Typical wages at some positions in the USSR:
Professor - 320 rubles;
Lieutenant - 230 rubles;
Judge - 210 rubles;
Senior teacher (no Ph.D. degree) - 170 rubles;
Trolleybus driver - 140 rubles;
Teacher - 132 rubles;
Accountant – 120 rubles.
One ruble:
- A complete meal in the cafeteria;
- Hitchhiking for 100 km (penny per kilometer);
- 33 glasses of lemonade;
- 10 liters of 98 octane petrol (GOST 2084-67);
- 50 calls from a payphone;
- 100 boxes of matches;
- 5 cups of ice cream;
- 20 trips by bus or subway;
- 4 loaves of white bread (900-1000 grams each);
- 5 liters of milk;
- 20 tickets to the cinema;
- 2 bottles of good beer;
- 8 packs of poor cigarettes;
- 6 kg of watermelon or 3 kg of melon;
- make a haircut in the barbershop, 5 times.
Three rubles:
- Dinner for 5-6 persons in a factory or school cafeteria;
- Lunch in the restaurant;
- A good book;
- Bottle of good wine;
- A pack of imported cigarettes;
- It was also amount of pocket money, which was enough to see the terrible jealousy from other children.
Five rubles:
- 2 kilograms of meat;
- A bottle of vodka (with snacks);
- Almost monthly apartment rent for a family;
- Taxi ride "with a glamor";
- Kilogram of very good chocolates.
Ten rubles:
- Amount of money which was typically borrowed until the payday;
- Universal bank note to pay for the various household services;
- Expensive technical or the desktop toys, such as billiard.
Twenty-five rubles:
- A plane ticket for local airlines (eg, ticket to flight from Leningrad to Moscow cost 18 rubles);
- Spree in the restaurant;
- Services of the expensive prostitute.
Fifty rubles:
- A bicycle;
- Small pension;
- Fellowship for students with good grades.
Hundred rubles:
- A plane ticket to the south (there and back);
- Monthly salary of an engineer graduate student;
- A good pension.
Just think about that.