Soviet trade as it is.
Today, when it comes to the USSR, many of us remember the days of shortages and long queues at the shops.
But in fact the situation was already on the decline of the Soviet Union. And while the shops could not boast of the abundance of products on the kolkhoz markets were everything that heart desires…
Danilovskiy market in Moscow.
The Central food market.
The Central market of Novokuznetsk in 1991.
The Central food market in Tbilisi in the 1970-ies.
A food market in Kaluga in 1991.
The Central market of Petrozavodsk in the 1990-ies.
Street trading near the metro station Vladimirskaya.
Farmers market at the metro station Schukinskaya.
Covered pavilion in the Central market in Moscow.
The queue was unavoidable attribute of Soviet life.
Central market on Tsvetnoy Boulevard in 1963.
Market in the city of Ordzhonikidze.
The Sukharev market in Moscow in 1926.