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Average retail prices for selected types of non-food products

roubles per unit

· dynamics annual · rows: 22 · periods: 5 · section: Main socio-economic indicators

Value of textile products in the state sector and cooperatives over two decades: the list includes cotton, wool, and silk goods. Prices are in rubles per unit, allowing for tracking price changes for each category from 1970 to 1990. The dataset contains indicators for twenty-two rows, each corresponding to a specific product type

0 200 400 600 800 1,000 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990
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Chart of average retail prices for non-food goods in state trade and consumer cooperatives from 1970 to 1990

cotton wool silk flax Hosiery, per pair Colour television sets Black-and-white television se…Black-and-white television sets Radio receivers Tape recorders Cameras Refrigerators and freezers Washing machines 1970 1990

Who grew, who fell: 1970 → 1990

unchanged Passenger cars · 1990: 8,290 roubles per unit · 1970: 4,218 · +4,072 Passenger cars +4,072 Motorcycles and scooters · 1990: 1,281 roubles per unit · 1970: 592.9 · +688.6 Motorcycles and scooters +688.6 Tape recorders · 1990: 444.7 roubles per unit · 1970: 167.0 · +277.6 Tape recorders +277.6 Refrigerators and freezers · 1990: 352.5 roubles per unit · 1970: 214.5 · +138.0 Refrigerators and freezers +138.0 Cameras · 1990: 119.1 roubles per unit · 1970: 33.8 · +85.3 Cameras +85.3 Sewing machines · 1990: 150.2 roubles per unit · 1970: 67.0 · +83.2 Sewing machines +83.2 Colour television sets · 1990: 814.1 roubles per unit · 1970: 744.3 · +69.8 Colour television sets +69.8 Bicycles, mopeds and motorcycles · 1990: 110.9 roubles per unit · 1970: 63.1 · +47.8 Bicycles, mopeds and motorcycles +47.8 Radio receivers · 1990: 115.9 roubles per unit · 1970: 71.3 · +44.6 Radio receivers +44.6 Cement, per tonne · 1990: 59.0 roubles per unit · 1970: 33.3 · +25.7 Cement, per tonne +25.7 Watches · 1990: 38.5 roubles per unit · 1970: 17.3 · +21.2 Watches +21.2 Electric vacuum cleaners · 1990: 61.8 roubles per unit · 1970: 41.0 · +20.8 Electric vacuum cleaners +20.8 Roundwood, per m³ · 1990: 47.0 roubles per unit · 1970: 29.4 · +17.6 Roundwood, per m³ +17.6 wool · 1990: 19.7 roubles per unit · 1970: 11.4 · +8.27 wool +8.27 Washing machines · 1990: 100.2 roubles per unit · 1970: 92.2 · +8.01 Washing machines +8.01 silk · 1990: 5.92 roubles per unit · 1970: 3.17 · +2.75 silk +2.75 cotton · 1990: 2.88 roubles per unit · 1970: 0.94 · +1.94 cotton +1.94 Hosiery, per pair · 1990: 2.61 roubles per unit · 1970: 1.24 · +1.37 Hosiery, per pair +1.37 flax · 1990: 2.72 roubles per unit · 1970: 1.86 · +0.86 flax +0.86 Roofing slate, per 10 standard slates · 1990: 1.10 roubles per unit · 1970: 0.75 · +0.35 Roofing slate, per 10 standard slates +0.35 Window glass, per m2 · 1990: 1.37 roubles per unit · 1970: 1.08 · +0.29 Window glass, per m2 +0.29 Black-and-white television sets · 1990: 240.0 roubles per unit · 1970: 329.8 · −89.8 Black-and-white television sets −89.8

Set in numbers

22 series are published here in roubles per unit, from 1970 to 1990, 5 reporting periods. 110 values in total.

“cotton” multiplied by 3.1 between 1970 and 1990: from 0.94 to 2.9.

All table numbers are series: 22
Series 19701975198019851990
хлопчатобумажные 0,94 1,00 1,16 1,49 2,88
шерстяные 11,44 13,06 14,18 13,56 19,71
шелковые 3,17 4,55 5,19 5,24 5,92
льняные 1,86 1,83 2,19 2,58 2,72
Чулочно-носочные изделия, за пару 1,24 1,32 1,44 1,52 2,61
Телевизоры цветного изображения 744,34 650,22 706,87 643,99 814,09
Телевизоры черно-белого изображения 329,84 313,80 229,36 229,10 240,00
Радиоприемные устройства 71,25 88,71 105,55 110,63 115,88
Магнитофоны 167,01 181,64 232,69 275,52 444,65
Фотоаппараты 33,83 37,58 63,36 71,76 119,14
Холодильники и морозильники 214,51 244,58 249,66 288,11 352,52
Стиральные машины 92,16 87,04 88,61 94,61 100,17
Электропылесосы 41,00 44,79 39,45 41,75 61,78
Часы 17,30 21,10 27,77 23,64 38,54
Мотоциклы и мотороллеры 592,85 668,62 824,99 964,81 1 281,44
Велосипеды, мопеды и мотовелосипеды 63,10 64,15 79,04 77,60 110,88
Легковые автомобили 4 218,00 5 808,00 7 262,00 7 748,00 8 290,00
Швейные машины 67,00 87,25 124,80 142,04 150,24
Стекло оконное, за м2 1,08 1,10 1,10 1,26 1,37
Лесоматериалы, за м3 29,37 36,85 37,02 43,07 47,00
Цемент, за т 33,30 34,00 34,00 54,70 59,00
Шифер, за 10 условных плиток 0,75 0,87 0,87 1,08 1,10

How to read this table

Row differences are based on the types of materials listed, such as silk or cotton. Comparing these rows shows differences in price categories for goods across different years of the period. The data allows for comparing the cost of wool products with cotton ones and tracking their relative relationship within state trade

What is visible in these numbers

The largest value belongs to “Passenger cars” — 8,290 roubles per unit; the smallest is “Roofing slate, per 10 standard slates” at 1.1 roubles per unit. The gap between them is 7,536-fold.

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Period and application

Statistics cover the period from 1970 to 1990 and are presented on an annual basis. Information on twelve rows and totals is relevant for studying the history of consumer goods prices in the Soviet period. Rosstat data in rubles per unit helps reconstruct the price benchmarks of that time

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