Things from the USSR that were in every home

USSR watchStories about the Soviet past continue to haunt the minds of many people. And not only those who managed to experience this time personally, but also those born after the collapse of the USSR. Let's look at the things that were present in the homes of our parents and grandparents at that time. Many stood on shelves in sideboards and were an integral part of everyday life. Perhaps you have managed to use some of these things too.

Standard things from the Soviet past

Many will be pleased to plunge into the past and remember things from the USSR that surrounded us at that time.

Wall radio

The small radio sticking straight out of the wall socket did not stop talking for many. People had breakfast under "Pioneer dawn", and had lunch while listening to the program "On a working afternoon».

radio

Chandelier "Cascade"

Many people probably remember a chandelier with plastic pendants from childhood.

Coinage

USSR chandelier
In those years one could see coins of various sizes and shapes on the walls.

USSR coinage

Set “Fish” for cognac

The “Fish” cognac set, made in various colors, was present in almost every home.

USSR Fishes

Metal curlers

Our mothers and grandmothers used to create beautiful curls metal curlers.

Figurines

USSR curlers
There were various figurines on the shelves. There were many of them for every taste.

USSR porcelain

Glowing figures

Phosphorus athletes, ballerinas, deer and eagles glowed mysteriously in the dark.

USSR eagle

Plastic soldiers

Indians, Neanderthals And plastic soldiers - an integral attribute of Soviet childhood.

USSR soldiers

Tumbler toy

Such the toy fostered perseverance in Soviet children.

USSR tumbler

Rubber squeak toys

Many of us played with rubber squeaking toys as children.

USSR toys

Record player

Vintage technology continues to be very popular today. For example, here is a device for reproducing sound from vinyl records.

USSR records

Record player

For most people these days, such tape recorders are just a pile of scrap. But in the pre-digital era, for our parents and grandparents, they were the only way to listen to music. Huge reels of films that were always torn, they were glued together with nail polish and listened to the music with bated breath.

Wall carpet

A carpet on the wall was an invariable attribute of the interior of any home at that time.

USSR deer

The striking clock

Many people are familiar with such a clock, which chimes every hour with a number of strikes equal to the current time.

USSR watch

Big TV

The whole family gathered in front of such a TV in the evening.

USSR TV

Vacuum cleaners “Rocket” or “Whirlwind”

These powerful and quite noisy vacuum cleaners were indispensable assistants when cleaning the house. Some copies still work properly.

USSR vacuum cleaner

Modern children most likely will not understand what is shown in the photographs presented above. The era of the USSR has irrevocably sunk into the past, but some things of that time remain forever in the hearts of many people.

Comments and feedback:

And how did the tumbler doll cultivate perseverance in Soviet children?

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Alexander

    Hello, Alexander! This is a figurative expression of the author.

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    Vladislava Zaitseva (Administrator)

1) A TV with a screen of 35 cm diagonally cannot be called large. Large is when it is more than 50 cm diagonally. 2) You don’t have a carpet, but a tapestry. 3). The popular magnetic tape reels No. 13 and No. 15 again cannot be called “huge”. The acetate tape was glued together with acetic acid or tape. With the transition to a lavsan base in the early 70s, the issue of breakages ceased to be relevant. 4) I’ve never even seen the “Fish” set.

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Antiochus

They collected some things from different times and passed them off as revelations.

There were, and are, and will be carpets, because in Russia this is the custom and it is cold in winter.
Since 1976, our family has gathered around the Rubin color TV, like Brezhnev’s. I have never seen such TV before.

Something with a deer is not even a tapestry, but a rag with an image, I have never seen fish, we drank cognac from cupronickel gilded glasses.

I would still buy a clock with a strike, but we had an old pre-revolutionary clock, although without a strike.

There was a Yunost player, then it was changed to a stereo player with speakers, I don’t remember what it was called.

There was a vacuum cleaner, but it didn’t look like it was new.

There were no eagles in sight.

There were such toys and they were safe for children. I don’t remember plastic Neanderthals.

There were iron and rubber curlers, because that was normal, and they were the same in hairdressing salons. I think there are rubber ones somewhere now too.

in general, every time has its own things
no need to mix them together
and those who lived in that past should write about the past
otherwise it turns out to be nonsense

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Natalia

so in any case there is no need to write nonsense, be it figuratively or not

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Natalia

The tapes were torn, lies, the tape never tore, but there were leaderboards and they fell off, we had to glue new ones. They sold sets with leaders in 3 colors, a machine for correctly cutting the tape and leader and tape. There was also no player, there was a Ural radio which replaced both the radio and the player. And there were no large TVs with 63 centimeter screens either; they appeared in the late 70s, and before that they were used with a maximum of 51 centimeter. And the rocket vacuum cleaner was not used by Whirlwind. There was also a Saratov 2 refrigerator with a micro-freezer.

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Vladimir

In one heap they are dumped from different times and peoples.

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Evlampy Sukhodrishchev

Natalia, actually, before 1976 there was also life, this TV, Rubin-102, was considered the best in those days, it was not in every family, the most popular were “Records”, until 1975 we generally had KVN-49 , converted to the 35th tube, only in 1975 they bought Rubin-401, color. There was also a “Whirlwind” vacuum cleaner, a hemisphere with a handle, the most powerful at that time, 600 W. The rest was also there, but not all, but I saw all this from other people before, and my brother-in-law still has “Fish with Glasses”. There were also little soldiers, but they were made of aluminum alloy, although for some reason they were called “tin.”

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Starce

Washing machines

Vacuum cleaners

Coffee makers