This is the list of highest-grossing films in the Soviet Union, in terms of box office admissions (ticket sales).
The annual list includes sales during each year only, which often means that the total number of tickets sold was bigger.
But the total number of sold tickets during all years was bigger; Boris Pavlenok, former deputy director of the USSR GosKino, estimated 140 million.
[4] This figure is comparable to some of the United States' all-time highest ticket sellers, such as The Sound of Music, E.T.
[12][6] This is a list of foreign films that sold the most tickets at the Soviet box office.