The Soviet Union was offi­cially cre­ated in 1922, how­ever, if there was a date which could be con­sid­ered as a birth­day of the USSR, that would have had to be Novem­ber 7^th of 1917   —  this was the day when in St Peters­burg the Bol­she­viks  —  the organ­ised mil­i­tary rev­o­lu­tion­ar­ies, who later became the Com­mu­nist Party of the USSR  —  came […]

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Matches in the Soviet Union were an impor­tant part of every­day life. Many apart­ments were not con­nected to the cen­tral gas, power or elec­tric­ity sys­tems, so peo­ple needed matches to light a stove to make food or to boil water to take a bath.
Thus, match­box labels served as a daily reminder of the socially […]

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This myth­i­cal crea­ture of the Soviet kids’ child­hood, some­thing between a Cen­taur and a bicycle, has come into being within a Soviet man­u­fac­tur­ing indus­try dri­ven by an over­pow­er­ing desire to “give all the best” to chil­dren. Most bril­liant minds of the Soviet sci­en­tists were work­ing on the cre­ation of the ideal cross-breed. The mutant was offi­cially labeled a “Pedal Horse” […]

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