Retro in Ukraine
The theatre tickets post seemed to catch some attention. It’s always nice to get a comment or two to know that someone’s reading my blog.
That wasn’t the first time I’ve come across Soviet-era items, though. In the center of Kyiv is a gas station on which the gas pump still shows the price in rubles.
The best use of an outdated item, though, is in the Kyiv Train Station. There is a locker room where you can store your bags in these huge lockers. You buy a token from a lady in a booth, and then put the token into the locker to get the key out and lock up your stuff. The tokens that they use are old Soviet 25-kopek coins. Brilliant! There must have been millions of those coins when the Soviet Union split.
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