Rationing in the Soviet Union

Besides bread, rationing applied to other foodstuffs, including products like sugar, tea, oil, butter, meat, and eggs.

[3] Foreign specialists employed in Russia were supplied through a separately established organization Insnab.

The last, 12th Five-Year Plan that fell within the perestroika period ended with uncontrolled economical degradation, resulted in part in various ways of rationing in all Union republics.

In 1990, Byelorussia introduced a "Consumer's Card", which was a paper sheet sectioned into tear-off coupons with various designated monetary values: 20, 75, 100, 200, and 300 roubles.

(Copiers were scarce in the Soviet Union and under strict control of KGB, which to an extent limited, but did not eliminate, forging).