What could be bought for 1 ruble of the USSR

The iron box I stored the heavy, full-fledged Soviet rubles to the image of the profile of Illich and Motherland. At one time these were full-fledged currency rubles, while still looking at them, imbued with respect. So what can be bought for 1 ruble in the Soviet Union. Let us remember.

In the USSR 1 ruble could buy:

4 tickets monetary and clothing lottery for 25 cents a piece.
100 boxes of matches pennies per box.
50 pieces 12-sheet exercise books.
Make 50 calls to a payphone. One call 2 pennies. Call time was limited only to the queue.

1961. Photo by Oleg Neelova:

One of iron, galvanized bucket. It cost 90 cents.

1 ruble could dash off to the pleasure by public transport. So one ticket on the tram cost 3 kopecks on the ruble and accordingly could be made 33 trips. Ticket in the bus - 4 pennies, and that 25 trips. Ticket on the bus - 5 cents and 20 trips "in your pocket".

10 cups of the tomato juice. Glass - 10 kopecks.

2 chocolate medals - 50 cents a piece.
2 packs of dumplings, "Russian" - 50 cents a pack.
cup 100 without soda syrup one penny and 33 soda glasses with syrup 3 pennies.

6 chebureks (16 cents per share).
Three jars of seaweed for 33 pennies for a jar.
10 meat pies (10 cents per share).
to pay a fine in the bus or tram for ticketless travel. 1 Penalty evaluated Ruble.

25 pies with cabbage, potatoes, rice and eggs and marmalade (4 cents per share).
Arriving in Moscow it was possible to make 20 journeys on the metro. The price of one - 5 kopecks.

Buy or drink 2 liters of birch sap. One glass of juice cost 10 cents.

5 times to go to the hairdresser. The price of one hairstyle for the boy (poluboks) - 20 kopecks.
Also, you could buy 14 packs of coarse salt at the price of 7 cents per 1 kilogram or 9 packs of fine salt "Extra" for 11 cents a kilo.
adding the ruble 2 kopecks you could buy a bottle of fruit wine (0, 7 L).
25 balloons Soiled talc (4 cents per piece).
16 packages askorbinki in pharmacy at 6 cents packaging.
5 is sealed for 20 cents.

One bottle of sunflower oil at the price of 99 cents.
15 small mugs of kvass on tap for the price of 6 cents.

100 newspaper "Pioneer truth". The price of one copy calculate yourself.
3 small jars of mayonnaise. The cost of one - 33 kopecks.
Three liters of milk at the price of 28 cents per liter.
And another one ruble could buy 5 loaves of white bread. The price of a loaf - 20 cents!
10 kg potatoes 10-20 bundles of fresh herbs from the market (depending on the season).

20-liter canister gasoline AI-72 (90 cents).

4 or 5 coils of thread, depending on the thickness.
4 tickets to the movies for adults or 10 children.
One large jar sprat 72 penny or three small jars of 36 cents each. But in this case I would have to add to the ruble 8 cents.
5 loaves of black bread, Orlowski or capital (90 cents).
7 buns with poppy under the glaze (91 kopecks).
10 milkshakes.
6 packs of cigarettes "Baltic" for 16 cents.

11 biscuits of 9 cents per share.
10 sochnikov with cheese for 10 cents apiece.
10 dairy ice cream briquettes for 10 cents apiece.
2 bottles of 0, 33 liters "Pepsi-cola" (45 cents). But to get hold of such a luxury can be had only in Moscow.
1 pack license "Marlborough" (1 ruble).
2 packs Soviet chewing gum for 50 cents.
1 pioneer tie - 75 kopecks.

10 oktyabryatskih sprockets (10 cents per share).
1 chocolate bar "Alenka" for 80 cents. And the remaining 20 cents could buy an ice cream sundae.
1 student a comprehensive ticket for trams and trolleybuses for a month cost of 1 ruble.

25 stamped envelope 100 the envelope without brand
8 pieces of children's soap for 12 kopecks.
13 cups popsicles (1 cup - 7 cents).
10 small cups of roasted seeds grandmothers. Small glass cost 10 cents, and that's already a big 15 cents.
10 donuts with jam for 10 cents a piece.

5 beers of the casting machine. 20 cents per cup.
20-bagels muffins for tea. 5 cents per bagel.
5 bottles of lemonade, "Sayan" to 20 cents per bottle.
10 eggs the second category at the price of 90 cents.
2 liters of sunflower oil in pouring from the machine, which stood in the stores. 50 kopeek1 liter.
1 bottle of apple cider (0, 75) of 98 cents.
had a good lunch in the canteen. 1 ruble could take the first (soup), second (steak and chips), salad, and fruit compote and a bun!

And in the USSR in almost every restaurant in the daytime we practiced set meals. Worth a lunch around 1 ruble 40 kopecks. It included - first course, second, salad, juice and a couple of slices of bread. However, unlike stolovok, you all handed waiter. But it is already too much our limit.

Tip: scholarship in college was 30 rubles, and at the Institute 40. The elders and honors received little more. Well, the average salary - 90-120 rubles.