We will continue to introduce updates to our collection.
Today is about Rubik's cubes.
Hungarian teacher erne Rubik invented his puzzle in 1974 for visual reasoning to his students mathematical theories. By 1982, the ninth year of the cubes in the world has released about 300 million pieces, including outright forgeries. Rubik himself has become a dollar millionaire, at some restaurants the die was necessary, a table setting at the international championship competed in various categories - Assembly with the fewest number of movements, Assembly, blindfolded, single-handed Assembly, the Assembly under water in one breath and so on.
In the Soviet Union, the cube appeared in the 1981 year. With the official price of 4P. 50 COP. the excitement was so great that from under the counter, a souvenir was left for 10-20 rubles. Assembly instructions printed on such a serious journal as the "Science and life".
We have the collection now has a real Hungarian cube, and licensed Leningrad. Come to twist! In the cube 43 trillion possible combinations of faces, and only one of them is correct....

Dear friends and followers! Congratulations with the Day of the great October Socialist revolution, and we offer you to remember how to celebrate this day in the Soviet Union, went to the demonstration, sent each other greeting cards. To your attention a small part of our archive...

Dear friends! imperceptibly the time passed and our Museum for a year! For 12 months we are working hard to bring you pleasant emotions. And we already have a "stock photo", where the Museum begins. Someone may already have a sense of nostalgia ?...

In the USSR, of Halloween, of course, was not. Most didn't even know what it is, and how to celebrate all Saints day. But the urge to are Terrible in our hearts, and leave you in the morning. If you convince teachers that this is the costume of literary character....

And this is my very first portative :)

Elektronika IM-03

"Elektronika IM-03. Mysteries of the ocean" — electronic game is one of a series of the first Soviet handheld electronic games with LCD screen (ИЖМ5-71 or ИЖМ14-71), produced under the brand "Elektronika". Worked from batteries or AG13 AG12. Game Nintendo OC-22 Octopus from the Nintendo Game & Watch

Game description

In this version of the pocket game is only 2 control buttons "left" and "right". By controlling the diver, which may take up to six positions, you need to lower it and to hold on to the treasure chest, avoiding the octopus tentacles. Standing by the chest, pressing "right" button, you must score gold in the bag. For each portion of the collected gold (one push of the "right" button), the player is ch...

Pictures 50 years of the journal Ogonek...

In Soviet lifestyle Museum, which is located in Kazan, has recently looked the representatives of the famous American film company "FOX". Maybe soon we will be able to see the work of children, which will be featured in our exhibits!)...

Homemade Soviet records of x-ray images: "music on the ribs" or just "bones."...

Today is one of the greatest holidays in the history of our country!
Soviet lifestyle Museum congratulates all on the Victory Day in great Patriotic war!
We remember, and we are proud!...