Card Store. Berdyansk, 1986

This 1986 postcard shows the department store in central Berdyansk.

What is shown on the postcard

The image features a large retail building with wide shop windows and a typical Soviet department-store facade, on a city square with sparse traffic.

Historical note

Department stores were main retail hubs in Soviet regional and resort cities. The building reflects Berdyansk’s consumer infrastructure in the 1980s.

Present day

Central retail buildings have been renovated since then. The postcard records the store in 1986.

Location (map)

Address: central Berdyansk, Ukraine

Coordinates: 46.754800, 36.787000
(Google Maps)

Coordinate source: Open map data, Berdyansk.

Questions and answers

• What is shown? The central department store.
• What year? 1986.
• Why is the card useful? To compare 1980s retail architecture with today.

See also

• Berdyansk postcards
• 1986 postcards

The «Old Postcards» archive includes other views of Berdyansk from 1986.