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Tetris
Tetris () is a puzzle video game created by Alexey Pajitnov, a Soviet software engineer, in the mid-1980s. In Tetris, falling pieces consisting of four connected blocks, known as tetrominoes, must be sorted into a pile. Once a horizontal line of the playfield is filled with blocks, the line disappears, granting points and preventing the pile from reaching the top. This gameplay has been used in approximately 220 versions across at least 70 platforms. Newer versions frequently add game mechanics, some of which have become standard. , Tetris is the second-best-selling video game series, with ove
Aeroflot
PJSC AeroflotRussian Airlines (, ), commonly known as Aeroflot ( or ; , , ), is the flag carrier and the largest airline of Russia. Aeroflot is headquartered in the Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow, with its hub being Sheremetyevo International Airport. The Federal Agency for State Property Management, an agency of the Government of Russia, owns 73.77% of the company, with the rest of the shares being public float.
Lada
Lada ( , marketed as LADA) is a brand of small cars manufactured by AvtoVAZ (originally VAZ), a state-owned company in Russia. From January 2021 until May 2022, Lada was integrated with then-sister brand Dacia into Renault's Lada-Dacia business unit.
Sberbank
The Public JSC Sberbank is a Russian majority state-owned banking and financial services company headquartered in Moscow. As the Russian successor entity of the State Labor Savings Banks System of the USSR, it was called Sberbank of Russia until 2015, and in 2020 further shortened its brand to Sber. Following the termination of its operations in the European Union in the immediate aftermath of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, its international footprint is primarily in the Commonwealth of Independent States.
ZiL
Public Joint-Stock Company – Likhachov Plant (OJSC AMO ZiL; ), commonly known as ZiL (ЗиЛ), was an automobile manufacturer based in Danilovsky District of Moscow, Russia from 1916 to 2012. It is best known for producing limousines used by the elite of the Soviet Union which led the company to become the namesake of the ZiL lanes.
Moskvitch
Moskvitch or Moskvich () (also written as Moskvich, Moskvič, or Moskwitsch) is a Soviet/Russian automobile brand produced by AZLK from 1946 to 1991 and by OAO Moskvitch from 1991 to 2001. Production resumed in 2022.
GUM
Russian department store group
BelAZ
thumb|Mining dump truck BelAZ-7547 thumb|1971 USSR postage stamp depicting BelAZ 540 BelAZ (, ) is a Belarusian automobile plant and one of the world's largest manufacturers of large and especially large dump trucks, as well as other heavy transport equipment for the mining and construction industries.
Kyiv cake
Ukrainian brand of dessert cake
Minsk Automobile Plant
Belarusian automotive industry manufacturer of commercial vehicles
Borjomi
carbonated mineral water brand from country of Georgia
Volga
Automobile brand of the manufacturer GAZ from the Soviet Union and Russia
Zenit
Soviet Russian camera brand
Kazan Helicopters
helicopter manufacturer, located in Kazan
Melodiya
Melodiya () is a Russian record label. It was the state-owned major record company of the Soviet Union.
VEF
VEF, Latvian acronym for Valsts elektrotehniskā fabrika (State Electrotechnical Factory), was a manufacturer of electrical and electronic products in Riga, Latvia. It was founded in 1919. Before World War II, it manufactured a large variety of goods, including Minox — then the world's smallest camera. After the war, it was the leading communication technology producer in the Soviet Union and the largest factory in the Latvian SSR.
LOMO
LOMO () is a manufacturer of medical and motion-picture lenses and equipment based in St. Petersburg, Russia. The company was awarded three Order of Lenin decorations by the Soviet Union.
Vana Tallinn
Estonian rum-based liqueur
GAZ-21
The GAZ M21 Volga is an automobile produced in the Soviet Union by GAZ (Gorkovsky Avtomobilniy Zavod, in English "Gorky Automobile Factory") from 1956 to 1970. The first car to carry the Volga name, it was developed in the early 1950s. Volgas were built with high ground clearance (which gives it a specific "high" look, contrary to "low-long-sleek" look of Western cars of similar design), rugged suspension, strong and forgiving engine, and rustproofing on a scale unheard of in the 1950s.
Ararat
Armenian brandy produced by the Yerevan Brandy Company
Stolichnaya
Stolichnaya () is a vodka made of wheat and rye grain. It originated in the Soviet Union in 1938. There are two versions of the vodka: the version found outside Russia is made in Latvia, while the version found inside Russia is made there. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union the ownership of Stolichnaya has been disputed between the Russian state-owned company FKP Soyuzplodoimport and SPI Group, a private company chartered in Luxembourg. SPI Group have sold their version as Stoli since 2022.
GAZ-24
thumb|1974 and 1978 Volgas - representing two generations of the GAZ-24 Volga The GAZ-24 "Volga" is a car manufactured by the Gorky Automobile Plant (Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod, GAZ) from 1970 to 1985 as a generation of its Volga marque. A largely redesigned version (practically, a new car in a modified old body) – GAZ-24-10 – was produced from 1985 to 1992. The Belgian-assembled rebadged models were sold as Scaldia-Volga M24 and M24D for the Western European market.
ptasie mleczko
confectionery product
Zaporozhets
Soviet car brand
IMZ-Ural
thumb|A new Ural Gear Up is put through its paces. IMZ-Ural Group Inc., more commonly known as Ural Motorcycles (), is a multinational company involved in developing, manufacturing, and worldwide distribution of Ural sidecar motorcycles. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, with assembly facilities in Petropavl, Kazakhstan, Ural is the oldest and one of the world's largest manufacturers of sidecar-equipped motorcycles.
Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant
company
Intourist
Baikal
Russian soft drink
KAvZ
KAvZ () is a bus manufacturer in Kurgan, KGN, Russia. The factory started producing buses in 1958, based on trucks from GAZ. During the 1990s, it assembled Ikarus buses for the Russian market. Now a subsidiary of GAZ, it specialises in producing small buses, in particular school buses.
ZAZ Tavria
car model
Sovetskoye Shampanskoye
Soviet sparkling wine
Laima
Latvian confectionery brand
State quality mark of the USSR
certification mark
Radio Moscow
Soviet international radio station
Zhigulevskoye
thumb|The production of "Žiguli" (Zhigulevskoye) beer was discontinued in Estonia by the end of 20th century Zhigulevskoye () is a brand of Russian beer. The original brewery was founded in Samara in 1881 by Austrian entrepreneur Alfred von Vacano. The original brand was named Viennese Beer, but, according to legend, in 1934 it was renamed "Zhigulevskoye Beer" to get rid of its "bourgeois" name. During the Soviet era, at times it was virtually the only beer brand that could be found anywhere in the country. At the peak of its popularity it was made in more than 700 breweries around the country
Kalev
chocolate factory based in Estonia
Dnepr
motorcycle brand produced in Ukraine since 1967
Electronika
Elektronika, also spelt Electronika and Electronica (, "Electronics"), is the brand name used for many different electronic products built by factories belonging to the Soviet Ministry of Electronic Industry, including calculators, electronic watches, portable games, and radios. Many Elektronika designs were the result of efforts by Soviet engineers, who were working for the Soviet military–industrial complex but were challenged with producing consumer goods that were in great shortage in the Soviet Union. The brand is still in use in Belarus by Technochas.
Krasny Oktyabr Open Joint-Stock Company
Russian confectionery brand
SeAZ
SeAZ () was a large engineering plant in Serpukhov, Moscow Oblast, Russia. From 1939 to 1995, the company was called SMZ (Serpukhov Motorcycle Plant) and produced various cyclecars for use by disabled drivers, usually powered by IZh motorcycle engines. Between 1991 and 2008 it also produced Lada Oka microcars developed by AvtoVAZ. The company was declared bankrupt in 2013.
Svema
Svema () was a major Soviet-era state-owned manufacturer of photographic film, magnetic tapes and cassettes, based in Shostka, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. The manufacturing was started in 1931, at the time, in Ukrainian SSR, USSR. Svema had a registered trade mark and formerly was referred as "NPO Svema" of the Shostka Chemical Plant.
Belomorkanal
Belomorkanal () is a Russian brand of papirosa (cigarettes), originally made by the in Leningrad, Soviet Union.
Ural
series of Soviet-made mainframe computers
Minsk
Belarusian brand of motorcycles
Vyatka
historical motorcycle manufacturer
Moskovskaya vodka
Brand of Russian vodka
ZIL-118
The ZIL-118 Yunost ("Youth") is a microbus built by Zavod imeni Likhachova (, Factory named for Likhachov), or ZIL.
Tasma
Tasma (Russian: Тасма) is a Russian GOST and ISO certified manufacturer of black-and-white and colour photographic films. It also manufactures adhesive tape and demineralized water. Located in Kazan, Russia, it has been in operation since 1933 (starting as "Film Factory No. 8"). The name Tasma is derived from the Russian phrase Татарские светочувствительные материалы ("Tatarskie Sveto Materialiy"), meaning "Tatar Sensitized Materials"; this name was adopted by the company in 1974.
Kalinin Machine-Building Plant
Russian artillery and vehicle manufacturer
Atlant
Belarusian appliance company
KVN-49
thumb|TV set KVN-49 at Mosfilm museum (Moscow) KVN-49 () or Kenigson, Varshavskiy, Nikolayevskiy Mk. 1949 was a black-and-white TV set released in 1949 and on the market in the USSR until 1960, with some minor modifications. It was the first TV set ever mass-produced in the USSR.
Voskhod motorcycle
historical motorcycle manufacturer
Jermuk
mineral water
Java
brand of Russian cigarettes
Krasnaya Moskva
Russian perfume
Flavored fortified wines
Bormotukha (Russian бормотуха) and chernila (literally ink) were colloquial names for cheap flavored fortified wines, commonly named "port wine" or "vermouth", that were produced in the Soviet Union.
VEF Spīdola
model series and trademark of Soviet portable transistor radios
Aelita
Soviet synthesizer
Minus Cube
rearrangement puzzle
Sitall
Sitall (also known as Sitall CO-115M or Astrositall) is a crystalline glass-ceramic with ultra-low coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE). It was originally manufactured in the former Soviet Union and was used in the making of primary mirrors for the Russian Maksutov telescopes. It has a CTE of only 0 ± 1.5 °C−1 in the temperature range −60 to 60 °C, placing it in a small group of transparent materials with low CTE such as Vycor, Zerodur, CerVit and fused quartz.