What missing the average salary in the USSR

Older people like to remember the Soviet Union, when, as we know, the sun was shining brightly, and the sausage was tasty, and the money for all the missing. We offer a comparison of different income categories of the population and the cost of basic consumer goods. Prices and incomes are taken during the period of 1975-1985.

The median income for different categories of the population:

- 40 rubles. - the institute's scholarship;

- 70-130 rubles. - z / young specialist;

- 200 rubles. - the average s / n in the country;

- 300 rubles. - income Lieutenant Colonel Sun;

- 450 rubles. - s / n Regional Party Committee Secretary;

- 600 rubles. - revenue minister.

Even with a single penny could make the purchase of a glass of soda, a box of matches.

With three pennies could go by tram or buy a glass of kvass.

10 kopecks. cost berry ice cream or 1 kg of potatoes. Adding another penny, you could buy Tat or popsicle.

half-liter carton of milk - 16 kopecks. The same amount of a loaf of black bread.

A pack of cigarettes - 70 kopecks.

In the 2, 15 rubles. you could buy a plate in dense envelope or two set meals in the dining room. The subscription fee for the phone was 1, 5 rubles. per month.

60-minute cassette for 4 rubles. For the same money you could have lunch at a restaurant or buy a ticket Krasnodar, Gelendzhik.

"Rubik's Cube" was very expensive - 10 rubles.

Bicycle "Eaglet" - 39 rubles. More fashionable "Salute" was worth 84 rubles.

audiophile's dream - acoustic guitar Cremon - 70 rubles.

96 rubles. treated carpet size 220 to 137, Soviet decorating wall flats.

In the tape recorder "Electronica 302" had to pay 155 rubles., One and a half times more expensive than the camera "Zenit" with professional lens.

Motorcycle 'IZH-Planeta-3 "- 670 rubles. Almost the same amount would cost a color television tube.

Moskvich-412 was worth at the end of the 70s. about 5000 rubles. In this one-room cooperative apartment would cost $ 3-4 thousand. Rub.

VAZ-2106 was worth 7200 rubles ...

... and elite GAZ-24 "Volga" - 9000 rubles.