Turn gears, remembering the names of Soviet household items

The Soviet Union ceased to exist thirty years ago. However, many of the things created at the time are still stored in our homes. The modern generation looks at them with a slight bewilderment. Still: to guess the name of household items of the Soviet era and even approximately assume what they were created for, it is not so easy.



In order to make the task easier for readers, we have presented answers. But even with them, choosing the right item will not work for everyone. Fortunately, at the end of the article, answers are listed with detailed information about these mysterious artifacts from the grandfather closet.

Name of household items

1. 
   
   (a) microphone
   (b) air ionizer
   (c) electric sharpener
   (d) heater
2. 
   
   (a) calibre
   (b) pedometer
   clock
3. 
   
   (a) washing machine
   (b) meat grinder
   (c) cutting
4. 
   
   (a) wall barometer
   (b) wall scales
   (c) wall humidity meter
5. 
   
   (a) speaker
   (b) fan
   (c) washing machine
6. 
   
   (a) juicer
   (b) garlic
   (c) water filter
7. 
   
   (a) starting gun
   (b) water gun
   (c) dumpling pistol
8. 
   
   siphon
   (b) kettle
   (c) thermos
9. 
   
   (a) soldering station
   (b) welder
   (c) hair-curling device
   (d) air ionizer
10. 
    
    (a) voltage stabilizer
    (b) hairdryer
    (c) diaprojector
11. 
    
    (a) vacuum cleaner
    (b) heater
    (c) electric waffle
12. 
    
    a) pump
    (b) ice cream
    c) mixer

Answers.

1. On October 4, 1957, the first artificial Earth satellite was launched in the Soviet Union. The space age has begun. And with it, industrial design came a vision of a future modernized by progress and aspired to the stars. Therefore, many things of the 60s of the last century seem to us today something cosmic. Like, for example, air-ionizer AIR-2 The Ravich design, created in 1959. I thought that the saturation of air with oxygen ions was an invention of the last few years. And now I look at the grandchildren of the Soviet device in the store windows and realize how advanced the invention for its time was the AIR-2 ionizer.
   
   
2. mechanical pedometer "Dawn SM-6" It was produced at the Penza PO “Dawn”. According to the owners of the antique device, the accuracy of measurements it is not inferior to pedometers “Apple” smartphones.
3. That old one. plug-in It is a great help when it is time to prepare crispy and juicy cabbage for the winter.
4. Mechanical. wall-balance production plant "Gosmeter", St. Petersburg.
5. The grandfather of modern ultrasonic washing machines was called vibrator (GSP). Manufactured in Kirovsk (Leningrad region) at the Machine Building Plant p / I 731. Unlike the well-known "Retona" VSP washed not high-frequency, but low-frequency sound vibrations.
   
   
   
   The device was intended for simultaneous washing of 2-2.5 kilograms of dry linen. To reduce noise when working under metal dishes, it was necessary to put a rubber mat.
   
   
6. This thing is similar to garlic and works on the same principle. In fact, it is the Soviet Union. juicer. That's just in order to squeeze her juice out of apples, you need, perhaps, quite extraordinary physical abilities.

Mysterious artifacts from the grandfather closet Everyone good dumplings. That's just the routine process of their manual sculpting takes too much time. And then Soviet engineers came to the aid of the hostess. In 1968, the first in the world descended from the conveyor of the Kharkiv plant "Hydroprivod" dumpling "Helper." Unfortunately or fortunately, the mysterious device did not shoot dumplings, but only accelerated the pinching of the dough around the filling. The hostess had to roll the dough, spread the filling on it, cover it with another layer of dough and aim the muzzle at the workpiece. When the trigger was pressed, dumplings were carved with a completely incomprehensible speed, as one of the Soviet magazines wrote.

Household pot-water siphon Penguin. Made in the USSR, mid-80s. The body is metal, stylized as a penguin. To prepare a soda, you need to pour clean water into a siphon, fix a can of gas and press the handle. After that, carbonated water will be poured into a glass or bottle. Quite unusual. hair-curler “Nadeika” ESH 400/220 was produced in the USSR in the 1980s. The tongs could be heated together and separately. They themselves are wireless, heated in the case, so it is very convenient to twist the hair: you can walk with a nozzle around the apartment, without limiting yourself to the length of the cord. Fen With a fantastic name "Aelita" was produced at the plant software "Moselectroapparat". The unusualness of its form is explained by the constructive idea of the authors. Hot air from the device was supplied to the hair on a removable hose with a cap at the end.


Electric waffle-maker with an automatic temperature regulator of both surfaces of "Slasten" EV 1.25/220 c. Electrical Snowflake 2 ice cream It's pretty simple. The electric motor rotates a shaft with four metal blades that stir the milk mixture in a complete container. It is enough to choose one of the recipes in the instructions, pour the resulting mass into the container and turn on the device. After 45 minutes, the output turns out 500 grams of delicious filling.

What unusual household appliances from the USSR do you remember? Maybe there were some rare treasures in your attic?