It would be interesting to map all the areas in the RSFSR where food cards/coupons already existed in the 1970s and 1980s. Precisely in the RSFSR, since there is almost no information about the existence of cards in other Soviet republics. The decisions to introduce coupons were made at the local level, so data on this can be found mainly by chance. For example, there is a vague reference to the existence of meat coupons in the Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic as early as 1974. (Letter no. N. Kosygin, published in a collection of documents): to the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, Comrade A. N. KOSYGIN by Ms. Gavrilova L. A. From the city of Zelnodolsk, Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, I, a mother of three children (a 14-year-old daughter and two 12- and 2-year-old sons), am addressing you, dear Alexei Nikolaevich. When will life be established in our Tatarstan, when will there be the necessary supplies, and in general, why does no one pay attention to large families? I have been working as a professor since 1965. Maccabi Ash as an accountant and my regular salary without a penny of additional payment - 68 rubles 75 kopecks. (Everyone promises to add it and no one knows when they will add it). My husband is an engineer, the salary is 170 rubles, a total of 238 rubles 75 kopecks. our income. Expenses: 15 rubles for a two-room apartment of 30 square meters. from; 2 rubles the light turns on; 10 rubles per child in a nursery per month; 17 rubles 30 kopecks. Income tax is taken from the husband's salary; 9 rubles 60 kopecks. - Children must take lunch to school; We pay 2 rubles for union fees and that leaves us with 182 rubles a month for food and all other expenses, 36 rubles per person and how can you live like that when the prices for everything are crazy. It is necessary to set cheap prices for everything sold in the "Children's World". Everything around is made of chemicals, especially children's pants and shirts. They are prickly and very unwearable. Do we really not have enough linen for children's clothes? I don't know what Tbayev [First Secretary of the Tatar Regional Committee of the CPSU] is waiting for, but I beg you, tell him how long he will leave us, the townspeople, from hand to mouth?

It would be interesting to map all the areas in the RSFSR where food cards/coupons already existed in the 1970s and 1980s. Precisely in the RSFSR, since there is almost no information about the existence of cards in other Soviet republics. The decisions to introduce coupons were made at the local level, so data on this can be found mainly by chance. For example, there is a vague reference to the existence of meat coupons in the Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic as early as 1974. (Letter no. N. Kosygin, published in a collection of documents): to the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, Comrade A. N. KOSYGIN by Ms. Gavrilova L. A. From the city of Zelnodolsk, Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, I, a mother of three children (a 14-year-old daughter and two 12- and 2-year-old sons), am addressing you, dear Alexei Nikolaevich. When will life be established in our Tatarstan, when will there be the necessary supplies, and in general, why does no one pay attention to large families? I have been working as a professor since 1965. Maccabi Ash as an accountant and my regular salary without a penny of additional payment - 68 rubles 75 kopecks. (Everyone promises to add it and no one knows when they will add it). My husband is an engineer, the salary is 170 rubles, a total of 238 rubles 75 kopecks. our income. Expenses: 15 rubles for a two-room apartment of 30 square meters. from; 2 rubles the light turns on; 10 rubles per child in a nursery per month; 17 rubles 30 kopecks. Income tax is taken from the husband's salary; 9 rubles 60 kopecks. - Children must take lunch to school; We pay 2 rubles for union fees and that leaves us with 182 rubles a month for food and all other expenses, 36 rubles per person and how can you live like that when the prices for everything are crazy. It is necessary to set cheap prices for everything sold in the "Children's World". Everything around is made of chemicals, especially children's pants and shirts. They are prickly and very unwearable. Do we really not have enough linen for children's clothes? I don't know what Tbayev [First Secretary of the Tatar Regional Committee of the CPSU] is waiting for, but I beg you, tell him how long he will leave us, the townspeople, from hand to mouth?