Soviet bills and that you could buy with that money

For one ruble could be bought:

-100 Boxes of matches (boxes - one penny);

-50 Thin school notebooks (one notebook to 12 sheets - 2 cent);

-50 Calls from public phone (to call from the phone booth, in a special slot in the upper right corner had to throw a coin in 2 cent);

-20 Times to ride on public transport (tram / trolley / bus ticket cost 5 cents, but I still found the time when tickets were not universal, and the bus cost 5 cents, trolley - 4 kopek, but streetcar - 3 cent);

Or 5 kilometers to ride in a taxi - it cost 20 cents a kilometer;

-25 Kilograms of tomatoes - yes, 4 kopeks per kilogram, was such a price;

-10 Kilogram of potatoes, or 3 pounds on the ruble, but on the market, and if "the car", then to 5 cents per kilogram;

-10 Spools of thread (10 koppeek for katushechku);

-English-Russian dictionary pocket size to 18 thousand words worth 57 cents;

-Could subscribe to a lot of newspapers - such as: "Work", "Komsomolskaya Pravda, Izvestia and 3 were a penny (but it's optional), but the" Pioneer truth "made a voluntary-forced to write all the pioneers in the school - True, the price for it was purely symbolic - 1 penny per room;

-After school with good and warm weather always running around in the park - ride on the swings, roundabouts. Ride cost 5 to 10 cents;

, Many went to the movies - a ticket to a children's session was worth 10 kopecks, as an adult - 25 cents;

-On changes loved to run to the pharmacy for "treats" - mint tablets from the pressure cost 2 kopecks per pack, and sweet askorbinka - 6 cents;

-Still love to buy from grandmothers roasted sunflower seeds, and their small dose (vodka) and a glass tumbler more (and then poured into a paper bag, twisted a newspaper into a cone-shaped) - respectively first cups worth of 3 and 5 cents, it is true then - 5 and 10 kopecks;

Or ran to a nearby store for ice - cream in the cup cost only 7 cents (but then rose in price to 20 cents), but milk ice cream was worth 10 kopecks, and fruit - 12 cents. But Kashtan - chocolate ice-cream (the one that was on a stick) was relatively "expensive" - 20 cents;

In breast-cafe could order a cocktail (with milk) for 10 cents;

Or shikanut - buy a pack of gum production zhvatelnoy USSR - just exactly 1 ruble (import cost more);

, And in the dining room could be full meal - the first, second, fruit compote and brioche (inclusive dinner and treated to 45-60 cents), lunch in the diner was worth about 80 cents;

-33 Glasses of lemonade with syrup, especially in the summer heat - the most it:);

Or 8 liters of tap kvass from the barrel (which was poured in enameled cans) - 12 cents per liter;

Or 10 glasses of tomato juice and 10 kopecks for a glass;

Well, or 16 small cups of kvass (6 cents);

Or 5 bottles of "Narzan" to 20 cents per piece of work;

Or 3 bottles of lemonade to 30 cents per bottle;

-Drink coffee and cake, with a pocket of one ruble, also not a problem - coffee cost 13 kopecks, a cake with custard was worth 22 kopecks, a cake, potatoes - 15 cents);

-You could buy lots and lots of rolls (usually "tea" roll cost two kopecks, and cakes and buns with poppy seeds and jam cost of 10-15 cents);

Da and bread was not particularly expensive - 16-20-24 cents;

Borodino, for example, you could buy as much five loaves of bread - 20 cents a loaf;

-4 Loaf of white bread (loaves were to 900-1000 grams, not like now);

-5 Liters of milk on tap, or 6 bottles of milk to 0.5 liters - from 16 cents per bottle;

-3 Glass jars of mayonnaise for 200 ml - to 33 kopeks per jar (jars, sktati could then be put into glass reception and return of money paid for mayonnaise);

-3 Jars sea cabbage - cabbage, too, was for 33 kopeks per jar;

-The funny thing is that canned food - gobies in tomato sauce - also cost 33 per cent of canned food:)

-For fans of perversions - 10 pies with kittens (10 cents for a pie);

-Dozen eggs for 10 cents apiece;

-Kilo of sugar (granulated sugar - was from 78 cents a kilogram, and then rose in price to 94 kopecks, or sugar - 88 kopeks);

-2 Liters of sunflower oil, by the glass "(1 liter - 50 cents);

To-extreme - 100 km ride hitchhiking (kilometer - penny);

-2 Bottles of good beer (yet to surrender and stayed, but the bottle could take), although it was beer and 25 cents per bottle, and cold even to 22 per cent glass;

-8 Packs of cigarettes are not very good, or 2 packs of Bulgarian cigarettes by 50 kopecks a pack;

-Closer to the fall could be a bargain at the bazaar 6 kilograms of watermelons, or 3 kilograms of melons (although eslipopadali for sale "on the machine, it was possible to buy watermelons at 3-5 cents per kilogrammchik);

-5 Times to go to a male hairdresser or bath;

-8 Bars children's soap for 12 cents;

-Pay for hospital beds per night, resting "savage" in the south during the holiday season;

Non-food-iron bucket (in the economy all come in handy:) for 90 cents.

At three rubles could buy:

Kilo-doctoral sausage for 2 rubles 20 kopecks (more would have left a great deal of surrender);

-True, there was sausage and 2 rubles 90 kopecks;

-And yet there was sausage tea - 1 ruble 60 kopeks per kilogram;

Or a kilogram of cheese - Russian cheese was worth exactly 3 rubles per kilogrammchik if simpler - something for 2rublya 60 kopeks per kilogram;

-Almost 1.5 kilograms of beef (a kilo of meat worth 1 ruble 80 kopeks);

Or a kilogram of pork for 2 rubles 50 kopecks + delivery;

-2 Pounds of tangerines for 1 ruble 50 kopecks;

-2 Liters of sour cream and 1 ruble 50 kopecks;

-Bottle of vodka in Moscow for 2 rubles 14 kopecks;

-Can eat no more nor less, and 5-6 persons (in the original or the school cafeteria, of course);

, But dinner in a restaurant would cost 3 rubles only one, but what a lunch ...;

-Cake "Fairy Tale" for the holiday would cost 2 rubles 64 kopecks, as usual such a cake - and 2 rubles 20 kopecks;

-A good book on quality paper;

-2 Vinyl large diameter (they cost from 1 ruble 45 kopeks to 1 ruble 70 kopecks);

Or import a record for 3 rubles;

-Doll or other toy of domestic production;

Normal wine bottles (such as "Crimean");

Or 2 bottles are not very "normal" wine - "dining room" was worth 1 ruble 10 kopecks;

-Enameled pot for 3 liters of 3 rubles;

Or an aluminum pot, which, depending on the size of the cost from 50 cents to 2 rebley 50 kopecks;

-Cultural excursion at the weekend the whole family, including snack;

-2 Packs of imported cigarettes (such as "Pal Mal", "Marlboro") for 1 ruble 50 kopecks per pack, respectively (although the domestic cost from 40 to 70 cents);

, And another 3 BR - it was such a sum in his pocket child, which he horribly jealous of other kids:)

For five rubles could buy:

-At least - 55 rolls (buns cost of 2 cents to 9 cents per piece of work);

-50 Kilograms of salt "Extra" - 10 cents per kilogram;

-At least - 25 briquettes Ice Cream-cream cone (at first he was worth 19 kopecks, and then rose in price to 20 cents per brick);

-At least - 20 loaves of white bread (white bread was 13 cents to 24 cents, black was from 16 cents to 22 cents for a loaf);

-20 Threaded loaves for 25 cents per piece of work;

Two pounds of bananas (exotica cost about 2 rubles per kilogram);

-Kilogram clippings on the market (4 rubles 50 kopecks per kilo) or 2 pounds of meat at the store ("state" was worth 1 ruble 50 kopecks to 2 rubles 50 kopecks) - beef was on 2 rubles 20 kopecks, and pork - for 2 rubles 50 kopecks;

-Kg commercial sausage for 4 rubles 20 kopecks + Delivery:)

-Almost half a kilogram Smoked "Poltava" sausage for 3 rubles 60 kopecks, or a pound of boiled-smoked "sausage" to 4 rubles 30 kopecks;

And a half kilograms of "amateur" sausage for 2 rubles 90 kopecks per kilo;

Nearly a half-kilogram of "Swiss" cheese 3 rubles 60 kopecks;

-Almost half a kilogram of butter for 3 rubles and 50 kopecks per kilo;

"It was almost a month's rent on the family for a two-bedroom apartment, considering all utilities (electricity, for example, was 4 cent per kWh, if the stove in the kitchen you had gas, and 2 cent per kWh, if the stove was electric), heating and telephone

Tape MK domestic production - for 4 rubles 50 kopecks (imported in the market worth 2 times more expensive);

Ticket for the train to the region "Leningrad - Tallin" cost 5 rubles (student ticket cost half as much laundry + 1 ruble);

-Pounds of very good chocolates - Chocolate "Bear in the north" and "Squirrel" worth exactly 5 rubles per kilogram (mostly candy cost 3 rubles 50 kopecks per kilo);

-A few bars of chocolate - it cost 80 kopecks to 1 ruble 20 kopecks per tile;

-Half-liter bottle of vodka "Wheat" for 3 rubles 62 kopecks (and still is "Extra" for 4 rubles 12 kopecks);

-Bottle of "Soviet" champagne for 3 rubles 67 kopecks;

-Liter bottle of Hungarian "Vermouth" for 3 rubles 50 kopecks;

-10 Packs of cigarettes "Opal" made in Bulgaria - 50 kopecks per pack;

-But were still very fashionable, and therefore terribly expensive ... Overseas plastic bags - 5 rubles (!!!) for a prank ...;

Or packaging of imported chewing gum;

-Out clothes, footwear: a pair of home slippers, for example - they cost from 3 to 5 rubles per pair;

Pair of women's tights for the price of 3 rubles to 4 rubles 50 kopecks;

Bra-cost domestic production also from 3 to 5 rubles;

Sweatshirt-working, such as "quilted jacket, worth about 5 rubles;

Summer-dress a child too was worth around 5 rubles.

Ten rubles could buy:

Bottles of the cheapest brandy "Pliska" 7 rubles 70 kopecks + starter to surrender;

-2 Bottles of vodka "Extra" to 4 rubles 12 kopecks + snack on delivery;

-All sorts of raw could be bought for 5 rubles 40 kopecks per kilo (but then the price has risen to 11 rubles 40 kopecks per kilo same);

-Almost 3 kilograms of "Swiss" cheese 3 rubles 60 kopecks per kilo;

-Recorded "studiyku" (it is - artists, vinyl records that do not get it on sale, enterprising citizens were recorded on tape and sold record) for 6 rubles 90 kopecks (recording an album cost 4 rubles);

Foreign-cassette-type "SONY" - they cost about 9 rubles;

Meter crepe de chine (the material is:) - just 10 rubles;

-Women's tights production GDR - 7 rubles;

For imported bras had to give to 6-7 rubles;

For a pair of felt boots women's domestic production - 10 rubles;

For a pair of felt boots men's domestic production had to pay from 5 to 6 rubles;

-Electric can be purchased for 6 rubles;

Buy-forks-spoons of stainless steel for the whole family - (they were at 60 cents apiece);

First, it was possible to buy 2 iron to 3 rubles and 50 kopecks, but then irons went up to 6 rubles (although they have improved - irons from 6 rubles were with humidifier);

-Road is technically a toy, such as "A set of young radio amateurs;

-As suggested to me in a comment, a set of "Young Chemist" cost 7 rubles with coppers;

Or a desktop toy, such as "Driving" or "Pool";

Ticket on commuter aircraft (direction "Leningrad - Novgorod cost 7 rubles);

Ticket for the train to the region "Leningrad - Moscow - reserved seats cost 10 rubles, sedentary ticket - 8 rubles (student ticket price was half + underwear 1 ruble);

Ticket for the train to the region "Leningrad - Riga, 8 rubles worth (the price of student tickets was half + underwear 1 ruble);

-Could be exchanged for $ 10 (at the rate of $ 1 - 96-98 cents);

Is a sum which takes "to pay";

-It - the amount of which was not ashamed to remind the occupant:)

-As it was a universal currency for different services (this sum gifts to plumbers, electricians, stevedores, local doctors, etc.).

In the north, when the Soviet Union salary for 2 days of work was about 25 rubles (such as 13 rubles per day). Therefore, if the Soviet people would quickly and a lot of money, they were fed "to work" to the North. For a long time there is usually no delay - living and working conditions harsh. But even for a very short period of time could safely earn on car / furniture / TV / recorder, etc. But the apartments in the USSR people were receiving free of charge, from the state (though, were more "cooperative apartments - for those who did not want to stand in line and wait, and he wanted" everything now ", but this is" another story "© . And even these "cooperative apartments, cost is quite affordable - up to 15 thousand rubles).

Go with friends in a restaurant - also was not a problem if you have with them RUR 15. With this amount of money could easily go to a restaurant a second price category - to "eat and drink, it would take about 10 rubles (salad, main course, vodka, beer, snacks, mineral water). If, after the meal you want to browse - so walk "©, you could go home in style to ... taxi (1 mile - 20 cents). And the remaining money could have lunch set meal the next day at the same restaurant (where you walk the day before), but - during the day (inclusive dinner was costing dinner in a restaurant by day in an amount up to one ruble).

At the same 15 rubles could buy food for a whole week (including meat, frankfurters, sausage, butter, cottage cheese, milk, biscuits, candies, cereals, vegetables and fruit). Here such here "consumer basket" is, above all - dragged to the house:)

And with 25 rubles in your purse, you could do yourself, anything does not deny.

Over twenty-five rubles could buy:

-156 Packages of milk (if you count to 16 kopeks per half-liter bag);

-120 Loaves of white bread (to remind - the bread was at 13-20 cents);

-45 Packs of cigarettes with a filter;

-13 Kg sweets (1 ruble 80 kopeks per kilogram candy);

-10 Kilogram of cooked sausage (recall - sausage was 2 rubles 20 kopecks to 2 rubles 80 kopecks per kilo);

-12 Kilogram of the best beef (beef with a tiny sugar bone was to 2 rubles per kilogram);

-Almost 10 bottles of cheap vodka (or - if specified - 6 bottles of Stolichnaya ");

Or 20 bottles of wine (for 1 ruble 20 kopecks per bottle);

Or 2 bottles of brandy, 2 bottles of vodka + more and a snack would be left:)

-Almost 2 kg of caviar;

Two sacks of flour of first grade for 10 rubles 50 kopecks per bag;

-Almost two sacks barley - bag cost 13 rubles (in the bag - 50 kg, to 26 cents per kilogram);

-500 Times to ride the subway (or bus / trolley);

-Pay for 2 years for the telephone;

-10 Textbooks (by 20-30 cents for a textbook, depending on the subject);

From 10 to 15 rubles worth album of reproductions;

For 16 rubles a month a child could learn in a musical, artistic or choreographic school (at least in the 80-ies);

-Or could be to attach a child in kindergarten for 22 rubles and 50 kopecks per month;

-Union trip to Pioneer Camp for 20 days worth within 12-13 rubles;

-A plane ticket local airlines direction "Leningrad - Moscow" was worth 18 rubles;

-Or you could buy two tickets for commuter aircraft, for example, "Leningrad - Pskov to 11 rubles a piece of work);

Two tickets for the train to the region, Leningrad - Moscow: coupe cost of 12 rubles per ticket (student ticket price was half + underwear 1 ruble);

Ticket in second-class train from Moscow to Zaporozhye cost about 13 rubles;

A plane ticket from Moscow to Zaporozhye cost 22 rubles;

-Could well put on shoes (shoes domestic production cost of 15 rubles to 27 rubles per couple);

, And sandals in the summer you can safely buy for 13 rubles (and they were really no worse than imports);

And dress - the meter worsted cost around 13 rubles;

Two meters of crepe de chine dresses for summer (at 10 rubles per meter);

, Or buy ready-made summer dress from acetate rayon (in store it costs around 15 rubles);

-Camera "Change" (it cost 13 or 15 rubles);

-Six-string guitar for 17 rubles;

50-milliliter bottle of French perfume - just 25 rubles;

-Tea service for six (cups, saucers, Lucky Tea-Kettle, zavarnichek, saharnichka - all, as in "the best houses in Paris" :)));

-Real French cognac cost of 25 rubles and above;

-The money you could buy 1250 condoms (2 penny per pack);

And - as we say seasoned people - service road muddled cost is 25 rubles:)

Fifty rubles were not just money, but huge denzhischami. Judge for yourself - 50 rubles amounted scholarship student of good marks or a small pension (at least in 1979, it was so). This money could easily spend a month, but, of course, without any frills.

Over fifty rubles could buy:

-Over fifty rubles could buy:

-500 Pounds of potatoes selected for the price of 10 cents per kilogram;

-250 Loaves of white bread (if you count to 20 cents per loaf);

-14 Kilogram of butter for 3 rubles and 50 kopecks per kilo;

-13 Kilogram "Swiss" cheese 3 rubles 60 kopeks per kilogram;

-10 Kilogram kilograms of chocolates "Bear in the north" or "Squirrel" - they were worth exactly 5 rubles per kilo;

-At least 11 kilograms of first grade tenderloin on the market (4 rubles 50 kopecks per kilo);

-18 Bottles of imported wine dry (capacity 0.7) for 2 rubles 70 kopecks per bottle ("Balaton", "Murtaflyar", "Cotnari");

Patent leather shoes, women's worth in the region of 40-45 rubles;

-10 Meters of artificial silk (meter cost of 3 rubles 50 kopeks to 5 rubles 50 kopecks per meter);

Teen-bicycle;

-From excesses: 100-milliliter bottle of French perfume - exactly 50 rubles;

, Men's watches Minsk Watch Factory (production in 1961 to 23 jewels with a gilt frame) cost 40 rubles;

Union-start in Terskol (Elbrus) for 2 weeks - with the full cost of 102 rubles, for it really had to pay only 30 rubles 60 kopecks;

-A plane ticket "Tallinn-Voronezh" cost 32 rubles;

-A plane ticket from St. Petersburg to Adler cost 45 rubles;

A compartment on a train ticket (again, from Peter to Adler) cost about 25-27 rubles.

The biggest bill that I can remember - 100 rubles. It was just a huge sum (at least for me then:).

100 rubles - it was a monthly salary of the "poor" engineer, university graduates (more precisely, a salary of 120 rubles). An experienced engineer at the plant received from 150 rubles to 250 rubles + 30% bonus (which, of course, was not always, but very often).

It's like a doctor to pay the 1970's was from 65 to 90 rubles a month, in the 1980's kind of like raised to 120-140 rubles a month (at least I said so). Physicians, it's true? :)

At least 150 rubles - this was the average salary in 1980.

And another 100 rubles - it was a good pension.

Over a hundred rubles could buy:

-250 Half-liter cans of squash eggs (40 cents per jar);

-At least - 208 servings of ice cream (ice cream in the Soviet Union cost of 8 cents to 48 cents per serving);

-200 Packs of Bulgarian cigarettes by 50 cents a pack;

-100 Bars of chocolate (chocolate then cost 80 kopecks to 1 ruble 20 kopecks);

-45 Kilogram doctoral sausage (2 rubles 20 kopecks per kilo);

-28 Liter bottles of Hungarian vermouth (bottle cost 3 rubles and 50 kopecks);

-27 Bottles of champagne (if you count to 3 rubles 67 kopecks per bottle);

-27 Bottles of vodka (if you count to 3 rubles 62 kopecks per bottle);

-20 Packs of cigarettes overseas superkrutyh 5 rubles a pack (you can buy only speculators);

-10 Three-star bottles of brandy (it cost 8 rubles to 12 rubles per bottle);

-A plane ticket to South (and back);

-The money could well put on shoes (footwear domestic production cost of 15 rubles to 27 rubles per couple);

-Shoes were imported from 50 rubles to 70 rubles per pair;

-At least, the Hungarian men's shoes cost about 60 rubles per pair;

And dress - suit of good quality cost of 70 rubles;

Pair of good shoes or sandals were worth from 30 to 70 (the main thing - get it);

Women's winter boots, were from 50 to 70 rubles (the speculators, they went from 100 rubles or more per pair).