Signboards of Soviet Stores

1981. “Milk” (rus. Moloko). In the front a woman pushes the blue pram with a ‘win­dow’. It was incred­i­bly dif­fi­cult to buy this sort of prams in those times.

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Milk

1965. In Soviet Rus­sia peo­ple do not think too much about invent­ing names for the out­lets owned by the state. All the stores were sim­ply named: “Bread”, “Milk”, “Meat” or “Fish”. On the pic­ture — “Gro­cery Store”.

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Gro­cery

1987. Home appli­ances (rus: “Electrotovary”).

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Source: germanych.livejournal.com (In Russian)


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