Test to revive memory and recall the Soviet past in detail

The Soviet past year after year moves away from us behind the haze of the years lived, becoming history. Do you know the time in which our parents lived, loved and created?

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Today's edition. "Site" He will travel back in time to remember how we lived decades ago. And so that readers can test their knowledge of life in the USSR, we offer to answer 10 diverse questions.

Soviet past

1. Can you remember the name of this artist?
   (a) Aida Vedishcheva; (b) Tamara Miansarova; (c) Edita Pieha; (d) Maya Kristallinskaya.
   
   
   
2. Which of the heroines of the Soviet cinema uttered the phrase: "I'm all so ridiculous ..." All angular like that... It's so controversial!
   (a) Anna Adamovna from “Pokrovsky Gate”; (b) Katerina Tikhomirova from the Oscar-winning melodrama “Moscow does not believe in tears”; (c) Lyudmila Prokofievna from “Office Romance”.
   
   
   
3. Dairy products in the USSR were sold in glass bottles with foil caps of different colors. There were no labels and the contents of the bottle could be found mainly by the color of the lid. Under which one was the kefir hidden?
   (a) Dark yellow; (b) Pink; (c) Purple; (d) Green; (e) Silver with salad stripe.
   
   
   
4. Which city bore the name Shcherbakov from 1946 to 1957, and Andropov from 1984 to 1989?
   (a) Naberezhnye Chelny; (b) Krasnodar; (c) Rybinsk; (d) Orenburg.
   
   
   
5. In the USSR, a magazine was published with flexible records inside. What was it called?
   (a) “Soviet Screen”; (b) “Satellite of the cinematographer”; (c) “Secondary”; (d) “Circle”; (e) “Soviet Union”.
   
   
   
6. What kind of sausages would you not be able to buy in a Soviet store?
   (a) “Engineering”; (b) “Doctoral”; (c) “Student”.
   
   
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7. Which popular Soviet actor is featured in the photo?
   (a) Leonid Broneva; (b) Vasily Lanova; (d) Vyacheslav Tikhonov.
   
   
   
8. How much did you have to pay in 1970 to become a happy owner of the Volga GAZ-21?
   (a) 8,500 rubles; (b) 11,500 rubles; (c) 6,200 rubles.
   
   
   
9. What brand of television was not in the Soviet Union?
   (a) “ Dawn; (b) The same age; (c) KVN; (d) Rubin; (d) Kazbek; (e) Diamond.
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10. What additional profession did the hero Evgeny Leonov master in the Soviet film, a shot from which we placed below?
    (a) Educator; (b) Trainer; (c) Firefighter; (d) Interpreter; (e) Builder.
    
    
    

Answers to questions

1. Of course it's Edith Pieha. By the way, the old hit by Edita Stanislavovna “Our neighbor” is widely popular today. Not so long ago, it was once again made a world hit by the British band Ultrabeat (“WTF!”). about:blank
   
   Watch this video, and you'll be humming again all night, "Pum-pum, Pum-pum-pum-pum..."
   
   
2. I don’t doubt that Lyudmila Prokofievna could have said that. But in reality, the phrase belongs to Anna Adamovna from the “Pokrovsky Gate”.
3. In those days, when the sale has not yet appeared "Nescafe" and "Coca-Cola", and the most delicious drink was water with syrup for 3 kopecks, kefir was sold in bottles with a green lid.
4. Those who passed our test on knowledge of the cities of the USSR already know, and for others we answer: this is Rybinsk.
5. Monthly Soviet literary-musical and socio-political illustrated magazine with audio applications in the form of flexible records was called "Krugosor".
6. Engineering.
7. The role of Anatole Kuragin in the film based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy “War and Peace” was played by Vasily Lanova.
8. The answer can be found in our article on the peculiarities of Soviet trade.
9. The first batch of Soviet B-2 set-top boxes was manufactured on May 10, 1932 in Leningrad at the Comintern plant. Since then, the Soviet industry has produced millions of televisions, but Kazbek was not among them.
10. In the photo, Evgeny Leonov in the film Striped Flight (1961), where his hero had to master the profession of a tiger trainer.

Of course, not everyone can give 10 correct answers. However, such tests about the USSR are a good opportunity to remember a country whose memory remains in history and few of us.