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Number of versions: 8
Edition: January 7, 2009
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With thanks to Jan J.Jansen - NL for all his
translations.


In 1988 Parker Brothers introduced a Russian Monopoly set. At the same time it
was a "Special Limited Edition" Mockba (Moscow).
The set was
manufactured and published in America. So this means the game has the
streets from Moscow.
However, previously and afterwards as well, editions have been published of various
inland cooperations, with clear features of Monopoly, but
"translated" into the communist ideology. It is striking the streets
to be always grouped per category of businesses rather than f.e. per city.
The properties on the board of standard editions from Parker/Hasbro
are:
From CTAPT! (Start, in the 1988
edition) and VPERJOT
(1997 edition)
(Receive wages - 200.000 roebel, when passing this space Proceed)
onwards the spaces are resp.:
Mitnaja
Oelitza - Obschestwenaja kazna - Nagatinskaja Oelitza - Rieschkaja
Zjeleznaja Doroga - Warschavskoje Schosse
- Shans - Oelitza Ogareva - Pjerwaja
Parkovaja Oelitza - W Tjoermje (In
Jail/simple stop for a while)
- Oelitza Poljanka - Elektrostantsija (Electric
Company) - Sretenka - Rostovskaja
Nab. - Koerskaja Zjeleznaja Doroga - Rjazanskij
Prospekt - Obschestwenaja kazna - Oelitza Vawilowa - Rublevskoje
Schosse - Besplatnaja stojanka (Free
Parking) - Oelitza
Gorkogo - Shans - Poesjkinskaja Oelitza
- Plosch. Majakovskogo - Kazanskaja
Zjeleznaja Doroga - Oelitza
Groezinskij val - Oelitza
Tsjajkovskogo
- Vodoprovod (Water Works) - Smoljenskaja
Ploschad - Otpravljatjes v Tjoermoe (Go
to Jail) - Oelitza Schoesewa - Gogolevskij
Boelwar - Obschestwenaja kazna - Koetoezovskij Prospekt
- Leningradskaja Zjeleznaja Doroga - Shans - Malaja Bronnaja and Arbat.
where:
Oelitza = street
Boelwar = boulevard
Ploschad = square
Schosse = highroad, so larger than oelitza
Zjeleznaja Doroga = literal "iron way"
Edition:
MANAGER, white box, No. not filled up
"Ekonomitsjeskaja igra" (economic
game)
Publisher: Kooperativ "Letsjebnaja Fizkoel toera" - Leningrad -197198 - ±1971
Dimensions of the box: 50 x 26 cm
The game:
This game dates from the communist period. That is clearly shown by the whole
performance of the game. The box of slack carton is white with a sloping blue
ribbon and 4 arrows. On the light blue
midfield of the board the word Manager
(yes, in English!) is written in large pink
characters. The cards' spaces are indicated a pattern way. The corner spaces are
always light blue.
As usual in the design of these inland manufactured games properties are divided
in 8 groups of industries, mentioned on top the spaces.
From Ctapt on the industries and spaces are resp.:
Light industry: Victory
Works - Volunteer
Works
- 20.000 3%
profit - Bolsshevik
Works - Surprise-
Sports and Concert
complex: SKK
Jubilee - SKK
called W.I. Lenin
- Message - Stadium called S.M. Kirov - Exchange
Road and watertransport: Trolley bus, Tram
- Metro - 20.000
present -
BMP - Surprise
Theaters and cinema's: Cinema
Kolizej - Cinema Leningrad - Surprise
- Theater called S.M. Kirov
- Rest
Restaurants and bars: Restaurant
Universal - 2.0000 penalty -
Restaurant North - Restaurant
Metropolis - Surpise
Intourist hotels: Hotel
Leningrad - Message -
Hotel Astoria - Hotel
At the Baltic Sea -
Broker
Business enterprises: Department
store Jubilee - 20.000
profit -
T-F
DLT - Department
store Sales hall - Surprise
Heavy industry: United
Kirov Works - Message - United
Lomo - United
Electricity
Everything show on
the propery deeds is printed on the board's field as well. The
cards' sizes vary (appr.65x44 mm), which most probably means they were cut out a
sheat by hand. The Surprise cards (in the middle of each side, where
normally the stations are) are represented by an octagonal, the Message
cards by an outlined bird.
The 7 banknotes are one-sided color printed on white paper; the colors
slightly differ from those of the game printed in Azerbaijan. The denominations
are in roebels resp: 100 - 500
-1000 - 2000
- 5000 -
10000 and 50000.
The houses are blue discs (diam.15 mm);
the hotels are red discs.
The 6 tokens are colored pawns.
Both dice are red.
The price of 16 Roeble of this set is printed on the lid's rim .
Also see the Manager games of the Oekraďne
and Azerbaijan.
Edition:
Comrades, art.nr. 1658
"A game of stragedy, survival, power and wealth"
Publisher: IDEVCO, the Sachs family corporation. - 1988
Dimensions of the box: ± 25 x 50 cm
The game:
In 1969 prof. Harley L. Sachs
of Michigan-USA invented the anti-facist board game Police State. It was
sold in England and the USA even as far as Ireland and South America. Later on
it was marketed as Comrades.
I found at Harley L.Sachs' site about this
game:
"This is a sort of "communist Monopoly". The players go around the board, but which leg of the board they're allowed on depends on how far they've risen in the hierarchy yet. The most visible status symbol is your apartment size --and the competition for the one and only full-size Dacha can be ferocious. There are a number of other status perks, such as use of the State Car. All in all, a very amusing game that actually does capture a fair amount of the flavour of life in the communist USSR before its fall."
There are 2 kinds of cards,
the Wealth (with sickle) and Secret
Police (with star) cards. The cards shown says:
"The player on
your right threatens to denounce you - Pay him two Wealth cards. Why not pay him
enough
so you can denounce him?"
Edition:
Standard, Special Limited Edition, ref. 1095
Publisher: Parker Brothers USA - 1988
Dimensions of the box: 26 x 51 cm
The game:
This is the first Russian Monopoly game of Parker Brothers and at the same time
it is a "Special Limited Edition Mockba".
Under the well known red
bar is the last part of side 4 with CTAPT
at the left end.
The game board touches familiar, so ordinary solid. The word Monopoly is
in black characters in a frame sloping over the board. The
playing side of the board is blue green
and the back side is light blue.
Half of the innerbox contains a carton filling printed with red
towers of the Kremlin buildings, with next to it the word Monopoly in large red
Russian characters. The rest of the inner box is filled with a plastic tray with
7 sections for the banknotes and the other parts. The bottom of the box is
unprinted.
The Shans and Obschestwenaja
kazna cards have a real American appearance, i.e. with those nice illustrations
of Uncle Pennybags.
The banknotes are "Monopoly roubles" with Uncle
Pennybags' portret. The 7 denominations are: 1(white) - 5
- 10 -
20
- 50 -100
and 500.
The green
houses and red
hotels (both with centric placed chimneys) are made of plastic.
The 10 light metal tokens are "Made in Hong Kong". Moreover an
11th token is added: a silver
Russian bear.
Over CTAPT! one receives 200 Rouble.
The price of this set amounted to US$ 42.- Februari1996 (in Helsinki
-Finland!).
Edition: НЭП (NEP=New Economic/Trade Policy)
ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКАЯ
ИГРА
(trade game)
Publisherr:КООПЕРАТИВА
ОСЕНЬ (Cooperative
OSJEN) - Г. ЛЕНИНГРАД
(Leningrad) - 1990
Dimensions of the box: 23.0 x 44.7 x 4.0 cm
The game:
Leningrad is St.Petersburg of today.
This may be one of the last poor inland made monopoly-like editions, because the
Soviet Union fell apart in 1991 and connections with the western world were
importantly increased.
The lid of the box shows, under the image of the car, this is a "retro-game".
Perhaps it is ment to say this is a retrospection on the communist
interpretation of a capitalist game of luxury and prosperity? The images at the
corner sections of the game board are a.o. of a theatre, a grand piano with 2
stylish ladies and a gentleman in evening dress at his car ... all signs
of luxury. But the various catagories of streets are nevertheless a strange
combination of businesses, such as a bread factory and a horse stock-farm.
Not only the box and the game are of soft cardboard,
but also the printing is poor and symplistic. Inside the innerbox are 3
things: the board, a sheet of paper in the length of the box, one side showing
the Rules and a plastic bag in which the attributes, like the property deeds,
the banknotes, the lotery and chance cards, tokens and the shops and trade
houses are separately sealed. However, as soon as they have been put into use
all those things are apart in the box.
From
НАЧАЛО
(begin) onwards all properties are:
Category:
Spaces:
ПОСУЛА
(plates and dishes):
ЛОТЕРЕЯ
(lotery) - СЕРЕБРО
(silver) - ПЛАТИ
НАЛОГ (tax
payment) - ФАРФОР
(china)
ШАНС (chance)
КОММЕРЧЕСКАЯ
РЕСТОРАН
(trade restaurant):
ЯР
(ravine) - МЕТРОПОЛЪ
(Metropool) - ПОРТ
ЮГ (south
port) - АСТОРИЯ
(Astoria)
ТЕАТР (theatre)
МЕБЕЛЪ
(furniture):
ТРЕЛЪЯЖ
(driedelige spiegel) - КОМОД
(chest of drawers) - ШАНС
(chance) - КРЕСЛО
(arm chair)
ЕНЕРГИЯ (energy/electricity)
ТОРГОВЫЙ
ДОМ ЕЛИСЕЕВА
(trade house of Eliseeva):
КОЛБАСА (sausage)
- АНАНАСЫ (pineapples)
- ПОРТ
ЗАПАД (west
port)
- СЕВРЮГА (Sevruga
caviar)
ТАМОЖНЯ (the
customs)
ХЛЕБОЗАВОД (bread
factory):
ПРЯНИК (spiced
gingerbread)
- БУЛКА (roll)
- ВОДА (water)
- ТОРТ
(pie)
ЛОТЕРЕЯ
(lotery)
ПУШНИНА (fur)
МАНТО
(fur coat) - ШУБА
(fur coat) - ПОРТ
СЕВЕР
(north port) - МЕХА (fur)
ПОСЕТИТЕ
ТЕАТР (theatre-goer)
КОНЕВОДСТВО (horse
stock-farm)
ДОНСКАЯ (Russian
Don=horse breed)
- ОРЛОВСКАЯ (Orlov
Trotter=)
- ЛОТЕРЕЯ
(lotery) -
АРАБСКАЯ
(Arabian=)
ШАНС (kans)
ЮВЕЛИРНЫЕ ИЗДЕЛИЯ
ФАБЕРЖЕ (jewels
from Fabergé):
ПЛАТИ
НАЛОГ (tax
payment)
- ЖЕМЧУГ
(pearls) - ПОРТ
ВОСТОК
(east port) - КОЛЪЦО
(ring)
There
are no stations in the middle of each side, but 4 shipping spaces, always 2
moves before a corner instead.
Twenty of the property deeds have a blue
back (53x86 mm) with the mortgage value statement. The other 8 cards vary in
length from 77 mm till 88 mm. They have an unprinted,
grey or white back. The longest card is that of Astoria and a
part of the text is handwritten.
The illustrations on the spaces are very symple.
The color bars on the property deeds are, as far as they are present,
uniform, whereas those on the game board turn from dark into white.
There are 34 white in total, consecutively numbered cards (45x88 mm): 17
Lotery (on th board indicated by a star image) and 17 Chance cards (indicated
by a die).
The money consists 7 little banknotes (40x80 mm) printed on solid paper,
the back side printed in black with a scroll pattern and the front side
also printed in black (except for the 500, being blue)
with only 2 tiny spots in a color. The denominations are respectively: 1 - 5
- 10 - 20
- 50 - 100
and 500
roebel. It is strange there are only a few notes of some denominations; so there
are only 5 of 5 and 10 notes of 50 roebel.
The exact number of tokens is doubtfull, because there are 4 yellow
cars + a little hat (?) on a mould and in addition a separate black and blue
green car are supplied. I keep it on 6 cars for the tokens.
Instead of houses and hotels there are 32 shops in total in the colors blue
green,
brown and olive green
and 12 black and grey trade houses.
Presumably those different colors do not serve anything and is it merely a
question of available production material.
Both dice are blue grey and have
white pips.
Edition:
Standard, ref. 14535121
Publisher: Parker/Hasbro Magyarország - Budapest - 1997
Dimensions of the box: 26.8 x 40.3 x 5.3 cm
of the board:
25.2 x 25.2 cm
The game:
In the second half of the nineties Parker/Hasbro have with great energy
introduced this uniform version in the former "East bloc" countries.
It is remarkable that this issue again is not emitted by an inland
distributor but instead by Hasbro-Hungary.
In this for the rest of Europe so well-known "standard" box is
naturally the red plastic "banker's
tray" with holes for the 7 banknotes and property deeds still present with
the banker.
The game board is folded in four and fits, when stored,
precisely on the banker's tray. The back of the board is as usual red,
the playside is blue green. This
edition is "Sdelano v Irlandii"" and therefore it shows the
picture of the "laughing family" at the bottom of the box.
On the game board the Shans cards
with nice red back are as usual
near the Start corner while the Obschestwenaja
kazna cards
with their nice blue back are near
the Free Parking corner.
The banknotes are of the one side printed new model, i.e. with
a black Monopoly ribbon and Uncle Pennybags in the upper part of the circle and,
almost invisible, the remark "1996 Tonka Corporation". The currency is
Rublley and the denominations are resp.: 1
- 5 - 10
- 20 - 100 and
500.
Since one already receives 200 TbIC.Rublley (200.000
Roebel) all amounts are 1000 times higher than usual.
There is a note (dated 0997) in the box headed Prilozjenie,
reporting the property deed of the 1st station is present twice,
while that of the 3rd station is missing. The duplicate card
have to be changed by pen. In my set this is the situation indeed, however in
the one of Jan Jansen is this note but with 4 different property deeds with the
set!
The 10 tokens are of light metal and are the well-known: hat -
shoe - car - boat - dog - wheelbarrow - rider-on-a-horse - thimble - iron and
canon. (However, this time without the Russian bear!) The green
houses and red hotels
are of non-transparant plastic and have all an overhanging roof, with exception
of the hotels with an excentric chimney.
Both dice are white with black pips.
Edition: Monopoly
Deluxe Edition, ref. 14549/121
Publisher: Parker/Hasbro Magyarország - Budapest
- 1997
Dimensions of the box: 26.8 x 40.3 x 8.8 cm
of the double folded board: 25.2 x 25.2 cm
The game:
Again a great issue of "the famous party game". The box has the same
length and width sizes as the one of the "standard" edition, in
contrast to
he American Deluxe edition, of which the box is still long.
Unfortunately both these boxes are rather vulnerable, but the content is well
taken care of: In the box are, besides the solid game board (with dark
blue back) a soft plastic insert with 4 trays for the houses and
hotels, but in particular the never before used "Banker's Tray",
a well shaped
money-and cards-holder of solid blue
plastic. You have to put the separate stickers on both this tray as well as the
2 separate card holders (for the Szerencse- and Meglepetés cards) yourself. The
clear color picture at the bottom of the box gives a good total impression of
the set.
This time the lid shows the third side of the game board, so with the
properties Oelitza
Gorkogo - Shans - Poesjkinskaja Oelitza
- Plosch. Majakovskogo - Kazanskaja
Zjeleznaja Doroga - Oelitza
Groezinskij val - Oelitza
Tsjajkovskogo
and a part of the tap, on which are 2 of the 10
gold colored tokens.
The banknotes
are the same as those of the "standard" edition.
The houses and hotels are made of nice glossy wood.
Edition:
Millioner Classic
"Economic
party gamel"
"Fantastic world game"
Publisher: unknown - ±2002
Dimensions of the box: 33 x 25.4 cm
The game:
I was pointed to this (inland made?) Russian version of Millionaire offered on
the ebay
site. The top and bottom pictures give much information about this very
interesting issue.
The designer of this issue has done a lot to give it an American impression,
because of:
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the yellow
spot in the upper left corner says "fun game". |
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under
the red bar is a New York skyline. |
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the
red bar with Millioner in white
characters as well as a kind of Mr.Monopoly immediately reminds of the familiar
Parker/Hasbro bar. |
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showing
the Ctapt (Start)
corner with the last part of the fourth side as well as the white dice showing 3 and 5 has been
cribed. |
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the
presentation of the game board with its attributes on the bottom also is
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Edition: Monopoly
Deluxe Edition, ref. 00011/121
Publisher: Parker/Hasbro Magyarország - Budapest -
2003
Dimensions of the box: 27 x 40.3 x 6.5 cm
The game:
This holografic edition is very similar in presentation as that first edition in
this kind of design: America Celebrating the people, Places and Greatness
of America, special edition, ref.40798 issued 2002.
This issue is a newer edition of the Deluxe set from 1997. The silvery
appearance of the lid and the goldy game board may look nice, however,
the board irritatingly dazzles while playing.
The special item in this edition this the mahogany-toned
"banker's
tray" for the banker's money, cards, houses and hotels. This is a
removable part in the lightbrown,
plastic insert in the innerbox.
The 12 gold-toned tokens are the usual hat -
shoe - car - boat - dog - wheelbarrow - rider-on-a-horse - thimble - iron and
canon and in addition the typical American tokens: moneybag and antique engine.
The unvarnished blank wooden houses and red hotels
have both roofedges. The banknotes are of the standard set with nr.100
00009 00C0, Money Set (C).
There are 2 pairs of dice, viz. 1 set red with
gold pips in a little zip bag and another white with black pips set sealed in a
bag together with the 12 tokens.
The well-produced 14 pages Rules are hard to read for me, but it is clear
that a number of elder editions are mentioned and showed, while 9 of the 12
gold-toned tokens are shown.
The set was made in Ireland.
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