Kazakh SSR Wall Radio
I found this at a secondhand shop near the Green Bazaar in Almaty. It came in its original box — faded blue with a graphic of the Medeu ice rink on the front.
The radio itself is a small off-white plastic rectangle with two prongs on the back designed for the 30V sockets common in Soviet-era apartment blocks. It was manufactured by Kyzyl Tu — meaning "Red Flag" — in Almaty starting in 1964.
My grandmother had one of these in her kitchen.
It doesn't work in the US — wrong voltage, wrong socket. But I bought it because my grandmother had one, and it's a tangible connection to a place and time I only know through family stories.
