In 1959, a Soviet watch­maker Mash­Pri­bor­In­Torg had what’s now called a solid mar­ket share of all watches and clocks made in the USSR. This ugly acronym stood for Machin­ery and Gad­get Over­seas Trade, and the fac­tory made all the famous Soviet brands of watches which could be found in every house­hold: Polet (Flight), Slava (Glory), […]

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Due to a series of not so for­tu­itous events ( the Great Octo­ber Social­ist Rev­o­lu­tion of 1917, the First World War, the over­all run­down of the young Soviet coun­try) women never had their needs attended to prop­erly. Under­wear was made, first and fore­most, for the work­ing class with no pref­er­en­tial treat­ment for the females so […]

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Just like chil­dren any­where in the world, the Soviet kids needed toys to play with. Cer­tainly the range of toys designed and pro­duced was an envi­able one, by some stan­dards. How­ever, the aes­thetic appear­ance of toys was not a pri­or­ity for Soviet design­ers  —  toys had to be func­tional and edu­ca­tional. Any­thing beyond that, like pleas­ant looks, […]

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