Let’s remember what and how much you could buy for Soviet rubles…
What you could buy in the Soviet money.
Let’s start with one ruble.
20 trips in a bus or metro
25 trips in the bus
33,3333… travel in the tram
– a full lunch in the dining room;
– drive in a 100 km hitchhike (penny — kilometer);
– 33 glasses of lemonade with syrup;
– 50 calls from a pay phone;
– 100 boxes of matches;
– 5 cups of “ice Cream” or 10 — dairy ice cream;
– 20 trips in the bus or metro;
– 4 loaves of white bread (for 900-1000 grams, and not like they are now);
– 5 litres of milk on tap;
– 20 trips to the cinema for a matinee;
– 2 bottles of good beer (and even letting);
– 8 packs of cigarettes bad (Pamir);
– by the end of summer you could buy at the market 6 kg of watermelon, or 3 kg of melons;
– 5 trips to the barbershop or men’s bath;
– daily cost for a bed “savage” in the holiday season in the South.
Three of the ruble:
– lunch for 5-6 persons in a factory or school cafeteria;
– lunch in the restaurant on one;
– a good book;
– the doll or other toy domestic production;
– a bottle of normal wine (“Crimean”);
– excursion in the output with the whole family, including a snack;
– a pack of imported cigarettes; (just remember about the real Marlboro)
– the amount in the pocket of the child at which he was terribly jealous of the other kids.
Five rubles:
– pounds of tenderloin at the market or 2 pounds of meat in the store;
– bottle of vodka:
1983 — 3руб 62коп
1985 — 5руб 10kop
– almost a month’s rent for a family;
– taxi ride “in style”;
– kg very good sweets.
Ten rubles:
– the amount which was borrowed to pay it – which is not ashamed to remind you took;
– the universal currency for different household services;
– a huge stick of sausage honey cooperative;
– technical or expensive desktop toy, like cars or Billiards;
-equipment type ski or set a ping-pong table, a cheap guitar or balalaika 🙂
almost all collective pension (12 RUB)
Twenty-five roubles
– airline ticket domestic airlines;
Aircraft:
Leningrad — Moscow: 18руб
The Leningrad — Novgorod: 7rub
The Leningrad — Pskov: 11руб
Leningrad — Mineral water: 28руб
Leningrad — Simferopol: 35rub
Train:
Leningrad — Moscow:
Coupe 12usd
Reserved seats 10 rubles
Sedentary 8руб
Leningrad — Tallinn 5руб
Leningrad — Riga 8руб
Student card: divide in half
Linen: 1 RUB
– revelry “in full” at the restaurant;
services dear confused;
Fifty rubles:
– teen bike;
– small pension;
– scholarship student-horoshista;
– trade Union trip to the Elbrus region for 2 weeks — 30 rubles;
Yes there is – already it was possible to live a month… however, is rather poor.
– a plane ticket to the South (back and forth);
– monthly salary of a poor engineer graduate (or rather, the salary of 120 rubles);
– a good pension.
– a trip to a cheap sanatorium or preventorium at all costs;
A ticket (trade Union) in Terskol (Elbrus) 2 weeks — 30 rubles 60cop.
Full price RUB. 102
