The first car of Vladimir Putin, was “Zaporozhets”, which he won in the lottery DOSAAF. It is possible that in those same years he shaved with a razor “Kharkiv”, as the order suggests a vacuum cleaner “Rocket”. All this was done in the USSR.
Economy
In the Soviet Union, it was decided to compare all indicators of the development level of 1913. By 1940, the Ukrainian industry has grown compared to the level of 1913 in 7,3 times and amounted to 18 % of all-Union, production of heavy industry increased more than in 10 times. It should be noted that 92 % of Ukrainian products were received on the capacities created in the Soviet years.
In the pre-war period Ukraine has become a powerful industrial Republic with a diversified industry.
During the war a large part of this capacity has been lost. Ukraine was destroyed about 28 thousand villages and 714 cities 16150 industrial enterprises. Damage to the USSR amounted to 285 billion rubles in the old year.
However, the postwar growth was ahead of the pre-war level. By 1958 for smelting iron Ukraine bypassed all the countries of Europe, and its production per capita back to 1957 ahead of all capitalist countries, including the United States.
Powerful development received in the USSR energy. During the years of Soviet power was built more than ten nuclear power plants and hydroelectric power plants. By 1984, the Ukraine accounted for more than 17.2% of the country’s total electricity production.
According to the former Minister of Finance of Ukraine, economist Igor Mitiukov, the economy of the USSR was one of the most powerful economic centers in the Soviet Union. Here large volume of production of ferrous metallurgy, chemical industry, machinery. Grew power generation, a significant role was played by agricultural sector, including exports of agricultural products.
“Eared” and “Verkhovyna”
In Ukraine in 1965 fulfilled a dream of the Soviet man of the present “people’s car”. Here there was “Zaporozhets”.
For its Foundation it was decided to take the Fiat 600, but “hunchback” was not a blind copy of the Italian minicar. Many components have undergone significant changes. The ZAZ 965 has justified his mission, he starred in the films “Three plus two”, “gas station Queen” and many others.
He even appeared in the cartoon “Well, pogodi” and “Holidays in Prostokvashino”.
Ukrainian car industry, after experimenting on the “humpbacked” “Zaporozhets” in the years of Brezhnev’s reign, has released a new model, almost full, but very compact sedan exterior similar Chevrolet Corvairс.
“SUPROTEC” was the cheapest of the USSR and were even shipped abroad. However, with improved equipment and called JALTA.
A distinctive feature of the car were large air intakes, which people immediately christened ears, they are the ZAZ 966, and he received his nickname. In later models ears were cropped, but the nickname remained. “Eared” was the first car of Vladimir Putin, the 19-year-old law student won his first car in the lottery DOSAAF.
If family people in the USSR dreamed of a private car, even “Zaporozhets”, a youth on a moped. The cult mobigame were “Karpaty” and “Verkhovyna”. They were issued at Lviv factory. “Karpaty” were produced in 1981, and the first models moped “Verhovina-3 went on sale in late 1958.
Brands
Ukraine during the Soviet Union was a real factory of popular brands. Here was founded the first Soviet small-format camera, popular among connoisseurs of photography and today is the fed. It was produced in Kharkov, 1934.
In every fifth Soviet house stood Dnipropetrovsk TV’s “Spring” and “Spring M”, which was considered the top product in stores electrical engineering. Produced in Dnepropetrovsk and popular among the citizens of the USSR vacuum cleaner Raketa. They appeared on the shelves in 1956. In the 80-ies, the factory produced three models of vacuum cleaners, in the amount of up to one million pieces per year.
Povilsya in the Ukrainian SSR and the USSR’s first food processor “Mriya”. It was a real codomain standing even in the homes of the party elite.
The most significant drawback was the noise produced by it. She was buzzing like a tractor.
But sweetly sang of cassette and reel-to-reel tape recorders, “Spring”, produced in Zaporozhye and Kiev factories since 1963. They were truly iconic.
Before the market was flooded with Chinese calculators, Soviet engineers did the calculations on the calculator, produced at the Kiev factory “the Crystal” (B3-34, MK-54, MK-56, MK-61, MK-52). It was a modern vichislitelnie machine with multiple memory registers and multiple functions. Calculator MK-52 had memory on 512 cells, which was not erased even when power is turned off and which can be written as a program and data.
The most popular razor in the USSR shaver “Kharkiv”, which was considered the best gift for men on any occasion. Proizvodstvo began in 1956. Men even used to collect different models of razors. In the best of times in Kharkove produced up to a million razors a year.
Sport
The Ukrainian athletes were the real stars of world sport. A native of Kherson gymnast Larisa Latynina until 2012 held the record for number of Olympic medals: 9 gold, 5 silver and 4 bronze medals. At her first Olympic games in Melbourne (1956), she won 4 gold, one silver and one bronze. In 1957 the European Championship Latynina triumphantly conquered the entire set of gold medals.
The legend of football — Kyiv Dynamo team — 13-time champion of USSR, twice winner of the Cup winners of the domestic cups and the winner of the UEFA super Cup.
Footballers Kiev “Dynamo” Oleg Blokhin and Igor Belanov received Golden ball and footballer of the Dnepropetrovsk “Dnepr” Oleg Protasov in 1986 won the “Silver boot, losing the championship among football scorers only legendary galadza Mark van Basten.
Finally, the Ukrainian pole vaulter Sergey Bubka during his career has set 35 world records, has won multiple world series Grand Prix, six times world champion, once an Olympic champion of Seoul.
There and back
The best “shabashniki” in the USSR was considered a Hutsul from Western Ukraine — experienced and non-drinker. In General, the Ukrainians were in the Soviet Union are the most migratory of the residents of the USSR.
In Ukraine, traveled from all parts of the Union to relax and re-establishing health resorts of the Carpathians, in the Sunny Crimea and Odessa, to the resorts of the Azov sea on the Shatsky lakes.
