One ruble

For one ruble you could buy:
-100 boxes of matches (boxes - one kopeck)
-20 times ride on public transport
-or 5 kilometers to take a taxi - it cost 20 kopecks a kilometer;
-25 kilograms of tomatoes - yes, 4 kopecks per kilogram;
-10 spools of thread (10 kopecks per spool);
- it was possible to subscribe to a bunch of newspapers - for example: "Trud", "Komsomolskaya Pravda", "Izvestia" were 3 kopecks each (but this is optional), but "Pionerskaya Pravda" was forced to voluntarily subscribe all the pioneers at school - however, the price for it was purely symbolic - 1 kopeck per room;
-After lessons, in good and warm weather, we must run into the park - to ride a swing-carousel. The ride cost from 5 to 10 kopecks;
- went to the cinema a lot - a ticket for a children's show cost 10 kopecks, and for an adult - 25 kopecks;
- they also liked to buy fried seeds, they were dosed in a small (vodka) glass and a larger glass (and then poured into a paper bag twisted from a newspaper in the shape of a cone) - respectively, the cups cost 3 and 5 kopecks
-or ran to the nearest store for ice cream - an ice cream in a glass cost only 7 kopecks, but milk ice cream cost 10 kopecks, and fruit ice cream - 12 kopecks.
-in a dairy cafe you could order a cocktail (milk) for 10 kopecks;
-or boo - buy a pack of USSR-made chewing gum - exactly 1 ruble (imported cost more);
-and in the dining room it was possible to have a full lunch - the first, second, compote and a bun (a complex lunch cost 45-60 kopecks), lunch in the working dining room cost about 80 kopecks;
-33 glasses of lemonade with syrup,
-or 8 liters of draft kvass from a barrel (which was poured into enameled cans) - 12 kopecks per liter;
- well, or 16 small mugs of kvass (6 kopecks each);
- drinking coffee with a cake with one ruble in your pocket is also not a problem - coffee cost 13 kopecks, a cake with custard cost 22 kopecks, and a cake-potato - 15 kopecks);
- it was possible to buy many, many rolls (an ordinary "tea" roll cost 2 kopecks, and cheesecakes and rolls with poppy seeds and jam cost 10-15 kopecks each);
-5 liters of draft milk or 6 bottles of milk of 0.5 liters - 16 kopecks per bottle;
-3 glass jars of mayonnaise, 200 ml each - 33 kopecks per jar (jars, scat, you could then hand over glass containers and return part of the money paid for mayonnaise);
- canned food - gobies in tomato - cost 33 kopecks for canned food :)
- a dozen eggs, 10 kopecks each;
-a kilogram of sugar (granulated sugar - it was 78 kopecks a kilogram)
-5 times go to the men's hairdressing salon or bath;
-8 bars of baby soap, 12 kopecks each;
-iron non-food bucket (everything will come in handy on the farm :) for 90 kopecks.