
does not take up much space, and when used, it stretches to incredible sizes.
A little about the history of the name (if anyone doesn’t know). In the early sixties, when the country began
process of food shortages, Arkady Isaakovich Raikin went on stage with this mesh and
explained: “What is this Avoska mesh! Perhaps something will be thrown away for sale and where will it be thrown away?
There’s always a place to put it!” By the way, Avoska has another important aspect of its use - combat!
A couple or three cans of any canned food in a metal packaging carelessly thrown into the String Bag
turn it, in skillful hands, into a terrible weapon in any fight...
Other disposable nonsense like cups like these were also valued...
And how were the bags valued... Firstly, even a cheap T-shirt cost a ruble, and any bag with handles cost 3,
and if the picture on it is beautiful, then as much as 5...
Girls walked around with bags like they used to wear Vuittons today...
The bags were taken care of, washed and washed, even simple packaging...
Unfortunately, the bags are a disposable item, so they were not preserved.
Well, now I ask you to love and favor! The first (and, I must say, the most reliable)
trading computer! In the early 90s, foreign tourists eagerly bought them... But what about the rarity...
Abacus! To be precise in the name "Office Abacus"! Real craftsmen
they counted on them with such speed that it seemed incomprehensible to the mind.
Unfortunately, I couldn’t find photographs of those “children’s” accounts, but all their differences from
It was large in size and nothing else.
Yes, there were Bukhs at that time. Imagine annual balance on the accounts...
However, there was also mechanization - from the simplest Felix
Which I had to master because it seemed to cost 15 rubles
And the Soviet-made calculator is like this:
As much as 220 rubles in 1979... So I learned to count on Felix...
And to the “bystritsa”...(this is the same Felix, but with a motor)
And even before Iskra. But this is already the end of the 80s, my first PC...
I was especially pleased with the red reset button on the keyboard...
We mocked the secretaries and put the signature “any key” on it...
And here is another one of the main food products, or rather the container for it.
Milk! Kefir! Curdled milk! Acidophilus! And all in a glass bottle!
With a lid made of multi-colored foil...
White - milk, green - kefir, golden - fermented baked milk...
And she is a treasure in herself! The price of an empty container is 15 kopecks! A pack of cigarettes, damn it!
A pack of Prima for 14 kopecks and a box of matches!
Thus, having handed over the empty dishes, it was possible to buy something.
This also applied to wine and beer bottles, which cost from 12 to 20 kopecks per
depending on the volume, then it seems that in 1983 everything began to cost the same 20 kopecks.
There was even a joke. What is the derivative of booze? - drinking for returned dishes!
So a good drink is one in which the second derivative is not equal to zero!
True, there were also triangular bags, but they always flowed,
and later by the 80s tetra packs appeared...
Now let's go to the grocery store and go to the meat department and we will be immediately greeted by...
Wrong! Not meat, but this poster!
There was exactly the same poster about lamb and pork. And now standing in front of an almost empty storefront
you started to quietly go crazy... You saw juicy chops from the sirloin of beef, or shish kebab
from a young lamb, or, well, roast pork...
And leaving the store with a “soup set”, you trudged home with a half-empty string bag!
It’s just like the sad joke of those years. There is no meat in the “meat”, and there is no fish in the “fish”...
And you can’t say that you don’t have money! Well, yes, you are not a millionaire, but in almost every Soviet
the family had this little gray book! Or even several, and during the Gaidar shock
a lot of people got burned with them... Until the very end they believed in the savings bank...
And in the USSR it was a way to save up for something worthwhile. It's no secret that when
Money can easily be put somewhere (under linen in a closet, in a jar on the mezzanine, in a book
on a bookshelf, etc. etc.), then you get them from there as soon as you want them!
Another thing is the savings book...
While you go to the savings bank with her and stand in line, you see that the desire to spend has disappeared...
I suggest you leave the store and look, for example, at the Pharmacy!
I think that in terms of the number of customers, pharmacies are not inferior to stores, and there were years when
pharmacies and superior. For example, during the years of the anti-alcohol struggle!
All sorts of penny coins instantly disappeared from pharmacy shelves. alcohol tinctures
and then it was his turn...
Well of course it's him! Handsome "Triple"! Well, if there were ladies, then they took some kind of “Lilac”
And here is the famous tooth powder. Who knew that it acts on the teeth like an abrasive stone!?
But with his help, I polished the belt buckle until it shined!
For the sake of truth, I will say that during my childhood it was sold not in a metal box, but in a cardboard box.
Soviet pharmacies also sold a “drug addict’s dream” kit.
Ephedrine - please, solutan - as much as you want and absolutely "codeine with terpin hydrate" ...
True, in the early 80s the latter was banned...
Well, now about the saint! About sex! They say that there was no sex in the USSR! Bullshit!
There was also sex, but it was fraught with difficulties...
That's actually why soviet man to heroically overcome them!
In dorms - raids, in hotels, in one room - according to your passport,
the housing issue was no less, but more severe than now,
so if you want to “live”, be able to move around...
There were even condoms!
So, it was “rubber” that they called the unsightly product No. 2 of the Bakovsky plant
rubber products, the first product seemed to be a gas mask...
“Rubber” was just enough, but this is Bakovka’s work, generously sprinkled with talcum powder
and with the characteristic smell of galoshes, as a rule, it did not cause much joy.
Of course, sometimes someone was “lucky” and got a product “from there”.
Legends about all kinds of colors, designs and bells and whistles were passed on from mouth to mouth.
But for the majority of the population of our homeland, “rubber” remained.
Closer to the 80s, other products from the same manufacturer appeared - “electronically tested”:
So! Let's go outside. Let's go out and go to retail places.
Retail bloomed in summer. What do you want most on a hot summer day?
Well, of course - drink! And this is where His Majesty Kvass comes to the rescue!
I think that there is not a single person who would not love this wonderful drink,
even if he is “barrel”...
12 kopecks for a liter, 6 kopecks for a “large” half-liter mug and 3 kopecks for a “small” 250 gram mug.
The mugs are glass, of course, and they are rinsed right there - so don’t be afraid - maybe it will blow over...
The same mugs in all the pubs...
Those who were particularly squeamish carried mugs with them, some drank from half-liter jars...
But kvass has an undoubted competitor - Her Highness Soda!
The picture shows wonderful machines selling sparkling water from the Kharkov plant.
3 kopecks with syrup and 1 kopeck “pure”. The machines changed, but the price did not.
The machines had faceted glasses.
We washed them ourselves...
And another leader in street sales is their Excellency Beer! Barrel!
However, closer to the 80s, beer barrels in Moscow disappeared and were replaced by stationary stalls
and semi-automatic beer bars.
BUT so that there is no queue? I suspect that this is the so-called. "staged" photo!
But such machines were usually found in large organizations
or in specialized automatic cafes.
But all good things come to an end... Summer ends and the barrels are sent to warehouses,
and the machines are being “mothballed”...
Let's take a rest too... And this is for fun
The question is, how much did these cigarettes cost and what did people call them?
There are still many people who remember life during the Soviet era. From those times, many habits and things have remained that subsequent generations simply will not be able to understand, because for this they had to live in completely different conditions. Do you recognize them or will these things be a discovery for you?
1. Yeast tea mushroom
At some point, jars and bottles of tea and milk mushrooms became firmly established in Soviet kitchens.
At first, the housewives tried by hook or by crook to get the treasured piece, and then, as the pet grew, they began to look for places to house the multiplied miracle.
This invention was not new; kombucha was known back in Ancient China, but in the USSR the drink obtained from it was simply credited with miraculous properties. True, doctors have never been able to find these healing properties...
2. Carpets on the walls
In the USSR, it was practically impossible to find a house that did not have at least one carpet hanging on the wall.
Traditionally, this interior detail was supposed to be located on the floor, but in Soviet houses the carpet took root firmly on the walls.
It is difficult to say where this tradition came from, but there was also a benefit from it - and the sound and heat insulation in the apartments was not at the highest level at that time. So carpets somewhat solved this issue.
3. Siphon for sparkling water
These soda siphons were very popular throughout Europe even before World War II.
Over time, the device moved to Soviet Union, allowing you to make soda right at home.
The especially talented ones even managed to add gas to vodka. The siphon received this application during the fight against drunkenness at the dawn of perestroika.
4. Mittens with a string or elastic band
Any thing in the USSR was highly valued, because most goods could not simply be bought, they had to be obtained.
So even children had no right to lose good woolen mittens. So this simple design took root - the mittens were connected with an elastic band and then threaded through the sleeves along the back of the outerwear.
5. Queue number
The line for shortages was endless. To get to the treasured goods, you had to stand in the same line for days, resolve conflicts like “you weren’t standing here,” etc.
That’s where they came up with the idea of writing numbers on your hands, meeting regularly, choosing a senior person in line, who kept track of those standing, crossed out those who didn’t show up on time to check in, etc.
6. String bag
The inspiration for the appearance and wide distribution of this accessory was the same total shortage. It is unknown when and where something worthwhile will come across and you must always be prepared in the best pioneer traditions.
This is where the string bag came to the rescue - a mesh bag, durable, light, compact and at the same time incredibly roomy.
By the way, you could also do it yourself.
7. Collection of recyclable materials
A traditional event in the USSR was the collection of waste paper and scrap metal.
In schools, classes regularly competed in the amount collected.
Handing in waste paper also made it possible to obtain coupons for buying books. For example, the collected works of Alexandre Dumas required 20 kg of old paper. Glass containers were also a profitable way to improve your well-being.
8. Sausage trains
Products could be obtained mainly in major cities, on the periphery before the holidays it was problematic to find something “tasty”.
Therefore, the first shopping tours to cities for sausage and other goodies were organized.
9. Red lantern in the bathroom
People in the USSR loved to take photographs. But developing and printing photos in professional studios was too expensive and not that interesting.
Therefore, every amateur photographer mastered the intricacies of developing films and printing photographs, and the bathroom or kitchen periodically turned into a darkroom with red light, developers, fixers, films and wet photographs.
10. Music on X-rays(Music on bones, or as it was also called “on turtles”, “on ribs”)
In the USSR, not every genre of music was officially permitted.
There were lists of corrupting and imperialist groups and performers. It was almost impossible to get a record of jazz or rock and roll.
But the people found a way out here too. The record was re-recorded onto used films from X-ray machines. That's how it worked real music on the bones!
